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Newspaper
Vienna Progress
Location
Vienna, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Nov 23, 1899
Page
5
Ad fragments show clothing items priced for value with business and dress suits listed. Notes include costs from four to twenty dollars and discounts indicating strong market demand for formal wear in past markets. Limited readable names or dates.
Note the ad lists multiple ladies plush capes with varying prices and values. Promotions show price points such as 129, 149, 207, 269, 850, 6.00, and 750 with corresponding values or discounts. Descriptions are terse and fragmented without clear quantities or sale details.
The notice sells groceries at low prices with sugar 7 pounds for 1.00, coffee 2 pounds for 1.00, flour 0 pounds for 0.99, and 5 boxes potash for 0.25. It also offers cash for produce, shoe bargains, and emphasizes no fakes, with ladies shoes priced well below worth.
A collage of shop listings and notices from Vienna and Cordele, Georgia, dated November 23, 1899. It includes names and ads for Jordan Bros, J T Westbrook, D B Thompson, J A Smith, J F Calhoun & Co, Stacy Adams & Co, Wilson Bros, and Macon ice, plus requests for old tron and brick lime cement. Mentions photo work, four-in-hand ties, groceries, footwear, trunks, and evaporated fruits.
Murely personal Rome Sheppard of Cordele spent Sunday in the city. J O Hamilton is off on a trip to the principal stock markets. Miss Lucy Belle Harvard visited relatives at Pinehurst Sunday. Dr J M Whitehead has returned from a professional trip to Reynolds. Miss Ida Dunn of Ashburn is visiting her aunt Mrs J Fr Calhoun this week. J P Heard Sr and son Jake have returned from a trip to the Eastern markets.
Cordele merchants busy with ads from Webster Bros and Jordan Bros. notices report county court adjournment, upcoming carnivals, and several marriages rumored in Vienna. Local readers learn of shingle mill plans, new store openings in Unadilla, and various sales, sales pitches, and community notices including rheumatism relief, missionary exercises, and a standout turnip yield by J P Powell.
A husband testifies that his wife struggled before using Mothers Friend, but after two months of use she can move freely and perform housework without trouble, calling it a great help.
An advertisement claims an external liniment for expectant mothers provides strength for household duties, eases morning sickness and nervousness, relaxes strain, shortens labor, and prevents breast swelling. It warns against internal medicines and offers a free illustrated book from The Bradfield Regulator Co. in Atlanta, Ga.
An old ad lists Johnsons Groves or McLain s Chill Tonic at 35c per bottle or 3 for 1.00. Items include 100 Compound Cathartic Pills 25c, Any Patent 25c pill 20c or 6 for 1.00, Castor Oil 20c pint, Simmons Liver Regulator 20c or 6 for 1.00, Quinine 4 ten cent bottles for 25c, Cough Syrup 25c bottle 15c, S S S 75c, Jamaica Ginger 25c bottle 15c, Salts Sulphur Copperas 5c per pound, British Oil 6 for 25c, and similar.
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