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Newspaper
Vienna Progress
Location
Vienna, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Feb 17, 1898
Page
6
The Vienna Progress notes a curious stance in the New York Independent about two Catholic missionaries killed by a Chinese mob. It mentions the Emperor of Germany seizing a port and 400 square miles in retaliation and notes the Jesuits had been expelled from Germany.
A German proposal would fix the electorate age at thirty instead of twenty five, a move the New York Mail and Express says targets women’s suffrage. The Vienna professor predicting doom cites November 18 14 via Temple’s comet, and the Louisville Courier Journal notes even that catastrophe may vindicate skeptics of such professors.
A London lecture on Alpine climbing featured a photograph of a guide who saved a party. As they slipped on a steep spur, he plunged down the slope and struck his axe into the snow to arrest the fall. The rope cut into the snow at the crest, yet held, and the group survived.
The New York Times questions Spain’s claim to pride amid warnings abroad. It notes past expulsions and persecutions, limited literacy, and a decline in European influence as evidence, arguing Spain earned humility for its mixed history.
A Maryland legislature measure seeks to shield song birds from hatmaking trade amid depopulation of forests. Support grows statewide including women joining reform efforts. Similar moves spread to New York Rhode Island Massachusetts as reforms spread, though critics argue some ornamental alternatives exist.
A ballad recounts a winter scene where Betty gives the mitten to the narrator. The mood is playful and romantic as the couple shares a moment on a night porch. The verse contrasts youth, courtship, and the Irish tone of the original Yellow Book piece.
In Monterey the San Juan Street scene ends in a daring night theft at Dona Maria Ortiz’s adobe. Chona hides as a barber’s deft hands lift a camphor chest of diamonds and rubies, but Porfirio discovers the crime and the barber escapes with the loot while Chona is wounded. The chase winds to San Anselmo and a local boat, with the jewel chest never recovered.
The Parkston Advance reports Hubert Bates and Anton Pergen catching over 275 pounds of fish in a slough formed by spring overflow near Victor Whiich's place. Using scoop shovels, they recovered fish frozen to the ice that revived when held, noting thousands of fish in ponds and sloughs that may perish as ice thickens.
Report notes a growing trend of death by own action abroad, with France showing increases and England classifying attempts to commit the act as felonies under its law. Discussion frames the issue within legal and moral terms across jurisdictions.
The Seger school in Oklahoma Territory integrates Cheyenne and Arapaho students once considered backward. Superintendent John Seger, trusted by the community, helps win their confidence. The article cites school influence beyond classrooms, noting jewel amulets and monograms, and describes shop displays with plush backgrounds and a doll garden with real shrubs and a rustic bridge.
A nearly finished eighty four foot globe will be a centerpiece at the Paris Exposition. Built by T Rudiman Johnson at a 1 in 500000 scale, it will revolve slowly and feature nine floors with elevators and stairs. The project highlights vast earth coverage and a touring education angle.
The Paris fashion scene shows live tortoises embedded in gold filigree jewelry in a Rue Royale window. Tiny, a half-inch or less, these shells wear red diamonds and brilliants, with a gold chain pinned to the corsage. A revolving globe display will let visitors view all sides. Underground sanitation notes health gains on the London Underground. Cavalry costs in Britain run about $500 yearly per man and horse. Norway uses seaweed for glue and various products after iodine extraction. Colonel Fiegel comments on money in horse racing.
Miss Mary Kirk, translator of Portuguese in the Bureau of American Republics at Washington, earns the highest salary for a woman clerk in U S service at $1800 per year. Born in Philadelphia, she studied at Swarthmore, taught languages in Rio de Janeiro, then served as translator for the Brazilian Minister before taking her current post.
The omnivorous ostrich swallows a wide range of items from food to inedible objects. Mr. Schreiner relates incidents where an ostrich swallowed oranges, small turtles, fowls, kittens, bones, a box of peaches, fencing wire, and cartridges. It often seizes several items at once and may require medical intervention when windpipe injury occurs.
The Alden house at Duxbury Massachusetts built in 1643 remains standing in solid condition. Inside lives eleven year old Priscilla Mullins Alden, ninth generation descendant of Priscilla Mullins who became Priscilla Alden. Numerous direct descendants of the original Pilgrims live nearby today.
Jeff Watts, famed hunter from Webster County Missouri, travels with friends to the Leatherwood Mountains in Arkansas. He long boasted over 4000 deer in his score and is considered one of the Union s most successful hunters.
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