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Newspaper
Vienna News
Location
Vienna, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1903
Page
9
The piece surveys a $25 million bank merger note tied to J P Morgan as an aside, and discusses college life with Hamlet debates, egg contests, and English schoolboy measurements. It mentions transatlantic routes, Galway harbor, and American book imports, plus a new Vassar history class and college football injury stats.
A long fragment presents Bill Vérité claiming to be Jesus Christ and railing at Governor Longino and Roosevelt over Mississippi politics, repudiation, and lynching. It references Union veterans, New Orleans reunions, and Mr Davis, plus remarks on Indiana lynching and local family news from a Mississippi home.
A nostalgic snippet from The Atlanta Constitution recalls life on the farm with cherished chores. A wife preserves spring chickens and flowers for Carl, while strawberries thrive and cake waits in the oven as memories of earlier days with Carl and Jesse endure.
President Roosevelt arrives in Salt Lake City amid a roaring welcome from cattle punchers and sheepmen. Escort units include 50 Rough Riders and 600 cow punchers. Tens of thousands attend as 9,000 students are reviewed and 11,000 hear him in the Tabernacle before lunch with Mormon leaders and officials. He then heads to Ogden.
Guerry of Macon Ga elected president of Wesleyan Female College Macon Ga to succeed Dr Roberts. He accepted the position by letter after a 23 vote ballot with 22 in favor and the board had learned of Dr Chappell of Nashville Tenn declining the post earlier that day.
President Samuel Spencer of the Southern Railway in Washington announced a multi year program to double track the Washington to Atlanta line. The project includes $25,000,000 for improvements and new trackage, with the Washington division as the first section. Alexandria shops and yards will be enlarged and most equipment rebuilt as traffic congestion is eased.
A severe storm in Tennessee brought heavy rain and high winds last Friday. In Gallatin a cloudburst swelled creeks and flooded lowlands disrupting the ice plant and causing extensive property and crop damage across the state.
A distressed cotton speculator named Emmett, crushed by failed fortune, ended his life with a pen knife at his New Orleans residence. He leaves a wife and several children, with health and business ruin cited as the motive.
A jumbled OCR fragment references Macon and Jacksonville in Georgia with scattered names and titles. It lacks a coherent event, date, or action to summarize as a clear news item.
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