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Newspaper
Vienna Progress
Location
Vienna, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Mar 13, 1902
Page
7
In a Washington Star excerpt a small philosopher and her friend Emmy Jane size up dolls in a shop window. Cinthy favors the black nurse doll while Emmy Jane dreams of a pink silk gown and a mubil coat, then the wiser child concludes being good is enough and chooses her own path.
A playful jumble of quips from a gossip column and schoolyard sayings. Desmond and Dorothy debate a coat purchase, a child Johnnie sighs over pie, Helen reports a wrist hiccough, and a teasing visitor questions Elsie about marriage.
President Roosevelt tried to jolly five Ute Indians in Washington over mineral land matters. Only one spoke English, and all efforts failed until the president claimed his regiment once had fifty Indian fighters. The delegation finally smiled, inspired by the tribute to their race by the chief executive.
The Philadelphia Record mocks a winter dating fantasy where a man parades in rented furs to impress a girl. He brags of Manitoba seals and a Wyoming collar as he boasts of “the mayor of Dog Gulch” and other boasts, offering a comic satire of social posturing.
Reported abroad in a drifted tale the Russian czarina visiting Kiel reportedly slid down a ladder to avoid a crowd outside a store. She allegedly used the rear exit, climbing the ladder placed by workmen and slipping into an adjoining garden.
The Philadelphia Record outlines correct pronunciations for names such as Quiller-Couch Jerome Stevenson Besant Hovey Carnegie and Louis Stephens noting vowels and syllable stress. It advises A T Quiller-Couch to stress the oo in root and Jerome to rhyme with tear em while Louis sounds like Lewis and Carnegie stresses the second syllable Car-nay-gie.
Chamberlain James J. Hill, famed railroad figure, stands by the Waldorf cigar stand and asks if round glass bottle cigars are smoked. The clerk confirms popularity in Christmas season but not kept. Hill reveals he too does not keep them and handed the gift to a chambermaid for decoration.
General Shafter hosted a period of Opera outings with the McKittricks and other friends from Bakersfield. The party attended nightly performances while the general joked that Wagner’s Die Walkure sounded like piano tuning and avoided further Wagnerian works.
The Conductor reports John Philip Sousa, the American band master, in uniform on a railway platform. A traveler asks if the 9:30 has gone yet. Sousa replies he does not know and is challenged to explain his purpose. He states, I am the conductor of a brass band.
Grandmother asks what happened after a church christening and Mabel replies that they did nothing much except wash a little kid's hair. The lighthearted exchange highlights a simple domestic scene.
A father cleaning fish for dinner is asked by Willie if fish have sense. He answers yes and asks Willie to cut some oats to test them. The boy's prompt leads to a humorous exchange about the nature of fish.
A mother hushes her four year old daughter into sleep. The child asks in astonishment how one can chat, close eyes, and sleep at once, a line from a Chicago News item reflecting domestic humor.
The Washington Post recounts how the Meigs deputy clerk gained the given name Return. A great‑grandfather sought a wife, encountered a young woman who exclaimed Return, Jonathan as he left, and their son was named Return Jonathan Meigs, a name carried through generations at the District of Columbia clerk’s office.
The western soprano Mrs. Porter Paddock recalls a Five Points mission concert where a young girl praised her song. When asked why, the child said it was because she noticed the singer’s sparkliest rings.
The Sydney Bulletin reports Jacob Joseph, a prominent Wellington Hebrew businessman, famed for a stylish turnout and blue glasses, has been stone blind since boyhood after an incident where a sheet frightened a servant girl, leading to her grabbing his face and injuring his sight.
The passage explains how mixing a hot and a cold air body not at saturation can produce a vapor content that becomes more than saturated, causing some vapor to condense as rain forms. It discusses temperature, water capacity, and condensation dynamics in the atmosphere.
Notice to creditors and debtors regarding the estate of B. W. Thompson late of entered, demands must be rendered and debts paid. This Feb 8, 1902 T. A. cease Executors.
Doory County Georgia notices cite administrator T Bridges to show cause why he should not be discharged and receive letters of dismission on the first Monday in May. Additional items list estate fixtures and property in Cordele to satisfy a court claim, and cite a discharge petition for David Culpepper’s estate with a March date. Receivership and guardianship actions are scheduled for April and May trials.
In Dooly County the appraisers who set apart twelve months dower for widow Elizabeth Walton and her two minor children Dora and Charles Walton filed their report. Judge Hanaroy will pass upon the report on the first Monday in April, March 1, 1902.
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