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Newspaper
Vienna Progress
Location
Vienna, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Nov 09, 1899
Page
8
An old time ad fragment lists items such as sugar at 1.00, ground meal, flour at 4.40 per barrel, salt, envelopes and paper, plus a note about new stock of shoes. Mentions names like W. A. Baker and Arbickles Coke 10c. A terse sales catalog style notice with various goods and prices.
Cordele residents Levy Taylor Desoto A S Morgan J M Whitehead Drayton visitors Mrs John Butler May Butler Drayton Hula Low Wilson Findlay and others travel to Vienna for social or business reasons. Meetings attended include Masons Grand Lodge in Macon. Regular notes mention travel to Tifton Mt Vernon Phil adelphia and Spring Hill with casual greetings for George Morgan and local businessmen.
If you want to buy a testament history poetic science wit and humor books call on J M Kelley in Vienna Georgia for available titles and options.
A column of tips on men's attire and appearance, urging sober dress, gloves, hats, collars, and boots. The item promotes local merchants JT Westbrook, J P Heard & Sons, J F Calhoun & Co, Strouse & Bros., and others in Cordele Georgia, with notes on sales, overcoats, and new goods. Also mentions local residents and a carnival tease.
A Kentucky attorney extols Mother's Friend as the premier remedy for expectant mothers. He claims it keeps mothers calm and children healthy, aids rapid recovery, and prevents delivery dangers. Sold by druggists for $1. The Bradfield Regulator Co., Atlanta offers a free illustrated book for expectant mothers.
A catalog of suits with listed values and sale prices. Business and dress suits range from four to fifteen dollars with marked values from six to twenty dollars. The record notes standard sizing and typical dress attire offerings for a general audience.
Cordele notices showcase new dry goods and shoe lines at J T Westbrook and D A Taylor with J F P Calhoun Co. plus shop ads from N Hess & Bros. The Progress reports the editor elected honorary member of Philomathean Society, wedding at Mrs Lewis home, typhoid in Valdosta family, and local injuries from an air gun accident. J T Westbrook promotes hats ties and furnishings.
On last Sunday morning at Justice C Balkcoms home in East Macon Emanuel county Mr R P Mitchell of this city and Miss Minnie Feanel of Adrian Emanuel county were united in marriage. They returned to Vienna Sunday afternoon. The Progress wishes them a happy married life.
Instruction urges farmers to sow oats on corn land after harvest as a drought reducing corn yield. Recommends late August to September planting, broadcasting 40 to 80 bushels of cottonseed or 400 to 800 pounds of acid phosphate with potash, plus two to three bushels of oats per acre. Includes soil preparation steps and hedging against freezes.
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