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Newspaper
Cleveland Progress
Location
Cleveland, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1896
Page
1
A lumber syndicate will clear forty thousand acres of virgin forest in northern Idaho, expected to yield over 400 million feet of pine, fir, cedar, and tamarack. The article notes broader progress and social issues, contrasting gains in life preservation with rising adult mortality and calls for continued development.
The Norwegian champion W Henie, a noted skater and cyclist, defeated Danish rival Svend Hansen on a safety bicycle at 500 metres in 55 35 seconds while Hansen rode 61 seconds. Henie also won a 5 mile race in 16 minutes 81 seconds though Hansen’s rear tire broke. Plus a wedding spectacle lit by electric lamps and a jaded judge indicted for drunkenness, and notes on sun eclipse expeditions and coal use in fast torpedo boats.
The article highlights London’s yearly meat consumption described as wonderful with the year’s final tally to be announced. It notes rising demand and domestic trade impact on markets and prices.
A 19th century excerpt discusses a virulent epidemic with sensational figures on slaughter and debunked public figures. It then shifts to a farmer’s advice on lime wash and soapy washes for orchard health, claiming cleaner trees yield better crops. The tone mixes moral outrage with practical agriculture endorsements.
The New York Advertiser details the vast cargoes carried on new ocean steamships arriving at port. Food stocks include 20,000 pounds fresh beef, 10,000 pounds mutton, 3,500 pounds fresh fish, 1,000 fowls, 30 tons potatoes, 300 quarts ice cream, 1,600 quarts milk, and large groceries such as 1,000 pounds tea and 2,800 pounds cheese.
A simple inexpensive photo holder can be crafted from six pieces of glass and five yards of ribbon. Cut four glass panels to six and a half by four and a half inches and two to four and a half inches square. Bind with tape and sturdy thread, then tie with ribbon, finish top corners with bows, and add a brass lift ring. Assemble at the corners with the cover left open. Use the four sides to display photos or arrange them face to face for compact storage.
A detailed historic method for making cottage cheese or schmierkase. Use fresh milk under 24 hours, heat gently with careful equipment setup, remove cream before heating, curd forms with cutting, whey aids coagulation, drain lightly, mix curds with beaten cream, salt lightly, and shape into cakes or balls if desired. Rinsing curds is discouraged to preserve nutrition.
Georgia improvement talks include Odd Fellows meeting in Atlanta and a new Royal Arcanum council proposal in Athens. Fires and bicycle accidents at Locust Grove and Dublin. Bank of Henry county organized in McDonough. Savannah reports bypass to court, rail steel for Suwannee Canal, and white colony tensions in Fitzgerald. Fatalities in Rome and Macon, with a New York lawyer visiting Atlanta and a romantic suitor causing a Washington stir.
The famous Spanish banana salad is prepared by layering sliced bananas in a deep glass dish with finely cracked nuts and powdered sugar between layers. An orange juice dressing sweetened with vanilla is poured over, then chilled on ice for two hours before serving.
The senate recently passed a pension bill amending existing laws. It allows individuals who served in Confederate service and later joined the Union service before September 1864, after ninety days of service, to qualify for pension despite prior Confederate service.
The New York Sun reports official fate news of the Laurada is momentary. Cuban and Spanish leaders weigh the expedition’s significance while detaining messages. The Laurada cost junta $120,000 and the revenue cutter Boutwell has orders to pursue and seize it if sighted.
The British steamship Horaa, once linked to Cuban filibustering, docked at Southport after a fire raged from May 16, likely near Jamaica. Captain OC J Cook, 50, presumed drowned after going missing near dawn May 18. Twenty crew aboard, seven Spaniards. Charles E. McIntosh brought the vessel in. Fire’s origin remains disputed, with theories including buried Spanish gold.
After two days of debate the House approved the Bartholdt-McCall Immigration Bill by 195 to 26, with the Corliss amendment. The measure bars aliens aged 16 to 60 who cannot read or write English, and imposes a 50 cent head tax. It also restricts labor contracts and penalizes improper labor movements and naturalized citizens resuming work abroad. The Stone Consular Inspection substitute was defeated 75 to 181.
A Virginia coal mine near Richmond suffered a shaft fire overnight. Eleven miners trapped 600 feet underground were rescued unharmed after a cable lift from Richmond, despite the shaft and surrounding buildings being destroyed, sparking much excitement at dawn.
O A Miller of Chicago president of Hernia Treatment Company and Charles D Dow former president of Commercial National Bank are indicted by a Denver federal grand jury for looting about 125000 of bank funds. Dow allegedly aided Miller by approving a 145000 loan exceeding ten percent of the bank's capital stock.
Francis J. Kieckhofer former chief of the Bureau of Accounts and Disbursing Officer of the State Department is arrested in Washington on three warrants for embezzlement. The charges cite sums of 2399 dollars and 16837 dollars in 1895 with dates July 2 and October 22. He was taken to police headquarters after a conference with the district attorney Inspector Mollinberger and Attorney Ferguson and then locked up at the First Precinct.
Senator Pritchard of North Carolina reports a bill allocating 240000 dollars for common and colored schools across Tennessee Alabama Texas South Carolina North Carolina Virginia Florida Louisiana Georgia Arkansas and West Virginia. Funds drawn from arrears of pay and bounty due to estates of deceased colored soldiers in the War and handled by the Freedmen's Bureau commissioner and repaid to the treasury.
An itemized needlework project describes two white linen squares for a cushion. Friends write names in large open hand, outlines in yellow wash silk, scalloped buttonhole edges, eyelets, and a centered monogram on the second square. Join the pieces with yellow silk shirring and lace, finishing with a bow of wide yellow satin ribbon.
Observations from pullets show two large eggs and two very small eggs among peers, with gaps at intervals during hatching. Breeds differ: Houbards lay very large eggs but fewer. Leghorns more small eggs but more prolific. Hamburgs many small eggs with long runs. Data from Leghorns and other breeds reveal no fixed link between egg size and quantity, though large eggs often come from fewer total eggs.
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