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Newspaper
Vienna Progress
Location
Vienna, Georgia, United States of America
Date
May 28, 1896
Page
7
A Sunday sermon by Rev Dr Talmage uses Job and Shakespeare to view life as a stage. He urges personal duty, warns against theatrical vanity, and honors enduring parental devotion and faithful living amid hardship and public fall.
The Wyoming Democratic Convention in Laramie adopted a single plank urging the free and unlimited coinage of silver and gold into primary redemption money at the ratio of 16 to 1. No presidential candidate was chosen by the convention.
The jury at Chattanooga acquitted David I. Snodgrass of shooting John O. Bensley in a case styled as Brute versus Chief Justice of the Tennessee Supreme Court. The Not Guilty verdict ends the trial.
The South Carolina Democratic Convention met in Columbia to organize committees on reforms and revise the party constitution. Delegates endorsed Tillman for president amid heated finance plank discussions. The convention adopted resolutions against bolting and called for a silver standard, income tax, and abolition of national banking, with adjournment set for September 1.
Florida delegates met Secretary Olney regarding General Weyler’s order banning Cuban tobacco exports to the United States after ten days. Olney said he awaits Sosnieh government reply to his note on the subject. Washington dismisses Madrid’s protest as nonessential, aiming to avoid souring relations through diplomatic denial.
A man arrested in Bosworth Missouri as the presumed young murderer Will Myers turns out to be someone else. An Atlanta officer sent to identify the prisoner discovers the chase was a wild goose. The arrestee merely resembled Myers, ending the mistaken identity incident.
A 19th century style list links bird behavior to rain or fair weather. Signs include blackbirds shrill ahead of rain, solitary turkey buzzard indicating rain, roosters crowing and wing clapping before rain, crows’ noisy circling signaling rain, and hens crowing foretelling a storm. High flying men‑of‑war hawks mean clear skies, low flight warns of a blow.
At the Electrical Exposition Hall in New York City Dr Chauncey Dopow spoke on Progress and Future of Electricity to about 10000 attendees. A postal telegraph message traveled from New York through Chicago Los Angeles San Francisco Vancouver Winnipeg and Canton to London and back to New York in four minutes. The Niagara Falls plant energized the circuit between New York and Buffalo.
Professor Alexander Graham Bell issues a statement about Langley’s flying machine experiments in Washington. He asserts that the question of mechanical flight has been solved and notes Langley’s steam propelled model built of steel.
An advertisement touts Lydia Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as the universal remedy for backache and organic derangements in women. It claims to relieve pain, restore organs to normal, and offers free medical advice via letters. includes a testimonial from a Cincinnati woman describing dramatic relief after using the product.
The sixth reunion of Confederate Veterans will be held in Richmond, Virginia this June. A mausoleum cornerstone for Jefferson Davis will be laid, and a battle abbey may be relocated. Headquarters circulars were sent to ex Confederate veterans in the South, with notices to attend. The fragment ends with a classroom joke about a teacher and a girl asking for water and a baby.
Two men debate athiological questions while a barber scene unfolds. One claims to lead a virtuous life to secure a revered legacy for his children, the other quips about dying and fame. The tale ends with a moral urging self reliance over barber shop chatter.
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