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Newspaper
Vienna Progress
Location
Vienna, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1901
Page
4
The Progressive Georgia paper rails at national figures and issues. It lampoons Hanna and McKinley era policies, notes wage disputes, the steel strike, and naval insgesamt, while criticizing politicians and party loyalties amid droughts and propaganda.
Labor is tightening in Georgia. A five percent duty on coffee from Porto Rico has been removed. Georgia beef demand will rise in fall as western cows are near exhausted. Roosevelt travels south at Booker Washington's invitation to speak at Tuskegee Alabama and visit Georgia cities. The Brunswick and Birmingham Railroad ran its first passenger train to Seaboard Air Line junction and toward Savannah on an excursion. The B and B line is expected but not yet located in the area.
Hazlehurst residents were duped by a slick talking fakir selling Saltine remedies in fancy packaging. A show promised refunds, but lights failed and the event was postponed. Doctors left town next morning after no refunds, with similar scams reported in Vienna and along the road.
J P Heard and Sons reports new buggies received for delivery or resale. The notice notes arrival of the latest models and signals readiness to fulfill customer orders.
A New York Times note recalls a Berlin incident where a shopper left a lavish “prayer book” that proved a hidden alcohol and chocolate box. A servant requested it for an incognito owner, triggering a viral question that became a public nuisance.
A Union club associate notes New York men spend more than Pierre Lorillard’s cited daily income. The London Spectator warned a good social position needs at least 50 000 pounds yearly to live well, with American wealth seemingly converging on Lorillard’s view.
A Leslie's Monthly writer notes American iron workers as rovers, moving from Philadelphia to various Canadian river towns, camps in the southwest, and abroad. The piece cites crews returning from Egypt, work in New York, and contracts in Cuba and South Africa to be undertaken after the Boer War.
Country folk believe the tumblebug Geo trypes stercorarius signals coming fair weather by flight. French naturalist M Fabre studied the question and says the insect is highly sensitive to electric tension and may predict fine weather. American variety may be useful pending weather bureau study.
The general land office reports renewed study of petrified forests in Apache county Arizona. Silicified logs spread over eight square miles lie in dense beds suggesting transport by water in the mesozoic age. Some specimens resemble araucarian pines of the southern hemisphere.
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