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Newspaper
Cleveland Progress
Location
Cleveland, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1895
Page
4
A dated 1780 inscription found in a white oak log near Blanchoster Ohio is described as well preserved and distinct. The note discusses ancient carvings and compares them with period ailments and remedies, but the main focus remains the carved date and wood condition.
State notes cover Georgia topics from Canton officials, railroad earnings, and Enterprise Manufacturing stock expansion to Rome electric lights, Emory College debt completion, and plans for Atlantic exposition participation. Also noted are Kernt details on Geor gian teachers association Cumberland Island, Brunswick bank actions, locust forecasts, and university leadership talks.
All mines in the Sunday Creek valley Gloucester Ohio were idle Thursday after Phoenix Coal Company discharged two men for loading dirty coal. The miners held a mass meeting to discuss the action and consider next steps.
Dredatreat reports a week of steady activity in staple merchandise ahead of midsummer stock-taking. Prices for cotton, coal, wheat, flour, corn, oats, pork and lard show mixed movement while other sectors remain favorable. Iron and steel rise supports a bullish tone. cotton goods hold firm. wool trading surges with rising prices. southern trade shows mid-summer strength in dry goods and groceries. Birmingham sees better sentiment, Galveston modest growth, and Atlantic cities steady ahead of July 4.
In New York a jury awarded Thea Laidlaw Sage 40000 against Russell Sage after a bomb explosion in Sage's office in 1891. Laidlaw claimed Sage held him between Norcross and the bomber, suffering permanent injuries while Sage escaped largely unhurt.
Early returns from Kentucky primaries show General Hardin leading the Democratic nominating race for governor. With about 700 of 879 counties heard, Hardin, Jens Cassing M. Clay Jr., and others trail by roughly fifty votes. One hundred counties will send delegates, and the currency issue looms as the gold standard advocate wields influence.
Reports for the past week show improving manufacturing and mercantile conditions in the South driven by iron price gains and rising steel and textile activity. New mills and industrial ventures emerge across numerous states including Alabama Georgia North Carolina South Carolina Texas Virginia Louisiana and Kentucky with capitalizations ranging from 10 000 to 1 000 000 and planned cotton mills oil mills and coal ventures expanding regional output.
OG M Mills formerly of Tryon North Carolina was arrested in Asheville Tuesday on embezzlement charges involving government money order funds totaling 500 dollars. He is held to federal court in bond of 1000 dollars.
A collection of quirky notes from Europe and America. Facts include royal titles held by the Russian czar, a Vienna man’s cigar lifetime total, a snakes epidemic in Delaware Ohio, a poison label law for ammonia, lighthouse density around Europe’s coast, Napoleon’s early fortune-hunting, Alpine salary for Andorra’s president, Flora Macdonald statue funding in Scotland, ancient Egyptian harps with resonant strings, fast French express trains at 36 mph, Albanian gender dress customs, Louisville’s cannel coal walking stick, Native American tribe name origins, debtors blacklisting in Vienna Anatria, and a Chicago toddler Annie Gorman surviving a 30 foot fall.
Dona tounge's Magazine foresees the United States swelling to 140 million by 1925, 250 million by 1950, and over 600 million by century’s end. It argues cities will absorb suburbs, transit will compress travel, and Atlantic coast metropolises will expand as urban populations crowd toward harbor hubs.
In a Taschereau Argenteuil circuit court two St Andrews farmers disputed dog ownership. After thirty witnesses, including Dr. Baker of McGill, the judge used a live test letting the dog choose. The dog licked Orion and wagged to him, leading to a verdict for the plaintiff.
Three varieties of broom and sea grass have been planted by Hollanders to prevent blowing sand on dunes and river banks. The plants tolerate salt, and while successful in Holland's damp climate, it is uncertain they would work here.
The Calvertane News notes the Confederate medical corps treated over one million wounded and diseased cases in field reports from January 1862 to July 1863 and more than four hundred thousand in hospital reports. It estimates that over the Civil War period 1846–65 more than 1,000,000 cases were cared for, with Confederate forces not exceeding 600,000 in the field.
A Cincinnati dispatch says the Melaphone, an improvement on the telephone, allows the human voice to be heard over a mile. Tested on steamboats, pilots spoke with parties on opposite shores with ease and distinctness, a tool valued by river traffic operators.
Mrs Fusay, long-suffering, tells the shopkeeper there is nothing more to show. The shopkeeper, in agony, pleads unable to open the door as the tense moment lingers.
Edwin Swanson of Whitw Rock Goodly County Minn testifies to a Republican representative that at eleven he fell ill with a mysterious disease. For twelve years he suffered constant pain and paralysis until Dr Williams Pink Pills for Pale People, he says, renewed his health. After six boxes he can walk, do chores, and duties again, urging others to try the remedy. The pills promise to rebuild blood and nerves and treat female troubles, sold at 50 cents a box or six for 2.50 from Dr Williams Medicine Co. Schenectady NY.
Instructions show both light and dark silk waistings benefit from sponging with gasoline or naphtha. Rub with a clean bleached cloth dampened in fuel, wipe dry, air to evaporate odor, and press lightly if wrinkled. Extends to pets and furniture coverings. cautions keep ignition sources away and air thoroughly.
Dialogue captures a despairing heroine and a heavy villain negotiating a price of fifteen dollars a week plus expenses. The exchange, from a Buffalo Courier piece, highlights grim financial coercion amid danger and pursuit.
A terse exchange triggers suspicion over a highly plavored tea as a dealer notes a peculiar gunpowder scent and hints at China’s current conflict inflaming prices and nerves in the market.
A doctor in a foggy field is summoned to a distant village for a gravely ill wife. The husband abandons the carriage ride and reappears a week later with a signed note of thanks for the doctor’s help, revealing a mystery about the ride and the unexplained disappearance. The tale then shifts to an odd advert for Parker’s Ginger Tony claiming to aid stomach troubles and distress.
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