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Newspaper
Vienna Progress
Location
Vienna, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Apr 03, 1902
Page
6
A long, chatty note from FUNNIE DOLIPTLE invites readers to contribute to the Y. P. D. column. Various writers share schoolyard humor, spring thoughts, and reflections on friendship, with requests for badges and continued editor support.
A scraps page recounts a tale of a boy James delivering a letter then slipping in another for free. It discusses china in households with warnings about fragile wares and costly replenishment, drawing from a Pittsburg Dispatch observation on china prices. It ends with a anecdote about James J Hill and a farmer’s letter about finding pigs, cited by the New York Times.
New York Yacht Club secretary J. H. V. Oddie, who died recently, helped define America’s Cup races as for the public good not club privilege. When coverage revived, a newspaper representative from each paper joined the committee’s tug. Yacht designer J. Peederick Tams joked about too many “letters” aboard, and Oddie replied there is plenty of room ashore.
In a shop talk at the American Dramatists' club Taggart, a versatile young writer, discusses his vaudeville hit Skinny's finish and his other works. He notes how The Moth and the Flame reached publishers by presenting the words unseen to Effie Shannon, highlighting the rough path to fame.
A playful anecdote about Russell Sage admired as a plain man. A Nassau Street scene recalls Sage adjusting with pride after a street urchin jokes about his new hat, illustrating modest dignity.
In Baltimore Senator Gorman recalls a divided Senate days with a sharp clash over a resolution. A peer made a lengthy eloquent case then pivoted to oppose it, prompting Gorman to note the need for considering the other side. The piece ends with a witty exchange from The Prosaic Girl.
The author concedes some work was not original while the publisher questions why plagiarism occurred given the wealth of literature to choose from. The exchange highlights concerns over taste in borrowing ideas.
A medical note suggests preserving shaved ice in a sickroom by placing a saucer of ice inside a soup plate and layering with pillows to keep it cold, even with a fire. Use an old jackplane as an ice shaver, turning it over to shave.
The excerpt recalls Colonel William Greene Sterett of Texas and Washington, noting poker games with violent passions and a massive loss of only three dollars and an uncle. It then shifts to a pearl famine in Paris where jewelry demand outstrips supply, pushing prices up two to four times over a decade due to wealthier Americans buying gems.
Unclear passage shows Towan writing to a representative about volumes of The Congressional Record containing obituary notices for dead members. The remark implies humor found in obituaries and overall attitude toward public notices.
Joel Chandler Harris, now retired from journalism, has more time for writing and is serializing his third story since leisure began. A friend asked if leisure suits him, and Harris mused that his ideal happiness would be a cold night, a big fire, and taters in the ashes.
In a cloakroom exchange senators recalled foiled attempts to see Justice Field who ordered the brazen book agent shown to him. A Brooklyn street scene finds Hugh McLaughlin joking about a wordless interview with a reporter on Marconi’s wireless fears.
The piece recalls Chauncey M. Depew and a Depew era order at New York Central about the way stations were announced. It notes a modern Union Pacific directive urging gentle treatment for passengers ejected for fare shortages and quotes a Poughkeepsie youth asking about what tenor to exhale in such moments.
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