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Newspaper
Vienna News
Location
Vienna, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1905
Page
1
A man described as dark skinned with black hair and a frail build was brought to a city jail after acting deranged at the depot in Arabi. He claimed to be Holmes Mikel from Florida, then remained silent. Officials seek information on his origin, as local authorities cannot prosecute insanity across state lines.
Austin Shaw of Brooklyn reports a 45 day fast living on air and water while working 12 to 18 hours daily. He claims consistent pulse and temperature, daily medical checks, and plans to live to 100. Shaw attributes health to light diet, ample air and water, and regular fasting as practiced for three years.
At a Sabbath Association of Illinois meeting in Chicago a few days ago the group decided to write to President Roosevelt urging an end to Sunday mail delivery and to stop paying Panama Canal workers on Sundays. They claim workers spend their pay in saloons and cause disturbances.
Crowds fill Louisville streets for the United Confederate Veterans gathering as General Joseph Wheeler and four daughters arrive from New York. General Clement A. Evans says a $200,000 fund for a Confederate memorial hall named Battle Abbey has been secured, with plans including relic repositories and a statuary hall, likely to be located in Richmond, and potential funding growth to $260,000.
A 15 month old girl, once in a St. Louis incubator display, is the subject of a custody suit in Moline Illinois. Foster parents Mr and Mrs J E Barclay deny pleas by Mrs Joey Blakely of Laurence Kansas who says she lost the child after hospital officials misled her during a scarlet fever episode in February 1904. She claims the baby died and later learned the infant was given for adoption to others who now resist returning her. The case hinges on who is the rightful parent and whether proper consent was given.
A Chicago professor treats the claim that “tell me what you eat and I’ll tell you what you are” as a trick. He argues that naming common foods like beef could imply wealth or status, illustrating how diet stereotypes influence perceptions.
In Valdosta Georgia at noon Cheater Smith and Will Walker escaped from the county jail after knocking down Vasco Ezell son of the jailer as he delivered dinner. Ezell was struck with an iron pipe and rendered unconscious before the pair seized the keeper's pistol and fled. Both escapees were under sentences five years in the penitentiary and a county chain gang respectively.
Miss Alice Roosevelt, a guest at the Longworth home, left Cincinnati for the east after a state room on the 2:15 Pennsylvania train was canceled. It emerged Booker T. Washington and a group of southern colored bishops bound for Wilberforce College had booked that same train, prompting her to depart two hours later.
An Eatonton report says Julius Tolbert was shot three times and killed by Tony Heard on Heard's plantation about 12 miles past Eatonton on the Ovonee river. Authorities say Tolbert was beating a woman when Heard intervened and, after Tolbert grabbed a chair, Heard fired.
Miss Lena Dorough aged 82 daughter of Hon J H Dorough former representative from Dooly county died early Saturday morning after five weeks illness at her father's residence near Wippettville.
Commander Lasseter of Dooly County Camp auctioned the privilege to sell cool drinks on July 4. Monday morning the successful bidders were Megara Forbes and Coxe who secured the privilege for 87.50 dollars.
Have you registered The registration books for the stock law election will close next Saturday If you do not register by that time you cannot vote The election will be held on Wednesday July 5th Don t forget to register
Boston June 12 A Boston man, Henry M Comstock, reports he lost securities worth 120000 while aboard the Steamer Puritan traveling from New York to Fall River. The 22 stock certificates of various railroads and United States Steel were taken from under a pillow in his state room, believed after a window entry. A subsequent call from New York demanded cash for return of the property.
Mrs Beulah Reed wife of Ed Reed a prominent farmer of Carroll County near Mandeville attempted suicide Saturday morning by shooting herself in the left breast. She is in critical condition and doctors fear she will die. Temporary insanity is suspected as the motive.
Miss Rose Shields of Appleton Wisconsin wins her share of an 800 dollar prize by walking 25 miles in seven hours. She started at 10 PM and reached her destination at 4:40 AM, 20 minutes before the time limit.
A collage of social jabs and policy notes sprawl across the page. References span love poetry, a dismissed tuberculosis cure talk, Oregon whipping post moves, railways adding gym cars, corporate resistance to certain laws, Senator Burton’s nonresignation, and a Pocahontas remnant debate.
The DeWitt Witch Hazel Salve claims deep skin penetration to subdue inflammation and cure Bolls Burns Eczema Tet ter Ring Worm and all skin diseases. It is marketed as a specific for blind bleeding itching and protruding Piles by B C DeWitt Co and Vienna Drug Co.
J A Yarn a 35 year old Albany carpenter died by self harm at Albany Union Depot after buying strychnine. He had sought poison earlier and told clerks of using it as a stimulant. He left a destitute wife and two children and had muttered about a previous suicide.
In Barnesville Georgia on June 12 a confrontation between Joe Reeves and a black man named Bussgy Darden left Reeves with a dangerous jaw wound from a knife. The assailant fled into the woods pursued by deputies and others and was later beaten and badly wounded.
The notice discusses the torment of tuberculosis in its final stages and features a testimonial from William Myers of Cearfoss Md who credits Dr King's New Discovery with a quick, perfect cure after other medicines failed. It promotes relief for coughs colds sore throat bronchitis and pneumonia prevention with trial bottles available at Vienn Drug Co priced from 50 cents to 1.00.
A woman entered a judge’s office in a county seat and challenged him as judge of the reprobate. The judge corrected her, clarifying he is judge of the probate. She quipped about her “three little infidels” and said she wished to be their executioner, delivering a lighthearted moment.
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