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Newspaper
Vienna Progress
Location
Vienna, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Aug 11, 1904
Page
2
Notices from Vienna and Waycross report a South Georgia fair set for November 1 to 5. The item mixes local politics with broad remarks on wages, corruption, and court activity while noting a railway sale injunction, a court term in Hawkinsville, and shifts in state leadership and commissions.
A Cordele resident warned that three or four houses were selling whisky, insisting the town could catch a blind tiger with proper effort. He suggested the issue may be a community duty failure or misperception rather than an actual failure to act.
Poultry enthusiasts in Valdosta will view seventy to eighty varieties of chickens and other fowls on Saturday and Sunday at Machinery Hall Pine Park south end theater building. Oliver of the Poultry Farm has prepared premium fowls for fall fairs and plans to display them before trips to St Louis Cambridge Syracuse Boston and New York exhibitions. Two coops will be shown with ducks geese pigeons and related birds drawing a large local crowd.
Maryland Governor Warfight stirs readers by praising a 24 year marriage age for girls in Wilmington High School graduates interview. He argues girls completing school lack preparation for homemaking and motherhood and early marriage leads to health and nerve strain.
Georgia offers higher education to her sons and claims the state university as the best equipped in the South Atlantic States. It is the cheapest in the South, with $125 yearly covering board, room, fees, books, and laundry. The institution, old and large with 2500 living alumni, provides sound training, military drills, athletics, and scholarship, preparing students for moral character and public life. Send for the illustrated Land o ok, W B Battle.
The advertisement promises monthly treatment for chronic diseases for one dollar with free medicines. It lists illnesses affecting both sexes including uterine and female-specific conditions, various men's disorders, and venereal diseases, claiming guaranteed cures without operations.
Circular seeks agents and hustlers offering $50 to sellers of goods and promise refunds if unsatisfied. It urges 500 to Lips to Agents and touts coffins available by next train. Lamar Gray listed as contact in a dated historical ad.
An 18,000 mile ticket plan named Atlantis Birmingham Railway offers 1,000 mile tickets at $24.00. The passes are valid on the Atlanta Birmingham Air Line Ry Knoxville Northern Ry Atlanta Point Route Atl Atlanta Weet Point R Rs Atlantic Birmingham Ry Atlantic Coast Line Ry Charleston Western Carolina By Georgia Railroad, for travel across listed lines.
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