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Newspaper
Vienna Progress
Location
Vienna, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1897
Page
6
The Vienna Progress reports Vienna Georgia notes the New York City governing body is authorized to spend a million dollars annually to establish parks in crowded districts. A Pennsylvania railroad superintendent orders WPPE not to throw cigars on railway premises. His gut is seen as a possible factor in a marriage dispute.
An English paper writer argues the current commercial mood forces cheap black and white reproductions on the public, reducing appeal to a disgust of original works and affecting native art’s reception.
The American Cultivator notes growing use of wooden sailing ships for bulky cargo traffic. It highlights superior economy and durability, citing timber like oak maple locust tamarack and cypress as prime shipbuilding sources.
President Willett advocates a porta needing no remarkable muscle power or weight and predicts future competitions will shift to recreation emphasizing agility and coordination. Provident Brott dedicates his time to cycling as an ideal recreation.
Dewey County is described as larger than Delaware with no inhabitants and no votes cast in the last election. The piece blends fictional place names and exaggerated statistics alongside grim notes on rinderpest relief efforts and South African cattle losses.
The piece notes the birth of a second daughter to the Russian czar and discusses the potential for a female heir. It contrasts past protests by Tom Knox with current events where women govern major states, citing Elizabeth and Mary in Britain, Catherine de Medici in France, a Regent in Holland, and the Grand Duchess Elizabeth as a possible heir in Austria.
Fragmented verse laments memory and longing for bygone landscapes. The speaker contemplates green lanes, mist, and fields, imagining a future that bleeds into nostalgic recollection and enduring nature. The piece blends dream and place with reflective, lyrical tones.
On a rainy mid October day Matty Rice sends Nora to borrow the book Recreations of a Country Parson. Nora returns with Mr Fontaine the clergyman instead, causing comic confusion. Matty and Eveleen laugh with him at lunch as the morning slips away to clear skies.
The text recalls Mr Fontaine and Mr Paul Winton as cottage owners and mentions a move toward Philadelphia not being far. It hints at a spring building of the larking rectory and gossip about a pretty young person and a domestic home, with dialogue about blunders and outcomes.
Four Young Men’s Christian Association students in Spring Held experiment with an Aladdin oven to prepare all meals overnight. They claim total weekly food and fuel cost stays at one dollar per person while using slow cooking to tenderize cheaper ingredients. A faculty member and his wife also tried the method with positive results.
The article reports calculated Earth weight as 6,069,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons and compares it to many powers of ten and to the weights of Britain Europe and other regions. It imagines Rome’s Coliseum ghosts counting 87,000 people at 100 tons per minute and muses that 100 million stars counting would finish in seven hours.
The British Museum’s great catalogue project aims to list nearly all published books within a year or two. Its evolution began 110 years ago with two volumes and grew to 8,000 volumes by 1886, with the new edition planned as 600 volumes containing about 3,000,000 titles.
A U S machine counts and bundles postal cards, with two automata handling 500 000 cards in ten hours. They wrap and tie packs of twenty five, using fingers to pull paper, apply mucilage, and twine for secure packages ready for delivery.
A boastful portrait portrays the Shah as brusque in speech yet magnificent with a bow and rifle. He is described as an exceptional marksman who can hit a copper coin tossed in the air and takes on rough hunting expeditions, earning the label of the best shot in Persian lore.
The piece discusses crop yields per acre based on hill spacing and explains how to arrange and protect a chicken coop. It then covers horse hoof care, noting the importance of clean, even growth, regular inspection, and timing of shoeing to match wear and growth.
The text notes no cure to stop bean weevils from laying eggs in young green beans. To curb infestations, destroy larvae inside harvested beans. Bean growers use tight storage with evaporated carbon bisulfide or volatilization, and apply 146 degree heat for one hour without harming seed vitality.
The article notes geese sell for fifty to sixty cents in markets while farm geese typically weigh eight to ten pounds. Toulouse and Embden geese reach much larger sizes, with exceptional specimens. fat geese command high prices. Turkeys show higher prices but similar profits, and geese thrive on grass plots or ponds, breeding into old age to yield annual income.
The article advises on accessible water for flocks, favoring running streams over wells for steadier, cooler water. It stresses keeping troughs full and using wind pumps with return flow, while ponds serve as last resort during hot periods. It warns stagnant summer water breeds disease and urges continuous supply for thrift and profit.
A New York Tribune tip describes using a tub or barrel of water and an old perforated bottom tin pail to water crops. It notes gravity aids watering but clothes and feet get wet, and suggests a pail with a side extension or a hanging curved flap to shield the handler.
Agricultural experts at Massachusetts Agricultural College Amherst Mass have demonstrated that electricity affects plant life. Tests on seeds exposed to a brief mild current hourly showed faster germination. Similar experiments are expanding across agricultural colleges following earlier European findings.
The passage notes that English prisons have been reduced from 118 to 58 over the past twenty years. It argues that fewer prisons do not necessarily reflect a higher moral standard, stressing uniformity in dhat discipline and clothing remains constant.
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