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Newspaper
Vienna Progress
Location
Vienna, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jul 30, 1903
Page
4
The death of Francis Barry, husband of Mrs. Sarah Barry, occurred July 6 after months of illness. He leaves a wife, one daughter, and two sons. He was laid to rest in the family cemetery at 8 PM. A heartfelt tribute recalls his kindness and pines for his presence, while faith and hope promise reunion in the heavenly shore.
The third quarterly term of Vienna city court sat this week with jurors drawn including W F Barges J G Forehand EW Fenn J P Gilmore and others. Trials featured Tom Davis a blind tiger from Pinehurst who received 12 months and Dr Shaw a Cordele conjurer sent up for a year. Robert Hodge was jailed a year for larceny and Kake Cannady faced a $10 payment.
In the superior court six months for vagrancy and twelve months for gambling were imposed on Sherman Tukes and Ike Mathews. Riley Prater and Tom McCrary received forty dollar fines each for gambling while Strill Brown drew ten months for crop offenses. Clarence Johnson got twelve months for wife whipping.
The Camilla Enterprise notes a pamphlet for Greater Vienna praising its advantages and features. It highlights an error where the face pictured above the name Senator Hamilton Clarke is actually Hon. I. Maples, a flattering mix up that the paper calls complimentary to the senator.
A fragmentary newspaper snippet cites prices and trends praising photographs at twenty cents a dozen and notes the gallery’s brief stay. It offers a stark, quirky statistical line about marriages worldwide with percentages for age gaps and partners. The piece ends with a compact moral quote urging honesty and duty.
Cyclones cause widespread havoc across regions as M E Rushin offers Aetna Fire Insurance coverage for homes at a nominal figure. The ad urges readers to contact him today for protection against storms.
Gardner House proprietor H N Gardner offers rooms at 1 dollar per day with first days table and porter service at all trains. Patronage solicited in Montezuma Georgia.
A vintage medical advertisement extols Dr Carlisle s L B Malaria Liver Pills as a vegetable cure for malaria and related ailments. It claims to purify and strengthen the blood and organs, removes poisons from the system, and treats rheumatism neuralgia headaches erysipelas catarrh lung and kidney inflammation biliousness and blood poisoning.
An old advertisement touts "C Worth 15 and 186" with price 13¢ and promotes Hamburg and Laces straw hats for men and boys. It invites shoppers to buy shoes direct, emphasizing family buying from the head of the house.
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