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Newspaper
Vienna Progress
Location
Vienna, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1898
Page
5
A compact column blends verse about courtship with a stream of local notes. It lists visits by Cordele residents, upcoming half sheet publication, sick lists, moves, and grocery offers from Green Grocery Co, plus a few short anecdotes and notices from Vienna and nearby towns.
Tom Hall buys the repair shop of Prof. T. T. Martin and moves it into B. M. Wood’s store. Miss Minnie Shipp returns from Macon after visiting relatives. Cordele residents Cols. J. T. Hill J. G. Jones W. A. Hawkins and Pearson Ellis attend county court. Miss Lucy Heard returns from LaGrange College. Christmas press schedule delays reduce this week’s issue. Rev. R. L. Wiggins and family depart for Knoxville Ga to preach next year.
Public school at last Friday evening hosted a successful entertainment organized in one week by the seventh and eighth grade students and elocution pupils under Miss Irma Swearingen. The program featured dialogues recitations speeches tableaus songs and music with a large audience applauding.
An advertisement touts Johnson's Chill & Fever Tonic as curing fever in one day. The message lists names and places including Vienna Ga and various individuals. It also promotes One Minute Cough Cure for coughs and throat diseases and quotes Dr CT Stevall and a moral line about sharing pleasure.
Motivational guidance on moral choices and perseverance. The text urges avoiding wrong acts, completing right tasks, pushing through fatigue, and avoiding waste, citing Franklin's dime advice to stress prudent use of limited resources. It emphasizes integrity, steady effort, and practical thrift.
A terse ad style item promotes Johnson's Chillana Fever Tonic claiming swift fever relief in one day. The piece muses on widows weeding out gloom, love’s hopeful note, and blunt wit as a guide, in a period tone.
A Chicago firm promotes a supposed cure for drunkenness offered to afflicted individuals and relatives. It invites readers to send for details and enclosing a return stamp, listing Dr W H Saunders & Co as the contact.
Platters Cuban Oil cures cuts burns rheumatism and sores priced at 25 cents sold by Dr C T Stovall. Also includes quips about burglars, talkers, dogs tails and forgers with a moral tone.
An advertisement urges readers to call B. M. Wood for 5¢ cigars including Oka de Cuba Greco Texie and Bon Quor. It promotes Sultan Pattison Co. Louisville manufacture and endorses One Minute Cough Cure by Dr. T Stovall as a quick, pleasant remedy for coughs and colds.
Tax collector J. B. Scorr announces limited collection rounds due to registration. Books close December 19 and Fi Fa issues commence December 20 against delinquents, with levies to follow. Posted for multiple towns from November 14 to December 13 under authority backs.
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