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Newspaper
Vienna Progress
Location
Vienna, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jan 06, 1898
Page
3
A Geneva device uses an electric mail box with a compartment per floor. Deposited letters trigger a bell on the target floor and a water powered elevator moves the mail upward delivering to each corridor box. Water later drains and gravity returns the unit to ground ready for next use.
A young woman at St Paul hospital survived six weeks on artificial respiration through chest manipulation and arm lifting before dying from lung congestion. Nurses and doctors repeatedly filled her lungs for forty two days, but the method could not fully oxygenate her. she learned to eat and sleep and talk despite the painful treatment. The paralysis with lung congestion proved fatal, attracting attention from many physicians.
A cork rope invention uses small corks linked end to end and wrapped in cotton twine with a coarse outer braid. The finished rope is described as able to sustain a 1 000 pound strain.
A jumble of outdated ads notes dramatic Klondike migration warnings and promotes medicines including Hostetter's Stomach Bitters for various ailments, along with multiple patent remedies such as Hall's Catarrh Cure, Taber's Pepsin Compound, and Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup. It cites dubious claims and includes stray notes on Chinese workers in New South Wales and a quip about the sexagesimal system.
The sermon by Pastor Riousan G. Woopunmar argues gentleness is true strength. It cites biblical examples, including Christ and Grant, to show gentleness wins hearts, shapes character, and leads to greatness. It urges parents teachers preachers and all to model gentle love to transform lives.
Dr. Talmage portrays Jesus as a boy who learned wisdom from Scripture and nature, argues the apocryphal gospels offer partial glimpses of boyhood miracles, and urges faith through childlike simplicity. He recalls Simeon’s temple scene, questions posed by Jesus, and extols a creed centered on God loved world, Jesus saved sinners, and the Lamb glorified.
A report by the Monetary Commission, authorized by the Indianapolis Business Moots Convention, urges clarity on coin meaning in U S obligations to reduce borrowing costs. It favors keeping silver dollars, restricting paper money, and proposes redeploying gold reserves with Treasury bond sales to support demand obligations.
A promotional note extols Syrup of Tiga for gentle kidney and bowel cleansing and fever relief, and Syrup of Figs as a popular, palatable remedy. It urges buying from top druggists, warns against substitutes, and cites CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO in multiple cities. The remainder shifts to a political fiscal policy discussion on currency, government notes, and bank note elasticity.
A letter from Mrs Lucy Lyre of Jersey City endorses Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a cure for sterility linked to general debility and uterine issues. The ad promotes restoring nerve strength and womb tone, offering free guidance from Mrs Winkham in Lynn Mass, claiming many cures and a successful birth after treatment.
The article outlines tax tiers for bank notes, a prior lien on bank assets and stockholders liability, a five percent circulation reserve as a guaranty fund, and a five percent redemption fund managed by the Comptroller of the Currency. It also allows banks with twenty five thousand dollars capital to operate in small towns and permits branch banks.
Paving blocks made of meadow grass are now produced by a clergyman inventor. The grass is impregnated with oil tar and resin and pressed into blocks bound with iron straps. The blocks promise noikeless elasticity and heat and cold resistance. Also mentions skin ointments and tobacco ads and various names and addresses.
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