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Newspaper
Vienna Progress
Location
Vienna, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Mar 19, 1895
Page
4
An advertisement extols Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery as a cure and preventive for consumption and lung ailments. It claims it enriches blood, stops tissue waste, builds strength, and may cure early consumption, urging readers to request free books from the World’s Dispensary Medical Association in Buffalo, New York.
The article recounts Brydone’s Sicily and Malta travels describing stone cannons carved from cliffs by the Knights of Malta. These massive mortars used full barrels of powder, loaded with stone balls and shells, with mouths up to six feet wide and about fifty guns covering approaches to ships.
A tall graceful girl ponders her suitor and her father notes the expected sum. A recipe yields a muffin from mashed potatoes yeast and lard, rolled thin and left to rise before baking. A courtroom exchange ends with a sly joke about a second blow and a prosecutor's quip.
A New York Sun interview recalls fashion cycles over a hundred years. The speaker enumerates nine distinct female dress eras from 1795 to 1892, noting shifts from short waists to crinoline, trains, bustles, paniers, and resurgent sleeves, ending with today’s celebrated silhouette.
A hotel guest, Mr. Nubbins, inflames clerks by inscribing R L Nubbins and wife in the register and choosing a standard room at $3 a day instead of the bridal suite priced at $15. The clerk wrongly presumes newly wed status. Nubbins quips that he will not marry, and he and Mrs. Nubbins stay happily for a couple days.
In X city a clever old pork shop keeper solved a prank by charging one dollar for a yard of pork. When three youths offered money he tucked the dollar away and produced three pig's feet saying three feet make one yard.
A barber recounts grim stories to frighten a listener, claiming his aim is to grip attention before cutting hair. Separately, Russia plans a vast Traculture project in the Caucasus, with 150000 acres of Crown lands set aside and a commission to study Chinese cultivation returning with 10000 tea plants.
Georgia readers learn of Ringgold gaining telephone links with Chattanooga Dalton and Chickamauga Park. counties report large meat and pork production, Chautauqua plans for Ocmulgee, and tax defaulters data in Columbia. Augusta bonds issued at rising prices. a Tennessee delegation studies Georgia costs. fraud case and public notices feature in city affairs.
Nashville report from Hon. Thus R Myers of counsel for Governor Turney states that Evans faces a net loss near 6000 votes in investigated counties with four large counties Roane Morgan Campbell Scott awaiting review. He links Houk Gibson race to poll tax laxity and biased judges. Ev ans losses in Caldwell committee areas cited Cocke 240 Hamblen 340 Granger 440 Union 700 Claiborne 800 Knox 100.
An Ashland dispatch reports Floyd county faces a violent epidemic resembling cholera but deadly, choking victims from stomach to throat. Death toll exceeds fifty as doctors refuse to visit the afflicted and cases rise in the Mad River country. Trier is noted as a railway station in Louisiana's sugar swamp near the gulf coast.
The Hon. Hector D. Lane, president of the American Cotton Growers' Protective Association, warns Southern cotton growers that manipulative growers aim to raise prices to lure overplanting. He calls the rise fictitious, a bear market ruse to depress future values and reap a larger surplus, urging farmers to beware and avoid being drawn into the "wolf in sheep's clothing" and "bear in bull clothing" trap.
In New Orleans Judge Righter ruling on state vs Olympic Club declares prize fighting a legitimate business under act No 25 of 1899. He concludes a glove contest is a prize fight and vice versa, calls the act fraudulent, and orders judgment for the Olympic Club. Separate dispatch reports the Trinidad rescuing the crew of the John M. Moore near Bermuda after the schooner sailed from Brunswick, Ga. on January 30.
Emperor William will inaugurate by June 20 the Baltic and North Sea Canal linking Haltenau to Brunsbuttel. The 61 mile waterway costs about 40 million dollars and will host navies including Hamburg American liners Augusta Victoria and Normannia. About 18,000 ships yearly are expected with reduced danger in a once perilous sound between Scandinavia and Jutland.
A dialog unfolds with Mr Harkins admitting engagement to Miss Hopeful’s sister. The scene hints at tension and hidden relationships, while brief notes promote various early 20th century patent medicines and remedies, including Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters and Kilmer’s Swamp Root, reflecting period advertising embedded in the text.
Spring Medicine claim touts Hood's Sarsaparilla as the best remedy for blood diseases and nerves. A testimonial from Mia of Asaworrs Eaton Ohio says two bottles cured chronic headaches, improved appetite, and boosted energy, urging nervous, run down people to try it.
An inventive Scotchman devises a thread-spinning device run by two trained mice. Daily, the mice drive the little mill with their paws, performing work equivalent to traveling ten and a half miles. The tale adds curiosities about mourning customs, London’s musical shops, and branding methods of Arizona Indians.
Tid Bits recalls a barber alone in his shop during a heavy thunderstorm and a string of questions about weather, shaving, and grooming as he finally sits to refresh.
The piece notes experiments with paper pulp cannons wrapped in wire and brass bands inspired by leather and metal cores, promising loud discharge. It then cites 1884 tobacco output of 708000 tons from 2029000 acres, led by the United States with 210000 tons, followed by India and Russia among others.
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