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Newspaper
Vienna Progress
Location
Vienna, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1893
Page
4
Poem praises nature and living beings as sources of joy. It questions why humans should not share happiness, noting flowers, animals, and their joyful arts, urging a personal embrace of merriment. The verse repetition emphasizes a call to happiness.
Annice, a beautiful and dutiful girl, makes a home in a shabby Boston garret with William Crump, her guardian and father figure. Her unknown father, George Wilson, reappears with wealth and a claim to her future. Annice refuses the money and stays with Crump, choosing family bonds over a gilded life. Wilson concedes, Crump’s devotion remains, and a quiet scene of dignity and sacrifice closes the tale.
A reflective piece extols steady effort, moral courage, and the harmony of science, religion, and personal discipline. It urges industry and frugality for wealth, warns against repeating mistakes, and links morality to religious principle while noting destiny governs events and character shapes outcomes.
Lisgar St Lambert, famed Jersey bull at Idlewilde Georgia, was struck by lightning while tied to a cedar post. The post splintered but the animal died instantly, a remarkable incident that stunned breeders across the country. Once valued around four hundred dollars, he was thought worth near a thousand at death and was known nationwide. Augusta Herald reports the unusual fatality.
A Detroit Free Press note explains a locomotive’s cough as waste steam expelled from the stack, with puffs heard distinctly at slow speed but merged at speed. It adds a second item about a colored girl chased up a tree by an alligator in Macelenny, Flo, kept as prisoner until help arrived.
A collage of jokes and light anecdotes from multiple papers including New York Herald, Philadelphia Record, Life, Truth, Detroit Free Press, Good News, and Chicago Inter Ocean. Items span financial asks, medical vanity, patriotism jabs, shy suitors, family digs, and social quips.
A dramatic excerpt portrays a couple in poverty as a hand organ man evokes despair, followed by an essay promoting milk as medicine. The Detroit Tribune note contrasts suffering with resilience, while the Philadelphia Record urges milk as essential daily nourishment and a cure for many ailments.
The article traces the potato’s journey from South America to Europe and North America. It notes Irish and Scotch peasants resisted early cultivation, then embraced it during famine. It discusses naming origins, wild North American tubers, and the Raleigh Virginia myth debunked by New York Sun.
The New Orleans Times-Democrat notes that horses sleep with one ear pointed forward, a habit likely a relic of wild vigilance. Cattle sleep with ears in any orientation, but horses consistently direct one ear forward during rest. The exact cause remains uncertain.
A heavy rain and electric storm dropped sun perch fish onto the streets of Middlesborough Kentucky. The fish, measuring one and a half to three inches, were found along Chamberlain Avenue with some up to four inches. The source remains a mystery as the storm traveled from the northwest over Canada Mountain.
A weather themed quip from the Atlanta Constitution urges patience as rain or drought tests residents. The piece wryly notes the Lord controls weather, and suggests moving forward together despite weariness, trusting divine timing.
A playful collage of quips and wry maxims from various papers. Jokes on private interest beneath public spirit, household mischief, satirical lines about wealth and health, and a railcar dream of distant Chicago. Read as a flavor of light yearing humor across papers.
The Atlantic’s bed drops gradually from the Irish coast then plunges sharply to depths up to 3875 fathoms near St Thomas. The sea floor forms a flat, undulating plain with vast sub ocean prairies rather than a central basin, while near Cape St Vincent 1000 fathoms are reached within twenty miles.
A natural curiosity on a tributary of the Mohawk River in Montgomery County resembles a human nose about 300 feet long when viewed from the river near the High lands. Nearby in Putnam County opposite Fort Montgomery, another nose shaped projection is known as The Old Man's Nasal Appendage.
Nighttime proves a period of enhanced growth in both plants and animals. Measurements show night growth two to three times daily gains as plants assimilate nourishment during sleep. The article notes children grow faster at night while daytime activity drains the body, and prolonged toil prevails.
A Chinese laundryman uses a hot iron quenched in cold water to reset surface temperature, allowing multiple passes before reheating. If needed he repeats to maintain steady work flow, avoiding frequent iron changes. Sensible at Last, a quip follows about an Eton jacket with a folded front to prevent droplets from hitting it.
A miscellany of antiquated quips and fables concerns a meddlesome boy buzzing a hive of bees then swatted by stinging retaliation. It includes snippets from New York Weekly and a sales pitch for Beecham's Pills, Beecham's, and a weighty jest about undertakers and cattlemen with faded humor from a bygone era.
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