28 Nov 1893
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Newspaper
Vienna Progress
Location
Vienna, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Nov 28, 1893
Page
1
A playful verse from Claudia Tharin celebrates Thanksgiving with warm family scenes and loving couplets. The poem praises reunions, greetings, and the closeness of hearts and lips in a festive, romantic tone.
On a cold November evening near Fleegle's store a lynch mob targets cattle thief Jim Blake. Meri, the storekeeper's adopted daughter, rides to warn him, leading to a dramatic pursuit and her rescue. Blake later marries Meri with Mary as his sister and the rodeo of tension ends in a quiet, hopeful Thanksgiving union.
Detailed report from the Georgia House and Senate sessions at Atlanta, covering the Nov 20 to 24 debates. Highlights include bills on convict labor labeling, Confederate widow pensions, election worker pay, and county drainage powers. Notable votes and procedural moves show tensions over reform and tax measures.
Birmingham hosts a Jeffersonian push to move the Alabama capital from Montgomery. They label Montgomery corrupt and favor an honest government in Birmingham. Voters support removal, but capitol property deed may trap the move, as the block’s grant reverts if not used for a capitol. Dems reportedly lean toward changing capitals too.
New Orleans report shows cotton movement increasing 82,261 bales or about 26 percent for the past week ending November 11th. Compared with the same week last year there is a deficit of 64,846 bales. For the first seventeen days of November the movement is 138,581 ahead of last season and 195,462 under 1891. Total for September 1 to November 17 is 87,391 above last year and 910,535 below the time year before last.
A Buffalo dispatch reports the Lehigh strike tying up freight in East Buffalo Yards with trouble feared ahead. Freight cannot be moved from the yards and prospects suggest a stoppage may continue for some time.
A retold tale from Sala's Journal recalls Andrew Ducrow aiding Queen Victoria during a Hyde Park incident before her coronation. Ducrow calmed the bolting horse, earned the queen's thanks with a quip, and soon received a jeweled breastpin and two coronation tickets from Buckingham Palace.
Mrs. Charles Peck of Lyme Connecticut died after a 49 day involuntary fast beginning with a sickness. She could not take any nourishment or water in the final weeks and dwindled to a skeleton while doctors marveled at her vitality. Her age eighty and feeble health at onset noted by her physician.
Sixteen hundred shavers at Girard College receive monthly haircuts from three colored barber corps under contract. They begin at month start to trim, sometimes shaping up around 150 heads daily when conditions allow, though dull scissors can cut output below a hundred. The contract pays seven cents per head.
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