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Newspaper
Vienna Progress
Location
Vienna, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jul 24, 1894
Page
4
A short lyric excerpt from Mary F. Butts in Youth's Companion recalls a singer named Jond huga whose love song comforts a heart Elsa had broken. The piece evokes memory and solace through tender emotional imagery.
Alice Leneant aids a hungry tramp at a Kansas farm. He vows reform, accepts money and a ring, and later keeps his word, sending payments after years of absence, while she endures hardship and later encounters a mysterious suitor who reveals the past.
In a period drama, Wilmshurst reveals he kept a pledged promise to reclaim a ring from Miss Leneant, revealing a past link as a tramp who once hoped to marry her. He returns after years to claim his betrothal, offering terms that she must also accept him. She accepts softly as love deepens.
A collection of admonitions on virtue, self discipline, and ambition. It contrasts mediocrity with bravery and underscores the value of reading, prudent effort, and persistent self improvement in life.
A Madras plant nicknamed electric plant shocks anyone who touches its leaf and confounds with magnetic changes. Its powers peak around two pm and fade at night, with intensified effects during storms. Birds, beasts, and locals fear the strange electric vegetation as the article notes its curious behavior.
The article notes fish as useful beyond food or sport, advising goldfish to curb green pond scum and sunfish to destroy mosquito larvae. It mentions May or June as the growth period, and cites two-for-a-quarter goldfish available in New York City stores.
Compilation of light vignettes and cartoon captions from multiple outlets. The pieces joke about courtship, politics, social status, and daily life with quick quips and ironic observations. Strong names and publications are cited in the mock humor.
A collage of quips and scenes shows Civil War era speech and manners. A West tourist jokes about horse theft indictments while a milkman recalls royal orders. A guarded suitor pleads for love as an elder questions future famil y viability.
A Bergen County farmer recounted buying four cheap New York street car horses to pull farm work. He described them as tired, clumsy, and prone to quitting after proving unsuitable for plowing. The effort showed the mismatch between pavement training and field work, leading to higher costs and poorer teams.
A Chicago Herald report warns that tea tasting is a lucrative yet fatal trade. Tea tasters rely on nose and palate to grade tea and set prices, but repeated inhalation of irritant dust and fumes leads to weight loss, nervous decline, and consumption.
A 350 pound broad-nosed sturgeon caught in the North Sea prompts talk of an old Edward II statute allowing the sovereign to claim captured sturgeon as royal fish. The piece recalls royal privileges granted to the Duke of Beaufort for a Bristol Channel catch and notes the Queen’s tail based whale bone lore, though whalebone comes from elsewhere.
The New Zealanders bury the dead in the earth and remove the flesh, leaving bones to be cleaned and stored in caves or tombs. Grave robbing or disturbing bones after cleansing is punishable by death in New Zealand and Polynesia.
A collection of clipped witticisms from various papers: a Galveston note on facing obstacles, an Aitchison Globe remark about half a circus, a Buffalo Courier quip on luck and harness, and a lawyer’s joke about calling a plaintiff an ox amid beef prices.
A statistician estimates that a fifty year old man has slept 6 000 days worked 6 500 days spent 4 000 in amusement his diet totals about eight tons of meat and two tons of fish eggs and vegetables and he has drunk over 7 000 gallons of fluids He has been ill about 900 days and has walked a distance roughly half around the globe.
A humorous ad essay extols the hen as the farm’s top money maker turning grass into cash and grain into gold while horses and cattle are costly. It also includes varied medicinal and travel notices, touting Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters and Dr Kings Royal Germeter, plus a railroad promo to Norfolk and Old Point Comfort.
The article extols Royal Baking Powder as absolutely pure and warns against substitutes. It also provides soda based cleaning and maintenance tips for tinware paint cleanup, glass cleaning, ceilings, pipes, marble porches, flowers, and grease stains with hot water and soda solutions.
A northern England circuit lawyer recalls a juror who decides guilt by the man in the dock rather than testimony or advocacy. The juror says he must have done something to be there and thus finds all defendants guilty. A second note warns that misdividing earnings with a saloon keeper leads to a heart mistake in division.
Advice urges a steady temper and self control to avoid trouble. Eat only when hungry, sleep regular hours, stop work before extreme fatigue, avoid cold drafts, and cool off after exercise. Do not borrow trouble or drink during meals for longer life.
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