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Newspaper
Cleveland Progress
Location
Cleveland, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jan 17, 1896
Page
4
The Boston Transcript notes a strained marriage with claims that Signor anticipated his wife's wish for a divorce and acted to obtain it. The piece suggests longstanding rumors of discord and questions the couple's famous harmony.
Brunswick infested with tramps draws attention to climate and soil. Mitchell county farmer McClellan sells property and leaves for Venezuela. West Point Towns County veterans charter sought. Georgia pensions amounts and political moves noted. Plant System hospital plan in Waycross. Harmony Grove church to build a $10,000 house of worship. Savannah rail developments and bank/land deals outlined. Whittier Mills opens near Chattahoochee. 400 jobs created. Augusta and Savannah railroad directors elected. Central of Georgia talks on Savannah and Western.
Milledgeville trustees of the Georgia Normal and Industrial College for girls meet to outline a $26,000 east campus dormitory with capacity for about 200 pupils on the 22 acre site. Architects Bruce and Morgan of Atlanta will submit plans. The board grants thanks to J. A. Pilcher of California for a donated California universal exhibit.
Secretary Carlisle expressed relief that the new bond issue will be a success though he did not imply gold would be forthcoming. Bids are being prepared in blank forms with figures withheld, and a circular instruction advises bidders to state bond amount, price, delivery place, and deposit location. Denominations include coupon and registered bonds up to 10 000 dollars, with reserves and withdrawals noted for New York.
Seven leading lantern manufacturers across Wheel ing Tiffin Detroit Warren D Rochester Syracuse and New York City have formed a close combination to regulate output and prices. The trust will take effect immediately with goods advancing about 83 percent. Orders will be apportioned among the manufacturers.
A 1896 letter from President to Senator Donalson Caffery denies any plan to dispose of bonds to a syndicate or for a gold reserve, noting instead a leaning toward a public loan. The missive, read in the Congressional Record, covers treasury actions, bids, and the need for a cautious sale of bonds, with no direct assurances given to any party.
A montage of oddities and records touches many places and topics. It notes a bird hospital in Chicago, a racehorse clearing twenty to forty feet per bound, England’s area, London docks wine vaults, a Maine lumberman counting sixty two deer in a day, and a six foot black eagle shot near Manistee Michigan. It mentions Paris Gaulois terms for cyclists, a West Branch Maine man photographed with a tombstone for himself, Pekin Gazette editors losing heads, a New York magistrate on opium smoking by Chinamen, and the hookah’s importance in princely courts. It covers a Chesterville couple’s golden wedding, unusually large Washington apples, black skunk skins entering fur trade, London ambulances, frequent city street fatalities, and notes on the 58th Infantry Regiment band leadership since 1857.
J C Moffett, famed correspondent, visited McDowell County West Virginia on a professional trip. He joined a wedding party at a log cabin where guests danced barefoot to a cracked fiddle. The bride and groom were both barefoot, hospitality was rough, and the narrator and host danced among mountain belles later leaving with splinters in their feet. Washington Star report.
The Victoria State forest in Australia hosts the world’s tallest trees, reaching 350 to 500 feet. A fallen giant measured 435 feet from root to break, with a trunk three feet in diameter. Growth rates vary, with Eucalyptus globulus in Florida adding forty feet in four years and Guatemala specimens reaching 120 feet in twelve years. A petrified log in Oregon in 1860 was 666 feet long and sixty feet across at the butt.
An inventor patents a camera that attaches to gun barrels to photograph the exact spot aimed at, letting amateurs verify hits and wounds. The device, easily removable, uses the hunter’s breast pocket as a portable dark room for the records of his shots.
A Caribou clergyman on Sunday noticed empty pews as service time began and quipped I see all the singers are absent this morning. Let the congregation rise and sing Praise God, from Whom all blessings flow. The Idol of Clay and My idol has feet of clay emerge, with self-deprecating lines about being mud.
A fragmented ad touts Salzer’s Great German Coffee Berry claiming superior flavor to Rio with a 15s package yielding 3 lbs. It notes heavy use in Germany, France, Rolland and England, mentions September ripening and a mailing offer to John A. Salzer Food Co. for catalogs and stamps.
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