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Newspaper
Cleveland Progress
Location
Cleveland, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jan 12, 1894
Page
1
Beri Riperts in Germany notes an annual swimming tournament organized by a national body with various events including diving from heights and complex somersaults. The article contrasts German games with American sports and highlights the week devoted to swimming as the year’s highlight.
A curiously fragmented newspaper fragment discusses Brown Jones a suburban resident teased as a freak by a dime museum where an engagement is rumored. It then shifts to health ads praising Hoatetter’s Stomach Bitters and Brown’s Tron Hitters, touting tonics for digestion energy and nerves, followed by claims about scalp and ear treatments and various nostrums with prices.
The 53rd Congress opens with House and Senate in session as Ways and Means backs a two percent income tax over four thousand dollars. Debates on Hawaii intervention, Boutelle's resolution, and tariff timing color early days with repeated quorums, calls of the house, and threats of arrests to compel attendance. In the Senate, Blount matter and lease debate loom while executive business proceeds.
A mortgage foreclosure suit was filed in the U S court at Charleston on Thursday by KR M Ogden of Missouri against the Port Hoyal and Augustea railway. A fatal boiler explosion on a Union area plantation killed three and wounded five, one mortally, during cotton gin operations. arrests in Jackson Town for perjury were reported against Smith Healy and Gleason, with Brockaway at large.
Jacksonville special reports the fight situation at Mitchell Corbett Mill remains unchanged. The club insists the event will go forward as lawyers say no Florida statute blocks it, while Sheriff Broward vows to prevent any public gathering under his orders. Governor Mitchell stays quiet amid political pressure to let up.
The Clothing Cutters Association No. 7954 Knights of Labor met Friday night in Chicago and adopted resolutions endorsing the Wilson bill in full and urging quick congressional adoption. They also endorsed a federal income tax on incomes over 4000 dollars as fair and a relief to the non-possessing class, placing a tax on the opulent.
Disjointed dispatches note a Colorado committee offering a $50,000 purse for the Corbett-Mitchell fight in Jackson, remarks on Franksfort Kentucky politics, a Utah senate race, and sundry legal and crime items. The jumble reports Denver Governor Waite seeking impeachment, pension rulings, a Dublin blaze, and a raft of U.S. and Canada business notes with multiple local and national figures.
Fire in Worcester destroys most of a block owned by BR C Taylor with losses around 200000. Hot Springs sees half a block of stores burned risking 1000000 in property. Detroit and Chicago blaze causes include elevators and five story buildings with major damage but no reported fatalities. Freight wrecks, robberies, and weather storms round out a day of telegraphic advices from across the nation and Europe.
Dispatch from Vienna reports Archduke Carl Salvador and another officer have invented an automatic mitrailleuse praised as the best made. It fires 450 to 480 shots a minute with smokeless powder possible. A single barrel has fired forty thousand rounds without defect. Price listed at 1,000 florins.
A catalog of extraordinary items and marvels including a 26 ton coal block a 80 000 pound salt block a 42 inch square log and a 214 inch plate glass pane with other vast weights widths and values such as a $100 000 pearl necklace a $80 000 clock and a Krupp gun with 20 mile range reflecting a collector s panorama of curiosities from ancient corn to futuristic devices
A Boston Transcript item recounts a messenger boy with a small but growing account at a bank. He tried depositing 50 cents but was told deposits under a dollar were not recognized. He wrote a 1 dollar check and had it honored, then asked to deposit 1.50 dollars, prompting reflection on who started the tale that messenger boys are slow.
A vented exchange in a Chicago Tribune page shows a boy jeering another about praying nightly. The good boy replies that prayer is necessary to avoid punishment, asserting resolve in the face of taunts.
A description of the party game Teapot where players improvise sentences using the word teapot instead of the actual word. An example shows humorous phrases about a vane, a forehead, and girls. The game ends when the guesser identifies the word, with the guesser’s informant stepping out.
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