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Newspaper
Vienna News
Location
Vienna, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1911
Page
2
The Vienna GA newspaper quips about modern life in a long humor spread. It riffs on topics from Luther Burbank strawberries to Queen Mary gowns, New York skyscrapers and parrot talk. The piece blends social satire with brief notes on fashions, politics, and oddities worldwide.
Miss Mabel Barnes, a surgical nurse from New York, operated on her American bull pup Gypsy to remove a harpin six inches long that had circulated in the dog’s system for over a month. The hatpin, pulled from a swelling near the left side, was taken out with artery forceps after anesthesia with cocaine.
A Philadelphia man named Charles McDonald and associates conspired with a Western Union manager to tap horse race information in New York and Philadelphia. Police raided the operation after tips and bets, arresting twelve men in a brownstone and hotel rooms as detectives seized telephones and telegraphs.
In Texas women dominate many fields from ranching and dairying to postal routes and oil wells. A young Texan cowgirl bowls broncos without a bridle, riding through the city by spoken commands. The piece praises female enterprise and power across industries and ranch life.
Angeles officials chronicled the six year effort to fund and construct a 260 mile aqueduct from Owens lake to Los Angeles city limits. The project, financed by 24 million dollars in bonds issued from 1907 onward, encompasses open earth canals, concrete conduits, and rock-cut ditches across the Mojave desert, with a storage reservoir set 1,000 feet above the city.
History and symptoms of destructive sheep scab describe the mite cause found in 19th century, its tiny size and spider like form, incubation, and rapid population growth. It explains itching, patch formation, dandruff, scabs, wool loss, and eventual decline without treatment, plus the federal role against scab and the need for dipping to destroy the mite.
Walter B Leutz argues red clover is ideal for hog feeding if kept from blooming. Allowing flowers and seeds ends the plant’s nutritive value, so hogs should graze on clover from June to early fall with steady rainfall, maintaining continuous growth.
Currant culture notes favor President Wilder as the best cling variety, with Cherry, Fay's Prolific and Perfection also praised. Prepare soil well with deep plowing, set bushes 6 by 4 feet, and use shallow cultivation with mulch. Plant buckwheat as a July cover crop to maintain soil humus and prune old wood after harvest.
An Antwerp dispatch for the Kansas City Star features photos of Belgian work horses on the Flemish port docks. The pair shown can pull two and a half tons, are gentle, and are fed bread along with grain and hay. The driver chats with his wife at noon as the horses eat, illustrating daily dock life.
A concise reflection asserts that a true philosopher measures his faults by his own satisfaction, defining wisdom as the ability to justify imperfection to oneself. The remark emphasizes internal judgment over external validation and highlights self‑justification as a philosophical trait.
A fire at the Von Biffer house on the avenue broke out at midnight. Miss Von Biffer carried her little niece through flames and smoke before escape, described by the visiting fireman to his wife as the bravest act he saw.
The actress Jasem Bomeo and Peggy discuss a lawyer who offered to arrange a divorce with no publicity. Kitty quips that the option is surprising and not gracious. The exchange hints at a private settlement and media absence.
A Rome matron reports health improvements after quitting coffee and using Postum. She describes relief from dizziness, stomach upset, and blood heaviness, noting renewed appetite and lasting well being. She credits Postum by the Postum Co. of Battle Creek and promotes The Road to Wellville.
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