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Newspaper
Cleveland Progress
Location
Cleveland, Georgia, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1896
Page
4
A collection of adlike prose notes and brief notices from a historical paper. It discusses eye color psychology, a Persian boiling punishment anecdote, and various patent medicine and household product pitches. Names of products, places, and doctors appear amid miscellaneous quotes and notices.
Senate agriculture backs the filled cheese bill with a finance committee referral. The president approves the home for disabled veterans board trustees and let the agricultural appropriation become law without signature. Several pension bills and railroad land grants also become law. Senate approves river and harbor increases with major projects and regional funding shifts. Republican caucus favors early adjournment by mid May with focus on appropriation bills. Secretary Herbert distributes naval militia funds across 14 states totaling 25,000 dollars after deductions for instructional books.
Alabama Democratic convention in Montgomery adopts free coinage of silver at 16 to 1 and requires unit voting in Chicago. It endorses President Cleveland on all but finance and Governor Oates, nominates Joseph F Johnson for governor, and approves a platform urging white political control, fair elections, education improvements, and state credit protection.
A Washington special reports a suspension of hostilities between congressmen Hall and Money. After a confrontation at the Capitol both men cooled, their friends urged restraint, and the Mississippi and Missouri figures in the incident moved toward an end to the feud.
In McMinnville Tennessee at 1 a m Sunday a mob of fifteen masked men overpowered the jailer, seized keys, and entered the jail to hang William and Victor Hillis. The brothers, awaiting murder trial for Carroll Martin’s killing in Van Buren county in August 1894, were executed at a tree five miles southeast near Shellsford after resisting briefly.
The woolen department of the Eagle and Phoenix mills in Columbus Georgia reopened Monday after a weaving department strike halted operations. The plant plans a gradual full restart with about 250 workers in the woolen section returning to work as other departments follow.
Fifteen convicts escaped from the Tennessee penitentiary farm Sunday night and none have been recaptured.
A mix of animal anecdotes and natural history notes. An Anaheim ostrich farmer struggles to harness birds while a Gorham shop butterfly amuses workers. A Bar Harbor dog named Ossie demonstrates surprising intelligence with a broom task. Reports also note pike predation on birds, large fish captures, and a dramatic decline in sheep and wool values over three years.
A fragmented note promotes Syrup of Figs for travel illness and bodily cleansing with 60 cent and 1 dollar bottle pricing. It mentions California Wig Syrup Company and other unrelated old tips about corns and marking ink recipes.
The Southern Ornatorical Association plans its annual meeting in Danville Kentucky on May 20 with expected representation from University of Virginia Vanderbilt Washington and Lee University of the South Sewanee Columbian University Centre College and University of Texas. If the aims are realized it will advance southern oratory development.
Fragmentary note mentions using Dr Isaac Thompson’s Aveawater for treatment. It adds instructions to drawists sal ni 2 ner bottle, unclear dosage or context. No clear patient or event observed in readable text.
A dessert method uses rice, eggs, milk, sugar, and whipped cream. Cook rice in water with salt until tender, finish in a double boiler with milk, then sieve and mix with beaten eggs and sugar. Fold in whipped cream, chill, and freeze to set.
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