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Newspaper
Vienna Progress
Location
Vienna, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jan 21, 1897
Page
6
The League at American Wheelman comments on farmers photos and market form. Byrids papers complain watch trades in poor condition due to foreign competition. At the century’s start Bible study was limited to one-fifth of the population and translation barriers hindered tens of the world’s inhabitants.
A report notes rising prices and scarcity of a Chesapeake Bay terrapin. Officials warn of imminent danger to the species and pledge rapid protective measures to prevent extinction. Local authorities coordinate habitat safeguards and monitoring efforts.
The New York Sun ponders acquitted prisoners thanking juries and warns against leniency. It cites Bosin and the Independent on animal improvement, notes high earnings in horse racing and large blood sports losses, and laments the sport's brutal spectacle shaping national nerves.
The piece discusses beliefs that motor car adoption will elevate horse demand, while Dr. Abbott attributes reduced female pulmonary deaths to bicycling. Springfield Republican counters with data showing mortality from consumption fell before safety bicycles, noting similar declines in men, and cites factors like disease understanding, sanitation, and immigrant acclimatization without asserting a single cause.
Fragmentary verse recalls seasons from spring to winter and memory of youth. The speaker laments aging days and fading blossoms as winter nears, finding hope in recollection and the call of past joys. The text blends natural imagery with longing for former happiness and a future remembered.
A narrator recounts being relocated to a Ceylon farm where Ahmed the elephant carries logs and builds a bridge under training. After severe mistreatment by a keeper, the narrator defends the animal, earns Ahmed’s trust, and ultimately partners to complete the bridge project before returning home with a kinder trainer in place.
The Cleveland Plain Dealer explains thunder as a rolling sound from a volley fired along a line of troops. A line extending a mile would let distant reports arrive later, producing a progressive roll. Lightning flashes align with simultaneous explosions, while listener position and echoes in mountains intensify the effect.
A fisherman near Takon hooks a strange four foot creature with a gelatinous body and a three inch diameter at widest point. Named by the fisher as a sea rattlesnake, it decayed to skeleton within hours of capture, per Alaska News account.
New York Herald describes Deadwood as a dramatic mining town with towering gallery-like dwellings and night lights. It details ore processing at Homestake, including furnaces pouring molten gold, cyanide and chlorination works, and the cyanide method, sluices, and quicksilver recovery. The piece notes the immense output, the deep shaft, stamping mill, and the river of gold flowing from the forehearths as workers witness a city built around wealth from ore.
The Oregon shoreline near Coffin Rock on the Columbia is described as a place once rich with buried tribal remains. After the 1862 flood many bones lay exposed, with skulls and other relics left high and dry or suspended in trees. Dentists and doctors pursue the skull trade, despite risk from Indigenous guardians and harsh mountains. Howard Clause reportedly scavenges skulls to ship from Portland to medical and dental schools in the East.
A natural ice lodge on the north side of Stone Mountain six miles from Stony Creek mouth has been rediscovered by herb diggers. The ice, formed in a coal vein like layer about four feet thick, survives Virginia summers under moss cover and resembles Ice Age deposits seen by scientists. The site was once known to Danridge, who kept its location secret.
A report from Washington Star describes X ray experiments at Edison's lab in Orange New Jersey. A blind girl underwent cranial X ray tests to locate a lesion, none found, then X rays were directed at her eyes enabling her to describe shapes and color, Edison claims deeper study shows fluoroscope cannot temporarily restore sight. Edison cites self-testing with blindfolds to refine outcomes and notes ongoing apparatus development.
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