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Newspaper
Vienna Progress
Location
Vienna, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1897
Page
3
A black 28 year old terrier named Towser keeps watch at a yard gate. He snoops the barn, chases cats, and guards the entrance from a spike topped sentry box. He performs his rounds, paws the platform, and warns off intruders with fierce barking and teeth when strangers approach.
A medieval voice counsels a daughter on trust and balance in dowry or marriage. The speaker cautions that a husband boasts of strength but should be treated with care, recognizing frailty behind bravado.
Opportunities, said Uncle Hhen, Sis pretty sho' ter come to é bry man. But it'é a mighty good ides, jes' do same, foh him ti hustle Foun' an' send out a few in Pitions.
A garbled OCR page fragment mixes political commentary on independence with a jumble of early 19th century patent medicine ads. It references Washington and Adam, quack cures for colds and catarrh, and various branded remedies, all dated October 1, 1814, with scattered product names and dubious claims.
A Fort Monroe sermon extols frost as divine pedagogy, blessing labor, perseverance, and gospel witness. The preacher compares enthusiasm to Earnest effort, praises hardship as providential, and links frost to biblical motifs, Milton’s blindness, Valley Forge, and Arabian horse valor, urging steadfast faith.
A collage of aphorisms from Napoleon IV, Theodore Munger, John Martinson, Lilian Whiting, Amiel, Charles Kingaley, and Phillips Brooks. The passages urge self discipline humility duty and service while contrasting faith conviction and character with worldly worry and selfishness.
Receivers of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad install a lighting plant at Philadelphia to illuminate passenger station, yards, freight facilities, docks, roundhouses, and shops. The system uses twenty miles of overhead wire and a submarine cable across the Schuylkill River, with costs reduced by about half compared to prior local lighting purchases. Japanese Minister Hashi arrives in San Francisco voicing strong opposition to Hawaii annexation.
A boy rushed to Woodruff M. Vance, agent of the Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in Morristown, reporting a D L and W freight horse load unfed for three days. Senator John B. Vreeland and editor J Frank Lind joined the humane mission and confronted Superintendent Carr, who revealed the horses were wooden replicas shipped by a carcass proprietor seeking a prankster.
Charles Zallman of Haddington uncovered a six foot deep stone lined well on the old Dalton farm site while digging for new houses. Inside a wax sealed glazed jar lay preserved peaches dating seventy five years, the family devoured the two quarts, while the historic value remains uncertain.
It is estimated that securing protection in sixty four countries requires as many patents and an expenditure around $81,500. The note underlines the heavy cost and extensive legal steps involved in obtaining international patent rights.
An article explains counting annual rings in a tree to estimate age. Fernow of the U.S. Forestry Service notes rings vary by species and growth conditions, advising careful cross sections and level cuts for accuracy, with many notes on irregularities and growth patterns.
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