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Newspaper
Vienna Progress
Location
Vienna, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1904
Page
4
A jumble of aphorisms and stray lines mixes reflections on money luck and social behavior with garbled travel advertisement text. The fragmentary items mention boxers, a fat man, a banana peel, a daughter and father dynamic, and secondhand shoes, followed by a travel notice for the Austitic Birmingham Ry selling various excursion tickets from Vienna in 1904, with dates and prices. The piece reads as an OCR mishmash of quotes and timetable copy.
A circular offers 500 for Wips to Agenta worth 50 to any seller of goods. If not satisfied money back. Advertisement for stamp by She Dr White Hleotric Comb Co Decatur Ill.
A terse classified notice seeks individuals across states to travel for a house estate venture. It promises a successful profitable line, permanent engagement, a weekly cash salary of 24 dollars, plus all traveling expenses and hotel bills advanced weekly. Experience not required. mention reference and enclose self addressed envelope to THER NATIONAL 882 Dearborn St Chicago.
Recruiter seeks a faithful person to call on retail trade and agents in a local territory for a manufacturing house. Straight salary of $20 paid weekly with expense money advanced. No previous experience required. Permanent position. Enclose self addressed envelope to Superintendent Travelers 606 Monon Building Chicago.
In the city, visit the City Barber Shop for hair cutting shaving shampoo and face massage with clean towels and sharp razors. Polite attention is emphasized as a specialty of the establishment.
Advertisement notes a progress office for coffins caskets and robes. It urges depositing funds to invest in an outfit and promises sending the best selections that money can buy, with shipment on the next train. The text is garbled but centers on funeral items and mail order service.
Doctors Greenleaf and Holleyman advertise monthly treatment rates from 83.00 for chronic diseases in men and women with medicines free. They promise cures for asthma, deafness, epilepsy, stomach and bowel disorders, rheumatism, ulcers, and many female diseases, with guaranteed money-back refunds and mail treatment options from Macon, Georgia. They claim non surgical cures for piles and other conditions, free consultation, and testimonials from prominent citizens.
A family living in a remote area faces frequent injuries from accidents, with burns cuts wounds and ulcers common. A remedy touted is Bucklen's Arnica Salve, described as the best on earth, sold for 95 cents at Vienna Drug Co.
Entertainment that is pleasure to guests does not depend on money but on knowledge of how to receive and extend hospitality. Christine Terhune Herrick explains the approach in a concise piece priced at 50 cents.
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