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Newspaper
Vienna Progress
Location
Vienna, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jan 03, 1901
Page
4
The notice reminds readers that legal advertisements for January will appear next week. It urges payment in advance to ensure publication and legal protection, noting that unpaid fees may lead to removal with no redress. The piece rejects the old credit system and stresses prepaid orders for guaranteed publication.
A lyrical Christmas meditation contrasts a serene landscape with a passing century and hopeful thoughts of Christ’s return. The narrator asks readers to spread kindness as the world contemplates happiness, faith, and the promise of a better day.
Citizens show little recall of the Babe of Bethlehem as papers last week focused on other topics. Several weeks of half baked coverage appeared across newspapers, with a joking jab at seasonal stories and annual print cycles.
Editor Henry Smith warns Cordele readers that those who borrow or steal the Pro-Grass must pay. He asks what should be done about such borrowers and thieves and vows action in the future. The note reflects a local dispute over pay and access in a community publication.
Vienna Progress notes an express package delay after a shipment of 53 jugs of liquor left Monday by train, enough to furnish 212 funerals, while Cordele Call questions the impact on other freights. The remark implies the whisky shipment affected other express services, delaying non liquor consignments.
The article extols Dooly County Georgia as the best farming region between the north and south poles, praising rich natural fertilization, mild climate, and an easy, contented rural life. It notes J. G. Norehand’s 32 bales of cotton from three plows at three cents per pound, yielding about $80 per bale profit, and Robin L. Simmons’s 900 dollars worth of farm produce from a 40 acre farm. It argues gradual cultivation raises earnings, highlights healthier farmer lifestyles, and warns against urban drift, urging readers to see farm life as prosperous and appealing.
A reader advocates humane fowl care during winter emphasizing warm dry houses, green feed, and clean water. Advice covers breeding, housing, and varied rations, including corn mane and mash, stressing no roosting in bare spaces and regular care to keep birds healthy and productive.
A reader from Tippettyville Georgia in December 1900 describes poultry housing. He details two south facing houses with ten foot front shelter, partitions, slatted sides, and seasonal use for winter and summer. He urges keeping good stock, dry warm housing, fresh water, and occasional green fodder or hay, signed J M Warp.
A white Brunswick man, J. R. Davis, killed his wife last night during a burglary scare. He says he mistook her for an intruder, firing from his window with a double barreled shotgun. she died after nine buckshot entered her right side. Davis, heartbroken, claims self defense as authorities note the burglary pattern and four children remain.
A witty column on marriage, courting, and domestic life with satirical takes. It notes a man’s adjustment to fatherhood and woman’s reactions to fear, with quips on proposals, forgiveness, and neighborhood gossip. The piece ends by contrasting Kentucky’s quietude with ammunition rumors from Cordele.
The Arabi school starts a promising term with a program by Sigma Pi Zete and Philomathean societies. J H Norman gave the welcome, Adume absent. Notable moves include Dan Summerford joining Harvard & Royal as druggist, L H Taylor visiting from Americus, J J Hyman at Missionary Board in Atlanta, enrollment reaches 180 since September, Miss Mary Taylor from Eastman visiting, Arthur Newton from Macon visiting with a friend, and Prof Lawson B Brown’s holiday visit to Macon. Subscribe to H. H.8 Journal for updates.
Claud Bartley of Suwanee Georgia laid his gun in a wood-pile and pulled it to him muzzle front then went home to die no more. A Nebraska rich man paid eighty two thousand five hundred in gold after a child theft. A warning to country editors about reckless home play. Three men are donn from a card game in Columbia Washington. The twentieth century fund of the Methodist church is now about wealthiest in business.
A wealthy provincial visiting Manila first meets a relaxed governor general in a white cotton suit, finds him merely a white man in his view, but after a formal throne room reception he kneels in awe. He sends a gift of horses with a note praising the general in gold, warning not to wear white again.
London Tit-Bits reports that hundreds of men and women in United Kingdom prisons have not seen a mirror for years from entry to exit. Convicts are forbidden any glass, a hardship for female prisoners who often plead for a glance at their own features, sometimes sobbing for a morsel of misgra.
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