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Newspaper
Vienna Progress
Location
Vienna, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Nov 07, 1901
Page
4
The Progress is the official Dooly County publication printed weekly in Vighna Ga. Editor HD Smith leads the paper as publisher, delivering local notices and items of interest for residents.
A brisk roundup of political discourse and international affairs touches on Maryland figures, Roosevelt interactions, reciprocity debates, and European royal intermarriage concerns. The piece notes Cuba and Bermuda aid needs, naval matters, and calls for accountability for Long and Schley while urging restraint and reform in imperial policy.
For sale at once a 100 acre site with 15 acres cleared and a first class dwelling, barn, horse stable, timber for farm use, water and fruit trees. Located near Vienna on the Vienna Haskinsville public road in a healthy neighborhood. Also selling other business. inquire with P. S. Kerns, Dooly County, GA.
An article describes a nightly dusting operation in a waiting room. A wheeled ladder truck with a long hose cleans walls ceilings friezes columns and seats via compressed air. Three men purge the space in hours, far faster than many workers could.
Russell Sage, visiting George Gould, buys a found pocketknife from a messenger boy for 25 cents in the Western Union building. Sage notes the knife is worth little, offers 20 cents, and ultimately rewards the boy with a dime a nickel and five pennies, showing his frugal bargain.
Ainslee's Magazine notes annual hotel figures from 1900 show meals costing 200000 dollars, poultry 113000, vegetables 80000, fruit 42000, sage 12000, butter 57000, and flowers for decoration 80000. Silverware initial investment runs 250000, with wear and tear and souvenir losses tallying about 40000 yearly to maintain hotel standards.
The accouchement of the queen of the Netherlands is expected in January. Had five years passed without birth, Parliament could dissolve the marriage. If a son were born, she would abdicate in his favor at eighteen. Such a clause would cause family disputes at our court. Truth.
A youth with a tallowy complexion and slender legs visits a doctor. He asks about tobacco heart, but the physician reveals a harsher diagnosis, saying it is cigarette brain, per Youth's Companion.
The text notes Daniel Webster twice missed a presidential bid by not accepting a vice presidential nomination. It contrasts Theodore Roosevelt who became president after reluctantly accepting a nomination he wished to decline, believing it would be short or unwanted.
Fragmented note discusses latent coal power and direct electricity from coal. Includes a Chicago Herald quote and a brief anecdote about Mr. Balfour recognizing a club boy, illustrating Conservative social circles.
Denver cor. Chicago Record Herald reports Dr B P Hershey argues the vermiform appendix has a secretory function. He claims it lubricates the intestines and that interference causes illness and fatal constipation. Critics demand experiments and notes with results due in a year.
Reporters pressed Secretary Boot about the Ivar crisis as he answered with gravity. A chair of questions from the group drew weariness from Boot yet no loss of composure. A reporter asked if the president would dismiss or replace Minister Congen. Boot replied the president would send a poisoned letter, preserving etiquette.
A well known New York lawyer's wife was in London for an appendicitis operation. After healing she walked with her husband when they met Ambassador Jo e Choate, a friend who had shown concern for her recovery. Mr Choate greeted the lawyer warmly but ignored his wife. She reminded him he had spoken to no one, prompting his joke about recognizing her only with her appendix.
In a Manhattan borough near city hall a justice of the peace operates as a barber. He shaves clients and delivers judicial decisions in a shop-adjacent room. From chair to chair he moves, combining razor and scales of justice in a single, imposing figure.
A whimsical survey of monarchs and their favored animals. It notes Pope Leo XIII’s birds, a Portuguese baboon reputedly fond of drink yet amusing, Belgium’s avian courtyards, the sultan’s preference for pigs, Queen Wilhelmina’s white mice colony, and the Spanish regent queen’s goats tied to nursing the infant Alfonso XIII.
Explorers on Paray mountain in Mindanao report discovering a giant five petaled bloom over three feet across weighing twenty two pounds. The plant, a rafflesia named after Sir Stamford Raffles, was preserved as a dried specimen after rapid decay of fresh petals. The note also cites a moral on bravery and restraint from Industrial School Magazine.
A boy accompanies his elder sister who loves photography and shares insights from a courthouse trial. The jury is sent to a darkroom to develop as speeches wrap up the proceedings, a vignette from Trained Mothaphood.
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