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Newspaper
Vienna Progress
Location
Vienna, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jul 31, 1894
Page
4
An excerpt attributed to Ella W. Wilcox from Youth's Companion extols the human will as a limitless force. It asserts spirit over environment, describing willpower as the driver that overcomes obstacles, compares it to a river defying a dam, and ends with the refrain you will be what you will to be.
Kitty Clifford, a village heroine, foils two thieves who break into the Osprey farm to steal a gold stash. She follows them through woods to a ruined shack, retrieves the canvas bag, and collapses from exhaustion before being rescued by the Ospreys. Her courage earns the Deacon’s praise and exposes the thieves’ failure to uncover the treasure.
A collection of maxims and aphorisms on Self love, humility, expense, and virtue. It discusses character building, kindness, restraint, and the value of quiet deeds over grand gestures, noting how small acts shape the heart and society.
In a playful House scene ex-Speaker Reed and Rep Bynum dispute who is the tallest. Reed and others bet on Curtis vs Berry. When Berry stretches, Curtis appears small. Berry towers, prompting Reed to concede. The crowd laughs and toasts Reed’s expense at Washington Post.
The Century recounts an Afghan Persian episode where three American students report on a Kurdish romance involving Katty Greenfield. London Teheran negotiations, Persian troops under Patton, and a House of Commons inquiry frame a tale of abduction, elopement, and a Mohammedan conversion.
A geologic curiosity, a flexible sandstone bar can bend with less pressure than wet leather of equal size. Under transmitted light the grains appear locked like a section puzzle, held together by a now-dissolved cement leaving jagged bell-and-socket joints.
Collection of cartoon captions and humorous exchanges from various papers. Recounts mock dialogues between inanimate objects and people, quips about weddings and funerals, and light observations on rural life. A rapid string of puns and brief dialogues.
A collage of lighthearted vignettes from Harper's Magazine and Philadelphia Life. A couple imagines a schooner yacht and a hotel offers engagement rings for the season. A soda fountain sign promises all flavors for five cents leading to a comic contract dispute and a sign rethink.
The French method for selling major property uses a notary as auctioneer and judges assign a low reserve price. Bids trigger lighted wax tapers, each five minutes, extinguished on a higher bid to delay and reflect. The system curbs bid-tying and prevents undue influence by the auctioneer.
A Chicago Times report notes Dr. A Dupre's case of spontaneous ignition from a tissue paper lamp shade colored with inflammable chromate of lead. Yellow and pale green shades are warned against unless the pigment is proven safe. The test is to set fire to a sample and attempt to blow it out.
In an article on Superstitions of the Sea Lieut J D Jerrold Kelley describes the so called Russian Fins as wielders of magical influence at sea. They allegedly conjure winds by knife incantations and drive rats away with a snicker-snee blade. A gold doubloon is always at hand and the rnm bottle is never full or empty. Harm befalls those who cross their weatherward path.
Temporary quarters at 23 Park Row host the Southern States Ex Association formed after the Fifth Avenue hotel conference. Officers include Hugh BR Garden as president and Stuyvesant Fish as vice president. The South’s gains in iron, cotton, and lumber are highlighted, with large farm asset growth and expanding industry, railroads, and banking capital over the past decade despite obstacles.
A composite summary notes a Louisiana anti miscegenation law, hemisphere storm directions, an Arizona irrigation canal project costing 2 million, 1656 Norwich hail damage, and various advertisements for tonics, laxatives, and college courses. It cites testimonies on Kidney cure, President Kilmer’s Swamp Root, Syrup of Figs, and King’s Royal Germenne. Also mentions Central Railroad travel deals to Boston and New York, with fare details and meals.
A vintage ad extols Royal Baking Powder as the premier leavening agent for bread biscuits cakes and pastries claiming lighter texture greater digestibility and savings of flour butter and eggs. It highlights cooking ease and healthful outcomes and provides a New York address for Royal Baking Powder Company.
The Boston Journal argues the United States has vast war potential with 9.9 million men of military age, a strong national guard of 112,190 volunteers, and state forces led by New York 12,810 and Pennsylvania 8,614. It notes Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Missouri, and Michigan also field substantial militias and emphasizes presidential control of the organized militia, plus 25,000 regulars and naval personnel making domestic order far from a simple police matter.
A Chelsea man sent 50 cents to New York for advertised directions to avoid sunstrokes. Directions advised never to go outside in summer except after dark. The item notes dresses cost little yet look expensive, and comments on business partnerships and indispensability with humorous quips about politics and book agents.
An old timer from Laxe Gextra Wisconsin credits No-To-Bac with curing 23 years of tobacco use in 30 days, gaining 20 pounds and restoring his wife’s health. The Sterling Remedy Company guarantees three boxes for $2.50, promising digestion of nicotine cravings and renewed vigor, with many townsfolk watching the claim.
The article highlights jeweled novelties such as Neptune’s spear with pearl prongs, enamel jewelry on white satin mats, hematite spheres with diamond clusters for hairpieces, a lace pin set with a large pearl, necks studded with diamonds and rubies, and a silver liquor flask engraved Dry as a Fish. It notes hotel and streetcar discomfort and the rise of Golden Cornelian over chrysoprase.
An estimate lists the sultan of Turkey as the world’s most extravagant housekeeper with a domestic budget totaling 34 million dollars. Items include repairs furniture mats beds toilet requisites rouge enamel jewelry clothes and furniture for the sultan and his harem, denders and wages, gold and silver plate, and carriage and horse maintenance.
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