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Newspaper
Vienna Progress
Location
Vienna, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jul 21, 1898
Page
2
The Vienna Progress laments Spain's naval weakness amid war and cites illiteracy as a cause. It notes a New Hampshire savings law requiring third year deposit book verifications. It mentions Dutch bicycle funerals, a Rio de Janeiro diver’s underwater photography, and praises Dewey as a war leader while stressing many capable officers remain unknown.
The essay praises the canning industry for soldiers meals from canned fruits to roast beef. It argues canned foods broaden diet, boost morale, and improve fighting capability, claiming American provisioning surpasses other nations in preserving substantial foods for troops.
A poetic meditation on Afterwhile as a gentle, hopeful refrain amid conflict. The speaker envisions a future without battle, where neighbors aid one another and the earth finds a peaceful morrow. The refrain echoes through references to dream lore and social harmony while contrasting present sorrow.
Reginald Younger man oldercheek pursues Margot Carpenter who resists, plans a marriage, and is saved from a tramp by Reginald’s chivalrous intervention. After the incident, Margot misreads the deed, believes it a plot, and decides to accept Reginald, thinking him honorable and devoted. The tale ends with Margot in bed, convinced of his virtue.
An Australian woman recounts amused inquiries about Australia, noting many assume convict origins. A polite elder questions if convicts educate their children well, but the interviewee explains not all Australians descend from convicts and keeps calm under a probing gaze.
An eighteen year old heir to the Japanese throne holds the world record in pedigree as the last male descendant in the primogeniture line of a dynasty that has reigned for 2600 years.
A Lancaster Examiner series by D F Magee proposes using convict labor to prepare road metal in fenced camps with relocatable quarry sites. General Stone plans to build military roads in Cuba to speed occupation and postwar benefits, while Massachusetts highway funding advances and tire tests favor narrower wagon tires on macadam roads.
A 19th century road survey argues wide tires cut wear and labor, especially on wet mud after drying. Rhode Island plans to enforce its wide tire law, Connecticut lags, Massachusetts counts steam rollers with bicycle growth. G. P. Healy cautions rulers against clinging to ancestral roadways while road length and freight figures hint at vast savings with better systems.
A historical anecdote recalls Frederick the Great demanding campaign plans from generals. Hans Joachim von Ziethen drew a blot diagram he claimed showed the enemy as four smaller blot lines. The king calmed after Ziethen explained he was the central blot and the four others the attacking foes. In a separate note, a Parisian globe trotter story mentions Dr DuFay sailing with the Empress of China and planning a world trek on foot for 840000 francs, with wagering on a Paris start and return by 1900, hair uncut and traveling with no money.
Cienfuegos sits on the Jagua bay in Santa Clara Province about 180 miles southeast of Havana. The town, famed for shaded streets and gardens, claims 10 000 to 20 000 residents with a small white population and a thriving export economy of sugar wax and timber. Founded around 1813 it was named for the captain general of the era and features the Los Angeles fort protecting its harbor.
Two Chicago soap manufacturers together use more than three million white pine and cottonwood boxes annually to ship product. Across the United States there are a little over fifty soap makers and the total annual consumption of all is about one hundred fifty million boxes.
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