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Newspaper
Vienna News
Location
Vienna, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1902
Page
2
A man sent a barrel of cranberries to a friend in England as a gift in early times. The friend reported the berries arrived but had soured on the journey and were thrown away. The anecdote comes from Lippincott's Magazine.
The ef g BARBECUES at Atlanta's big Fair will host two free events for editors on Saturday October 11 and mayors on Tuesday October 14. Secretary Frank Weldon says the fair will spend 500 dollars daily on free attractions including a wire-walker and a woman on shoulders, a pistol-shot trained bull, acrobats, fireworks, and a lively midway. The show aims to showcase large exhibits of cattle swine sheep and poultry with daily races and nightly fireworks.
The Czar maintains a vast medical retinue, more than any other sovereign. It includes a chief physician, ten honorary physicians, four honorary surgeons, two oculists, a chiropodist and an honorary chiropodist, two court physicians, and three specialists for the Czarinas, totaling at least twenty four doctors drawn from Russia’s celebrated medical talent.
The article notes that the initial stamped envelopes appeared in 1853 in two denominations three and six cents, and the ten cent envelope was not introduced until 1855 two years later.
A collage of product touts and testimonials for spine foot powders and cough cures. Allen’s Foot-Ease claimed to ease feet and cure corns bunions and ingrowing nails while Dr Kline’s preparations offered nerve and health claims. Other notes praised Hall’s Catarrh Cure and Piso’s Cure for coughs with brief location mentions and pricing.
Cartersville Georgia August 21 editor Constitution urges Georgia lawmakers to back a state history project similar to Judge Walter Clark’s five‑volume South history. Letter notes cost is $5 per set and highlights 800 pages per volume with 900 portraits, praising Clark’s roster of regimental historians and urging an official effort to compile Georgia veterans.
Charlotte reports the coroner’s jury has approved the lynching of Tom Jones after he confessed to assaulting Mrs. Will Smith near Seven Springs. Jones was captured by a posse, identified, and killed by a mob at a barn and on a tram car. Mrs. Smith survived but disfigured. The jury ruled the death was by gunshots “by parties unknown” acting to defend homes and families.
In Belmont Tennessee six miles west of Nashville a mob of five women raided a saloon known as a blind pig. They threw rocks at windows then entered and destroyed bottles and the interior. The proprietor fled the scene.
Georgia crop conditions slide from last year with cotton at about 70 percent in current assessments. Officials note that this level is below the prior year's 75 percent, which was already deemed a poor showing in the agriculture department report issued Monday.
President Roosevelt toured Massachusetts Maine and New Hampshire on Tuesday delivering eight speeches and winning plaudits from about a quarter of a million people. Crowds at stops such as Haverhill and Lisbon Falls pressed close as police struggled to manage excitement. A Dakotan bandleader Berthed a humorous moment in South Lawrence, while Portland hosted an album gift for the president.
Nineteen prisoners at Covington Tennessee attempted a break at the county jail in the jailer's absence. The inmates bored through the cage and neared the roof before Mrs. Smith armed a trusted black inmate and, with the jailer's shotgun, held the crowd at bay until the jailer returned.
A disastrous freight wreck on a Southern railway line ten miles west of New Albany Indiana left engineer Red Duval fireman B Cox and brakeman Ross dead. Engineer Harry Goodall and fireman George Myers were fatally hurt in a collision that sent fourteen boxcars loaded with wheat and two locomotives tumbling forty feet into a ravine.
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