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Newspaper
Vienna Progress
Location
Vienna, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Mar 27, 1894
Page
4
Fragmented OCR text references hazing, crime, and a homicide case in New York. It mentions legal action, possible pledges, and discussions of poisoning and illness, with scattered phrases about hyposulphite and dangerous substances. The passage includes stray lines about a ship, grain rates, and a humorous exchange, offering little coherent narrative.
A New York Ledger report describes ten experiments on healthy adults with equal armpit temperatures. Light upward friction on the left forearm caused a drop in left forearm temperature while armpits stayed steady. After firm friction the left forearm warmed, the opposite forearm perspired, and its surface cooled. Sense of touch and locality generally improved after five minutes of firm friction.
A London Tit-Bits anecdote describes a civil case on money matters where a witness admits stopping payment after claiming financial stability. The cross examiner aims to trap him with bankruptcy questions, but the witness reveals he ceased payment only after settling his debts, flipping the moment in court.
The census lists Paris New York Canton Berlin Tokio Vienna Philadelphia ChicagoSt Petersburg Pekin as over one million. Chicago 1892 school data suggests 1 400 000. Brooklyn 1892 census 957 163, largest city under one million. China has some over one million but not reliably counted.
A dialogue portrays a housekeeper and a boy named Mike discussing hard times and loss of work. Mike laments the world’s wickedness, saying he once earned ten dollars weekly plus travel expenses. He recalls his role as the “horrible example” rather than a temperance lecturer, emphasizing temperance as his lost cause.
In this fragment from Street & Smith's Good News two waifs discuss meals at a theater. They joke about actors eating on stage and a silent man being labeled a socialist, capturing urban humor and social contrasts of the era.
In Rodendale, Dolly Hall and Miss Penriff face selling a two hundred year old mahogany settle. Johnny Barton buys it as part of a romance between Dolly and him, while Miss Penriff, once proud, finds renewed hope with Henry Hartford. The old couple reunites, and a double wedding follows, ending with the elder pair sharing the settle again.
A collection of aphorisms from Franklin Hazlitt Marcus Aurelius Cervantes Penn Confucius Hawthorne Klopstock Kingsley Shakespeare Young Reade and others on manners courage duty and perception. The panel offers varied voices from classical to literary figures about character strength morality and human experience.
The United States consul at Fu Chan notes China has no mass postal system. Yet private "letter shops" enable rapid communication empire wide, with official couriers barred from private dispatches. Shops register and insure letters and parcels, show contents before sealing, stamp with a shop chop, and charge by distance. Receipts verify delivery or return, with sender paying most costs. about two hundred shops exist in Shanghai, while remote villages lack them.
A Home Diet guidance notes that fat loss requires treating intestinal indigestion first. It advises resting the gut, then gradual flesh gain with lean beef cakes and toast, followed by slowly reintroducing carbonaceous foods. Emphasizes well cooked starches and evening rest to aid digestion.
A tale from Portland recalls young Thomas B. Reed in a big apron helping with housework. He was teased by boys who watched him churn, then he finished the task, removed the apron, and thrashed several of his taunters, as recorded by the Journal.
A department of agriculture exhibit in Washington showcases unusual foods eaten by remote communities. It includes bread from roasted plant loaves, juniper berry dough bread, bulbs turned into cakes, wild turnip dishes by prairie Indians, serew beans from mesquite, soap berries, salt grass seeds, pine nuts called pinions, a sweetgum sugar substitute, gourds seeds as mush in Arizona, and pulverized crickets eaten by Oregon Indians. Cooking often uses pit roasts with hot stones, then drying and grinding, mixing with acorns or berries to form sun dried cakes.
A collage of 19th century ad blurbs extols Hostetter's Stomach Bitters Brown's Iron Bitters Dr Kilmer's Swamp Root and others claiming cures for malaria kidney trouble dyspepsia and general debility. It touts tonics for nursing mothers children and weak women while blasting the fallacies of mind reading and promising free catalogs and pollen to entice buyers.
A testimonial run highlights Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription and Golden Medical Discovery as cures for female weakness uterine debility and related ailments. Mrs Coventry of Huntsville Ohio explains rapid improvement after six bottles of each medicine, noting relief in three months and easier childbirth. Additional letters praise leucorrhea relief and general vitality from users across Idaho Alabama and other states.
Dialogue from a Street & Smith good news vignette shows a wife at a railway station insisting on molasses candy for the baby to secure a seat, and a boy feigning ignorance about his sister's tears. The tone is humorous and domestic.
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