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Newspaper
Vienna Progress
Location
Vienna, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1897
Page
4
Smith and Baker's advertises as money savers offering calicoes dress goods and domestics with new styles. It promotes ribbons edgings lace shirts and neckwear, stockings boys and menswear, furniture cash or installment, groceries, and a promise to source items not in stock.
An ad touts Johnsons Chill and Fever Tonic claiming it cures fever in one day. It references Judge Allen Fort of Americus as supportive of the people and cites a Georgia Railroad Commission meeting in Atlanta last week.
A Northern traveler touts the South as the Union’s finest farming region. He praises its mineral wealth timberland climate waterways fruit lands and cheap lands, claiming golden opportunities for farmers miners lumbermen and others. He notes springs creeks rivers and navigable waters. He asserts the tonic cures fever in 24 hours.
The Cordele Herald notes printers walked out for two months wages after toiling for nothing. It contrasts fever remedies claiming Johnsons Chill and Fever Tonic cures in one day with quinine taking up to ten days. A columnist rebukes printers for quitting despite a high time report from Atlanta and North Alabama.
The Ashburn Advance quotes the Herald editor’s spree as a hindrance to work and likens the editor’s return to the prodigal son. The Advance threatens the Herald with closing or changing management as a consequence of the turmoil.
Sale to occur at the courthouse door on the first Tuesday in September 1897 between legal hours. Property includes extensive mill equipment, lumber stocks, track and rail, steam boilers, engines, belts, tools, and eighteen hundred shares of Cain Lumber stock, with two town lots in Cordele blocks 62 and 71.
FiFa from the Superior Court of Dooly County Georgia in favor of J. Hill & Bro. against Me D Cain Jr. and his sureties E. C. Patterson J. B. Austin W. A. Greer and J. L. Greer as transferees. Property levied by Deputy Sheriff G. W. Sheppard and turned over for sale. Tenant notified. August 6 1897.
Dr W Neddenfield, physician and surgeon in Pinehurst Georgia, offers care for diseases peculiar to women and children with the latest appliances and methods. Prompt attention provided. Contact number 2096 for one year of service.
A garbled ad mentions JOHN WHODER & CO patent attorneys in Washington offering an $1,800 prize for ideas to patent. The fragment suggests a solicitation that may be promotional or prank in nature with unclear details.
Henry Steinberger of Allentown Pennsylvania describes chronic diarrhea since 1862 served as private in 167th Pennsylvania Volunteers. After failed medicines a 50 cent bottle of Chamberlains Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy cured him and he urges veterans to try it, noting a grateful endorsement.
The article outlines pupil recital limits of four to six per day with possible extra studies and notes certificates issued by the Board of Trustees upon satisfactory final exams. It promotes Vienna as the state capital with favorable climate and transport, urges regular attendance, and lists school officials and private-family board rates from eight to ten dollars monthly.
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