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Newspaper
Vienna Progress
Location
Vienna, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1900
Page
2
A collage of notes covers global events and local quirks. It notes China’s status, U S political contests with Roosevelt touring and party dynamics, revived commerce with Spain, and local items from Swainsboro, Thomasville, and Tippettville. It also mentions a misadventure involving Dr Wilkinson and a woman.
The piece ridicules Grover Cleveland as a failed world power and fiscal restraint. It cites his supposed lack of imperial ambitions, weak military, and absence of war taxes, calling him a no account old fogg who ruined the country.
A verse in which the shirt waist man rebels against fashion and conventional dress. He boasts coatless comfort amid heat, mocks the pattern of the lady shirt waist, and predicts the coming rise of his style as summer heats up streets nationwide. The speaker celebrates practicality over pretension and forecasts fashion’s blowback.
The Georgia Loan and Trust Company of Macon advertises loans from 150.00 to 5,000.00 at 6 percent interest with D. L. Henderson, Attorney. The note about a poultry show at a street fair in September appears alongside an anecdote about a Kansas lawyer-turned-governor. A Pinehurst trader pledges cheap dry goods and discounts, inviting customers to buy direct for savings from Jag A Witrrans.
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