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Newspaper
Vienna Progress
Location
Vienna, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Apr 12, 1900
Page
6
Miss Claudie Barry aged about 16 or 17 died after a brief illness. A Baptist church member, she was praised for her Christian life and sweetness. She was laid to rest in the family cemetery after a large funeral procession.
This advertisement touts Dr King’s New Life Pills as a quick remedy for sick and nervous headaches. It claims the pills purify blood, strengthen nerves, and improve health, offered at 25 cents with a money back guarantee if not cured, sold by Dr C T Stovall.
A recounted moment of a kiss shared after a dance at a stairwell end, followed by a light and a hasty departure. The narrator notes pleasure and luck, then mentions being spotted by Thad and the old black cook heading upstairs for orders for photo work. Location cited is Cordele, Georgia, with credited page item Cofield.
A Kansas City Journal item describes a stingy man who sent his son to fetch the neighbor’s newspaper. In the scramble a bee stand was toppled, a fence damaged, clothing torn, livestock disrupted, and a carpet ruined as mishaps cascade from the afternoon’s comic chase. The tale ends with the family’s chaos as the hired man elopes with the oldest daughter.
Mrs J O Brantley of this city was drawn by an advertisement from the Popular Fashions Company offering a 56 piece china tea set for a dollar. She paid the dollar and the box arrived with excelsior and three small poor quality pieces worth under a quarter, plus 90 cents express charges. She denounces the swindle but hopes for little remedy from New York.
An advertisement offers multiple positions as district Office Managers to represent the author in surrounding counties. Pay is $600 yearly, paid weekly. Desirable unusual opportunities, references to be exchanged. Respond with self-addressed stamped envelope to 3. A Park, 820 Caxton Building, Chicago.
Philadelphia man John Oliver tells how a dreadful illness left him near death with sunken skin coated tongue and constant pain. After three physicians gave up, Electric Bitters produced a marked recovery in three weeks and saved his life, a claim endorsed as life saving. Guaranteed at Dr Stovall’s drug store for 50 cents.
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