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Newspaper
Vienna Progress
Location
Vienna, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jul 31, 1902
Page
2
The Progress from Vienna Georgia covers county ads and events including Waycross oil drilling plans, first cotton bale excitement in Albany, Sparks Masons and K P lodge activity, a fatal accident at Hart County camp, and the Jeffries versus Fitzsimmons boxing result. It also reports a planned hanging in Berrien County, a sheriff and widow’s request, and railway changes affecting Valdosta and nearby lines.
A fragment notes critics claim trusts charge 40 percent more for products exported to Europe while delivering less. It suggests Democrats are gathering evidence as trusts face mounting scrutiny and uneasy hours in the political climate.
Mies Dillwyn, Swansea, a novelist and reviewer, runs a flourishing spelter business and serves on the school board and hospital committee. She walks three miles to work, keeps daily office hours, and openly enjoys cigars saying she sees no objection to women smoking in public.
The New York Stock Exchange moved from its old quarters to temporary space in the Produce Exchange. A short flight of stone steps near the exchange floor wore deeply from constant foot traffic of brokers, clerks, and messengers. The steps will be replaced entirely before year end.
An artist returning from abroad recalls a Whistler tale in which J MacNeill visits a canvas by a younger impressionist. The critic dismisses it as a potboiler to keep the wolf from the door and Whistler quips that it should be hung outside the door.
Sir Herbert Maxwell shared a tale at a public dinner illustrating the instinctive British urge to gamble. He cited three Transvaal officers ill with fever where each patient placed a half crown in a basin and the highest thermometer reading won the pool.
The treasury department notes 88 million dollars in gold certificates with a single 10000 dollar greenback outstanding. Collectors would find that lone note a notable piece of financial history.
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