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Newspaper
Vienna Progress
Location
Vienna, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1894
Page
4
Royal chronicler marks Queen Victoria on seventy five years old with fifty seven years on the throne. The article surveys her health family finances and enduring popularity amid calls of virtue and steadiness in leadership.
Nebraska high court holds railroad liability requires proof of unnecessary steam valve release and evidence of prudent care lacking. accident alone cannot prove negligence. Other items note Chicago letter carriers surgery after oil tank blast and a lighthearted exchange about supporting a wife. Australian wheat yield forecast set for record export surplus.
A poem contrasts inherited wealth with earned virtue. The rich man's son lacks toil and dignity, while the poor man's son gains strength, character, and toil earned worth. Both share mortality and final rest, proving merit and labor define true inheritance.
A houseboard friendship in New York sparks art and hunger. Frank Sherman offers painterly opportunity to Henri Bonynge who poses as Cleopatra and other roles. Henri vanishes leaving a comic law note and a plea for rescue from a castle of doubt.
A compilation of maxims and quotes including Seneca Moliere Talleyrand Beyers Shaw Rochefoucauld Saint Augustin and others. The piece blends reflections on virtue courage duty and honesty with admonitions to act kindly and diligently in life.
The article explains how the body regulates temperature by adjusting blood flow to the skin. Heat loss occurs mainly through radiation, conduction, and evaporation, with about seventy percent via the skin. Clothing helps maintain an even internal temperature, enabling people to cope with varying climates and external conditions.
William Yancey, a sixty year old colored man, allegedly can produce two simultaneous voices and a third in a larger hall. Doctors at Chicago Medical College reportedly witnessed a pure soprano and perfect harmony, with an echo adding a third voice. The New Orleans Picayune reports this as a medical first.
The San Francisco Mint uses S and Car son City uses cc while New Orleans uses o to mark coins. Small letters like m denote Mason the die maker on standard dollars and Columbia coins show Barber’s B. The practice, once a capital offense for European die-sinkers, now reflects trade customs across the water per the New York Journal.
The Richmond memorial day program opened with a cavalry reunion and speeches by Fitz Lee Wade Hampton Governor O'Farrell Rev J Williams Jones and General Rosser who denounced the U S pension system. A large parade featured a children’s division and delegations from Maryland Washington Charleston North Carolina and South Carolina. Banks and offices closed as flags and Confederate colors lined the route. The new monument dedication included a prayer poem and an oration with a final veil removal by a pair of child representatives and a salute by artillery and infantry.
Jefferson county sheriff reports inability to maintain peace with deputies and citizens without loss of life or property. Governor Jones mobilizes the Second Alabama regiment to a Birmingham camp as a precaution to deter armed bands and protect lawful occupations.
Two hundred fifty miners from Washington Indiana march to Littles seven miles away armed with 106 Winchester rifles and one wagon of ammunition to last thirty days. In a later clash six deputy sheriffs are disarmed and several wounded, two fatally. A state militia unit is ready at Evansville to be deployed if needed.
Arkansas Populist delegates bound for the state convention in Little Rock on July 19 will march from July 9. Delegations travel by wagon horse and foot with stops for speeches and propaganda along routes across the state and neighboring counties.
A brief excerpt from a poem describes a couple’s growing love over a second summer and the wife’s quiet understanding of grief. The piece ends with a line about sorrow and enduring affection, attributed to Warman in the New York Sun.
A collage of humorous exchanges and quips from 19th century papers. Jests touch on temperance, boarding houses, chivalry, and family life, with callers and neighbors supplying witty retorts and social observation. Firmen.
Alton Illinois hosts a surprising exhibit on Charles F. Sparks’s revolver engine a compact high power machine resembling a revolver cylinder. A eight horsepower unit powers the Luer Brothers packing house dynamo while Hayden Machine Company crafts a two horsepower version for the steam yacht Glad Tidings.
World paper mills total 3985 producing 930000 tons annually. About half, 465000 tons, used for printing with nearly 300000 tons for newspapers and periodicals. Government offices consume 100000 tons and schools 90000. Industry employs 270000, two thirds women.
Civil engineers estimate the river discharges 19.5 quadrillion cubic feet of water yearly into the Gulf with one 12900th as sediment. That sediment would cover a square mile to a depth of 240 feet.
The Detroit Free Press piece follows George and his fiancée as they discuss marriage on a $1,200 yearly income. She notes they would look ridiculous without clothes, exposing the couple’s poverty and social costs.
The article discusses the origin of wives taking husbands' names at marriage, tracing to Roman practice and scriptural ideas. It notes historical variations, including Catherine Perrie, Lady Jane Grey, and Arabella Stuart, and cites the Bones. Smith case from Elizabethan times confirming loss of former name and adoption of the husband’s name.
Radishes offer medicinal benefits and act as demulcent and diuretic when fresh. They are usually eaten with salt or folded into French dressing when thinly sliced. tops may be boiled and a green cap left on for digestion. Native to Asia, radishes have ancient cultivation.
In a Detroit Free item a hungry tramp asks for dinner from a householder. She offers work cutting a cord of wood, but he protests he would rather have a cheaper meal. The tale ends with the man’s polite refusal and a modest outcome.
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