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Newspaper
Vienna Progress
Location
Vienna, Georgia, United States of America
Date
May 26, 1898
Page
2
The Vienna Progress column surveys flood recovery hopes and long term nature restoration. It notes a Boston man’s theater repeal stance and a local dispute over a Württemberg town name causing misdirected mail. It also cites London bond standings, Navy torpedo boat plans, and a quip about Herbert Spencer.
Theodore Stanton writes from Paris on the Branco Lorraine problem. An American visitor recalls a Picardy village school card urging boys to never forget 1870 and Alsace Lorraine. Public schools mold opinion while America’s industrial rise fuels global demand, as shown by diverse exports from Erie to Marseilles and beyond.
A fragment from Franela 4, almer, in Harper's Weekly depicts log drivers and springtime to evoke river life. The piece references log-booms, sprucelands, and distant lovers while calling creatures to greet the heart. The poem blends rustic imagery with romantic longing.
A fashionably dressed horseman borrows a horse to pursue a romantic encounter at a Brighton hotel. Captivated by a beautiful widow, he spends days visiting, leads to a romantic turn, and a declared engagement after a comic sequence of horse, phaeton, and mistaken identities.
A Chicago Record summary describes the Osage Indians as the world’s richest community with 1729 people owning 1.5 million acres and $9 million in trust, earning about $500,000 annually from leases and rents. It argues wealth breeds idleness, notes mixed-bloods rise in power through squaw men, and foresees possible government intervention to protect full-blood rights.
The River Lani and Reclamation Company reclaim inland sea lands in California by dredging a three mile canal and building wide levees to transform tule bogs into prime farming soil in the San Joaquin Valley. Pumps drain the basins and the firm will lease reclaimed tracts on share farming arrangements, not sell them.
A German scientist creates a night clock using birds whose songs mark hours. Chaffinch from 1.30 to 2 a.m., titmouse 2 to 2.30, quail 2.80 to 3, redstart 8 to 3.30, onsel 8.80 to 4, warbler 4 to 4.30, marshait 4.30 to 5, sparrow 5. The system works in the Old World but not in America.
A collection of curious statements and antiquarian notes including Egyptian fans in ceremonies, the Russian Pood at 86.1 pounds, plate glaia durability, backward numbered Bank of England notes, a cat guiding tourists to 10,500 feet Alps, kangaroos in captivity, gout in wet weather, NYC rat reproduction, America's first street railway, pauper procession lengths, Paris quill factory turn to toothpicks, mast sizes and canvas area, neuralgia treatment by arc light, Naples Vesuvius rail link, Hadley MA Hooker house birth site, life plant moss, and Colonel Friend camp discovery in West Virginia with relics and dry campfires.
Cadet Jones, once convinced he was a born humorist, recalls a disastrous courting moment with a broker’s daughter. He tried a joke about dried grasses in her room, but she invited him in, and her retort crushed his humor and his romantic chances for good.
In the Great Barn region a demous star named 1830 Groombridge is described as a runaway due to its extreme speed. Professor Newcomb notes the universe could not halt it. Kapteyn reports a sprightly new telescopic star in Pictor with even faster motion, pending distance to reveal true velocity.
The Prussian Government owns numerous mines and metal works including seventeen collieries eight lignite mines fourteen iron mines five metalliferous mines and three rock salt mines plus iron works smelting works salt works and quarries. The total output in 1895 96 exceeded 30 million dollars. Additional state mines Ibbenbulren Deister Osterwald and half of Obernkirchen produced substantial tonnages in the last year.
A Washington manufacturer produces millions of julep straws packed in bundles of 100. The straws are not true straw but tubes of fine manilla paper coated with paraffine wax.
General Brooke will not move his headquarters to Atlanta. Judge Speer orders cases in thirty days to avoid dismissal. Confederate veterans choose Agricultural Building for July reunion auditorium. Fort McPherson recruits volunteer for the Philippines. Georgia school commissioners meet in Macon with 150 attendees and June 17 teacher exams agreed. Second Georgia regiment departs for Tampa to join Cuban action. Muscogee county sheriff race vote-buying allegations settled with Roberts nominated. Georgia Weekly Press Association to convene in Newnan July 12-13 with a North East East Coast tour for editors and guests.
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