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Newspaper
Vienna News
Location
Vienna, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1903
Page
2
A picaresque slice shows varied topics from Rome papal politics to fall advertising for merchants and a postoffice shakeup. It notes General Young succeeding General Miles, debates on umpiring ball games, rising lynching chatter, and Roosevelt versus Cleveland funding. It also mentions Booker Washington in Boston, Cuba’s loan demand, and Pope Leo successor talks.
The Atlanta Journal and other papers criticize New England prejudice and call for national action to curb lynching. Professor James argues lynching stems from black crimes and delayed justice, urging rapid legal punishment within ten days to end mob violence.
An old ad boasts Dr King’s New Life Pills as a cure for weakness and listlessness, promising energy and mental power. It proclaims benefits in health building and prices at 25 cents per box, attributed to Forbes & Cox Drug Co. The copy ends with a quip about equal birth but unequal achievements like presidents or umpires.
A mosaic of brief items from Georgia papers notes a disbanded Tifton team and races to be nearest to negroes, cotton growth under heat, lobbying in Atlanta, lynching imagery in the North, Vienna's mayoral pamphlet, a postal push vs pull debate, cross-town baseball controversies, a quip about a presidential ticket, and poet Rostand linked to the number 18.
A testimonial claims DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve cured decades of bleeding itching and protruding piles after two boxes, praising the product over other remedies and urging readers to purchase from Viensia Drug Co.
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