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Newspaper
Cleveland Progress
Location
Cleveland, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Mar 08, 1895
Page
4
A Popular magazine snippet describes whitening hands with chloride of lime in a soft water wash and making a soap by grinding soap, lime chloride, and alcohol into a soft mass, dried into tablets. Warns to avoid eye exposure as the powder is highly irritating and may cause blindness.
Collage of old notices and quips including flirtatious dialogue from Detroit Tribune and Washington Star, warnings about deafness cures, patent medicines, and misprinted travel lines. Mentions Syndication-like items, medical ads, and oddities with names, brands, and locations blurred.
The Senate adjourned after near midnight as debates over the sundry civil bill continued. Fresh contention arose over a $100,000,000 issue of small denomination certificates and proposals to cancel treasury and United States notes. Senators from multiple states, including Arkansas Texas and Massachusetts, spoke on debt, constitutional authority, and silver policy while party leaders maneuvered through amendments and conference plans.
The body of Frederick Douglass arrived in Rochester New York on Tuesday morning greeted by Mayor Lewis council members and a large crowd. Police opened a path through Central avenue Clinton East Main and Fitzhugh streets as thousands followed the procession to the city hall then to the Central Presbyterian church for services. A separate dispatch reports the Trinidad past to Bermuda sighting a rescued crew aboard the schooner John M Moore bound from Brunswick to Philadelphia on January 30.
A Maryland writer touts Mexican clover as a soil improver and forage crop for thin, sandy soils from the Atlantic Coastal piney woods to Gulf regions. The plant yields fall hay, self-seeds for spring crops, resists weeds with light cultivation, reduces erosion, and improves soil texture, with wide use by horses and cattle as a preferred forage.
A fragment from the Washington Star recalls a scene with a theatrical woman and an inartistic husband, discussing a hand of cards and a night’s fortune. The exchange mentions Four Kings and an Ace with playful, cryptic phrasing.
In Woodstock Virginia an elderly veteran of the Mexican and Revolutionary wars, Mr. Loyd McInturff, suffered four years after a grip attack. He credited Dr Williams Pink Pills with rapid relief, restoring strength, color to his hands, and ability to work. He purchased more boxes and praised the remedy publicly.
A sequence of humorous dialogues shows a father advising his son to seek a practical, capable wife rather than a flashy one. The son resolves to hire a servant from an employment office, while a burglar’s wife testifies in court about her marriage. The exchange shifts to a courtroom cross examination and a Puck cartoon caption about a man sleeping in Indiana.
In a Detroit Tribune excerpt a tense exchange unfolds as a woman accuses, but the man calmly insists he is nearly everyone. Their quarrel intensifies as he closes the distance, and she offers little resistance to his approach.
A dialogue features a "Kind Lady" and a tramp discussing death with gallows humor. The tramp says he hopes to die a Christian death and, when asked how, replies he would like to be drowned in a beer vat.
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