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Newspaper
Vienna Progress
Location
Vienna, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Mar 18, 1897
Page
5
Bold offer urging readers to shop with us for savings on shoes clothing dry goods and more. Emphasizes selection and value across lines, urging trust in our entire Nations lineup as the best option for every need.
The Vienna scene features court reports and social updates with Judge Hall and Col Crum in focus plus local travel, marriage and family notes. Prominent figures like Miss Lilla Lamb and Col J L Janes are mentioned alongside progress on a new waiting-room and bridges, while hunting and fishing chatter, gardens, and a church sermon are described.
The public enjoys meals for twenty five cents at G R Mathews's restaurant, where the menu features market fare including vegetables pork steak sausage eggs fish oysters and desserts. Patrons praise the quality and value of the offerings.
A veterans group notes the 10th inst meeting postponed to Saturday the 27th and seeks unity on reunion place and time to avoid disbanding. J J Hyman signs as Commander urging members to attend at 11 a m and keep the association alive. Also included are local notices about a reddish brindle cow and calf, and a brief ad for DeWitts Witch Hazel Salve for skin ailments.
All male citizens of Vienna Georgia subject to road duty must meet the town marshal at the courthouse at 9 A M on Thursday April 1 1897 to work streets for ten days or pay an eight dollar commutation tax. By order of the Council March 8 1897 MO E Howell Clerk Treasurer. Also ad text about health tonics and remedies included.
Strayed about January two shoats, one coal black and one black spotted, each with a split in each ear. They left my premises five miles northwest of Vienna. Reward offered. Inform T R Lewis in Vienna or leave tips at the Progress office.
A jumbled local advertisement row lists Howell's Stable services and telephones, Calhoun & Co goods, DeWitt's Witch Hazel, One Minute Cough Cure, Stovall & Forbes ties, Spanish Potatoes, New York Life insurance agents L H Taylor and A H Taylor, and guano orders. It mentions cures for piles and croup, and various small goods with prices and contact prompts.
The article warns that La Grippe can lead to pneumonia but notes that with reasonable care and Chamberlain's Cough Remedy the danger is avoided. It claims thousands used the remedy with no pneumonia cases and asserts a faster permanent cure, selling 26 and 60 cent sizes by Stovall Forbes.
Garden Seeds and Onion Setts now available in fresh stock for 1897 planting. Druggists Stovall & Forbes urge buyers to secure early as assortment breaks soon.
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