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Newspaper
Vienna Progress
Location
Vienna, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Mar 03, 1898
Page
2
The United States produced more pig iron last year than ever before, with estimates near 10,000,000 tons. In 1896 the total output was 8,028,127 tons across twenty states. Pennsylvania led with about 46 percent of total production.
A judge remarks on the shift from forty nine era to present, noting thousands of women going to California and taking on tasks and business once reserved for men. He asserts women possess courage and endurance for such endeavors, highlighting broad social change.
Chicago Times-Herald quotes Mrs Josephine Henry of Versailles Kentucky predicting a future woman president. The outspoken speaker backs equal rights for married women in Kentucky and notes her past political runs including a Prohibition party bid for Kentucky Supreme Court with about five thousand votes.
In Porum Elihu Thomson outlines ten years of electrical progress as civilization’s push. He cites the telephone, step-up transformer, incandescent light, electric railways, and Roentgen rays. Niagara Falls Power Company’s 5,000 horsepower dynamos enable Buffalo transmission, linking investment to economical transmission.
The article extols a Siberian railway linking the Pacific to the North Sea and a vast Black Sea to Baltic canal. It notes Russia’s engineering push surpassing older nations, cites a planned canal survey in Russian Poland near the Dnieper watershed, with early next year construction anticipated at an estimated cost of $100,000 and electrified feeder lines along the route.
Poem fragment by Georgia D Bonne notes summer afterglow in Keokuk Iowa. Lines describe sun setting and crimson clouds fading as the earth’s heartbeat slows. The verse urges waiting for the afterglow and hidden meanings revealed in the quiet evening light.
In a rural tale, Hester Warren and Tivra Banka endure years of marriage tested by listening ears and aging. After their son-in-law Bara fails to hear, Ezra contemplates loss, while Hester pleads for reassurance, revealing a love stretched by time, illness, and unspoken needs.
In a Maine tale a man named Godsend Lufkin inherits vast land from grandfather Peter Lufkin. The name arose from a jest at a church christening where the minister, told to name the child, was urged to call him a godsend. The quirky moniker accompanies nearly $100,000 in estate as Lufkin embraces the peculiar legacy.
The New York Times notes active coal traders warn that gas for cookery and heating threatens the coal trade. A Manhattan builder asserts Harlem gas use accounts for a large share of gas company business, foreshadowing declines for retail coal dealers as natural gas expands.
German clothing manufacturers are not permitted to employ women more than eleven hours daily and may not hire on Saturdays after 6 30 p m with an limit of one hour curtailed on Saturdays. No work between 8 30 p m and 6 30 a m or on the day immediately preceding a holiday.
The Chicago Inter Ocean reports farmer F. J. Bissell of Mountain Green Illinois lost about 4400 in greenbacks and silver certificates stored in an unused flue. Treasury experts led by Mrs. Brown identify ink tracings on ash to redeem some bills, while many claims remain unsettled as Congress faces possible action. Two sisters Annis and Mary Wilson split rails and posts for Spring Hill Coal Company near Wall’s Station, earning more per day than kitchen work, proving honest labor can be rewarding.
New York Sun reports experiments in central Russia showing the magnetic needle deflected up to ninety six degrees in Kursk province while 850 miles away near Moscow and Kharkov the needle shifted twenty degrees. Engineers worry magnetism may affect rail durability for east west laid tracks. Berlin restaurant serves beefsteak at 34.50 with a fifty cent tip expected.
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