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Newspaper
Vienna Progress
Location
Vienna, Georgia, United States of America
Date
May 30, 1893
Page
4
Promote health with a pure liquid laxative that cleanses the system without weakening organs. Manufactured by the California Fig Syrup Co and sold by druggists in 50c and 1 bottles, it carries the company name on every package and cautions buyers to avoid substitutes.
Various federal appointments and transfers are reported including William G. Niblack named receiver of the Columbia National Bank of Chicago. Army orders shift Company D of the Eighth Cavalry to Leavenworth. President Cleveland’s dealings with foreign and domestic matters are outlined, plus treasury gold reserves, naval moves, and weather bureau critiques.
Br G Dun & Co weekly review notes rally from low mood but no real improvement. Retail trade aided by better weather, yet wholesale and production hesitate ahead of fall crops, tariff shifts, and monetary uncertainty. Large and minor failures rise as money markets tighten, though New York remains relatively easy. Gold exports widen. April trade values fall while imports rise, creating heavy import excess. Global shocks from Australian bank failures ripple into American markets, yet some U.S. cities report stronger retail, wholesale, and transport activity. Wheat at multi-decade lows with other staples down. overall future orders shrink despite current strong output.
Alabama Governor Jones pardons ex-State Treasurer Ike H. Vincent after a long case that drew 25000 petition signatures and approval from most of the General Assembly. Vincent, who defaulted $275000 in state funds, is described as not wholly hardened but his misconduct ended in six years’ punishment and illness. The governor cites mercy and justice as reasons for pardon.
A Saturday blaze from 4 to 7 PM swept Saginaw, wiping out the fairest part of town. Sample and Camp’s mill plant sparked the blaze, spreading to Bristol street bridge and beyond. Dozens of factories and many homes burned. losses near a million dollars with about 700000 in insurance.
Drexel, Morgan & Co present a scheme to reorganize the Richmond Terminal, Richmond and Danville, and East Tennessee systems into a single company with about 6000 miles of rail. The plan favors junior securities, raises $23.25 million via bonds and stock, and creates a guaranteed syndicate to underwrite $32.335 million in common stock and $8 million in bonds.
Gan and Co through a committee including Meyers C H Coster George Sherman and A J Thomas report substantial backing for the venture. Drexel Morgan and Co have such confidence in the project that they supply two thirds of the new funds supporting most of the existing investment.
The Infanta Eulalie left Washington on a Pennsylvania Railroad special to New York. She rode in the president's carriage with Prince Antoine and Secretary Gresham, cheered by crowds as troops and cavalry escorted the procession to the steamer General Slocum. In New York a guard of honor reception awaited her at the Hotel Savoy with Mayor Gilroy extending welcome.
Tradesman of Chattanooga reports a week of industrial growth with new ventures including a $500 thousand tannery in Bristol Tennessee and a $50 thousand cotton mill firm in Walterboro North Carolina. Additional openings span canning, hat making, flour milling, phosphate, iron foundry, and electric lighting, plus several large scale expansions and water works projects across multiple states.
A New York dispatch reports five distillers leaving the whiskey trust sparked a Monday stock drop from 17 38 to 18 with broader trading weakness and late buying amid anticipation the gold report has absorbed the move. A Chicago note adds that court action against Woolner and others may be barred where both sides erred.
A Savannah court allowed examination of Mrs. Rowens M. Clarke in a chancery matter for Walter G. Oakman. A Louisville cyclone wrecked homes with no confirmed fatalities. Charleston whisky board set June 5 for petitions and voter majorities. Port Royal and Augusta railroad receivership appointed Col. J. H. Averill permanent receiver. Jerusalem pipe orders loom for Radford Pipe and Foundry. Du Bose impeachment nears end in Dallas. Trinity river navigation celebrated in Dallas with Harvey steamboat arrivals. North Carolina Confederate Monument Association organized in Raleigh with state funds and private fundraising. Southern Tariff Association pushing higher rates in Richmond. Judge R. F. Lyon dies in Macon at 75. Winston fire ravages property worth over 200000. Darlington tornado kills Mrs. James Bailey and injures others. Tide-Water Oil absorbs Standard Oil in Savannah reports.
A midnight fire in St Louis destroyed a three story brick block on Channing avenue and Locust street, housing C M Crumen Livery. Incendiary origin. $200,000 property loss. One boy aged seven died. foreman James Quinn, his wife, and eight children asleep on second floor narrowly escaped. 150 horses perished. insurance $17,000.
A compact list recommends Bible chapters for various feelings and needs. It pairs blues, cold hearts, rent worries, loneliness, household mishaps, confidence, criticism, work discouragement, irritability, and general guidance with specific Psalm and chapter citations for solace and direction.
Practical guidance on selecting comfortable furniture that blends with room color, avoiding clashing shades, and using lights and art to enhance spaces. Includes steps for preserving decorative grasses, tips on wall adornments, and a humorous note about a garbled advertisement in a separate excerpt.
A brief exploration of somnambulism explains walking in sleep as a puzzling state long debated by physicians from ancient times to today. The article notes many theories persist, leaving experts divided on the exact mechanism and classifications of this nocturnal behavior.
A New York fashion correspondent recounts a timid shopper’s ascent to Lord Ayler’s, where attentive service and affordable purchases made her visit the brightest part of her trip. Also notes urgent tonics and cures such as Brown’s Iron Bitters, Beecham’s Pills, and Fall’s Catarrh Cure, with brief advertising blurbs and solemn assurances on health and suffrage.
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