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Newspaper
Vienna Progress
Location
Vienna, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1893
Page
4
A historic NY City health commissioner essay explains yeast bread risks from germs, heat, and kneading. It argues yeast raises germs in dough, promotes disease through warmth moisture and flour, and proposes pure baking powder as a safe substitute to produce carbonic acid gas without yeast. It warns bakers’ bare hands spread contamination and urges careful powder selection and thorough cooking to prevent illness.
The piece argues yeast raised bread risks disease and praises Royal Baking Powder as the safer method. It claims bread baked with the product stays sweet and less prone to souring, reducing contamination channels and disease spread. it urges readers to seek information from the Royal Baking Powder Company in New York.
The article advises warmly dressing a baby without restricting movement. Use a hand‑long wrap, soft shirts, a cashmere or knitted blanket, and socks. avoid overheating yet protect from drafts. Open windows for fresh air, maintain 68 degrees, and dress by an open fire to adjust comfort. Take baby outdoors daily in appropriate clothing and avoid risky carriage use.
A tongue in cheek critique from Harper's Weekly condemns starch in men's clothing. It argues against a permanent internal tax on starch and jokes that starch pervades and degrades self respect, health, and climate comfort, comparing starch to the Louisiana lottery in its pernicious influence.
A dairy school editor criticizes the phrase working the butter until all the buttermilk is removed. He argues proper butter requires washing out all buttermilk while the butter remains granular, warning that such wording reveals faulty theory and leads to poor practice.
A New York Weekly blurb describes a talent agent boasting a sagging house was built on purpose to keep family peace. He jokes the design helps locate collar buttons when a husband drops them, as two savvy agents praise the “greatest invention of the age.”
Dr Hutton, surgeon in charge at Detroit US hospital, ordered to Brunswick as yellow fever expert. Cholera case at Buch Austria camp near Vienna isolated. Chicago banks receive 625000 in gold on import. Raine Wis bank closes. Brunswick board of health declares Branham yellow fever. Lombardian cholera spreading near Nadjerna and Snictyn. Fire at Boynton Va destroys Brown’s wagon factory. Ellen Wood death board of health reports no new cases. Virginia Farmers Alliance meets in Richmond with fifty-two counties represented. W J Dyer & Brothers Mus instruments store in St Paul burned. one firefighter dies. Birmingham institution opened by prominent negro leaders. London dispatch: Bombay mob violence. mosques destroyed. Europeans panicked. Montgomery Ala reports quiet. banks issue certificates. Bettie detained at Philadelphia quarantine with suspected yellow fever. Columbus Ga board of trade urges Sherman repeal and certificate payments. Charleston dispenses names process. two hundred freeholders sign. Northampton mass road sighting fight injures twenty. Sanborn arrested.
A Washington Special notes that government receipts this month fall $3,000,900 from last month as business depression deepens. For three days, declines are heavy with merchants withdrawing goods from bonded warehouses and importers delaying payments of duties.
Reports from Texas cotton belt indicate a strong crop, with first picking delayed by rains in some areas. Planters say fiber equals the best ever raised and factors prepare for a large yield.
A Monday morning blaze at the Senate hotel on Madison near Fifth in Chicago killed about a half dozen guests. One man jumped to his death from a top story window. others suffocated or burned in a rapid fire that trapped occupants. The building and contents suffered heavy loss though old furnishings kept damage modest. The hotel housed thirty rooms and thirty guests when the fire began shortly after 6 o'clock. the office on the second floor sparked the blaze and flimsy partitions prevented escape. Victims include Harry Godfrey of Little Rock, Ark, Edward Short of Chicago, and an unknown woman and two unknown men.
A New York special reports a crowd of over 5000 rioters attacked Walhalla hall on Orchard street after being denied admission. They smashed plate glass, forced entry, and dispersed after police arriving from Eldridge street. Fifteen to twenty rioters were arrested for disorderly conduct but later released, and the hall proprietor declined charges to avoid a boycott.
The Senate discussed suspending a notes tax for six months and advanced a currency bill while Mansfield Mantle’s seat dispute loomed. A Hall of Records plan surfaced as government buildings debate grows. In the House, silver coinage debate continued with committee rotations and a mileage resolution. A Michigan seat contest and a death in Michigan prompted adjournment for tributes.
Dispatches from the City of Mexico report the import duties on foreign corn cornmeal and beans were restored Tuesday. President Diaz cites a cause for suspending duties and has ceased the suspension. Toll gate duties in the federal district on domestic cornmeal and beans were also restored. Beginning now beer and other fermented liquors imported incur a special 15 percent tax plus regular duties on the same footing as foreign distilled liquors.
Assistant Treasurer Bailey describes five kinds of U S paper money. He demonstrates a United States treasury note, a twenty dollar gold certificate, a silver certificate, a coin certificate, and the national bank note, detailing their uses and limitations under law. The notes are described as legal tender for debts, with specific restrictions on gold redemption and tax or duty payments.
A Troy Times paraphrase notes Yale and Amherst measurements showing nonusers of tobacco gain more in weight height chest girth and stamina during college. It argues tobacco harms athletic performance in boys and urges increasing athletic opportunities to deter smoking.
A Modesto News report warns that eucalyptus trees are the greatest destroyers of sewerage systems. Fibrous roots invade pipe connections, grow inside pipes, and can choke or break sewers. Cities have ordinances forcing property owners to remove gum trees to protect sanitation.
A humorous exchange between husband and wife recounted in the New York Weekly. The wife teases an old courting invitation while the husband suggests intimacy, culminating in a light domestic joke about sewing with a needle and thread.
A quirky exchange about fishing bites leads to a dialogue on aging and health tonics. The piece promotes Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as a remedy for digestive and liver issues, malaria, rheumatism, and general convalescence, then advertises Brown's Iron Bitters for blood enrichment and vitality. It closes with a moral quip about conscience and heaven.
Eight thousand machinists pattern makers molders roller turners and laborers in Pittsburg district are notified of a 16 percent wage reduction. The move is vigorously objected to and a strike is openly talked of. The cut impacts 26 firms in the city. A special meeting of the young trades interested will be held immediately to decide on a course of action.
An advertisement extols Syrup of Figs as a safe pleasant laxative that cleanses the system and relieves colds and fevers. It claims benefits to the kidneys liver and bowels without weakening them, notes its popularity with patients and doctors, and states bottles sell for 50 cents and 1 dollar from California Fig Syrup Co. only.
J. D. Cox recounts five months of dyspepsia with fullness after meals and sickness. Working for Thomas McHenry, Druggist, Cox used August Flower for two weeks and was relieved. He reports weight gain of twenty pounds since recovery and improved appetite.
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