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Newspaper
Vienna Progress
Location
Vienna, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Mar 18, 1897
Page
6
The readable lines mention Jacksonville Florida, a Chicago paper, insomnia drug with forty three letters, a debt rule blocking a New York celebration, and a brass band gift to a king, all presented with garbled OCR hints and foreign references.
Téa Carlons Fant discussed in Mr Habertwartiolé on The Business of a Bastary in Scribner's that America excels in mill machinery but must seek Paria for printed or woven goods design. Paria designers can earn about $20,000 yearly.
Reports from Alaska indicate a general business downturn reducing pride of wealthing. Many seniors have withdrawn ships from commission as their season’s work yields losses. Fore in the rough priced at six dollars and a half.
President Harper announces a $49,000 shortfall in the university’s running expenses for the year 1800. He adopts retrenchment measures including reducing funds for employed students and temporarily withholding some scholarships.
In 1870 census officials valued United Blazen property at 80,000,000,000 in our currency and 24,000,000,000 in gold. By 1890 value stagnated at 65,000,000,000 in gold. Over twenty years the People of this land added 41,000,000,000 in gold of tangible property.
Physicians warn that overdressing in winter and wearing heavy indoor clothing followed by exposure to cold outdoor air fosters colds. Modern homes run warm at about seventy degrees, encouraging bulky garments for indoors and insufficient foot protection when stepping outside.
The passage notes a worm found in oranges named by entomologist Trypotn lucians. It claims the worm has not been found in U S grown fruit but is becoming common beyond the Mexican border, with reports of oranges in New Mexico showing infestation.
Harper's Weekly notes sensational headlines about Bombay's plague but doubts its reach in the New World. It argues the disease thrived on famine and filth, with rats as vectors, and that historical outbreaks burned out after months despite terror.
A reflective poem speaks on common joys and unseen acts of kindness. It questions what true joy amounts to beyond gold or memory, suggesting small deeds brighten days and leave lasting worth in the heart that grows through steady good.
Nettie Danforth teases her prim aunt as Aunt Elmer warns of propriety, Ned Bartram and Uncle Allen weigh marriage ages and mate choices. Nettie jokes about old Dr. Allen and a rumored flirtation, while Uncle Allen favors Miss Araminta as a suitable match.
In a bustling parlor farce set around a marriage plot, Dr. Allen declares his love for Araminta Elmer and pursues marriage, while Ned Bartram and Nettie plan for their own matches. A closet trap and a fruit-strewn mishap spark laughter as mistaken affairs unravel.
In the great bay near the lake head a deer was chased onto the ice by boys and dogs. A circle of skaters formed and the animal sped across slippery ice while onlookers cheered. Despite attempts to catch it the deer escaped, ducking through a widening gap as the crowd shouted with amusement.
A Lisbon street tale from Lewiston Maine cites a woman losing her purse on the street and spotting a dog fetching the wallet in its mouth, described as perhaps the best educated dog outside Switzerland according to the New York Sun.
At Cooper Union Hall a cosmopolitan crowd packed the space to back ratification of the pending arbitration treaty with Great Britain. Mayor Strong and Seth Low spoke, while Wauhope Gynn and other critics urged rejection, a chaotic finish ending with a break in order as the lights went out.
A Berlin note officializes Germany’s position to reject negotiations while demanding the original ultimatum. London reports foreign admirals meet insurgent leaders as Commodore Reinbek reportedly forbids towns entry yet may accept a mission. Greece shows readiness to yield under pressure with hopes of relief for retreating troops. Constantinople hints powers may allow Greece to cooperates under European officers in Crete after submission.
Eleven to fifteen feared dead in the Byansville and Terre Haute passenger train wreck along the White River near Hyansville Indiana. No bodies recovered Thursday as the river rises complicating search. Herbert Allen of Eyansville the door keeper in the Indiana legislature confirmed dead along with W B Phillips of Fort Wayne.
A Nashville dispatch reports the Tennessee Senate passed a bill incorporating Centennial City and both houses approved Knoxville taxation for a centennial exhibit. In the House, Redman introduced a resolution accusing a newspaper of alleging that no member was paid $1500 to abstain on the railroad commission vote, and that Dr. James Thompson created signatures for petitions, with a special committee to investigate the charges.
A Washington dispatch reports H. Clay Evans of Tennessee has been tendered the office of commissioner of pensions and is likely to accept. Evans is a prominent southern Republican known to public men nationwide. The role, paying 5000 dollars yearly, is considered more influential than the first assistant postmaster general position he was believed to seek.
Reynolds and Brooks, charged with the murder of M. D. Hunt of Belton Georgia, were taken to Fulton County Jail in Atlanta for safe keeping. They were heavily manacled under sheriff and deputies guard. Judge N L Hutchins ordered the transfer fearing mob violence, with a special term of Jackson County Superior Court planned for next May.
Paymaster Corwine of the United States Navy, previously at Newport Rhode Island, was arrested in Chicago on Wednesday afternoon. He had arrived from New York City that morning and checked into the Palmer House under the alias J. Reaves. Detectives were alerted by Newport police and took him into custody as he signed the hotel register.
The through freight on the Georgia Southern and Florida road from Palatka to Macon Ga separated near Cordele Wednesday morning. When the two halves came together three cars were wrecked and three men were killed N G Jordan a white flagman and two unknown tramps.
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