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Newspaper
Vienna Progress
Location
Vienna, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Nov 23, 1899
Page
2
A commentary notes rising demand for manual training in public schools, the need to adapt education to modern times, and the growth of agricultural classes. It discusses the French American Historical Society in Boston, comparisons of taxation, Africa trade, and Spanish American War ammunition costs, then predicts the decline of horses as cars and streetcars replace animal power in cities.
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A fragmentary poem asks whether shedding pain and memories would make a person appear nobler to others. It imagines laying down burdens, smiling freely, and living as a child again free from care, contemplating happiness and strength.
Evelyn Archer travels with Kate Albee and Will Merrill, rejecting Dare for a higher social match. A boy delivers flowers from an engine worker, hinting at a hidden suitor. Evelyn remains outwardly poised, while Dare watches from nearby, unsure how to proceed.
Evelyn Archer tends to Dave Harrington after a fatal railway disaster that costs him an arm and leaves him near death. He survives, and she stays by his side as he recovers, discovering she loves him. He questions returning to service, she reassures him, and he vows to endure if their bond remains steady and true.
A Washington sculptor argues that true portraiture requires deep study of a subject’s character. He claims facial lines reflect the mind’s control and that a sculptor’s disdain or respect shapes the features. He cites observing unseen character after conversation to justify depicting inner traits.
The London Coal Exchange floor features 4000 wooden inlays forming a mariner’s compass. Woods include ebony, English oak, holly, elm, walnut, and mulberry, with pieces tied to history such as a dagger haft from the City Corporation arms and a tree planted by Peter the Great. A black oak slab came from a Tyne bed timber found over 50 years ago, believed centuries old.
Georgia headlines report Governor Canpler Chandler designates November 30 1899 as Thanksgiving Day in line with President McKinley. The proclamation urges worship and gratitude for blessings, noting immune health, farm and industrial prosperity, and adherence to state and federal governance. At Atlanta capitol date November 14 1899.
Governor Joseph L. Johnston formally declares his bid for the United States Senate. He faces incumbent John T. Morgan and former Congressman Oates, as Alabama politics brace for a fierce south era contest. A Florence newspaper plans to support Johnston.
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The U S senate committee led by Senator Mason resumes Washington inquiry into food adulteration. Dr Howard H Jenkins of Connecticut agri experiment station testifies that cheap wares drive adulteration. many jellies use glucose starch paste with color flavor preservative. He shows samples of adulterated coffee, mustard, pepper, tomato catsup, and beer with salicylic acid.
Bishop H M Turner, at the Macon African Methodist conference, condemned the Hardwick bill now before the Georgia legislature. He urged organized opposition by negroes to the measure, warned it would degrade blacks to a slave status, and called the author a seeker of notoriety backed by the poor white element. The address caused a sensation.
Commissioner Wilson of the Internal Revenue Bureau in Washington rules that life insurance policies exempt from tax under the revenue act must come from fraternal societies or similar cooperative and workers' groups. Policies issued by mutual insurance companies, even if features are mutual, do not qualify for the exemption. The law also restricts exempt companies from sending net income to profit.
Three indictments found by the grand jury in Atlanta Georgia target Thomas J Hunter chief auditor of Atlanta and West Point railroad and Albert Howell Jr. also named in the charges The president and general manager George Smith appears as prosecutor on all three bills in the Western Railway of Alabama case tying to the railroad shortage matter.
J E Crandall longtime press of the First National Bank of John City Tennessee released after President McKinley shortened his 21 year embezzlement sentence from Broslyn penitentiary in 1896 upon petition by congressmen and citizens of Seville Crandall to relocate to Culill for residence and work
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