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Newspaper
Vienna Progress
Location
Vienna, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jul 23, 1895
Page
2
A collage of brief items notes local earnings from eight peach trees, urges citizen duty, and critiques public advertising timeliness. It includes commentary on Senator Bacon's free coinage letter and a Macon Telegraph stance, followed by a parent testimonial praising Chamberlain’s Colic Diarrhoea remedy and its availability via Stovall & Forbes.
An Italian sends an American youth to a Chinaman for laundry. A 50 cent coin triggers a counterfeit suspicion and a scuffle commences. A Greek peacemaker, a razor, pepper spray, and a Hebrew strike complicate the melee, ending with an Irish officer detaining the unruly crowd presided over by a Dutch justice.
A note from W Thigpen of Practical Jewelry Vienna Virginia mentions recent move back to Vienna and availability at the Racket Store. The writer asks for prompt attention and offers service.
A misread moment from Youth's Companion recounts Rev Eleazer Cogan and his son Richard visiting St Pauls cathedral. Cogan seeks architectural wonder while the boy, misled by a pastry shop nearby, finds a sweet treat as the real delight.
A quip from University of Michigan Wrinkle cites a sickbed confession that ends in a punchline about dying. The remark plays on humor around illness and marriage, reflecting campus wit and classic wordplay.
A polite countryman, new to the city, questions train directions at an uptown station. The ticket agent insists the trains run only uptown. The exchange grows sharp as the hayseed insists on being informed, then calmly steps aside to let others buy tickets. Maine’s factory villages show similar oddities with “housekeeper” men managing households.
The text discusses domestic roles where husbands perform housework to save money since wives earn more in mills. It notes tasks like dishwashing, cleaning, laundry, childcare, and garden chores, with some men also handling wood, sewing, and other house duties. It cites a Tonalton Journal perspective on profitability of this arrangement.
A testimonial extols Dr Miles Nervine Restorative as transforming a worn and weak patient. The writer cites digestive, nerve, and chest issues, claims significant improvement within weeks, and praises recovery and renewed vitality after medical doubt.
Sale in Cordele Dooly County Georgia includes City blocks 52 and 57 with multiple lots, plus Cordele Guano Factory site and machinery. Also two se venths of undivided north halves of lots 289 and 239 in the 7th district, jointly or separately, to satisfy two fi fas and one other execution, with notices to defendants and tenants.
The western colony of 40,000 closes a 100,000 acre land deal in Wilcox and Irwin counties and many plan to move this fall. The Progress seeks data on railroad, schools, climate, soil, and land for sale to create an information bureau. Landowners should send acres, location, soil, improvements, price, and sale terms for pamphlet distribution.
An 19th century ad touts Browns Iron Bitters for indigestion biliousness dyspepsia nervous debility and general debility. It claims the medicine is genuine with crossed red lines on the wrapper and is sold by all dealers.
In the 1895 March term of the Superior Court of Georgia Dooley County, J H Shrouder is ordered to pay $116.60 plus 8 percent interest since Oct 1 1892 or show cause why foreclosure on mortgage of land lot 58 in the 14th district should not proceed. If unpaid by next term, judgment of foreclosure will be entered. W 4H Fish clerk. March 13 1895.
Mary Ann Gammage administers the estate of Amos R. Gammage asks for discharge from trust. Court to cite heirs or creditors to show cause why dismissal should not be granted on the first Monday in September. Dated June 3 1895. J D Hargrove D C Georgia Dooly County. To all concerned guardian for Daniel G Lowe seeks leave to sell East half of lot 70 in the 9th District Dooly County ward's property. Hearing set for first Monday in August at Vienna Georgia. Dated July 1 1895. J D Hargrove D D C
Young aspirants are urged to enroll at the Atlanta Business College in Atlanta, the commercial capital of the South. The school claims top standing in commercial training, offering bookkeeping, banking, shorthand, penmanship, typing and English branches taught by skilled teachers. Free circulars and entry information are mailed to those who request them. Address: Whitehall St, Atlanta, Ga.
Professional cards note regular practice in all courts of the Southwestern Oconee and Albany Circuits and in other courts by written contract. Office near Court House on Union Street Vienna Ga.
Geo W Wooten, lawyer, announces a new office on Cotton Street near the New Court House in Vienna. He will practice in all state courts and in the federal courts at Macon and Savannah. Date noted 3 13 94. Lyr.
D L Henderson and W V Harvard of Hr zperson and Harvard practice before the court of Ordinary in contracts ejectments and related matters, offering legal services in standard civil proceedings and estate actions.
Dr T F Bivins physician surgeon in Vienna Georgia offers obstetric and gynecologic care with specialty in diseases peculiar to women. All calls answered promptly day or night. Office located over W C Willis and Co's store.
Dr W H Whipple physician and surgeon located in Vienna GA offers surgery obstetrics diseases of women and children. offices over W C Willis Co store. calls promptly attended day or night. available at night at the Busbee Hotel.
Mrs Rhodie Noah suffered night cramps and diarrhoea until a half bottle of blackberry cordial failed. A dose of Chamberlains Cokic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy brought relief. A neighbor with prolonged illness recovered after four doses. Sold by Stovall Forbes.
A local farmer attests that Wm. Hall's Hog Cholera Cure has cured his hogs when directions are followed. The product is sold by M. E. Rushin, P. S. Stovall & Forbes.
Advertiser offers loans on farming lands in Dooly County on easy terms. Agent Col. W. G. Harrson will be in Vienna from the 8th to 13th of each month to handle business promptly. Letters to Montezuma or Vienna will receive prompt replies. J. W. Haygood, Montezuma, Ga.
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