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Newspaper
Vienna News
Location
Vienna, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1917
Page
5
Poem on bearing life’s burdens and seeking higher thoughts. Local notices report visitors from Macon and Atlanta, theater ads for Vent al a Lonesome Luke and Fatty Arbuckle, canning and hardware ads, birth and illness notices, lost auto tag, real estate inquiries, and a cancellation of a Drayton singing event. Prominent locals include Dr. R H Stovall of Macon and W H Lasseter heading to Atlanta to serve in the legislature.
A landholder's daughter falls for a trespasser whose family blocks union. She resists an arranged marriage and marries him, then leaves to work in a mill where a baby is born. The mill owner loves her as her husband goes to war blinded. she nurses him at the front amid major battles.
A 1917 Georgia General Act notice states a bill will amend Lilly city charter in Dooly County reducing city limits from a one mile to a half mile radius.
Notes totaling 9000 dollars paid for stock subscriptions in the Americus and Atlantic Railroad have been returned to Americus supporters. The line from Games, Georgia reaches Sumter County with grade work done to Methvin's store and a Flint River trestle near completion.
After months of negotiations the Chamber of Commerce completed terms for a new road linking the Americas and Atlantic to this city. It was determined that returning $9,000 in stock subscription notes would not jeopardize the agreement.
Atlanta officials note that wealth and status do not shield sons of the rich from military service. The Fort McPherson officers training school hosts members from prominent families including descendants of former mayors and governors, some delayed by age or medical issues.
A marketing notice touts a feeding plan for hogs and dogs using B A Thomas medicine. It claims hogs can reach 200 to 240 pounds in nine months and offers a refund if customers are not more than pleased with the results. Local dealers O L Arnold and Ward & Sons Co. promote the product.
The petition to Secretary of State Philip Cook states The Weathers Banking Company is a Georgia chartered bank with principal offices in Dooling Dooly County. It requests to change its corporate name to The Ambrose Enigma Banking Company and to move its principal place of business from Kooin? Dooly to Ambrose Coffee County Georgia.
Advertisement for RUB-MY-115M claims to cure rheumatism neuralgia headaches cramps colics sprains burns and old sores with antiseptic anodyne for internal and external use priced at 25 cents.
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