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Newspaper
Cleveland Progress
Location
Cleveland, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 1894
Page
1
A girl demonstrates proper buttonhook use to prevent buttonholes from tearing in shoe fittings. She shows how to insert the hook through the buttonhole, hold the button, and rotate the hook in a half circle to keep stitching intact and keep buttons secure.
In Columbia a railroad town, the Our Boys club plotting a grand Fourth of July celebration turns to stealing red fire and torpedoes from trains. Seizing gear from east and west bound cars, they stash it behind the round house, mounting daring jumps, brushes with detectives, and near misses as they hoard material for a red flame spectacle certain to be remembered.
A town tale recounts the Our Boys club using torpedoes and red powder to stage a faux railroad bombing on the Fourth. The express train halted, townspeople panicked, fire bells rang, and a mock conflagration lit the west side while volunteers acted in vigilante fashion, boosting club prestige for years.
Recruiting officers devise schemes to entice men into the British army. A large poster urges quick orchard ploughing to maintain fruit supply, echoing wartime recruiting rhetoric and urging prompt action to support national needs.
Temperature hits 99 in New Orleans with nine sunstrokes tallied and two fatalities. LA land jury indicts many strikers halting a Santa Fe train. German ambassador reports Emperor William's pardon after Carnot funeral. Debs and ARU push for nationwide rail strike action. Bank suits settle in New York, Chattanooga gold sent to federal reserve, and Bayou Sera roofed by fire. Confederate veterans honor monument, street railway receivership shifts, and significant losses in Bayou Sera commerce.
Prices and items for groceries and Country Produce include coffee, sugars, molasses, canned goods, meats, dairy, crackers, soap, spices, and grains. Notable entries mention New Orleans yellow refined sugar, Pure Cuba molasses, salt Hawley's dairy, various fish and oysters, flour varieties, and farm produce with prices per unit or per barrel. Market closes with midweek grain and livestock notes and general commodities.
A collage of trivia from the era notes calendar reform by Julius Caesar, eel venom, rifle power, Mississippi microbes, postal letters, Juno month lore, seismic speed, notable births in 1819, frost effects on fruit, frost thresholds for transport, and frost-damaged potatoes. It also advertises southern cookbooks, a Lookout Mountain sign, a mountain incline railway, and a Chattanooga Medicine Co laboratory with products like Wine of Cardui and Thedford's Black Draught.
A snail breathes through a mouthlike opening on its foot rather than lungs. The breathing is irregular, with the mouth opening only occasionally to draw in air, then expelling it through the same opening. The snail’s peculiar mouth features a tongue with hundreds of fing teeth.
In London, chatter centers on Lord Rosebery as the man whose horse won the Derby, prompting puzzled quips about his identity. The exchange features a playful back-and-forth between British sporting circles and foreign commentary, illustrating contemporary curiosity and humor.
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