This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
This newspaper page contains 9 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Vienna Progress
Location
Vienna, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Apr 14, 1904
Page
4
The issue reports a Cordele Parker club formation and civic debate over moving Worth county courthouse from Trabella to Sylvester. It notes Irvinville quotes, editorials, and a Carnegie library project in Cordele valued around 14 000 dollars. The piece mentions postal registration and local settlement actions pending in courts.
A notice offers a book titled A Key to Examinations containing questions and answers from every Georgia public school examination since 1888. Sixteen years of work, available for postpaid at one dollar. Descriptive circulars free. Holden, cashier Gilmer County Bank, Ellijay, Ga.
Lamar Gray of Macon Georgia advertises an undertaker service inviting customers to deposit funds for coffins caskets and robes and promises shipment on the next train with prices from eight dollars upward to any amount.
A collage of humorous lines about coal smoke and winter life. It muses on misers, mischief, weather, and the comfort of the old stove versus summer scenes, with playful quips about germs, drums, and midwinter thaw warnings.
A terse exchange discusses X rays and their imagined power. A man jokes that if a man can raise a ten dollar bill he can see whatever he desires, reflecting curiosity about unseen science and money’s influence.
A small boy describes the aftermath of a thrashing with a sob thanks to his friend. He says the marks feel like prints of whales and insists the pain is severe. The exchange captures a child’s perception of punishment and sympathy.
A collage of witty sayings and parlor quips features a star attraction, a showman planning fortune, a penny museum, a precocious boy, a poetically challenged couple, a jailbird scheme, and brief social gibes on manners, marriage, literature, and Betsy’s bachelor girl.
A light verse urges optimism during hard times and mocks gloom. It promises cheer offsets worry and even helps personal life and relationships, noting no cost to smile and little need for a license to laugh. It contrasts hardship with practical comforts and social ease.
At some boarding houses none but the brave can face the fare. When you are spending money the storekeeper never asks you how you got it.
We want people to find what they are looking for at NewspaperArchive. We are confident that we have the newspapers that will increase the value of your family history or other historical research. With our 7-day free trial, you can view the documents you find for free.
People find the most success using advanced search. Try plugging in keywords, names, dates, and locations, and get matched with results from the entire collection of newspapers at NewspaperArchive!
You can also successfully find newspapers by these browse options. Explore our archives on your own!
Browse by location and discover newspapers from all across the world.
Browse by date and find publications for a specific day or era.
Browse old newspaper publications to find specific newspapers.