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Newspaper
Vienna Progress
Location
Vienna, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Feb 09, 1899
Page
5
During this month and up to February 20th customers who spend 50 cents or a dollar at A M Stead the Druggist in Cordele Georgia can call for a receipt. After the date the receipt will entitle them to 6 percent of face value on fresh seed purchases.
The item salutes a 44th birthday with a reflective poem on youth, manhood, and old age. It notes lifelong trials and vitality, then lists local brief notices: G W Shepherd visited Cordele. Hump Ray, Lucius Woodward, T J Peterson, C C Woodward in town. Jno Graham near Unadilla and Miss Cora Powell from Desota. Dave Sumerford, Jno Bryan in town. Rev G T Jennings of Tippettville in city. D B Leonard and Patrick Butler mentioned. 19 degree morning. F E Varnadoe and Coroner Joe Taylor in town. ads urged for reaping rich results.
Mrs. Dixie Orom celebrates a fine boy born January 80th while Mrs. Silas Powell welcomes a fine girl born February 5th. Many residents, including Miss Emma Owen and J. G. Dorough, visit Cordele. Prof. Powell, Col. Powell, and Dr. Whitehead travel for duties. Miss Sara Coney visits with Miss Irma Swearingen. J. P. Fowell promotes fresh meats and groceries. a Leberne hammerless shotgun is lost on a Cordele-Dakota road with a $5 reward.
W W Jordan spent Sunday in Spring Hill Georgia and endured bad luck getting there after a wreck at gym creek. He walked from Helena to Spring Hill, thirteen miles, due to missed connections, reaching his tent girl’s home near midnight Saturday. Mrs Nancy Hitchcock of Stanfordville Georgia reports her husband Elder D B Hitchcock used Dr M A Liver Medicine for indigestion and favors it over Zeilin's Regulator and Black Draught.
On Monday afternoon January 30 1899 a number of Vienna married women organized the Matrons Club at Mrs D A R Crum's with officers including President Mrs D A R Crum and Vice President Mrs D B Leonard. Mrs John B Whitehead will host a Friday evening gathering February 10 from 7 30 to 11 30, promising a pleasant evening with the well known hosting pair.
An advertisement sheet urges shoppers to visit D. B. Thompson for general merchandise and promotes Dr. Simmons Liver Medicine to regulate excretory functions. J I Cofield invites portrait photography while weather is good. A. J. Shepherd promotes One Minute Cough Cure as a la grippe remedy with claims of quick relief and satisfaction. Dr C T Stovall endorses the cough cure.
Distressing kidney and bladder disease relieved in six hours by New Great South American Cure. It rapidly eases pain in bladder kidneys and back in men and women and relieves retention of water almost instantly. If you seek quick relief this is the remedy sold by Dr. C. T. Stovall, Druggist Vienna Ga.
Visit to court house square announced by J S Cortero offering first class photo work in a tent with samples. He invites locals to call, see progress, and be convinced while staying about a month in the city. An unrelated note urges regulation of Gibson Simmons Squaw Wine Wine or tablets in public welfare language.
D B Thompson reports a sale of 100 bushels of North Carolina peanuts priced at 1 dollar per bushel.
The Vienna Progress changed hands on January 26 with The Progress Publishing Co agreeing to liquidate all claims up to February 1 1899. J M Kelley will fulfill outstanding subscriber and advertiser obligations prepaid in advance.
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