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Newspaper
Vienna Progress
Location
Vienna, Georgia, United States of America
Date
May 19, 1898
Page
5
Tickets available from May 14 to Oct 31 1898 at 17.80 for Vienna to Palatka and return with 24 hour punch transit limit. Night Palatka Tampa trains offer Pullman sleepers and $2 berth rate. two can share. Tampa Bay Hotel opens as advertised.
A string of visitors and locals are listed across Vienna Cordele Arabi Arabi Arabi Hawkinsville and nearby towns including Rev J M Kelly W H Liggin Col J F Powell Miss Bessie Collier and Mayor J J Lashley. Attendees toured courts visited relatives or relaxed in Florida with fishing and hunting trips noted.
Short week limits coverage of town events. Notices include veterans reunion plans for July 2 in Unadilla, visits by residents to Atlanta Tampa and Talbotton, and a call to obtain Old Glory verses. Local pastors conduct protracted meetings while Vienna men join Perry Rifles at Griffin. DeWitt’s Little Early Risers endorsed for stomach and liver troubles.
An advertisement touts Dr Bull Cough Syrup with a testimonial from Gustav Thurmaster of Cleveland about cough relief after two bottles. The ad promotes low price at 25 cents and links to One Minute Cough Cure claiming quick relief for colds, croup, bronchitis, pneumonia, and throat and lung ailments by Dr OCT Stovall.
The Pastelotype Co offers free engravings of Commodore Dewey Rear Admiral Sampson Commodore Schley Captain Sigsbee and Major General Fitzhugh Lee to readers sending ten local ladies names and two 2 cent stamps. Full set of five engravings available for twenty ladies names and twenty two cent stamps. Address 23rd Duane Street New York City.
A brief note from the dispatch records highlights J. F. Calhoun & Co. as a consignor or dealer, with minimal details on location or date.
Mrs Jackie Wooprouan of Byromville Ga reports severe weekly sick headaches until using Peruvian Liver Syrup from Peruvian Med Co Atlanta Ga. She calls it a wonderful medicine and a final cure. Peruvian medicines are sold by H West Pinehurst Ga.
The notice from Cordele Georgia dated March 15 1898 lists DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve as curing piles eczema and skin diseases cited by JF Calhoun Co and S M Geary Pierson Michigan as well as multiple payday tax and collection dates across towns like Unadilla Vienna Coney Cordele and others with books closing June 1st and a tax receiver's notice from Dr C T Stovall.
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