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Newspaper
Vienna Progress
Location
Vienna, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Apr 23, 1895
Page
4
A Columbus Enquirer-Sun report notes a new company aims to deliver electricity to New York families via storage batteries sold like milk. Officers say small, four ounce cells will power one lamp, with customers exchanging exhausted cells for charged ones on routine rounds.
A method for making savory chicken pie with dumplings from Mrs. Charles Rhode. It covers simmering chicken in water with onions, optional fat, and peppers, then preparing light dumplings from flour baking powder salt and butter, adding ice water, baking until done, and serving with thickened gravy and parsley.
The American Druggist recommends a hardwood waxing recipe using yellow wax and ceresin 25 oz each, burnt sienna 5 oz, boiled linseed oil 1 oz, and spirits of turpentine 1 gill. Mix wax and ceresin, add sienna pre mixed with oil, then stir as it cools and add turpentine to reach ointment consistency.
Collector Paul Trammell cites Georgia tax estimates from 85 000 to 100 000 dollars under the federal income tax law after Samuel supreme court rulings. Taxes will be levied largely on corporations salaries railroad dividends and corporate profits with July 1 deadline for payment and mid May for state return lists.
A detailed notice lists local Atlanta market prices for groceries and country produce. Items include coffee 2.60 per 100 pounds, sugar around 5 cents per pound, syrups, teas, rice, salt, cheese, crackers, candy, oysters, flour, corn, oats, hay, meal, wheat bran, shorts, cotton seed meal, peas, grits, eggs, butter, poultry, dressed turkey and duck prices, onions, cabbage, bacon, lard, and cotton market figures with middling prices noted.
Judge Henry Lumpkin of Fulton County Superior Court grants an injunction in the case Seaboard Air Line Belt Railroad Company versus Western and Atlantic Railroad Company and the Nashville Chattanooga and St Louis Railway. The order limits prorating and requires bond. the ruling also clarifies scope across freight between Atlanta lines and connected carriers. The decision includes Judge Lumpkin’s comments and a bond condition of fifteen thousand dollars within ten days.
The Lexow New York City bi partisan police commission bill passed the senate with 17 yeas and 11 nays a party line vote except Senator Reynolds who voted with Democrats in the negative. Thomas M Grady longtime cashier of First National Bank Marietta Pa is a defaulter for about 20000 dollars as directors and bank examiner review the books. Notices were posted in New Bedford mills Wednesday announcing restoration of the former wage schedule following Fall River manufacturers action.
The New York Press profiles Alfred Meislahn, campanologist at Trinity Church, describing the two bell ringing methods, the overlook from the chimer's chamber, and the 10 bells in D to E range. It notes the Centennial Bell of 1889, and recounts past bell acquisitions from England including a tale of bells delayed by a ship bound for a menagerie.
The New York Herald recounts tales of two clergymen lost in thought. One bowing to a cow on the road and muttering apologies, then warning a passing woman to “Go away, you dirty beast.” The other rider misses a fox crossing, failing to notice the animal until a companion asks, “Where?”
A farmer named Left angered by the Ohio River railroad built a fiery red sign to deter trains from his poultry yard. The sign warned the engineer to run slowly or risk killing his chickens, provoking astonishment when read from the moving train. The tale, as told by the Cincinnati Tribune, ends with the engineer reading the warning.
The British Weekly prints Robert Louis Stevenson's late prayer read to his Samoa family the night before his death in December. It asks for patience amid broken aims and evils, blessing amid affliction, guidance for loved ones, and strength to endure sorrow while seeking improvement and happiness.
A Chicago Tribune excerpt from a traveler notes the Mexican government plans a complete public school system reaching every corner of the republic within four to five years. It estimates a demand for 10 000 to 15 000 teachers, urges Americans to study Spanish, and cites Kansas City's example of adding Spanish to public schools. Mexico aims to develop scholarly, liberal minded citizens and a literature spanning history biography political economy science and poetry.
In Philadelphia, oysters win wide use but only Fishtown residents know blind stews. Representative Fow, from a district near Fishtown, ordered one in Harrisburg and taught the chef how it is made by removing the eyes from the oysters. The dish may become popular with lawmakers.
William R. Roop of the Stony Creek Railroad suffered a seven year old dislocated left hip that left his leg two inches shorter. A tumble on icy Norristown ice jolted the hip, the bone slipped into the socket and both legs are now equal in length.
Time old style mocked imitation jewels now chic for frames and ornamental use. Small mock rubies emeralds and turquoises encircle photographs and stay beautiful while unbroken. Andrew Carnegie is noted for enjoying coaching as a pastime.
Practical tips cover furs lightening with camphor, improving stove blacking with coffee, removing velvet mud stains with ox gall and spirits, amusing crying children with a cork or blown egg, treating small wounds with hot brine to prevent lockjaw, burning woolen rags' soot, a poison bottle design, and baking tea biscuits two inches wide for delicate texture.
The article extols keeping turpentine at hand for worm and kidney issues in people, and for rheumatic pains when mixed with lard or camphorated oil. It notes turpentine can remove paint from carpets and ink from white muslin, whiten clothes in the boiler, repel moths, kill cockroaches, and drive away ants with its use.
A French scientist M Ragumelin discovers formid acid from ant hills boosts seed growth. Experimentation suggests agricultural application. Meanwhile M Ragonneut reports boiling water infusion with ants and moist earth yields strong growth using high water to avid ratio. New York Financier notes banks will ship currency by registered insured mail at lower rates than express services.
A famed electrical man from Bal Timore entered a restaurant and, with his quiet humor, shocked the waiter by asking for Trilby and then for the altogether. After discussion with the proprietor and the waiter’s confusion, he finally said only hash.
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