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Newspaper
Vienna Progress
Location
Vienna, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Feb 06, 1902
Page
4
Senator Quay, returning from a fishing trip to his bungalow in St Lucie Florida, rode an accommodation train where a Florida farmer challenged his knowledge of the state. The exchange led Quay to speak solemnly of trying to ameliorate “the inner man,” prompting the farmer to remark that he might be one of the faith healers.
A New York Times excerpt notes extraordinarily low prices in the city’s saloons. A Bleecker Street sign offers six cents for coffee and bread with whisky, five cents for beer or whisky with bread and sausage, and a courtly promise that customers may stay as long as they wish after purchasing.
General Basil Duke of Louisville Kentucky is described as absentmindedly strolling and seemingly searching for dollars on the sidewalk. He once failed to recognize his wife in the street. After his civil engineer son returned to Louisville, the two met on a streetcar where the general cheerfully greeted his son and his father, then woke to recognition amid friends’ laughter.
Excitement swept Constantinople as the British embassy hoisted three ensigns in a column. Rumors swirled from peace in the Transvaal to an attack requiring gunboat aid, but officials paid no heed. The flags were lowered and it was found a zealous servant dried them, misreading dampness as a signal for display.
The sultan of Turkey relied on his Greek astrologer Kumba ris, a figure emblematic of Abdul Mamid's court. He once built a modern astronomical observatory in the Yildiz kiosk but could neither operate nor understand the instruments, necessitating a professional astronomer.
Joseph M. Terrell announces his candidacy for Georgia governor in 1902. He outlines tax reform aims, public school funding, pension support for Confederate veterans, educational endowments, and limited tax rates while advocating Democratic unity and fair treatment of labor and capital. He emphasizes conciliatory party leadership and nonpartisan administration for Georgia's future.
Col. John Holbrook Estill of Chatham county rises from wage labor to owner and financier, a Confederate veteran and Georgia political figure. He advocates hard work, frugality, and local option temperance, favors the Democratic Party, and has served on national and state committees while avoiding elected office. He heads The Morning News, a major Savannah paper, and leads a building and loan trust.
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