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Newspaper
Vienna Progress
Location
Vienna, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jul 01, 1897
Page
6
A St Louis Slobo-Democrat note on woods from trees and luren discusses how moisture and seasoning affect weight and durability. It explains that some woods shrink or crack during seasoning, while others remain nearly indestructible. Wxplain scribe mentions seasoning speeds, paint, and wind shakes as causes of circular cracks in tree layers.
A fragmentary letter from His Pralac of Norfolk to the London Daily News ridicules Dr M Boulburn and his public readings, alleging a libelous portrayal of a preacher. The text is garbled, but suggests local commentary on religious instruction and a controversial claim.
A garbled miscellany blends religious injunctions with mock dialogue about virtue and vice, references to a train note, and a flood of patent medicine lines. It lists dubious cures for constipation, biliousness, kidney complaints, and nervous symptoms, mentioning names like Dre Niine and Winntow's Honest Syrup, amid jumbled product claims and scattered place hints such as Mey Harrinburg and Walthall & Co.
Patient confined to bed most of the time with run down health and poor appetite. After taking Hood's Sarsaparilla, appetite returned, strength gained rapidly, and overall health improved. Applicant credits Hood's for escaping sickness last winter. Arthur, New York. Hood's was taken.
Mrs. John Fisk of Brookfield New York, 76, suffered neuralgia and heart failure deemed fatal by doctors. After using Dr Williams Pink Pills she recovered fully, now tending her home and praising the remedy. The letter urges others to try the pills sold by Dr Williams Medicine Company and local druggists.
Two Irishmen newly arrived in America camp on an open plain and retreat from mosquitoes. They hide under a bad clothas until one peeks out, sees no firefly, and cries that a crauthers is seeking a wide lantern, a humorous pearson’s weekly moment of fright.
The article notes sewing machines sold in the United States for sixty dollars but shipped abroad for under twenty dollars, with prices dropping after patents expired. Typewriting machines cost under twenty dollars to build yet sell for fifty to one hundred dollars, with profits cited at several hundred percent. It asks if any other machines yield similar margins, except perhaps the bicycle.
A Detroit Journal quote describes a man unable to keep the wolf from the door as his wife offers comfort and irony about misfortune. The intimate scene depicts resilience through hope and a whispered joke about the wolf lingering at the back door.
At Green Brothers camp in Dakota Ga near Corydere a lightning bolt struck the supper room as inmates ate, killing three instantly and fatally injuring twenty others. Eleven prisoners escaped, nine were recaptured as rain washed away tracks, and guards recovered the rest.
Kruer Zeitung Berlin urges government to ban emigration to the southern states of America warning German farmers against emigrant agents. It argues farmers are too capable to compete with black labor in cotton and rice fields and calls for a strict prohibitive decree.
Dispatches to the New York Herald from Key West report fierce week long fighting around Gibara and Banes in Santiago province. Gen Garcia and Col Torres commanded 5 000 to 6 000 men who struck both seaports simultaneously but met stubborn resistance from Spanish forces.
Information from Havana about Castello replacing DeLome as Spanish envoy to Washington is unverified. State Department in Washington has received no official word and Spanish legation officials refuse to comment.
A derrick collapse at the Austell building under construction in Atlanta at noon on Monday sent two colored brickmasons to their deaths from a ninth story scaffold. Palmetto Ayres and Charles Cargill died on impact. white carpenter W M Brown survived by grabbing a rope as the derrick plunged. The fourth man and four other workers escaped unharmed when the car and boom swung away and the crew sought refuge inside a window.
A hurricane struck Cordele Georgia around noon on Monday bringing damaging winds and heavy hail. Two negro Arethodral churches were destroyed and the Cordele Cooperage barrel factory was wrecked. Fifteen buggies in Fain and Dougherty’s livery stable were destroyed. A dwelling was struck by lightning, tearing an end from the structure, while signs awnings and glass were shattered. Telephone lines were badly damaged. No fatalities reported.
Speaker Reed plans to prepare and submit the committee list before final adjournment, relying on his extra session access to assess member qualifications and noting many chairmen from the last house are now in the present House. Queen Victoria thanks the empire for loyalty and affection shown in letters and telegrams.
Valparaiso sources confirm a rock fall in the Atacama province mine has left twenty six miners dead. Rescue teams work amid dangerous conditions as authorities assess the disaster and its causes.
A large gathering of Republican senators met at the Arlington hotel in Washington to diagnose coal rates and consider a reciprocal arrangement with the Dominion of Canada. No formal conclusion was reached. final action was postponed to Tuesday. Northern Cotton Mills in Lowell, Massachusetts, closed for two weeks until July 12, affecting 1,900 workers due to low prices and weak demand. In Madrid advices, nine children died and many were injured when a church wall collapsed in Solana, Ciudad Real province.
A Kansas City to St Louis express derailed at a Missouri City trestle during a violent rainstorm. Seven killed, nineteen injured, none critically. Only the rear car and a Pullman escaped, as a flagging freight train ahead helped save passengers.
Kentucky horse Ornament captures the St Louis derby sweepstake worth 812000, beating Missouri entrant Typhoon IT and Buckvidorey in a 12,000 purse for three-year-olds. Numerous St Louis residents attend. odds favored Ornament at 19 to 20, Typhoon IT at 11 to 10, not attracting heavy betting.
Governor Bloxham of Florida wires Washington that Key West sheriff reported no trouble Saturday morning and that conditions are quiet and orderly. President McKinley has received the message confirming calm.
A Washington dispatch reports the Secretary of State has forwarded the reply to the Japanese government protest against Hawaii annexation to the Japanese legation in Washington and on to Tokyo. The legation is expected to file a supplementary statement after receiving home government instructions, a process likely to take time due to the diplomatically worded note.
Dr O B Batten D D rector of Christ Church Norfolk Va died Saturday afternoon aged fifty seven years He was a leading divine in the southern diocese and had served as rector since 1865 He was Jefferson Davis's chaplain during his Fort Monroe imprisonment after the war
A grand naval review off Spithead celebrated the sixtieth year of Queen Victoria’s reign. The Prince of Wales reviewed a fleet of about 196 ships with 60,000 tons, including the United States armored cruiser Brooklyn, under Rear Admiral Miller, as admiral guests from many maritime nations observed the powerful line abreast Portsmouth.
Governor Ellertre will not issue a general order reprimanding Adjutant General Watts as recommended by the court of inquiry. The action mirrors a reprimand and the legislature will decide any harsher response. The report forwards to the General Assembly for action while Private Fishburn is discharged and Private Dunning is reprimanded for leaving ranks without permission.
Insurgent band stops a Havana to San Jose da Gas stage coach on a road near Lajas, killing eighteen scouts and six guerrillas, a Spanish official, a doctor, a carpenter, and three other passengers. A woman and child survived among the occupants. Bodies stripped and left by the roadside. insurgents seized substantial booty.
A party of about 200 German immigrants and their families from Texas and Illinois head to Bismarck in Limestone County Alabama. The town was laid out last fall by M. Misisner a Cullman Alabama founder and Captain B B Mason of Athens. A tramway linking Bismarck with Athens is under discussion and the settlers plan fruit farming.
A New York telegram reports John Jacob Astor has bought one of the $1,000 six percent gold bonds of the Republic of Cuba issued last April. Dr W Soward Webb purchased one of the $400 six percent bonds. The bonds trade at half face value and mature ten years after Cuba’s evacuation.
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