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Newspaper
Vienna News
Location
Vienna, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1903
Page
6
A brief humor item explains Virgil Markham, the little son of the Bovis family, daily pesters his mother with questions. After a patient rebuff, he muses on asking heaven instead, noting he would not bother anyone up there and deciding heaven might be the place to start questions.
A collage of humor and dialogue extracts from historic papers. Jokes about lodge trips and lessons in head knowledge. Banter on temper and manners with translations like hallmarks of the era. A brief glimpse into social quips and implied newspaper humor.
Sailors prize unusual animals as companions on ships. The Bacchante features a donkey mascot, while Terrible once kept a deer. Centurion housed a spoon-eating monkey, and Marceau boasted a bantam cock named Boulanger. Other vessels report pigeons, storks, and even a pig aboard.
A Discovery sailor describes near South Pole conditions under Captain Scott. He notes 123 sunless days and 104 days of total darkness, with temperatures down to 58 below, fierce winds stripping flesh, and frequent blizzards. He recalls two crewmen lost in a blizzard, roped to the ship yet separated for hours.
An uptown hotel guest asks for a swift stamp, a clerk guides him to a delivery stamp, revealing English shorthand confusing locals. At a Guildhall banquet US Ambassador Choate, in evening dress, is mistaken for a waiter amid carved pulpit arrangements and busy service.
The bubonic plague has persisted in India for six and a half years with over 25 000 deaths weekly for a period, peaking at 29 647 in one week. Since 1896 about 2 000 000 people have died, with the disease defying eradication efforts and affecting nearly every part of the country.
Use a small band mop of scraps of chamois no larger than a dollar. String pieces on twine into a bunch. When dirty wash, dry, and rub softly between hands before using for best shine.
A column offers practical decorating tips from cushions to center table covers and chair cushions. Tips cover use of Turkish towels on pillows, raw silk tapestry fringe, denim covered cushions, plush cushions lined with canton flannel, brass tacks, and tassels.
All waste and overflow pipes from refrigerator to kitchen sink foul with grease lint dust and organic matter from bacterial action. They contaminate the house atmosphere. Flush pipes daily with boiling water and kitchen sink pipe as well. Weekly flush with boiling washing soda solution and monthly flush with caustic potash. Use a large funnel to avoid damaging pipe rims.
A fragment describes a family living remote from civilization driven to desperation by accidents and burns. It promotes Bucklen's Arnica Salve as the best on earth, available for 25 cents at Vienna Drug Co.
The Southern Railway runs a special train from Macon Georgia to Knoxville Tennessee for the Summer School for the South leaving Macon at 8 a.m. on June 22 arriving Knoxville at 5 30 p.m. The Georgia party is reserved by school authorities for the ladies. Session runs June to July 1 1908. Fares are one fare plus rentals for round trip from Southern points. Tickets on sale June 21 22 23 28 and July 6 13 and 20 1903. Extensions up to September 30 1903 may be obtained by deposit with Joseph Richardson Knoxville. Knoxville altitude 808 feet. For information apply to Southern Railway agents. James Freeman T P A Macon Ga.
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