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Newspaper
Vienna News
Location
Vienna, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1909
Page
4
A 1909 Vienna Georgia page includes an editorial note about Dr John E White urging girls education at Agnes Scott and a call to study beef and pork farming in the South. It mentions moderating liquor, obituaries, and a reference to Armour Co profiteering.
A critique of the claim that Bryan supports liquor. The Commoner editorial argues personal liberty has limits when drink harms others, compares saloons to brothels and gambling halls, and asserts society may restrict excessive drinking to protect life and property.
Armour & Co announces a public report ahead of a $20 million bond issue on the New York Stock Exchange. For the year ending Oct 28 the firm shows a surplus of 7.13 million dollars on capital stock of 20 million, yielding 85.6 percent. It notes gross profits of 10.58 million, down 1.69 million from the prior year due to lower manufacturing and sales profits.
A diary note claims John son feels bound to touch a rail and walk a paving stone middle. Max Müller lectures mention luck ha pence with a hole. Dickens insists on bed orientation north south and carried a compass. Mrs. Justin McCarthy recalls Parnell correcting her stirring coffee. A Portuish gentleman and others appear in fragmentary reminiscences.
A historic note records Lord Roberts keeping a symbolic horseshoe from the South African campaign. He mentions one he kept after crossing the Orange Free State and another found at Pasrbdeburg before Gen Cromje surrendered, honoring service and luck.
The Modern Disease Is Different From Olden Times and Often Fearful Myths Persist. Hansen's bacillus causes leprosy but Contagion under normal life is Doubtful, with few known cases of transmission. Public cruelty persists from stigma, as some neglect laws while others shun lepers and clinics.
John Wesley had a dispute with his longtime companion Joseph Bradford and they agreed to part. Both slept on the decision and woke firm in separation. Wesley asked Bradford if he considered the pact. Bradford affirmed and asked if they must part. Wesley then forgave, following the example, and reconciliation was granted.
A disjointed Philadelphia Ledger item describes a young man seeking work and mentions a man offering his daughters for marriage with cash settlements. The dialogue hints at parental pride and arranged matches, naming Mary aged twenty five Rose and Eliza aged forty with specific dowry figures of 1000 and 5000 dollars respectively.
Verse records ten Christmas shoppers at a busy bargain counter. One is elbowed out leaving nine, one falls asleep leaving eight, one faints leaving seven, another flounces away leaving six, one remembers baby leaving five, the salesgirl’s snub leaves four, a shopper smells smoke leaving three, a hysteric clears two, a mouse sighting leaves one, and finally the lone shopper is joined by her husband and then there is none.
An adapted Baudelaire vignette recounts a private court in Paris where the Marquis de Briqueville sentences a frightened horse to death. A secretary-poisoned defense dissolves as the coachman’s fault is denied, the rope ends the beast’s life in a grim mock trial.
A London sportsman recalls meeting Lord Rosebery on a journey to Ayr and being tipped to back Rosebery’s Chevronel in the Welter Cup. The tale ends with the traveler realizing the nobleman’s own horse was the wager and the bumpkin label returned as a self‑owning joke.
Auction of the H D Woe estate on a Georgia plantation lists horses mules cows buggies wagons farm tools corn oats cane syrup and other property to be sold to the highest bidder under an order of the local Ordinary. Sale begins at a stated hour on December 16 a Thursday with terms to be completed over the day. Religious ad text references Foley's Kidney Remedy with a testimonial about kidney pain relief from Joseph H Fesperman of Bury NC.
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