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Newspaper
Vienna Progress
Location
Vienna, Georgia, United States of America
Date
May 26, 1904
Page
4
The Progress describes a weekly newspaper with HD Smith as editor and publisher. It indicates entry at the post office in Vienna Georgia and lists a second class mail designation. The piece notes publication cadence and editorial leadership for the local paper.
An exchange among neighbors expresses sympathy after a distressing incident. Mrs Maloney and Mrs Vinnegan speak in a rural newspaper voice, noting concern and reassurance as villagers discuss the event and its emotional impact.
A fragment references a man who spent a million dollars in his mind and kept wealth in thought alone. A mused dialogue touches on love, proposals, and losing one’s head, with lines echoing a country setting and emotional exchange.
A sequence of aphoristic lines critiques marriage, honesty, beauty, work, and press quality. It notes widows, waterworks, rented clothes, six day weeks, and the paradox of a dead hero’s salary stoppage. It mocks easy writing versus hard reading and hints at outdated eastern war coverage.
A playful poem depicts an old black hen eyeing a garden plot and plotting a raid. The brood of unfledged chickens watches for the latch to fall and then charges in to feast on marrowfat beans onions and sprouts, leaving desolation in their wake.
Thought It Was a Hint, Joddick courted a girl for a month with gifts. He arrives at the father's house to ask again, is refused, and is escorted off by boot, stones from a cousin, and a hired dog is released. He leaves pondering superstition about being unwanted.
A compact verse noting winter yearning for spring and the tension of deadlines. It questions a self described self made man who boasts of restraint, hinting at human merit versus nature and responsibility while lightly toying with the idea of fair charges and considerate behavior.
Fragmentary historic verse lines reveal a satirical exchange about money brains and alcohol industry concerns. The speaker jokes that oil companies must live while a man seeks inducement to vote the Prohibition ticket, offering a drink in exchange.
A selection of pithy maxims on ambition riches and social life. It ponders that effort costs money and influence opinion, love reshapes behavior, appetite cannot be bought but its supplies can, and a trader notes faults once an exchange is done. It closes with a quip about campaign cigars and outdated stoves.
A satirical piece mocks reformers and graft in a sharp verse, venting frustration over political change and the fate of crooks. It features quips on alimony, downtrodden workers, and social mores, with punchlines about marriage, honesty, and vanity.
A pithy verse contrasts enduring dyspepsia and bodily ills with choosing failure over wealth if it preserves health. The lines critique reliance on cures and pills, implying genuine well being outweighs material gain.
The Atlantic and Birmingham Railway offers 1 000 mile tickets for $25 at principal offices. The lines include Atlanta and Birmingham Air Line, Knoxville and Northern, Atlanta and West Point, Atlantic Coast Line, Georgia Railroad, Louisville and Nashville, Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis, Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac, Seaboard Air Line, Washington Southern, Western and Atlantic, Western Railway of Alabama. These cover 18 000 miles of railroads and are advertised as the cheapest travel option.
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