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Newspaper
Vienna Progress
Location
Vienna, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jan 09, 1902
Page
4
A column blends political jabs and civic worries from Atlanta notes. It cites Senator Wellington professing relief at McKinley’s death, school tax anger over poll fees affecting 8 000 children, a New Jersey governor’s posthumous appointment, and critiques of naval pension cases. It also laments social double standards and fictive reforms amid public misrule.
In rural Georgia a narrator recalls a poverty stricken cabin and a hidden girl singing a partisan verse about the Democrat and Republican gals. The poem notes the third party gal is lacking clothes but will reach that status in time, reflecting local political sentiment.
A period recipe advises keeping a temperance punch bowl hospitably full for New Year’s Day. It details ingredients lemon juice orange pineapple strawberries Ceylon tea water sugar and apollinaris with ice and sliced citrus for serving.
A Woman's Home Companion writer recounts New Year's Eve in Berlin. The evening featured dancing after supper, tile cakes with jam, a relighted Christmas tree, bells and bugles, and cheers of Prosit Neujahe from windows and street, with droschky drivers joining in. The custom of bidding every passerby a happy new year stood out.
The city observes a long standing New Year custom with a synchronized toast at midnight. At the moment the cathedral bell tolls, residents open windows and raise glasses while shouting Prosit nenjabri to greet the new year.
The Atlanta Constitution announces two cash prize contests for 1902 from January 1 to April 15, with $1500 in agent prizes and $2000 for Savannah cotton receipts estimates. Prizes range from $400 to $5 for top and bottom submissions, plus pro rata $250 for 20s. Also a $500 consolation pool and detailed Savannah receipts data to aid guessing.
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