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Newspaper
Vienna Progress
Location
Vienna, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Mar 12, 1895
Page
4
In a petty sessions court in a country town in Ireland a very stout barrister cross examined a witness who is blind in one eye. The witness swears he saw the prisoner strike with the weapon. The barrister’s insult backfires as the magistrate and court laugh, revealing the barrister cannot see the man’s boots.
The head of a firm tells Mr Smarte that the business is not run to make money but as a training place for youths. He dismisses him, saying the cashier will settle with him and that what is our loss is his gain.
A collage of jokes and personal quips appears alongside patent medicine ads. The Washington Star quote celebrates Trilby and a royal hand, while stray lines reference sleeping Indiana man jokes. Advertisements tout Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters, Syrup of Figs, and Dr Kilmer’s Swamp-Root with claims of health cures and free pamphlets.
An old advertisement touts Hood's Sarsaparilla as a cure and builder for the body. It claims to purify the blood, strengthen the stomach, and improve the system through a tonic formula. The text markets the tonic as a reliable health aid.
Georgia items report completion of the Cuyler to Woodburn railroad and a Brunswick outer bar channel widening bill. The Red and Black editors resign amid faculty action. Grady day planned for Cotton States expo. Indictments involving Tom Wright relate to Henry Worley and Hosea Jones cases. Income tax returns extend to April 15. Southern army department eyed for Atlanta. Elbert County forms Cotton Growers Association with leaders listed. Savannah line bondholders settle sale appeal. May sale planned. State exhibit funds debated. election laws tighten oath requirement for election managers.
John H. Inman sells the Asheville and Spartanburg railroad and the Spartanburg, Union and Columbia railroad to the Southern Railway Company. The Southern pays cash plus 2,000,000 in Southern securities and takes immediate control to operate with the main eastern line from Atlanta to Washington. The 108 mile road links Spartanburg to Blue Ridge country and Hot Springs, routing summer traffic from Augusta and Savannah to the mountains.
The closing hours of Congress saw the Senate pass key bills including a copyright relief measure for newspapers, while debates over lottery inquiries and Behring Sea regulations ended without broader action. By 12, the third session adjourned as reporters sang a doxology amid cheers and departures.
The session ends with Vice President announcing the end at 12 noon. President pro tempore Harris thanks the chamber for a flattering resolution while surrounding officials, including Voorhees and Shermer, await the final acts. The Senate quiets as weary members depart without fanfare.
A Maryland writer in the American Cultivator extols Mexican clover for thin soils in the North and the South. The plant yields hay, seeds prolifically, tolerates cold, and, when planted early, protects subsequent crops. It enriches soil, forms a mat of roots capturing debris, and is a favored forage plant for horses and cattle.
Instructions from Popular Magazine describe whitening coarse red hands using chloride of lime in warm soft water. Remove rings before use to prevent tarnish. A soap is made from castile soap and lime, beaten to a soft mass with rectified spirit, formed into tablets, wrapped, perfumed with oil of verbena, and warned that eye exposure is very harmful.
A Woodstock Virginia veteran Levi McInturff, who served in the Mexican and Civil Wars, was debilitated by a four year grip complain and nervous weakness. After taking Dr Williams Pink Pills for three days his hands regained color and strength, he could knife and fork again, walk in town and over mountains, and lift fifty two pounds. He bought more pills and offers to affidavit to the cure. The notice promotes Dr Williams’ Pink Pills as a remedy for various ailments and urges readers to obtain the book on disease.
A Detroit Tribune snippet shows a tense exchange where she scorns him claiming he is not everybody, while he replies softly that he is nearly everybody. The line ends with their intimate proximity escalating the moment.
A brief, macabre exchange where a child asks about dying and the mother reflects on death. The boy responds that he wishes to die by drowning in a beer vat, revealing a morbid, offbeat remark amid a stern parental moment.
A young man, urged by his father to choose a wife of practical merit, plans to hire a servant from a female employment office. The father abruptly reverses his stance, warning he will break the young man’s neck if he proceeds, and cuts off the advice.
The burglar's wife testified in the witness box as the prosecuting attorney cross examined. Answering the question about marriage she said she knew he was a burglar, and quipped she chose between a lawyer and a burglar as she was getting old.
In a fragment from the Detroit Tribune a coy scene unfolds as a man asks if she is alone and she fears an audience while a piano summons him to play. A cold stare shies him away and a contrast with Li Hung Chang’s remark about a royal wardrobe loss appears in Washington Star.
A Chicago Herald reprints a paragraph claiming Japanese whisky called saki is highly intoxicating far surpassing Jamaican or Mexican brews. It allegedly intoxicates more rapidly and lasts longer, provoking severe tremens. It notes the drink’s recent arrival in the Sandwich Islands and a belief it could influence Hawaii's political situation within 18 months.
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