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Newspaper

Vienna Progress

Location

Vienna, Georgia, United States of America

Date

May 08, 1901

Page

4

Church and State Clash Rife in Georgia Campaign

SAM P. JONES rails at liquor influence and calls for churches to organize against whiskey power in Georgia. He denounces mixing church with state, condemns corrupt politicians, and vows to fight until sober governance prevails, urging pastors like Broughton to lead militant church action.

Georgia Dan Ol Thal Promehers Church of God Thaye Avery St Rajonk Maine California Exposition Building Atlanta Sam P. Jones P. S Broughton P. J

Tippettville Community Sees Busy Weekend Attendance

Local residents report visitors from Seville Hawkins Ville and Cordele with several business trips noted. Farmers plan second cotton planting while Red Hill School Assembly draws large Sunday turnout. Tippettville hosts Mormon elders for brief house to house pamphlet distribution.

McCormick Farm Machinery and Wagons Ad Copy

JP Heard and Sons sole agents for McCormick mowers binders reapers and related farm gear including anchor buggies improved Barnesville buggies old Hickory wagons Clauss shears and Red Seal Shoes offered in this classified style notice.

Jpheard & Sons McCormick Barnesville Clauss Shears and RED Seal

Pleasant Valley Notes From Tremendous Week In Community

Mrs F T Mason remains ill but improving. Mr S Hardin visited sister Mrs J H Forehand. Mr R I Dickenson of Albany visited friends. Rev J A Nelson missed Sunday service due to illness. Mrs E Forehand returned from South Georgia. Hughes returns from Arabi with measles. Sunday school in winter quarters. Forehand graveyard fence project underway. Harbor repair fund contributors urged to pay via Swearington or JB Smith. Mrs P A Mayo confined to bed with fever.

F'T’ Mason Hardin Coney R I Dickenson Albany J A Nelson Pleasant Pleasant Valley Swearington JB Smith P A Mayo

Heard & Sons Lightweight Fabrics and Buggies Offer

Catalog copy from Heard & Sons touts a carload of up to date buggies and a broad stock of dimities percales India linens silks and dress goods. Emphasizes large selection priced on a common sense basis and invites mail orders.

India J P Heard & Sons Heard & Sons

A Woman’s Plan to Tire Him With Early Rising

A satirical tale shows a wife scheming to keep her husband home night after night by moving bedtimes earlier. He adjusts from six to five to four thirty, aiming to sleep enough to work, while she insists on sunrise. The joke ends with the proverb that the early worm will turn.

Marly Het Lrive

Willing to Oblige in Texas Courthouse Confrontation

A Texan with a revolver approaches the courthouse as a lawyer he blames for a lost case defends himself by delaying a shooting. He plans to shoot Lawyer Johnson after a 40 minute court session, but agrees to a drink and delayed action, per Boxton Globe report.

Texas Johnson Boxton Globe

Father Answers Door Via Telephone Lapse

Two young women on St Paul Street fail to wake their sleeping father after being locked out of their home. A neighbor calls the father by telephone from his room to alert him, and he wakes, opens the door, and ends the night with a simple good night.

St. Paul Street Papa Central Father Baltimore Sun

Skeleton question stumps Sunday school class

A teacher asks what a skeleton is and children struggle to answer. The youngest pupil finally offers a humorous reply describing a man without any meat on it, capturing the mix of confusion and amusement in the children's response.

Mitch London

Dancefolded Quip Sparks Rivalry in Philadelphia Times

In a playful interlude during a dance, Bagster compliments Miss Flite and recalls rival Mr. Smythe boasting. Bagster dismisses Smythe as a champ not to be trusted, underscoring lingering rivalry and banter in Philadelphia society chatter.

Flite Bagster

Conflicting Orders in a Photographer’s Studio

The Philadelphia Press quotes Henpeck noting the average photographer as an unreasonable creature. He recounts an incident where a photographer shouted Look pleasant, please, Be Natural during his wife’s sitting for a picture, provoking bemused reaction and amusement.

Henpeck Philadelphia Press

Men who handle millions and the need for spotters

An essay argues that government money handling relies on inherent honesty rather than surveillance. It notes Treasury roles move large sums daily and suggests spotters, while seen as evil, remain a necessary check in modern finance until a chemical solution makes people consistently honest.

United States Treasury Claliroom Treasury H. Adams Ainslee’s

Precocious four year old girl enjoys luncheon outing

A four year old girl described as poised and self possessive dines out with a friend of her parents. She orders meat and potatoes, ice cream, and finally asks for flowers before returning home with roses, a striking image noted by the New York Times.

Neww York New York ‘Times

Patent Hole Aims At Ship Water Circulation

The text notes patents for holes in ships bottoms to aid condenser water flow. Holes placed forward of the condenser and another aft allow water to circulate around the condenser without a pump. Patents focus on hole shapes to reduce water resistance at high ship speeds.

Testamentary Puzzle Questions Legacies to Mary Elizabeth and Susan Jane

A recently deceased Englishman leaves his plane to Mary Elizabeth contingent on Arthur. Another clause says Susan Jane may receive whatever Arthur wishes to give her. The puzzle asks whether Mary Elizabeth and Susan Jane are beneficiaries under the will given Arthur's standing and the conditional phrasing.

Eoglishman Mary Elizabeth Arthur Susan Jane

One Exception Towne Browne Dialogue on Debt

A brief humorous exchange sketches Towne as a linguist who speaks 14 tongues yet fails with his wife’s language, joking that his debt comes from reading and accounting, with a playful pun centered on the letter B and the word boodle. The Philadelphia Press note hints at debt and wordplay in a lighthearted exchange.

Towne Browne Philadelphia Press

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