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Newspaper
Vienna Progress
Location
Vienna, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Mar 13, 1894
Page
4
A 19th or early 20th century style feature explains keeping youthfulness through cheerful disposition and facial care. It advises healthy digestion, regular washing, daily soft-water facial baths, gentle massage, avoiding cold winds, and laughing to stay young. It warns against tight clothing, rich diets, late nights, harsh cosmetics, frowning in public, and needless worry.
An illustrated description details a sewing screen that doubles as a work-basket with a chintz covered frame. One side remains plain while the other features pockets, pattern lattice, a pincushion, needlebook, bands for scissors, and all essentials for the seamstress. Also includes assorted ads and brief items on health tonics and cures.
The Drift of her progress and prosperity notes several Southern events. Mills close and fires destroy mills in Alabama Georgia and Kentucky. Fire claims lives at Cullman and Louisville orphanage. Confederate veterans honor General Early while Longstreet faces criticism. Durham NC mills increase output and new Pearl mill starts 10000 spindles. Rail earnings and freight figures released. Governor honors late General Bearly with half mast flag. Virginia and West Virginia debt negotiations continue. Cider pardon issued. gold prospecting grows in Texas. A forged bank draft scheme scams Jackson and Nashville cases unfold. Costa Rican revolution news arrives with liberal leader Iglizias on the march.
After a three month pause, the Laughlin Nail Company at Martin's Ferry Ohio, has resumed operations. About 700 men and boys are employed. The Phenix Iron Works in Phoenixville Pa. closed all mills, normally employing 2000 to 3000 workers.
A committee inquiry revealed that most department business is in the upcountry and the matter is personal to him. He will provide his official application to the committee to enable counter petitions. Chattanooga Times received a letter from General A V Boyn announcing the Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park dedication is postponed from September 1894 to September 1895 due to tariff debates and G A R schedule in Atlanta next year.
Governor Foster received the resignation of United States Senator E D White of Louisiana to take effect Monday March 12 and appointed Newton C Blanchard, representative from the fourth district, as senator.
The Fifty third Congress records routine business in both chambers. The House debated pension appropriations, passed local bills, and authorized the civil service committee to sit. The Senate handled finance and rules amendments, discussed the Bland seigniorage bill, and debated tariff funding and fiscal policy.
General Jubal A Early was laid to rest at St Pauls Church Lynchburg with T M Carson officiating. Thousands lined the route and hundreds of veterans from across the state attended on foot in the funeral procession. Honorary pallbearers included Generals Hunton Lomax Lee Dabney M McKinney Venable and Col Witenss. A Richmond Howitzers detachment and about 200 Virginia Military Institute cadets joined the rites at Spring Hill cemetery where the Lynchburg Artillery Blues fired a 17 gun salute.
Dan & Co reviews the past week noting uncertain outcomes in financial disputes, rising limited risk in commerce, and a modest demand for lower priced woolen and cotton goods. Prices weaken for metal products, while imports fall and exports rise slightly. Failures decrease, with 264 in the United States and 42 in Canada.
The Democratic state convention will be held in Atlanta on August 2 at 12 o’clock. The state executive committee, meeting in Atlanta, declared no effort to steer county committees on delegate timing or method. The meeting drew vast attendance and featured unanimous disdain for candidate interests and a key clash between Evans and Atkinson factions over calling or postponing the convention. Tom Crenshaw led the Atkinson side in urging postponement. the motion to table George Bell’s call failed 11 to 14.
A 21 county meeting in Thomasville Georgia unanimously resolved to renominate H G Turner for Congress but urge his candidacy for the United States Senate. They state his vast public service warrants promotion to the Senate and pledge to work for his election with Georgia's cooperation.
Telegrams from the queen largely in cipher and Brazil’s foreign trade largely via English ships. Malta orange trees over two centuries old and Paris firm making horse dentures. A Brattleboro stamp fetched £250 in London, world salt output about 7.3 million tons yearly. Fritch of Berlin photographed a moving cannon ball. US public debt accrues about $100 per minute in interest. Australia has no native pipes. Turkish waste land cheap, farming land expensive. In 1620 England minted tin shillings with copper studs. May 1888 Williamsport showered with black beetles. Royal aquarium in St Petersburg shows fish for 150 years. New York hosts 300,000 Hebrews, Israelite population larger than Palestine. St Peter’s Rome is largest church. smallest 10 feet square in Isle of Wight. Leckey elected corresponding member of French Academy. Ice making predates. 1783. Southern California lava resembles inverted cup. Italian fire engines have electrically wired hoses. June 11 1852 frost kills 300 sheep in Livingstone county. Agassiz Museum gains 3,000 birds by W E Scott. Hazen predicts rain-conduction experiments failed. Connecticut tests seemed to worsen drought.
A Sierra Leone botany report by F. Scott Elliott describes the kola nut as a stimulant. It can sustain a person for 24 hours without food, acts as a nerve tonic, and keeps the brain active at night. It should not be used within four hours of bedtime and may curb intoxication effects. The tree grows easily and yields about £800 per acre.
The Washington Star reports that the Eskimo population at Point Barrow, including men, women, and infants, chew tobacco obtained from whites. They chew with no nausea and swallow the saliva, using large quids. commissary tobacco from a U S Navy vessel is highly valued.
An old styled advertisement extols Syrup of Figs as a gentle spring cleanse, offering one bottle for the family at 50 cents and large size for a dollar. It promotes California Fig Syrup Co. and adds a pitch for Salzer's Extra Grass Mixtures including dozens of grass and clover sorts, inviting readers to mail for a free seed catalogue.
A comical street dialogue from Good News presents Little Johnnie bragging about late studying as a way to avoid it, while another boy claims studying harms his eyes. The exchange captures light banter about school effort.
A correspondent describes a Chinese marriage practice. Parents inform a professional matchmaker who selects a bride, then visits the bride's parents with the groom's card bearing his name and the eight birth symbols. If accepted, the bride's card is sent back and the union is prophesied. engagement details are written on two tied red cards.
The article describes a traditional cough candy made from slippery elm flaxseed and sugar. Soak flaxseed and slippery elm in boiling water, strain, combine with sugar, boil until candy, and pour onto greased paper. Add lemon juice after ten minutes for flavor.
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