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Newspaper
Vienna Progress
Location
Vienna, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1897
Page
7
A reflective verse fragment contemplates why we stall in mornings and endure darkness. It muses on love and wilfulness, the fading of hopes, and the ache of estrangement as time tests the heart and mind. The piece hints that eventual understanding will come as life unfolds.
English Miss Constance Stanley befriends Rosita and her dwarf brother Jose in a Mexico City neigborhood. Jealousy and danger erupt as Jose’s madness and Rosita’s hunger collide with a mine owner’s ball scene and a fatal confrontation. Constance witnesses tragedy and faces an uneasy future with Tony Dysart.
A farmer argues that extensive permanent highways would cut farmers taxes by improving communication. The Dan's Review clipping notes road improvements and better business in St Louis and Memphis as waters recede, with good roads and better trade cited.
A rural reform movement for better roads advocates broad tires on wagons to ease travel and boost markets. It notes road safety, animal efficiency, and the need to repair roads first, while citing road-improvement efforts in Lima Ohio and Massachusetts funding.
P de Wateuille reports a method to grow magual lustre crystals in a saturated solution. A small crystal is rotated rapidly as it grows, yielding highly transparent crystals. Experiments with alum and other salts show shape changes from dodecahedron and cube to octahedron at high temperatures.
The people of Wolf Valley Texas organize a rabbit club to protect crops. The club pays one cent for each cottontail scalp and two and a half cents for each jack rabbit. Rabbits have damaged fruit trees protected by oak bushes this winter, and farmers fear losses unless pests are controlled.
About 1 400 workers including men women and children quit Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills in Atlanta after white women refuse to work with Black colleagues. Mill shut down, police contained a potential riot as two leaders were arrested and later released on collateral. Management says they needed Black workers to operate the plant.
The amalgamated wage scale for bar iron workers was signed Tuesday by President Garland of the Amalgamated Association of Tron Steal and Tinworkers and Secretary Jones H. Nutt of the Tron Manufacturers' Association. The scale is governed by a 1-cent card rate per pound for bar iron, lifting wages with price increases but preventing any pay cuts below current levels.
Mint receipts in San Francisco set a new record with 3 750 000 in gold deposited for coinage on Wednesday. Of this total 75 000 belonged to the Alaska Commercial Company and the rest came from various mines and smelting companies.
The Fourth Georgia Regiment C. 8. A. will hold its thirteenth annual reunion at LaGrange Ga on August 17th. Comrades planning to attend should arrive in LaGrange on the afternoon of the 16th.
The American Association of Dentists and the Southern Dental Association, meeting at Old Point Comfort last week, unified into one body with Dr. Thomas Fillbrown of Boston as president and Dr. George H. Cushing of Chicago as secretary. The Southern group formed in Atlanta in 1869 and grew steadily, while the American group included dentists practicing outside the southern area.
In Newberry County South Carolina brothers Walter and Howard Smith argued over burial plans for their father Wicher Smith died Monday or Tuesday. The quarrel escalated with blows and weapons. Walter was stabbed seven times and Howard wounded.
A string of aphorisms about love and money, friendship, and personal virtue. The remarks touch on happiness found in small gains, the illusion of wealth as a measure of friends, and cautions about marriage, vanity, and tone in speech. Some lines discuss gender roles, reform, and wisdom in relationships.
Portia of Orchid Buntings and dower lovers admire an orchid variety named Cattleya Reineckiana exhibited by Sandor in St Albans. The flower, eight inches across with white wings and gold vermilion body, is cited as priceless yet dubious in promise. Arnold, a famed orchid collector, was killed after a confrontation with a rival seeker in Venezuela during pursuit of similar treasures, illustrating the dangers of orchid hunting.
A New York Commercial Advertiser note describes Dixie Norton a cat living with Mrs. Mya Norton and Leland Norton at 4011 Draxal Boulevard who rides in a Indian style basket on a bicycle. The pet bounds to the front when coaxed with a query to ride and quivers with excitement when taken from the wheel.
A glacier eruption in southern Toeland was observed early this year when a postman heard booming from the glacier front, saw ice masses hurled skyward, and witnessed a flood sweeping toward sands. A week later a belt of ice waves stretched twenty five miles to the sea, four miles wide, with heights from seventy to ninety feet. Torrents formed on the other side of the ice field. no injuries were reported, and the event is linked to last summer's earthquakes.
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