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Newspaper
Vienna Progress
Location
Vienna, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Mar 03, 1904
Page
8
A humorous poem sketches a woman living across the street who sews constantly, portrayed as a human sewing machine. Her precise, neat children and wary husband reflect daily toil and bills, with a satirical frame about modern domestic life and a showpiece of the professor dismissing worries during a lecture.
A speaker imagines stopping a tormenting figure by extreme means, proposing harsh voices and drastic action including rough speech and metaphorical amputation, to end dreamlike disturbance. The verse contrasts gentleness and coercive force as a response to fatigue and unease.
A reflective verse contrasts farm raised youths who praise country life with a business minded move to town. It laments the ease of city labor against rural toil, noting trains and affordable country fare while questioning who remains true to country roots.
A sharp exchange erupts as a small man taunts a rival about insults and a hospital bill, declaring for two cents he would lick him while the other retorts that generosity would not cover the costs. The scene unfolds with public annoyance and implied urban bravado.
Notices request letters of administration for R A Bedgood and list multiple public road proposals. Items include establishing roads from 8 B Jenkins residence to Ilanda of Jno A Jenkins and DP McGarvey, ending at Vienna and Montezuma road, plus abolishing Hog Crown Creek segment and routing from Pulaski near John Scarborough area toward Hawkinaylle road, Byromville, and related districts.
A fragment highlights Grener W. Came John March and a parade of literary praise. It mentions Frank R. Stockton and Frances Hopason Burnety as well as Clara Monnie, a pasteboard crown, and notable novels from The InlandER and New York Herald. An editor notes adventurous works including Petre’s Island.
An advertisement promises a $1 to $5 discount on chronic disease treatment if readers fill a form before February 10, 1904. It lists cures for catarrh, asthma, digestive and heart diseases, kidney and bladder troubles, rheumatism, and sexual health issues. Doctors Greenleaf and Holleman offer guarantees or refunds and claim quick cures without mercury. The notice targets new patients in Macon and Augusta, Georgia.
GEO W WOOTEN announces a new law office on Cotton street near the courthouse Will practice in all Georgia courts and in federal courts at Macon and Savannah Viryna Ga.
D L Henderson will practice in all courts except comp cont with an office in Stovail a new building in Vienna Ga. Office over Walton Bros store. Calls will be attended promptly day and night. Night calls answered from Roberts hotel.
Hawkinsville and Florida connections noted with Southern Wrightsville and Tennille R R. Double ran with Atlantic and Birmingham Railway. Worth with Georgia Southern and Florida. Rhodes, Wadley, McFadden, Knapp, Milligan, Bonnyman listed in General Offices. Vienna and Waycross offices named. Traveling freight and passenger details included.
Georgia Southern and Florida Railway announces the Jan 5 1905 local time timetable. Nos 3 and 4 offer through coaches and parlor sleepers between Macon and Jacksonville with Pulman buffet drawing room sleepers Macon to Tifton en route to Chicago and St Louis. Nos 2 and 2A run Macon to Palatka with through coach Macon to Jacksonville. Officials Shaw Rhodes Bell Rafferty note the timetable.
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