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Newspaper
Vienna Progress
Location
Vienna, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jan 13, 1898
Page
6
A musing note cites a fifty day world tour as illusion and contrasts it with practical tales. It recalls Nansens thirteen Arctic explorers who all returned alive and well, and jokes that Boston’s thirteen pleasant Sundays bring prosperity without check.
The Indian agent in Oklahoma says rum gambling idleness and poverty bother the Cheyennes and Arapaho half as much as the agent’s wife mother-in-law who is an institution and often occupies the agent’s time patching up quarrels started by the relative.
The London Spectator argues that global industrial pooling is impending, placing Europe at a disadvantage in agriculture. Europe must cooperate with America and Austria to avoid poverty, while eyeing Ven Saloonica and a swift route to Asiatic trade, despite fears.
Reports say the Nobel prize of about sixty thousand dollars for peacemaking may go to Vereshagin the painter. Critics question whether the prize serves a real good as Vereshagin’s war pictures are bloody and distressing. He is last known sketching scenes in the Austrian Parliament seeking more dramatic material for future war canvases.
A New York cotton broker urged Southern farmers to back a price stabilization scheme. He said prices are driven by Liverpool spinners and professional operators rather than supply and demand and proposed forming a trust to buy cotton when prices drop and hold surplus when supply is high. He plans to obtain a charter for a company to implement the plan.
The article outlines the principal states within Austria Hungary including Austria, Salzburg, Tyrol, Bohemia, Moravia, Galicia and Lodomeria, Hungary, Transylvania, and Dalmatia among others. It notes each once maintained statehood, with roots tracing to medieval and earlier tribal forms, reflecting a complex empire's historic foundations.
Miss Wilmar, a rich wary lady, loses Dr Dennet and longs for a trusted physician. She settles on Dr Dorn after favorable word, paying well and advancing his status. A late night summons brings him to old Mr Gray, whose rheumatism reveals Dorn’s curt manner and web of class- tension in a strained town.
The Battle Creek hatchery in Shasta County reports a record takedown of 403 female salmon yielding about 2,015,000 eggs in one day. Hatchery worker Robert Radcliff notes the facility could supply salmon eggs nationwide as tens of millions have already been collected this season.
A New York Ledger piece explains how the nose shapes beauty and reflects character. It cites a German physician asserting half a life can alter the nose through training and culture, detailing traits linked to various nose shapes and nostril sizes.
A Norwegian local figure named Ivar Tofte presents himself as king by descent from Harold Fairhair. He maintains a livery stable and is treated as king by his district, with disputes brought to him for settlement as if authentic royalty. Chronology dates for Harold range 860 to 933.
London Sketch notes that St Petersburg alone shipped 69 500 000 eggs to English ports in 1896 with each case containing 1600 eggs. Across all Russian ports the total is 280 000 cases amounting to about 845 000 000 eggs.
A New York lawyer writes to a local paper denouncing toll gates and toll bridges as a public nuisance and urging abolition. He cites Waterford’s old wooden bridge, chartered in 1803, now owned by a corporation earning large profits and distributing salaries, with tolls sometimes reaching near five hundred dollars in a day.
The Goodroads League advocates for better roads across California. After a Bureau of Highways study produced drafts for an Department of Highways and related taxes, the governor signed one bill but vetoed the others, leaving a department with no duties. The league plans county associations to affiliate with the state body.
The Bureau of Road Inquiry notes lack of federal funds, relying on private contributions and supervision to build sample roads. Five sites are New Brunswick New Jersey Geneva New York Kingston Rhode Island Warren Pennsylvania Ithaca New York. General Stone suggests $5000 per locality could trigger subscriptions to fund 2000 to 10000 dollars worth of road work at many agricultural colleges and stations. Tow road repairs are criticized as wasteful as a Canadian town shows 75 years of overlayered stone wasting funds that could pave with asphalt or brick.
Towns near the state line south of Charlotte North Carolina tell of lost trade as farmers haul to better roads in another state. The plight prompts a new movement for improved highways across South Carolina to reverse the trend and attract commerce.
A discussion urges better state and local road facilities to rival rail transport. It notes two acres per mile added by road width, advocates keeping roads clean, and supports Connecticut hearings on bonding for road building to enable continuous, well-made highways and easier local travel for small towns.
Professor F N Scott of the University of Michigan launches a “museum of student composition” collecting exercises from high school pupils to map stages of language development. Chicago collaboration with Nightingale seeks sets from all city high schools. Six daily prompts include a letter, short story, description, explanation, and a persuasive piece.
A clergyman exchange in a church leads to a broken window and torn hymnals. The substitute promises restraint while the window draught causes action, deacons seek repairs and new hymnals before the next Sabbath. Also a quip about poets praising goldenrod follows.
Bath, Ontario based company in evaporating business reports a new process that reduces potatoes and onions to one tenth their original volume. Onion evaporation is highly successful and a carload is to be prepared for the Yukon market.
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