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Newspaper
Vienna Progress
Location
Vienna, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Apr 16, 1896
Page
2
The essay notes widespread belief in Europe that Italy's Triple Alliance is ending. It highlights Wall Street debt cases, praising or mocking financiers, and cites General Bi Bohefield arguing modern warfare would destroy property more than lives, with longer range combat and City and fortifications threatened.
The four story brick building in Philadelphia houses a large lecture hall and two game rooms on the ground floor, a library of 1000 volumes with a reading room above, a printing room and weekly paper, and a third floor committee room and games room. The remainder is occupied by the superintendent and his wife.
A New Yorker recounts a barber tale where a shaving paper found in his shop triggers a wild moment and an imagined fortune. The unexpected note named him as heir to a Germany based inheritance, prompting suspense before the true origin is revealed.
A Detroit Tribune correspondent recalls Western Michigan agriculture thirty years ago in Calhoun County. Prices rose when navigation failed and transport was scarce. He contrasts 1895 pork and butter costs with modern output, noting Michigan now yields millions of bushels of wheat corn oats potatoes and rice and large herds of cattle hogs sheep and dairy stock.
In Westfield the strong minded Miss Perkins opens a flower shop that spurs gossip as two lovers Mabel Richey and Harry Martin clash over a interrupted engagement. A hotel guest Marguerita Daisy De Jones arrives, triggering a social whirl and a rose misdelivery that tests pride and romance.
A garbled exchange shows a woman insisting the flowers were delivered to the correct recipient Mia Parkins. Harry smiles as he accepts the bouquet at the counter amid the mix up.
The article explains lobster fishing life with traps built from willow hoops and envelopes that allow entry but block exit. Fishermen work in pairs setting up to 260 traps daily, earning about 50 to 60 dollars weekly, with some owning homes on Boston Bay shores. It notes Boston supplies New York markets via steamers, then lobster houses steam live crustaceans in tanks before shipping.
In Kelso Township Indians a wager between John Kepler of New Alsace and Charles Hornbeck of Yorkville over guiding an unbroken steer to Yorkville drew a crowded crowd. Kepler drove the steer, a wiry vicious animal, from New Alsace to Yorkville as Hornbeck refused to pay the bet, leaving Kepler with the buggy.
The article compares the elderly to a worn machine needing careful handling to extend life. It argues age weakens vitality and resilience, yet prudent care can keep a person functioning longer. It concludes that holding on to aged people benefits happiness, even if resources are strained.
Seeds of many kinds found in the ruins of ancient Utah cliff dwellers homes were evidently used for food. The cliff dwellers are the seed of the ordinary pig weed. Indians today still consume seeds from various grasses ground into flour.
Lloyds Register shows on September 80 1896 that 366 ships were under construction in the United Kingdom excluding warships with a total tonnage of 716 676.
A fragment from William H. Gardner in Munsey presents a poetic reflection on love and beauty. It speaks of May’s roses and violets, the sun’s sparkle, and the hope that duty will preserve loveliness in the heart.
Three fortuna hunters seek luck by different paths. Dad splits, a soldier sells his sword, another seeks gold, and the third stays home. Ty stayed put and built wealth, showing enterprise, while the others fail to prosper as time passes.
A clipped poem by Clinton Scollard from Harper's Bazar recounts a fortune telling scene. The narrators Ree and I seek guidance from Sylvia the sibyl, as words glow with mystical imagery and romantic yearnings amid a dreamy, old newspaper voice.
Fragment from a periodical poem describing twilight at the edge between night and day. Vague imagery suggests dawn’s tasks and the moon’s pale light as a symbolic burden carried toward the world’s “low reaper” with peaceful imagery.
A Boston Transcript poem fragment recalls a night at sea. The speaker reflects on faith and peace while watching a lamp swing with the ship’s motion, comparing it to a divine presence and sought solace amid storms.
A mile and a half from Franks in Indian Territory a large spring of clear water bubbles up at the foot of Boggie Mountain and flows over falls to power a touring mill for Hon. B. E. Byrd. The water forms a hard stone on buckets and petrifies wood or bone, with roots of a fallen tree turned to stone near the stream. many curiosities are seen around the spring and mill.
Australian salt bush to be introduced near Tempe as a forage plant. The variety thrives on strong alkali soil and is claimed to be more nutritious than alfalfa, potentially triggering a boom in alkali lands if confirmed.
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