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Newspaper
Vienna Progress
Location
Vienna, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Mar 19, 1896
Page
2
A Harper's Weekly excerpt traces a father to son passage of ambition and reform across generations. It contrasts restless zeal with changing creeds, linking seasonal imagery to evolving hope and foretold deeds. The piece ends noting E. Montgomery.
Susanna Morton, a wealthy thirty five year old determined to end a life of spinsterhood, plots to seize Cupid by the reins during a fifth leap year. She tests a small circle of suitors, starting with Mr Culver, hoping to choose a husband who values her beyond fortune.
In a parlour scene in New York, Susanna pressures Mr Culver to marry, noting leap year and her chosen bride. He reveals hesitance but eventually confesses love, and she accepts his proposal as he declares she is the one. The moment ends with a mutual, gleaming pledge.
The West faces a growing rabbit plague as jack rabbits proliferate across California, Colorado, Idaho and Utah due to extensive land cultivation. California uses drives to herd rabbits into corrals, with thousands killed in single days and large numbers shipped to markets. Denver and Pueblo benefit from distribution of carcasses to the poor.
New York dominates printer ink manufacture with 15 firms and about 7 million dollars in aggregate capital. The industry meets strong inland demand as illustrated by an estimated eight million dollars annual sales in the city.
A London journal posed a classic puzzle asking how five persons can share five eggs so each gets one with one left in the dish. After many attempted solutions the paper mockingly suggests the dish keeper takes the extra egg.
A playful London style collection features quips on taste and indifference, a moonlit fiddler tale, a dog’s amused retort, and a playful exchange about embowpoint. It closes with a pun on fat versus stont in domestic speech.
A collection of clipped quips from Chicago Record Life and Tribune jokes. Dialogues feature a creditor negotiating big bills, a reference check in courting, nerve testing with Jeames, a footstep mishap, kissing contagion fears, and a forgiving beggar tale.
A witty dialogue contrasts a husband and wife on wrinkles. The husband asks if anger adds lines to a wife’s face and the wife replies that nature marks the husband’s character as the cause. The exchange reflects playful marital banter.
A patient asks if fright could trigger a relapse and the doctor agrees, prompting a humorous reminder to consider the bill. The exchange highlights medical care cost concerns in a light, period-voice style.
Kate describes a stereopticon entertainment with De Spooney as like traveling through a tunnel. Laura asks about the views and Kate says she enjoyed it very much.
A Philadelphia Record item reports a man claiming his wife and friends will form a secret society to tell secrets. The joke hinges on the improbability of women meeting in secrecy.
A witness recalls a leap from steps by a man who fled after declaring it was leap year. The incident, described by the Chicago Post, notes the dramatic escape and the witness has not seen the man since.
A court exchanges sharp dialogue as the attorney pleads for a longer term for his client while the judge refuses to exceed fourteen years citing legal limits. The exchange reflects courtroom tension and procedural constraint in this historical clipping.
A miscellany of brief exchanges from 19th century newspapers features a boastful threat from a prosperous citizen, a beggar's retort about today’s earnings, and a playful Rome anecdote about a trio sharing experiences after visiting churches galleries and cafes.
Dialogue snippets show a witty exchange about a collector job and a comic wartime scenario. Aide de camp bursts into the Generaless’s tent and, in her calm retort, dismisses the approaching enemy with a terse line. The quoted pieces reflect satirical tone and newspaper humor of the period.
A long profile of James Shay a veteran cooper running a downtown shop that furnishes nearly all kegs and boxes for shipping gold abroad His firm moves up to 150000000 in gold yearly with sealed canvas bags and steel bound kegs and boxes sent to banks and steamship piers through trusted assistants for European shipments from Fletcher Street New York Recorder
John Gazzello night engineer at city hall told of a prankish cyclone event at Sixth and Jefferson. A gust ripped out his aching tooth while he clung to an iron railing and narrowly avoided a fall toward the courthouse yard. The tale, shared with a Louisville paper, remains disputed by some.
Sir Robert Rawlinson, K C B, survived a 42 pound shot that knocked him from his horse during a Crimea excursion. The cannon ball wedged a steel purse into his hip bone, leaving him alive and the relic preserved by Lady Rawlinson.
The text presents a quoted maxim on business philosophy attributed to Andrew Carnegie about keeping all eggs in one basket. It references Jay Cooke’s 1873 financial panic and a judge’s question, with Cooke replying about focusing resources. The fragment resembles a moral anecdote rather than a concrete news event or profile.
A collage of oddities spans ancient Phoenician ironwork to modern claims about Alaska cleanliness and sun trips. It notes Sperenberg drilling depth, a Chicago woman reclaiming a nine year stolen child, a fur industry idea in Siberia, and a constitutional Queen. It also cites earthquakes since 1137, Yedo deaths, a 119 foot timber in Hoquiam, Montauk Indians, and English dukedoms from Edward III to Civil War times.
The Galveston News notes Texas mounds near Nacogdoches described in John E. Matthews journal. Four mounds stand with varying shapes from a cone like largest to smaller steep remnants. A southern coastline of about 400 feet circumference and up to six to seven feet high is observed.
Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild unveils a new floating palace yacht praised for its dining saloon and dome headlight. A deckhouse studio allows on board photography while en route as the Can season nears, with plans for a short cruise with a select group of companions.
The Detroit Journal notes profits in the Suez equal to over $8,000,00 annually and commerce between east and west exceeding $10,000,000 yearly. It warns political and military value could block passage if a single ship or dredge is impeded.
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