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Newspaper
Vienna Progress
Location
Vienna, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Aug 04, 1898
Page
6
The piece notes Ireland and Scotland have the highest single-person proportions while the United States shows the smallest. It highlights 920 duels nationwide last year with 108 serious outcomes and one death. It argues that dental health and strength are crucial for U S Navy cadet eligibility, implying failed exams push candidates to other careers.
The piece argues that teaching Spain a lesson will be led by others prepared to react with anger. It criticizes the schoolmaster as slow and weak in resolve. It predicts that after the war the American flag will gain new meaning worldwide.
The record notes 100000 ranches and plantations in Calin valued at 200 million dollars. They supplied island food and produced no surplus for export except 90 thousand dollars. Sugar and tobacco dominate exports, with sugar output rising from 815,894 tons in 1892-93 to 1,054,214 in 1893-94, 1,004,264 in 1894-95, and 225,221 in 1895-96, minus 30,000 tons shipped abroad.
The International Commission of the Pyrenees acting on Aramita Municipal Council proposal has ended the long standing July 18 ritual known as the Junte de Baretons. The custom, involving three heifers moved from Baretous in France to Roncal in Spain and historically including a lance casting and gunfire on French soil, will be paid without those acts.
The piece argues new war taxes will touch all citizens regardless of age or status. It lists taxes on tickets, stamps, medicines, perfumes, chewing gum, sugar, and transport among many levies. It contrasts government spending on sport with perceived national lethargy, invoking views on France Spain and China.
A brief verse-trace describes a charming woman asking about a weapon for women. The girl lashes her lashes, stirs a curl, and murmurs about a rosetinted art. A lover answers that a woman's weapon is a smile.
At the seaside boarding house a widow confronts a son’s fate and a fisherman rescues Elsie. Albert Trevors admits his part in ruin and proclaims his reward is Elsie by making the fisherman her husband, as truth and forgiveness unfold amid a storm and reunion.
In a New York Weekly installment, Elsie and her lover contemplate a future as Mrs. Trevors and a return of stolen money is proposed. Albert Trevors answers the call to duty while a reconciliatory path through family guilt unfolds under the moonlit sea.
Summary of the Canary Islands detailing geography, seven main islands Tenerife Grand Canary Palma Lanzarote Fuerteventura Gomera Hierro with areas populations and crops. Notes on climate winds agriculture and Canary exports including cochineal olives fruits and silk. Also discusses British influence, colonization traits, and virtues attributed to English and American leaders.
State ownership of forest lands in Sweden reaches 12,056,246 acres, rising by 3,360,072 acres over thirteen years as the government expands its land portfolio.
Madrid reports indicate Spain will accept McKinley’s peace terms with no indemnity and adherence to Spanish sovereignty in the Philippines though hostilities may continue until peace is signed. Officials warn Don Carlos could push for a reaction, while Carlist leaders split on rising.
A Washington special reports Admiral Cervera has forwarded to the Spanish government through the French embassy his full naval engagement report detailing the annihilation of the fleet. The document was routed via the American navy department and Ambassador Camden to the Spanish admiralty with strict secrecy and no public disclosure expected in Madrid.
A midnight blaze in a three story wooden lodging house on the waterfront in San Francisco killed five and injured five others, with one not expected to survive. The wooden structure burned rapidly, likely due to an overturned lamp igniting the flame and causing asphyxiation among longshoremen and waterfront workers.
A war department bulletin dated July 29 reports 4,279 total sick troops in Cuba with 1,496 fever cases. New fever cases rise to 690 and 500 fever patients return to duty while 20 deaths are noted, including Private Michael McGoldrick of the First Infantry.
A Washington dispatch reports President and Secretary Day negotiating with France's Ambassador Cambon who, with full Spanish plenipotentiary credentials, moved toward a preliminary peace basis with the United States and Spain. The talks touched on Cuba Porto Rico the Philippines and other war-end issues.
The Spectator in London urges the United States to take direct control of Cuba and the Philippines. It argues the Washington government should break the pledge to Congress rather than allow Cuba and the Philippines to remain independent or return to Spanish rule.
A Santiago dispatch says Senor Enrique Trujillo editor of The Porvenir arrived aboard the Philadelphia and applied to General Wood for a license to publish a Cuban insurgent organ in Santiago. The general refused permission citing the paper’s character as undesirable at present.
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