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Newspaper
Vienna News
Location
Vienna, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Nov 17, 1908
Page
3
Local notes list visits and social calls from Royal of Mt Vernon Watts Powell and others in Cordele Perry Fitzgerald Ambrose and Vienna. Several residents attend church, shop, or travel, with mentions of the Great London Shows, a large sale at Max Feldser’s, and a duck hunt trip to Thomasville.
Forehand the Vienna elocutionist presents a recital at the Lilly school house Friday night December 4 to benefit the church. Admission is 15 and 25 cents. Everyone is invited to attend.
A shaky note asserts the American buyer pays 87 percent more for an Elgin National watch than the English customer, comparing a seven jewel open-face model in a ten dollar range with a seven forty one pound price abroad. The piece links a US retailer and English dealer, highlighting tariff style markups and cross border pricing.
A reader argues that the American watch trust profits at the expense of American consumers due to protective tariffs and presses for tariff revision. Also noted are new Cypress syrup barrels for sale by C A Thompson in Pinehurst Georgia.
Local notices list items for sale including livestock wagons and gear, grain drills, and wood. Also requests for meat, seeds, barrels, wood loads, and price details. Train schedules and county road notices appear, with a stray dog reward and public official reminders.
Despite inclement weather last Friday, a festival seven miles from Vienna celebrated the new Drayton community schoolhouse. The interior was decorated with smilax holly and chrysanthemums while verandas glowed with Japanese lanterns. Music pleased the crowd as confetti showers and a roast pork repast heightened the merriment for the mayor's office opening of the new building.
A fragment of John Keats celebrates escaping city confinement to gaze at heaven, breathe prayers, and rest in nature. The speaker contrasts urban fatigue with a tranquil evening in grassy lairs, reading tales of love while watching clouds drift and time pass softly. The piece evokes distant Philomela imagery and angelic tears in quiet ether.
A compact list outlines ten actions unlikely to provoke regret. It urges doing good, practicing patience, thinking before speaking, controlling anger, aiding the distressed, seeking pardon, avoiding evil talk, shielding ears from tale bearing, and withholding belief in most ill reports.
Five room and a half house with an acre lot in Vienna. Plenty of room for another residence. See me at once.
A sale notice for half of lot No 224 in Pinehurst district near Mr James Pope. The property will be sold in one two or three payments as arranged by J M Ward.
On November 26 Vienna Chapter U D C will furnish dinner for old veterans and their wives of Dooly County. As few families represent the Chapter, they ask interested individuals to come forward and help bring baskets for the occasion. They aim to make the monument unveiling day unforgettable. By order Vienna Chapter U D C.
Optician from A K Hawks Co will be present for three days Thursday Friday and Saturday November 26 27 and 28. Free eye tests and fittings offered. Glasses priced reasonably. F M Raffleld Pinehurst Ga announces Kennedy's Laxative Honey and Tar cures for coughs and colds by gentle bowel movement.
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