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Newspaper
Vienna Progress
Location
Vienna, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1899
Page
4
Vienna Georgia August 3 1899 reports endorse Democratic ticket in Kentucky and urges support for nominees after conventions. notes Georgia fruit success and flags national issues from war secretaries to arbritration with Canada. mocks McKinley travel bans and Alger donations while predicting 1901 changes and cremation trends.
A broad mix of promotional blurbs and anecdotes. General H W Lawton is praised for swimming on duty in the Philippines. Various health ads mention Dr Tichenor and Simmons Liver Medicine. Rosa Bonheur childhood tale and Balzac letters are touched on, with Anatette Howler set for dentistry in Turkey.
Many women suffer untold agony because their disease is misdiagnosed as womb trouble. Neuralgia headaches dizziness and backache signal kidney and bladder issues. Kilmer’s Swamp Root, a kidney doctor’s remedy, is promoted with sample bottle and free book by mail from Kilmer Co.
Advertisement from The Dominion Company Chicago seeks agents for Murat Halstead's Life and Achievements of Admiral Dewey a 500 page 8x10 inch volume with about 100 halftone illustrations priced at 1.50 big commissions outfit free and chance of a lifetime readers urged to write promptly.
A Scotsman writer recalls Thomas Carlyle as a strict yet humorous country dominie. In 1853 a Cupar lawyer and provost described Carlyle’s fearsome glare and rare bursts of laughter when a donkey wandered into Kirkcaldy school. Bill Hood led a prank mounting the donkey, triggering a lively, comic discipline led by Carlyle who ordered the rider to parade, while others stood as spectators.
A garbled legal and medical directory lists multiple Vienna Georgia professionals. Attorneys Fleming, Powell, Wooten, Darcrum and Henderson advertise practice across Southwestern Oconee and Allany circuits. physicians Drs Mobley and Powers note obstetrics and general care. offices on Union Street, Stovall’s building, and nearby streets with phone numbers and hours.
Real estate agency ready to sell buy rent or exchange properties in town or county with prompt reliable service. For commissions or details contact Progress office at 620Lf. Also announces ready-to-deliver stationery for regular correspondents and offers delivery upon request.
Advertisements announce probate hearings for Martha Wreblen estate and a divorce suit in Dooly County with publication orders in Vienna Progress. Debtors and creditors are summoned to settle the estate of J M Carmack with notices dated July 25 1899 and requests for sworn accounts and immediate payment.
Cordele reader quotes E M W Register remark stating every man may own law but cannot transfer it to others, presented as a local opinion note from Cordele.
A short medical claim advertisement touts Dr M A Simmons Liver Medicine as a quick cure for sick headache wind on the stomach biliousness and nausea. The piece also lists a job opening for a district agent in an old line life insurance company seeking a top business producer and experienced life insurance agent with Confederate veteran preferred.
An advertisement promises free Boschee's German Syrup samples to any adult with cold chest bronchitis or throat and lung troubles who visits Dr. C. T. Stovall. One bottle per person, no children without parental order, and claim of worldwide sales and physician endorsement.
A Chicago Caxton Building notice promotes a new biography by Murat Halstead. The work, over 500 pages, measures 8 by 10 inches, touted as the life of the city’s idol with large commissions and cutting prices.
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