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Newspaper
Vienna News
Location
Vienna, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jan 01, 1909
Page
2
The Fitzgerald Enterprise argues for a bill to ban concealed pistols and make carrying a deadly weapon a felony while urging citizens to wear badges. It contrasts Roman circuses with modern celebrations, condemning powder and liquor in public festivities. The piece calls for stricter crime control and criticizes gun and alcohol culture.
A public exhortation urging citizens to adopt the Golden Rule as a guide for life in shop, office, club, home, city, and business. It calls out misplacing tools delaying appointments belittling competitors monopolizing conversations spitting on sidewalks misrepresenting goods and other faults, urging character building in the New Year.
The article weighs oats against corn for work horses, noting high grain prices and the need for economical rations. It discusses oats’ reputed benefits, the myth of a stimulating avenine, and argues that chemical data does not prove oats superior for horses in hard work.
Dr George F Kunz of New York, a leading expert on gems, disputes the oyster pearl craze. He notes restaurant oysters yield many nodules but few if any pearls worth more than ten cents, while savvy restaurateurs exploit publicity from publicity and hype.
A fragmentary reading offers bold opinions on charity, gender morals, and social vanity. It contrasts genuine ignorance with feigned innocence and critiques spending for perceived usefulness. The writer notes a woman’s annoyance when a man’s hat color clashes with her outfit.
A poetic meditation on the transition from the Old Year to the New. The speaker frames the old as weary and the new as hopeful, urging preparation and moral effort to enable the coming year to be richer and more fruitful in the Lord’s work.
A Boston Sun column riffs on youth romance in a playful legal tone. Judge De Lucy from Juvenile Court in Washeington cites Blackstone as it argues that every girl and boy has a right to love and courtship, with Cupid humorously depicted as a household guest.
A collection of satirical witticisms on bachelors and social conduct. The jokes poke at double dealing lending habits irregular men and the clash of religion with business. It closes with a quip about matinee theatre parties.
In Auguste Georgia an entire seven member family fell ill after eating oysters kept overnight. Lemuel H. Holly brought home shells and served them at breakfast. All members became seriously ill and one daughter remains critically ill though out of immediate danger thanks to their physician's quick care.
Captain F. M. King of Perry Georgia died Tuesday morning at 7 oclock after a three month bout with multiple diseases. A Confederate veteran and former South Carolina artillery captain he was wounded in the leg during the war. He passed at age 67 and leaves a wife Mrs Georgia R. King and a son E. E. King along with many grandchildren. Funeral services will be held at Evergreen Cemetery.
A 1909 New Year pledge from Alabama Baptist urging personal reform and devotion. It calls for honesty with God and neighbors, mindful speech, daily meditation and Bible reading, prayer, church involvement, and world missions, ending with a vow to model Christian living.
Northerners tour Virginia on a crowded train near Fredericksburg when an old woman sits next to a man. He prods about poor land and crops, and she replies that river land was sowed with Yankees about forty years ago, and nothing has grown since.
Cornelius Snyder of Hawthorne Borough plans to have his finger sewn to his face after a nasal growth led to amputation. Doctors at General Hospital, led by Dr. John C. McCoy, report the operation a success with the upper body in plaster for rigidity. If healing proceeds, he will have a functional nose substitute.
A New York Tribune tale shows Office rule No 6 strict about order. A mail clerk finds a hat gloves and cigarettes on his desk and hides them by moving them to the junior partner’s desk. He is fired yet receives a raise, highlighting the rule’s broken enforcement and uneven reward.
A South labeled tale recounts a buyer finding shot in a turkey described as tame. Uncle Ephram quips that the shots were intended for him, illustrating a humorous misunderstanding from the Advertiser's Almanack era.
With the opening of Birmingham Pullman drawing room sleepers on night trains between Atlanta and Thomasville Georgia, A B and A schedules in effect November 15 190. The Standard of Excellence in Passenger Service. J R Rowland WH Ready Traffic Mgr GP Atlanta Ga. Atlanta Ga. E M Smith Agent Vienna Ga.
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