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Newspaper
Cleveland Progress
Location
Cleveland, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Mar 23, 1894
Page
1
Royal Baking Powder Company at 106 Wall Street New York updates contact details as part of its distribution network. The brief notice confirms the firm’s address in the financial district, central to its operations.
The Department of Agriculture in Washington hosts an obscure exhibit of unusual foods eaten by various tribes. Items include bread from plant roasts, juniper berry dough, bulbs, wild turnips, mesquite bean dishes, salt grass seeds, pine nuts or pinions, sweetgum sap sugar, mush from gourds, and a dried powder from roasted crickets grasshoppers and slags. The foods are prepared in pits with hot stones, layered, dried, ground, and kneaded into cakes.
Excluding London, the latest census lists Paris New York Canton Berlin Tokio Vienna Philadelphia Chicago St Petersburg Pekin each above 1,000,000 with Chicago at 1,009,850 and St Petersburg at 1,003,810. Brooklyn ranks largest below 1,000,000 at 957,168 per 1802 state census.
Maaband asks his wife at the railway station if she has everything. She frets over molasses candy for the baby, insisting on a quick errand. He hopes to secure a seat alone, and she pleads for one more item before departure.
A humorous quip exchanges blame for sausage illness as a neighbor falls ill after eating meat. The butcher speculates trichinosis, the other suggests hydrophobia, and the exchange mocks medical certainty in a New York Weekly snippet.
A London Tit-Bits excerpt notes how lawyers use aggressive cross examination to unsettle witnesses. In a civil money case a plaintiff claims finances are sound yet is pressed on past bankruptcies and a stopped payment. The witness replies that he paid all he owed after the event, provoking a pointed exchange.
The piece compares ocean tariffs with railroad rates, noting the Manchester ship canal will cut transport costs. It cites published rates showing sea freight from Liverpool to Manchester equal to an hour of rail distance and sea tariffs from Liverpool to London equaling a 14,000 mile sea tariff. It observes U.S. river and rail rates differ vastly.
A housekeeper recalls hard times and shifting jobs while a character laments the loss of interest in temperance. He says he earned ten dollars weekly plus travel expenses but the world grew sinful and moved away from the cause. The dialogue centers on the temperance movement and its perceived decline.
A mother urges her daughter to marry a mature, old-stock suitor who will manage life simply. The daughter questions wealth, while the mother insists happiness comes from character and shared duties, noting the man’s ability to handle daily tasks and the couple’s future together.
A condensed telegraph roundup reports Admiral DaGama aboard the Mineiro with 500 sailors and refugees bound for Portugal. Rhode Island GOP nominates D Russell Brown for governor with Edwin Allen and Charles P Bennett as likely contenders for lieutenant governor and Secretary of State. Alarming incidents include a deadly bomb at La Madeline Church in Paris and a forgery conviction in Philadelphia. Industrial news notes Cambria and Johnston works resuming after idle periods, employing about 2,000 workers. Also covered are a Bank of England leadership change, Baez family killings rumor from Haiti, Nicaragua canal funding debates, Braddock wire mill record, and printers seeking continued duties on stereotype plates. A freight train incident near Marfa, Texas ends with arrests, and an Ithaca inquest on Henrietta Jackson chlorine poisoning yields a death ruling but leaves the perpetrator(s) unknown.
A New York bankers delegation led by Mr Stewart and Mr Hepburn visited Washington on Friday to press the president to veto the Bland silver seigniorage bill. They say Carlisle arranged in New York for a $50,000,000 bond issue and that subscription came with the pledge the president would oppose silver legislation.
A special dispatch from New York reports the Louisville and Nashville and other seceding lines have rejoined the Southern Railway and Steamship Association. The organization is restored and rates will be restored. Rules and agreements of the association will be observed.
A charter is secured and the board authorized to raise one hundred thousand dollars to build a factory in Abbeville without delay. New Orleans reports tobacco firms ordered to discharge female workers and hire men only. Tennessee Supreme Court appoints Judge D L Snodgrass as chic justice to succeed Len until August elections. Alabama official Hector D Lane will tour the northwest in April for immigration work. Cullman, Alabama faces three suits totaling twelve thousand dollars over a dynamite warehouse blast. Kinney Bros and Rudder families sue for damages. more suits expected. Tsane Pronty & Co bootmakers of Spencer Mass. assign. firm employs 2,000. payroll near eight to fifteen thousand weekly. Spencer Medicine Co Chattanooga assigns main creditors under G N Henson as trustee. assets fifty thousand, liabilities eleven thousand eight hundred fifty. New York dispatch notes rail lines back to old terms. association members pleased. Stanley’s Lawrence Mass brewery destroyed by fire. four stories, loss about one hundred twenty-five thousand dollars. Birmingham district attorney ONeal moves grand jury be discharged in fraud cases.
Washington dispatch notes a New York report that Colonel W P Breckinridge and Mrs Louise Wing wed secretly on April 29. Testimony shows engagement to Miss Pollard preceded the ceremony. Madeline Pollard testified at length, presenting a vivid personal narrative with clear, restrained detail.
A Boston dispatch reports that Massachusetts women achieved a major victory as the House passed, by 110 to 84 after two hours of debate, the substitute for an adverse committee report for municipal suffrage for women. The chamber overflowed with cheering women clapping and shouting in triumph.
Ten experiments on healthy adults show left forearm gentle friction lowers local skin temperature by over two degrees while armpit temperatures stay constant. After firm friction, skin temp rises to 95 degrees and the untouched forearm may drop to 84 degrees with reflex sweating on the opposite limb. Perception of locality remains unchanged by light friction.
An assortment of medical ads touts Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters for digestion, liver and kidney health, claims malaria relief, and a general tonic effect. It also promotes Brown’s Iron Bitters, Dr Kilmer’s Swami-Root, and Syrup of Ifiga with various health claims aimed at strengthening digestion, nerves, and appetite, plus a drugstore pamphlet offer.
A mix of potato yields and sales pitches dominates this fragment. It touts Salzer and Balzer potatoes with claims of high bushels per acre, promotes Lightning Express and a large seed catalogue offer, and includes medical ad copy for Hall's Catarrh Cure. Also mentions Brown's throat lozenges and various patent medicines, with several price notes and mail offers. The disjointed items read like an agricultural and patent medicine column from a historical rural paper.
Reeslam’s Pills offer a remedy for impaired digestion at 2 cents per box. The advertisement emphasizes exclusive ownership and no competing products, urging readers to purchase directly from the brand.
A long advert claiming many female illnesses stem from womb disorders argues that generic treatments miss the cause. It touts Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription and Golden Medical Discovery as remedies, includes testimonials from women across several states, and offers a 168 page treatise for ten cents.
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