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Newspaper
Cleveland Progress
Location
Cleveland, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Nov 15, 1895
Page
4
A fragmentary column mixes a Civil War scene with a powder monkey praying amid gun action and a wry offhand retort about prize money. The piece drifts into assorted adlike blurbs for tonics, medicines, and patent cures, citing Kilmer’s Swamp Root, Dr Beatie’s, and similar commercial quips. It ends with stray names and a fleeting note about the Duke of York and admiralty.
The Georgia legislature meets with Speaker Crisp visiting from Washington. A divisive divorce bill fails 86 to 47 after debate on grounds and minority reports. Other measures fail or pass, including dog property status, Abbeville schools, Waynesboro expansion, and a major sheriff and officer restraint bill. Chancellor Boggs lauds the university, extraneous business follows, and a civic trip to the exposition is arranged for a joint assembly.
Mr Criep will address the hall of the representatives at eight o clock on Wednesday evening with a large attendance expected from sellatora thelfibers and the general public. The hall will be open to all and admission will be free.
Georgia populists drop the sub treasury planks in a new platform adopted by the executive committee at Atlanta. The report, signed by Watson and Parker, outlines the money and tax proposals, direct election of U S senators, church state separation, public books for pupils, abolition of convict lease and fee systems, a state liquor dispensary, and government ownership of transportation.
A four story brick tenement in Brooklyn burned at an early hour Friday morning. Six inmates died including Charles Ryan Ellen Ryan and their daughters Jouhanna Sarah Maggie Lizzie Ryan. The fire began in the lower hall and spread to the roof, likely sparked by a gas jet. Other tenants escaped. The Ryan family lived on the top floor and were in bed when the blaze started.
Ohio leads in clay manufacture with 10 608 000 dollars in output, Illinois 13 percent, Pennsylvania 11 percent. Austria Hungary reports 174 paper factories 120 pasteboard and 34 pulp plants with annual production values over 20 million dollars. A London Gazette notice lists Stratford on Avon churchyard within the church as Shakespeare's burial site.
A deacon recalls not betting on horses with regret while a minister teases him about forgiveness. The tale shifts to a suitor encountering a father about his daughter, a schoolgirl, in a tense and playful exchange. The snippets reflect humorous dialogue from period papers.
A Temple Texas inventor Bessonette outlines a cotton compression process that could save the south up to 52,600,000 annually. The bale would be dense with no moisture or air, wrapped in cotton duck, and secured on a spindle to withstand compression like a wooden block.
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