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Newspaper
Vienna Progress
Location
Vienna, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jul 05, 1900
Page
7
An old newspaper ad urges readers to visit the Progresa office for eye examinations at minimal cost, noting stairs climb as the only charge. It offers glasses with various frame styles and promises affordable lenses. The Danoline Eye Basis bottle is advertised to treat sore, inflamed, and overworked eyes.
Attention farmers and ginners. Change your gin boxes to 24 by 54 inches to secure a 20 cent premium per bale on cotton. For full details, write Jae T Stewart & Son Savannah Ga.
English Spayih Liniment removes hard or soft lumps and blemishes from horses and claims to cure blood spaying curbs splints sweeney ring-bone stifles sprains and swelling. Save $50 by using one bottle. Warranted the most wonderful blemish cure. Sold by Dr. O T Stovall druggist Vienna Ga.
For sale the lot in front of the Baptist church and all property in Vienna. Correspondence solicited to WH Wairrre, Macon Georgia. Also offered are an alpaca and black coats, a linen suit, with costs at R Boniske.
A fragmented notice from a Chicago address offers to fund a yearly payment to secure a district office bid in Manggora. The misspelled appeal requests references exchange, includes a stamped envelope and mentions an 820 Caxton Building, Park Ave.
G R Ellis offers loans on improved farm lands and select city property for ten years at 7 percent interest. Borrowers may pay one fifth one tenth or one twentieth of the principal each year stopping interest on paid amounts. No inspection fee. Commission law. Americus Ga.
D L Henderson of Vienna Georgia advertises bonding services representing American Surety Co New York. He offers bonds for administrators executors guardians trustees receivers contractors or any other bondable positions in Dooly County.
The National Geographic Magazine reports a Swedish Russian expedition will sail this month to Spitzbergen to relieve the party measuring the meridian arc there. They plan a detour to King Charles Land and Py search the area. A buoy picked up near King Charles Land in September last year bore Andree’s polar message claim, but microscopical testing found no message.
The Transvaal denies land ownership to black men, with no secure homeland. In Natal, trustees hold over 2,000,000 acres for natives, but Transvaal natives face eviction at any time. Meanwhile Fridtjof Nansen plans a summer expedition by a new steamer to study Norwegian seas between Norway, Iceland, Jan Mayen and Spitzbergen.
Roosevelt wins vice presidential nod as McKinley bound for renomination. At Philadelphia convention crowd swells around the hall, delegates cheer Foraker’s speech praising McKinley’s record in peace and war. Speaker Lodge opens with prayer. intense demonstrations greet Roosevelt and pending presidential choice. The session adjourns after confirming the party ticket amid loud acclaim and symbolically strong support for the indomitable Roosevelt.
Actor William Austin arrives in Charleston to solve the mystery of his birth and claim a fortune. He suspects a gate memory, a guardian’s penciled address, and a play Fernado wrote that parallels his case. The manuscript hints at 116 Meeting Street, Charleston.
Two young women in Fayette county noticed a rail under the track giving way due to a swollen current and notified trackmen. Danger signals were sent and the break repaired. An excursion train of about a dozen cars from Greenville Mississippi to Birmingham was stopped before reaching the danger point.
Richmond reports Edward Harvey Wren set a national pace by divorcing Annie ren of lama C and marrying Lizzie Lee Toole of Fulton within under 80 minutes. The rapid sequence marks an unprecedented domestic timing event in the United States.
Prohibitionists gather for the national convention at Ontonio to name a presidential ticket and a vice presidential candidate. Delegates from Colorado Wyoming Utah Minnesota Montana Wisconsin and others arrive on special trains as Olle Stewart chairs the meeting with John G. Wooley Hale Johnson Illinois strong for the presidency. Selection of the vice presidential nominee will depend on party unity and support for McWitter of Georgia.
The sixth annual Baptists Young People's Union of Georgia adjourned after a large attendance of about 600 from ten unions. New officers named included M. L. Brittain of Atlanta as president, George W. T. Kwata as president, A. Meyer of Savannah as vice president, W. W. Orr of Atlanta as secretary, and J. M. Moors of Moorstown as treasurer. Local delegates from Macon and Savannah attended.
In Burt Springs on June 23 a dramatic session of the aldermen’s board featured Joel Urbi and other figures from the Atlanta Railway and Power company. Burt Hurt leveled serious accusations against aldermen Boutelland Day Arbanta and others, claiming a petition for new privileges was improperly handled and that votes were improperly influenced.
A five or six year old girl leads a wounded cat to Bellevue Hospital seeking a doctor. A policeman and a doctor decide on amputation to save the cat, which regains some function after anesthesia. The girl reveals she found the cat and cannot care for it, sending it to the Society For the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. The rest notes a separate observation about trees and caterpillar damage from Leslie’s Weekly and The Boston Transcript.
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