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Newspaper
Vienna Progress
Location
Vienna, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Feb 07, 1901
Page
2
The article describes table decoration trends in fashionable homes, favoring low centerpieces and tightly woven flowers. It notes doilies and guipure lace edging the table, with shallow bowls of flowers as entre pieces and two smaller bowls at each end. Diamond shaped lace inserts and white china baskets complete the display.
A Washington Mime column mocks the Oriental corner as a costly, claustrophobic trend. It parodies rooms filled with Turkish Moorish and Persian motifs, lamplight, feathers, and heavy drapery, suggesting simpler, brighter decor as more cheerful and hygienic.
Old domestic tips describe Sheep Tongues rolled with olives and peppers, served with a thick sauce. Raspberry Cream Salad blends Neufchatel with raspberry juice and cream to form a light dessert bed. Dutch Baked Tomatoes layer bread, raw tomato, onions, and butter, baked until onions soften, with pepper and optional substitutes. Also notes U S grain output per inhabitant and England figures.
In a Detroit scene Bethy Wood Whip frets as Gregory boasts of riding recklessly. The rival suitor Greg ory teases, saying Gregory was tied to the saddle during a fox hunt while Nell scolds him for horse sense.
A reflective meditation on virtue and duty contrasts negative and positive virtue, notes the value of absence and talent, and urges living holy lives over mere argument. It emphasizes that wisdom earns esteem, while wit invites envy, and duty remains clear even amid longing for things to be different.
The piece recounts a medieval tale from Bede about a priest calming a storm with a pot of oil. It cites modern figures Horsford and Commodore Wilkes as similarly observing calming effects in violent weather, noted by the St Louis Globe-Democrat.
A South African correspondent asserts British Africa is larger than the United States in area and richer in natural resources. Vast coal beds, iron deposits, timber forests, and water power lie undeveloped, with a trans continental railway planned by Mr. Rhodes to tap wealth within five years, signaling rapid future development.
The article compiles various farm tips including remedies for wounds with vinegar and water, cautions about injecting unspecified substances, and warnings about animal safety. It covers the dangers of improper treatments and stresses practical guidance for keeping horses, cattle, ducks, and stables healthy. It also discusses feeding strategies to induce ducks to lay earlier and emphasizes careful ventilation to avoid cold drafts and pneumonia.
Farmers paid by butter fat value milk quality over volume. A cow with less milk but higher butter fat can be more profitable, while high milk yield also yields skim milk for pig feed. Dairymen aiming at creamery sales should select breeds to raise calves toward herd efficiency and higher standard of milk richness.
In Mexico flocks of about 2000 sheep use about a dozen old billy goats for protection against dogs and coyotes. Goats lead the flock to cover while sheep stay fed, suggesting a goat leader could help farmers plagued by dog depredations. Also described is a humane caustic potash method to dehorn calves, applying the caustic around the horn and cautions to avoid skin blemish.
A brief instruction advises dressing many chickens kept for occasional eating and packing them into a box. The box is then placed into a larger container for storage during freezing weather.
A fragment discusses freezing chicks to avoid thaw risks and enable later use. It mentions taking a pair out to thaw and eat, with cautious notes about keeping the remainder well, as reported in a New York Tribune context.
An exchange at Arche Restaurant centers on menu items with a waiter listing liver and calf's brains while a guest insists on what is available. The snippet ends with a humorous poking retort about descriptions of physical peculiarities.
The Secret Service exposes another counterfeit ring and a large batch of bogus bills. The imitators target valuable goods, including Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters, praised for indigestion and related ailments, with druggists reputed for reliable service.
Fragmentary text shows a bride named Maud and a Mr New sidestepping a liveryman after an awkward event. The passage references a bottle of Grove's Tastetadr Tonic as a purported cure, with claims of iron and quinine.
A staged dialogue excerpt shows a child in discomfort as a narrator comments on his distress. The exchange centers on a character named Wittley causing the boy pain, with playful mispronunciations suggesting a children’s theater piece or comic relief.
Two Brooklyn women who passed City Hall Park spotted a brass tablet marking the ground broken for a rapid transit tunnel. The asphalt around the tablet shows cracks and a hollow area where earth was removed last spring. witnesses fear the City Hall could collapse as the near surface tunnel work unsettles the ground.
A Buffalo writer contends that hardly one person in twenty five in the city who claims to waltz really knows how, a pointed remark reflecting local frustration with dancing skill. The remark captures a tone of casual critique and urban humor about social graces.
A dated advertisement urges women with nervousness backache dizziness and fatigue to seek Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. It promises relief and confidential guidance from Mrs Pinkham in Lynn Massachusetts, noting free advice with purchased remedy.
Mrs Valentine of Camden New Jersey testifies to relief after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. She suffered nervous fatigue headaches poor appetite back and side pain and weakness before improvement began within a half bottle and continued through four bottles leaving her feeling like a new person.
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