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Newspaper
Vienna Progress
Location
Vienna, Georgia, United States of America
Date
May 26, 1898
Page
5
Tickets on sale for Tampa and return at 8 17 80. Travel limited to 24 hours beyond schedule, May 14 to October 31 1898, with Palatka Vienna and Palatka Tampa connections. Night trains offer Pullman sleepers and berths at 2 dollars each way. Tampa Bay Hotel now open.
The Bocal Ha and BDappensn as Those Who Visit and are Visited feature in a summarized item. The article notes events surrounding These Visitors and the Impact on local affairs, highlighting personages and locations relevant to the readership.
Song of a longing lover frames a local column with civic chatter and visits. Names include Col G W Busbee, J C Tracy, F B Varnadoe, Sam Felder, E F Strozier, Miss Kula Fuqua, Judge D L Henderson, Miss Lucy Belle Harvard, E G Greene, Miss Claudia McDonald, J Frank Powell, W C Roberts, J M Busbee, Charlton Jenkins, Mrs Lee Beverly, J O Hamilton, and mentions Vienna, Hawkinsville, Beech Haven, Unadilla, Pinehurst. Calendar items note a soda and ice cream event, a postponed Union Sunday School picnic, a school-teacher meeting on June 17, plus a sale stable erection between Judge Woodward’s office and J P Powell’s grocery on Cotton avenue.
Col W Renfroe a Prison commissioner candidate stopped in Vienna on his return to Atlanta for a brief visit. Rev J Anthony arrived from Cordele to assist in the Methodist church protracted meeting with Rev R L Wiggins, attracting local interest. The town notes a business directory push, Unadilla High School Commencement, and the new Evening Journal by Alvin T Roberts, promising non political coverage. Dr C T Stovall touts One Minute Cough Cure for coughs and throat ailments.
Two young men in the Wabash Van Buren district tied a string to a mouse from a second story window and dangled it for a crowd. A nearby woman with music scissors cut the cord, freeing the animal as onlookers dispersed in shame.
A New York City purchaser from 350 West Street testifies that Dr Bull's Cough Syrup is an excellent remedy for cough cold and hoarseness. He recommends it as a valuable household medicine and notes it sells everywhere for 25 cents. Also advertised is a line of notions from J F Calhoun & Co.
An ad style fragment markets Africanana by Africana Co Atlanta GA with moral proverbs on married life and finances. It promotes DeWitts Little Early Risers pills for constipation and liver troubles and cites Dr. Caf Stovall.
J F Calhoun & Co and Dr C T Stovall report DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve curing piles eczema and skin diseases in DeWitt's line. Cuban Relief claims quick cure for colic sour stomach and toothache. Stovall cites two minute relief for itching piles and endorses the product alongside Cuban Relief.
A Byromville Georgia woman testifies that Peruvian Liver Syrup relieved frequent sick headaches and brought lasting cure after years of monthly and weekly attacks. The letter credits relief to the medicine and notes local sales through W H Wast in Pinehurst Georgia.
A dated 1898 notice from C Dunaway T R Dooly County Cordele Georgia lists precincts and schedule dates for tax collection including Carlisle Apr 1 and 18 and several other communities such as Lindsay Findlay Pinehurst Unadilla Byromville Zoar Drayton Vienna Coney James Arabi Cordele and Vienna with associated April May dates. Books close June 1.
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