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Newspaper
Vienna Progress
Location
Vienna, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jul 10, 1902
Page
2
The Progress notes HDSMPH editor and publisher entered at the Vienna Georgia post office as a second class man mutter, reflecting a local filing or registration action within the newspaper's notices.
A Halifax factory inspector told a court that attend ants of joiners planing machines often have missing fingers. He sought five years to find a man with all fingers intact, noting most attendants lose digits despite caution.
The discussion in the New York Times notes General Nelson A. Miles may retire from army command, with Major General Brooke at Governors Island as the likely successor. It recalls 1879 when Brooke and Miles were colonels, Brooke close to a general’s star while Miles stood between.
Describes a discussion about pensioning Mrs Madalena Granatta, aged fifty seven, resident near Nocera, twelve miles from Naples. Her husband died ten years ago after they lived as a couple for nineteen years and had sixty two children, fifty nine of them boys, including multiple sets of triplets and several instances of four boys born at once.
The Rochester Democrat notes Lord Kelvin at seventy eight facing a railway rule barring those over thirty five. It argues age limits ignore enduring value as the era’s leading minds, claiming older workers still outwork many youngsters and contribute major intellectual progress.
Mr John Kendrick Bangs guides his three sons on a long walk tiring the youngsters. To ease the trek he imagines the hill as San Juan and the boys charge for the top. The eldest pauses to blow his nose, prompting a witty exchange about soldierly conduct.
A Chicago Inter Ocean piece notes Sol Smith Russell’s stage career spanning over thirty years and his association with two signature songs. It highlights his early serio comic vocal period with a refrain about seeing kissing Kate and Esau, and his later fame for Shabby Genteel in A Poor Relation, embodying the shabby yet honest figure.
Dr Thoroddsen's new Iceland map uncovers fresh geological details of the island. Katla volcano, buried under snow, intermittently erupts melting ice floods that wash large areas between the volcano and the sea into the ocean, making terrain crossing perilous.
An advertisement in a Boston newspaper shows a middle aged, unmarried poet seeking an affordable, sunny quiet unfurnished room. The terse note masks deep pathos as the writer promises tidiness and cheerful tone amid personal hardship, creating a poignant glimpse into his life.
A rural Wisconsin representative, seeking a drink before bed, finds no pitcher in his hotel room. After a quick search, he notices two wall buttons with a label reading Push twice for water. He pushes the button and, when the bellboy arrives, is seen holding a pitcher under the button.
The Christian Register condemns the so called Chautauqua salute of waving handkerchiefs in religious gatherings. It warns that clean handkerchiefs are essential to avoid transmitting microbes after hundreds have waved them in crowded halls.
A Buenos Aires report describes justice where a river farmer’s craft was seized after thieves were caught. The owner pleaded mercy to avoid starvation, witnesses stayed, and the case ended with the accused acquitted by default while a shyster was later condemned to pay damages for false accusation.
The Outlook argues Russia seeks to run profitable enterprises through state monopoly. It claims the government controls transport, industry, mining, and fuel, while leaving individuals to farming and livestock. It condemns expulsions of pioneers and exclusive state exploitation of new fields.
In Judge Murasky’s court attorney I W McGraw whispered to several lawyers during a witness examination. The judge leaned in with expectancy then shook his head, leaving McGraw inconsolable as spectators were told the court does not chew.
Sir James Mackay, English commissioner for Chinese trade talks, urged a viceroy to remove provincial barriers. The viceroy replied that removing them would cause water to flow out of the province, viewing barriers as physical dams obstructing inland commerce.
Manila paper quotes from the transport ship Thomas log describing 600 teachers aboard bound for the Philippines. Among them 160 are women with some girls and girlish figures. 30 couples petitioned for onboard marriages but the captain refused, saying he was not running a tootsie-wootsie shop. The thirty couples agreed to wait until Honolulu for marriage.
Officers in garrison at Uskub and three nearby towns petitioned the sultan over long unpaid wages and stalled promotions. The sultan replied by promoting sixty five officers at Prainc who had not petitioned.
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