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Newspaper
Vienna Progress
Location
Vienna, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1902
Page
1
A collage of social musings on manners gender and generosity mixed with a humorous tale of a Christmas cat and a boy. It also presents a long discussion from The Southern Cultivator about fertilizers urging farmers to grow soil feeding crops through culture rather than relying on inert fillers.
A historical note on turpentine as a household remedy and cleaner. It claims inhalation helps croup and lung issues, skin rubbing with fiery spirits, and wrapping with flannel moistened in spirits. It cites burns, patent leather cleaning, paint removal, moth and mice deterrence, linen whitening, and furniture polish, with cautions about skin irritation.
The article notes Germany and Britain claim large debts from Venezuela following a revolution and bombard Puerto Cabello on the 18th, with $20 million in new claims seen as a test of US Monroe Doctrine. It questions precedent, investments in South America, and risk to Western Hemisphere wealth and liberty. Also mentions apples as brain food and Captain John W. Lindsey’s pension appointment by Gov. Terrell.
The Atlanta Constitution lauds American farmers as the nation’s solid backbone. It cites 1900 data showing $20 billion fixed capital in agriculture and 5 billion dollars in farm produce for 1899, with 40 million people living on farms and 10 million farm workers. It argues farming yields strong returns and rebuts demagogic claims of farmer hardship.
A Philadelphia grocer extols onions as the parth's beat product serving medicinal and culinary roles. The writer recounts personal experience with onions curing insomnia and describes onion use for snake bites and animal bites. The piece ends noting onions as a vital, inexpensive seasoning with broad appreciation potential.
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