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Newspaper
Vienna Progress
Location
Vienna, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Apr 01, 1897
Page
2
Washington March 8 Dr Talmngo’s rhetoric argues that the world owes Greeks for language philosophy art and medicine. He cites Hippocrates and Greek architecture to praise civilization’s debt, urging prayers for Greece, support for scholars, and personal witness to bring scholars to faith.
A professional hypnotist visiting the city demonstrated his power as a fire broke out near the opera house. A father rushed into the flames and was restrained by four men while medics prepared care. The hypnotist calmed him, sending him to sleep and later helping recover the child as onlookers debated hypnotic power. Skepticism followed from learned physicians and observers.
A vivid anecdote contrasts a Roman book canvasser with today’s practice. A noble processional figure carries a Pliny in 16 volumes bound in Persian cloth to five Via Aurelia homes while a Scythian slave follows. The modern payoff is a pricey subscription book offered only to royalty and elites.
A roundup of science items: dangers in mille adulteration with water and disease germs, no reliable record of post freezing resuscitation, Munich reports 15,044 gas engines totaling 62,094 HP in central Europe, fire tests favor tin-coated wood doors over iron, lightning strikes for chimneys and windmills, Bruh photographic telescope imports to Cambridge show stellar spectra, J Clayton notes trees shrink in girth, wheat in northern France richer in nitrogen, milk theft safeguards on railways via screw neck can, safety brake devices for streetcars, and Diisberg Diffusion method for gino in dense plate form by electricity. Dieftenbeck tied to Darmstadt.
Professor UG. Errors explains a small scale experiment from Ciel et Terre using a Bohemian glass vase heated with strong alcohol to form clouds and rain. A porcelain lid traps vapors, which condense into clouds then rain droplets fall back into the liquid illustrating the aqueous circulation of the atmosphere.
The piece traces button history from Greek and Roman ornamentation to missing buttonholes in medieval times. It notes Birmingham’s Soho Works initiating steel button manufacture mid 19th century, then George NT’s gilt buttons popularizing the style. Modern artisans now craft diverse buttons at low prices from varied materials, even potato.
The parish church of Grove sits in Buckinghamshire on the Bedfordshire border and is described as England's smallest and most curious church. The parish has under twenty inhabitants and the church would accommodate about twenty more.
For the year ending June 80 1805 the United States railway system reported net earnings totaling 8 268 675 047 on 172 869 miles of track.
A magistrate and prisoner dispute compensation for a black eye in a courtroom scene. The dialogue segues into a barrage of period advertisements for tonics and cures, including Hoettinr’s Stomach Bitters, No-To-Ha e, Deafness cures, Hall’s Catarrh Cure, Cascarets, Dr King’s remedies, and Mrs Winslow’s soothing syrup, peppered with old moble English humor and mock solemnity. The text blends legal banter with pervasive patent medicine pitches and product claims.
An advertisement lists eye-water sold by a druggist at 250 per bottle and promotes St. Vitus Dance cure tablets. It claims Circulor Predonin and a New York circular offer crackers and candies as remedies. Aimed at gentle readers, it guarantees relief with price points noted.
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