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Newspaper
Vienna News
Location
Vienna, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Oct 20, 1908
Page
2
A Coffee County official notes marriage license fees vary by county from 1.50 to 2.25 dollars. He seeks AG opinion confirming 2.25 dollars as the fee and announces future charges of 2.25. Readers are reminded license prices differ across jurisdictions and can rise.
Public notice from E. G. Greene C B Com announces meetings for all teachers in Dooly county to arrange contracts. White teachers to meet at 10:00 am and colored teachers at 2:00 pm in Vienna on Saturday October 24 1908.
A clever agent pushes a bargain route with a paper cutter and an uncut copy of Foxs Book of Martyrs as a joke. The victim objects repeatedly to items he does not own before finally purchasing a cheap paper cutter amid a parade of fictitious furniture pitches. The exchange ends with a pedantic quotation from Montesquieu.
Georgia Farmers Union legislative chair R F Duckworth outlines aims including a parcel post system and a postal savings bank. He cites a 68 million dollar illegal cotton tax from the sixties to be returned by Congress for state restitution, with surplus funds for education. He predicts cotton prices will rise after the election, comparing a future rise to a Dan Sully year.
Having rented the Cheek house I am desirous of securing a few regular boarders. Rates reasonable. Apply to J. F. Butler. For sale 1000 bushels of Woodward oats, see me for the next ten days, J. E. Horne, Pineburnt, Ga. Lost or stolen 86 head of cattle cows yearlings steers branded crap left ear swallow fork right ear under bit liberal reward information N J Gaurnhax Vienna Ga.
A discussion traces coffins to dolmens and mummy cases, arguing that early stone tombs and dolmen structures influenced later coffin design. It notes ancient burial forms, the house of the dead concept, and the evolution from leaden shell coffins to conventional human-shaped forms, as cited in the London Lancet.
The News urges all subscribers in arrears to settle promptly under the new postal law. We may drop those in arrears up to nine months to comply with regulations. The Pupissuer promises prompt service and timely delivery.
A letter from Warrenton North Carolina describes a six month battle with kidney affection. The writer claims to have nearly died and praises Stuart's Buchu and Juniper as a remedy. The note urges readers with backache dull headache swollen joints and low energy to seek relief and write for more information.
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