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Newspaper
Vienna Progress
Location
Vienna, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Mar 05, 1896
Page
2
A fragmented poem invokes a spider weaving a web over living and dead, from dawn to dusk. It traverses grand palaces, graves, and crime ridden hovels, celebrating the spider's net across late autumn scenes and stray flies.
Brown confesses love to Miss Chisholm after a comic start. Van Tweet urges him to admit his feelings, and a dramatic Beagle report swirls around a street assault Brown handles heroically. Chisholm’s letter hints at a possible match, while Brown’s triumphs keep Van Tweet guessing.
The New York Press recounts Cummings once thriving as an iron manufacturing village near Chicago now lifeless after a six year boom bust cycle. Factory strikes, worker unrest, and eventual closure left the settlement inert within the metropolis of about 1.5 million.
A German forester cites authorities placing Germany's oldest trees near 600 years with species lifespans: silver fir over 400 years, evergreen oak 410, oaks 315 to 320, larch 275, red beech 245, ash 170, birch 200, aspen 220, mountain maple 225, elm 180, red alder 145. The New York Ledger notes these figures.
A brief descriptive sketch of the Transvaal or South African Republic. It covers location in Southeast Africa, boundaries from the Vasil to the Limpopo, area about 119 139 square miles, and a 1890 European population of 119 128 with Boer majority plus British settlers. It notes a 370 148 native and 2000 British Indian population in 1894, climate, and seaports Delagos Bay and Dunbar with rail links to the state center.
In 1893 I reached Fort Rae to collect musk oxen for museum specimens. Rae, 60 miles north of Great Slave Lake and 900 miles above the final rail point, serves as a base near the Barren Ground. Eskimo and Indians hunt the ox for robes, driving them back from timber into the barren regions.
A Pall Mall Gazette report says three monkeys near Juggernath Ghat in Calcutta are accused by residents of theft and mischief. Seven complainants sought police action but were told to pursue a court warrant for the so called burglars.
A Jacksonville Florida News report explains that the tangerine orange may form as a well developed secondary fruit at the apex of the original orange. The small apex orange grows large while the main fruit is suppressed, yielding the tangerine variety.
Professor Ward of the Natural Science Department shows a mummy leg to illustrate how foot binding and rigid footwear have altered foot shape. He compares the fourth toe to the big toe, noting similar proportions in the Venus de Milo and attributing changes to centuries of wearing constricting shoes.
The account recalls Stanley's 1882 expedition constructing Kimpoko and Gobila stations and surveying the Kwa and Mifini Rivers and Lake Leppold II. He describes a violent fever, two days of unconsciousness, leg swelling, and a month of recovery with extreme edema, as reported in Century.
The piece says rabbits in Queensland have learned to climb trees using their teeth and can reach over eight feet, making fences ineffective. It frames Australia as progressive and observant of this unusual behavior.
A miscellany of maxims on self belief, diligence, hypocrisy, and public life. It laments meddling, notes that wealth comes from work, and warns against idleness and insecure vanity. The piece closes with a Chicago Record attribution.
A Washington Post excerpt details 1849 50 mail practice in California and Yukon camps. Letters cost $1 plus government postage as miners paid $100 to $300 to buy line positions for mail delivery near Sacramento and San Francisco. Mail moved after a thrice monthly steamer, creating long waits and dramatic profiteering at the line's edge.
Lieutenant B Baden Powell suggests a novel aerial navigation method using two kites at different altitudes connected by a long line. The upper kite reaches higher wind speeds while the lower kite acts as a brake, pulling the system and simulating a retarded upper kite through a hand-held line.
A rare miniature needle made at Red ditch needle manufactory shows a Trojan column and scenes from Queen Victoria's life, with 50 finely cut details visible only under a microscope.
Poem urges laughter as life’s wiser path. It contrasts dour moods with a hopeful view, noting dark clouds pass and skies brighten beyond. The speaker counsels brace up and work with faith that better times lie ahead.
A collage of humorous quotes and exchanges from various periodicals. Jokes about diplomacy honesty finance and memory contrast with a two hundred pound female bicyclist and a cheeky child query. Notable lines poke fun at fools and philosophers in brisk snippets from Truth Puck Yale and Philadelphia Record.
An eight mile from Sitka claim named Pande's Basin Placer asserts a glacier fed lake 1000 by 400 yards and 150 feet deep holds millions in flour gold. Assays estimate $30 per cubic yard from sand and $28 per ton from surrounding quartz, with a plan to drain the lake to reveal the gold field.
A young man of modest means receives a tailor bill while engaged to a wealthy fiancée. By misplacing the bill and envelope he convinces her he disputes the charge, then explains the mix up. The tailor apologizes and completes the story with a new clothing order.
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