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Newspaper
Cleveland Progress
Location
Cleveland, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Mar 22, 1895
Page
4
The text presents a jumble of misread words and broken phrases. It includes a Cincinnati Tribune fragment, stray quotations, and an unclear medical advertisement for tonics and remedies. It reads like damaged newspaper copy with no clear narrative or identifiable events.
Happenings across Georgia include Ringgold gaining telephone links to Chattanooga Dalton and Chickamauga Park Barnonville planning a pamphlet on local advantages Chipley to host a phaeso factory Griffin expanding cotton factory Valdosta building a large pork packing plant and more. The state also records tax defaulters in Columbia county and prospects for a bountiful potato and pear season with unusual winter effects. The Ocmulgee chautauqua for 1895 teases a strong program while Augusta issues redemption bonds and a Tennessee delegation studies Georgia tax and court costs. The periodical also covers pension fraud cases, railroad fee disputes, and broader views on diversification of farming and southern industrial expansion tied to world expositions.
The Northeastern railroad sale order and bid advertisements outline a 39.4 mile line with two miles of sidetracks. The minimum price is $260,000, with accrued interest raising the total to about $300,000. Purchasers may pay $50,000 cash, $50,000 on January 1, and the balance July 1, 1896, with interest, or pay all cash.
Dr John Albert Broadus D D LL D president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary died at his home in Somerville Kentucky early Saturday morning. He was a renowned scholar and orator known in the United States and Europe for lectures at Yale Johns Hopkins and his Greek scholarship. Born January 27 1624 in Culpeper Virginia he graduated from the University of Virginia. He co founded Baytit theological seminary in 1850 later moved to Louisville in 1871 with substantial funding. He also served as a missionary chaplain in Lee’s army during the war.
Weather remains unfavorable for business across the South and West, dampening demand and contributing to a quiet market. New Orleans, Galveston, and Augusta show limited gains while coal labor unrest cuts activity in key centers. Australian wool competition and mixed textile usage depress cotton goods, with overall production exceeding demand and prices forced downward.
The Tennessee educational committee in Chattanooga heard sensational charges over the University of Tennessee Knoxville. Superintendent Frank Smith testified he would not believe President Dabney on oath and alleged trustees moved to grant Dabney a leave of absence while keeping his salary. He also claimed proxies were used to counter the board, a point denied by the rules. The committee plans to report favorably on campus governance and co education.
Minnie Meyers colorea sues the Louisville and Nashville railroad for 25000 dollars under civil rights law. She bought a Cincinnati to Lexington ticket last June and was removed from the ladies car at Covington Kentucky to a colored section, alleging discrimination.
Walter G. Hamner, a former teller of the First National Bank of Lynchburg, Virginia, pleaded guilty in U S district court to embezzling $25,000 and was sentenced to seven years in Albany penitentiary. A Brooklyn blaze gutted the Tivoli hall four story block causing $100,000 in damage and damaged adjacent brownstone houses at 308 and 310 Fifth Avenue by about $50,000. Trinity is the name given to a railway station in the sugar swamps of Louisiana near the gall cast.
The article surveys the postal card craze from its 1869 origin in Austria to widespread adoption across Europe by 1870. It covers field post cards for soldiers, civilian versions, balloon post cards from Paris during the siege, and notes on their rarity and wartime symbolism. It ends with a brief exchange on coal byproducts and the emergence of saccharine from coal tar.
Mrs Y Curley of Clarnnes Towes recounts a decade of severe stomach illness with sympathetic heart trouble and night attacks. After doctors offered little hope, a friend’s tip about Dr Williams Pink Pills led to dramatic recovery, better sleep, and renewed strength. The remedy is sold by doctors or mail order from Schenectady NY. price 50 cents a box, six for $3.00. Also notice of low eastern-rail rates to northern cities from Atlantic cities.
The Electrical Review notes a planned consolidation of major electrical manufacturers including Westinghouse and General Electric. The scheme, broad in scope, is embryonic and could surface at GE's board meeting in early April, with some directors favoring a trust-like formation.
Russian traveler M. Notovitch announces an English edition of The Tibetan Life of Jesus. He claims the text was found in a Himalyan Lamats monastery and will be released soon as a translated work.
The readers learn that catarrh is a constitutional disease requiring a constitutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure is advertised as a remedy with the promise of one hundred dollars to anyone it cannot cure. Send for circulars. KlCHENY & Co. Toledo Ohio. Sold by druggists.
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