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Newspaper
Vienna Progress
Location
Vienna, Georgia, United States of America
Date
May 07, 1895
Page
4
The American Dialect Society in New York after noon meeting appeals for quaint and unique words. It aims to publish a dictionary of American dialects, paralleling the English effort. Benefits include preserving linguistic variety, showing language evolution, and uniting distant regions through study.
Cablegrams report Col onel Cody named mayor of Nebraska and famed as friend of Boone who found Kentucky in 1869. Cody, twice Chicago governor, Arkansas legislature mayor, Confederate veteran, Buffalo Gill nickname, has St Louis ranch, writes for Atlantic Monthly with Twain and a Cabin editor.
A French doctor markets peat fibers for underwear replacing flannel citing peat’s antiseptic and absorbent qualities. He calls the fabric a real hydraulic pump and says it helps prevent colds. Peat bandages have aided Russian surgeons and are used in French hospitals.
A curious old puzzle notes a couple in Maino where the wife is good but not clever, and the husband, once intemperate, shows signs of incomplete reform. a neighbor is asked how long whiskey odor lingers after drinking. A mother sends her son to the baker with last month’s bread money and to obtain a receipt, but the boy reveals the baker grew angry when asked how he earned his bread.
A quoted poem from the New York Herald by G. E. Montgomery urges choosing the hour to act with courage. It contrasts noble effort with cowardice, asserting that man and his opportunity are one and that failure or triumph lies in seizing or relinquishing the moment.
Miss Stratton refuses Delphine's plan to marry Doctor Irving without her consent and the five thousand dollars left in trust. Delphine and George Irving face a long separation while an acclaimed artist arrives, drawing society interest and heightening family tensions over money and legitimacy.
Miss Stratton commissions a portrait that fans a dispute over likeness. Blender defends accuracy while she seeks alterations claiming it misrepresents her. Public mockery follows as a transformed version lands in a window, prompting a dramatic settlement tying the painting to Delphine and Dr Irving's marriage.
Two young women aboard a street car talk loudly about their Sunday-school classes. One says she has seven boys, the other reveals she has eighteen girls and prefers them. The remark shocks fellow passengers.
Courier Journal notes the most remarkable book in the world is neither written nor printed. In the Imperial Library in Paris, letters are cut from tissue paper with scissors. A blue tissue sheet between white pages makes the text readable.
A fragment from Eugene Field appears in the Chicago Record with lines about the heart being the shore when the tide arrives. The lyric mentions yearning lips songs waves and a shore’s lush grasa with wild roses and passing curlews. The reader sees a romantic verse excerpt framed as a newspaper item.
A collage of light verse and quips from multiple papers jokes about women, society, and modern life. Jabs at fashionable trends, marriage, and public figures with sly punchlines. A drift of comic fragments shows early 20th century humor and social observations.
A Tid Bits prize asked What is Home and received varied replies. Answers described home as mother’s jewel, a world of love, a place of charity, a sanctuary from strife, a father’s kingdom, a mother’s world, domestic happiness, and a central telegraph of love, among others.
An anecdote recounts Captain Theodore Julius who died recently. He visited Camden to view the Tonawanda, once a packet ship now being converted to a coal barge. A stranger revealed he was a steerage passenger aboard Tonawanda in 1863 and later bought the ship. Also noted: Pennsylvania will send walnut trees to England for veneering. a Pine Creek Township log measured thirteen feet by forty four inches.
Prefise may be removed from wool goods by sponging with cold coffee. Laces clean in wheat flour for twenty four hours. Sunlight can fix scorched shirt parts. Do not serve tea with fried foods. Coffee accompanies fried seafood and cheese. A fabric forming a spring edge is a late invention. Wink eyes in a brimful cup of salt water. Salt water tonic for hair with sea salt. Systematize work for ease. avoid rigid methods. Epping oak finish described. chairs and settees styled for halls. Softened water improves tea. seven minute infusion. Mustard plasters for children and adults. Warn against cologne on head. avoid patent hair growth remedies. Petroleum washing of linen in a German hospital method noted.
In Borodiho a carpenter named Albert Applebee, long bedridden by a fall 1899 grip and a ghastly head scrofula, claims recovery after using Dr Williams Pink Pills for Pale People. A reporter notes his return to work and praise from friends, claiming renewed vigor and health. The pills, said to restore blood and nerves, are sold by doctors and by mail from Schenectady at 50 cents a box or six for 2260.
A New Zealand letter praises widespread courtesy to women by Kiwi men of all ranks. It argues NZ women hold higher status than in Australia or England and notes woman suffrage arose as deliberate justice and chivalry by New Zealanders.
A summary of the Sahara as the world's hottest area with a vast 2000 by 1000 mile stretch and summer highs around 150 degrees Fahrenheit, compared to a Turkish bath hot room. The rest is a garbled dialogue about cuff charges and notes from a washerwoman, unrelated to the desert.
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