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Newspaper
Vienna Progress
Location
Vienna, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jan 25, 1900
Page
2
The article from Vienna Georgia rails at evolving social norms and warns of a drug traffic menace. It critiques state and national lawmaking for failing to curb this spread, lampooning fashionable changes and predicting bleak consequences.
A scrambled passage notes a nitro factory in Eldred Pennsylvania and a ropiret in Passaic New Jersey with arrests for illiteracy. It also laments opposition to female higher education and reports US exports: agricultural products down from 655 million to 624 million dollars year over year while manufactured goods rise from 258 million to 311 million.
The government inquiry into salicylicnoid boronoid borax and other adulterants in food highlights domestic impact. A Detroit mother notes that what happens outside the house affects what families eat, drink, and wear and even the city milk supply.
Cornstalks once treated as waste are now used in six commercial ways. Properly prepared they feed horses and cattle, yield cellulose for ship sheathing, provide material for smokeless powder, and furnish paper and glue from the fiber. Analysts estimate waste cornstalks could yield $19 billion in twenty years and the annual crop could bring farmers $900 million.
A London report suggests twentieth century commercial travellers may revive the old bagman role, traveling by automobile to replace trains. The shift aims to save time at crossroads and cut costs, reviving a historic travel style in a modern form.
Census data indicate white South Africa totals with Boers at about 645000 nationwide, run through by Dutch church rolls at 950000, British around 140000, and Germans and others about 20000. The Transvaal Almanac places republic white total at 380000 with Boers 250000, British 60000, others 40000.
Hayden Carruth narrates a tale of Everlasting Hills a setting obsessed hen who sits on billiard balls, drawing in a Britisher and locals in a comic wager saga. Hendershot and Judge Longsdorf chronicle bets while the hen defies expectations and finally proves a humorous setback.
The Ensley Alabama steel venture near Birmingham begins production on Thanksgiving Day, signaling a shift of the South toward steel manufacture. Three furnaces start, with low pig iron costs driving future mills and rolled products like rails and armor for ships, as more plants and rolling mills are planned.
Dawson City resident urged by Vice Consul Morrison predicts strong crop prospects in Alaska Territory. Grain and vegetables could be grown locally with hardier flowers and fruits. Victor Smith cites New York Press noting wild currants raspberries cranberries strawberries and blueberries growing wild in the region. Boers have ample ammunition stored in the Transvaal, enough for ten years of war at current consumption.
Atlanta lawyers Lee J. Langley and H. C. Tapp were exonerated by the Georgia Bar Association on unprofessional conduct charges brought by T. H. Austin of the Book & Austin Furniture Co. The committee found no basis for disbarment or punishment and Austin says he will seek court review. Union Point plans a $2,500 spindle yarn plant expansion and Fulton Republicans certify a large delegate slate to the state convention with a double-vote scheme.
The Georgia Prohibition Association met in Macon and urged an active campaign to nominate and elect a pro prohibition candidate. They aim to influence the Democratic primary and advocate law enforcement of statewide prohibition, with separate nominations to be made within the party.
Governor Candler paid a reward of 250 dollars to N N Fain and J B J Brankum of Habersham county Georgia for the capture of John O. Smith alias Si Smith who was charged with murdering W B Belli on April 2 last year. Smith was lynched by a mob at Hall county jail after capture and delivery to the sheriff. Four claimants initially sought the reward and were later implicated. the governor directed a probe into Fain and Frankum and found sufficient proof to justify payment based on eye witnesses.
A noon Sunday shooting in an East Eleventh Street Italian tenement left three men dead and sparked a major inter family brawl. Victims were Antonio Colletti thirty seven Casper Colletti nineteen and David Salvatori forty all killed by gunfire. Vincenzo Spinella and his son Frank seventeen were arrested charged with the murders as police hunt for another brother of Vincenzo still at large.
A bill introduced in the U S House by Mr Underwood proposes improving the Warrior river from lock 4 to the Valley river mouth and the Valley river to McAdory The costs are listed at 1 7 million and 4 5 million respectively with funding to follow a continuing contract system paying as work progresses
The third annual convention in Fort Worth Texas adjourned after endorsing the Nicaragua canal project approving New Mexico Arizona and Oklahoma statehood naming John N Simpson to head the Paris exposition commission and urging Congress to support agricultural colleges nationwide with plans to meet next year in Salt Lake City.
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