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Newspaper
Cleveland Progress
Location
Cleveland, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Nov 03, 1893
Page
4
The governor outlines financial strain, calls for fiscal reform, state banking, and a unified currency. He urges education funding, teacher salaries, normal schools, and juvenile reform. He condemns county chain gangs, propones health boards, and reviews penitentiary policy and railroad asset management.
A large crowd attended the ceremony at Greenwoood cemetery Clarksville Tennessee for the unveiling of a Confederate monument. Hon S J Wilson of Gallatin delivered the oration. The shaft is Vermont granite forty eight feet three inches high with a bronze infantryman statue atop and two sixteen foot statues of a cavalryman and an artilleryman flanking the base. Inscription honors soldiers of the Confederate States Army 1861 1865.
Reports from Chicago indicate the final week of the fair will draw crowds in a blizzard of activity. The Columbus pageant aboard the Santa Maria and a display of Putnam’s Indian art are set as key entertainment.Meanwhile Ala dami and Jeffersonian leaders plot the next campaign at a Birmingham meeting on November 15, with third party allies expected to cooperate. A Servian mill explosion near Kragujevac kills six workers.
The six foot reflector in the Lord Rosse telescope in Parsontown Ireland is hailed as a marvel of the world. Weighing about four tons it sits at the end of a fifty five foot wooden tube bound by iron bands and can distort a star image with light touch. Its sighting power far surpasses the human eye by 130000 to 1 and can reveal stars so distant that their light would take 60000 years to arrive while light travels at 192500 miles per second.
The article offers household tips for dust control using a bucket of water outside the swept room, wetting and rinsing the broom, and repeating across the surface. It notes changing the water for very dirty carpets and mentions using slightly moistened Indian meal and snow as dust settlers.
Maud questions John about keeping a vow to quit smoking on the day he wed her. He replies that he did not smoke at all that day, then admits he now smokes a cigar, claiming he kept his promise.
A noted household tip prescribes boric acid in boiled water to heal wounds within a day. It advises washing hands, cleaning the wound, applying the solution with cotton, and using clean linen soaked in the liquid. It adds a comment on railroad cars carrying Bibles being robbed from racks.
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