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Newspaper
Vienna Progress
Location
Vienna, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jan 27, 1898
Page
2
Lord Kelvin asserts the molecular count in a gas cube reaches 10^23 with each molecule containing several rapidly moving atoms. Lord Beresford questions whether such precise figures are relevant to social ranking and the open sesame to high society.
An Indianapolis report shows diphtheria spread via shared pencils and penholders in schools. After noon handoffs place items in a common box, later redistributed to students, enabling transmission. The city will disinfect pencils and penholders each afternoon. The item also cites a New York Tribune claim that Klondike idle workers should be returned to work, and compelled to pay their own way home.
A German professor reports that certain musical tones provoke color ideas in blind observers with pink from high soft notes and violet from high loud notes, red from low soft notes, and indigo from low loud notes, suggesting cross sensory associations.
The piece notes a rise in English speakers from 21 million in 1800 to 130 million at century start and about 180 million today, surpassing French and other languages. It emphasizes English global spread beyond Britain and America and cites comparative language growth.
Secretary of State Allen D. Candler announces his bid for Georgia governor in a formal letter to Clarke County Democrats. He argues for old-fashioned democracy, fiscal restraint, and equal rights, pledging a clean administration if nominated and elected.
The United States minister to Belgium Bellamy Storer releases a new consular report on trade regulations and taxes in the Congo Free State. The document, prepared under state department instruction, aids U.S. citizens seeking commerce in the Congo.
A call has been issued for a Pure Food and Drug Congress to meet at the National hotel in Washington on Wednesday March 20 for urging passage of a pure food and anti adulteration law. Delegates will represent states national government departments boards of health trade chambers of commerce and agricultural scientific and mercantile associations.
The Pall Mall Gazette reports on Wednesday that Mr Gladstone’s health is in grave danger. Cannes stay failed to strengthen him and news placards declare his critical condition causing widespread excitement.
The sultan of Turkey plans 15,000 troops to Palestine for Emperor William's visit. Beirut and Damascus garrisons will be re-equipped, and Jerusalem will be given to the German emperor as a historic land grant tied to the Last Supper site.
A Friday session in the House saw a parliamentary struggle over relief for the book publishing company of the Methodist Episcopal Church South. Opponents blocked action with shrewd maneuvering, delaying relief for the firm for the time being.
Daily market data from Atlanta lists prices for coffee, sugar, syrup, rice, salt, cheese, crackers, candy, oysters, flour, corn, oats, hay, meal, wheat bran, shorts, stock feed, cotton, eggs, butter, poultry, potatoes, honey, onions, and provisions. Notable figures include green coffee 12 fair 10 prime 9, sugar 6, white sugar 52, oats 5 0, cotton middling 55 }
The article describes Roquefort cheese production with steps from milking goats and sheep to cave aging and mold development. It also analyzes Japan's rising naval power and how its fleet plans may surpass the United States and Russia in the Pacific within a decade.
W P Stevens of Dobson delivered the largest cotton load ever marketed in Mississippi to Brandon last Friday. He brought twenty bales averaging 600 pounds each totaling 10,000 pounds sold to H A Benick at five cents per pound for $500. Previous records included fifteen bales and sixteen bales in prior years.
A London paper notes an elderly mill stand keeper in St. James's Park who has tended the stand for sixty three years. Her mother held the same post before her and her grandmother for seventy two years, tracing a long family tenure.
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