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Newspaper
Vienna Progress
Location
Vienna, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Oct 02, 1894
Page
4
Dr Swarts of the Rhode Taland Medical Society declares water filters useless and dangerous. He tested unfiltered water with 36 specimens, then filtered it for two days, finding thousands of new germs in the filtered sample. He says daily thorough cleaning is required or filters should be discarded.
A Dutch painter Pentman died within days after a fright in an anatomical room. He slept among skulls and skeletons in a college building and awoke to dancing skulls and clashing bones. Believing an earthquake caused the commotion, he later fell ill and died from nervous tremors.
A hungry job applicant boasts of his prior collecting work as he faces a dramatic test in a play. The scene contrasts harsh labor with promises of endurance and a demanding audition, reflecting urban drama and the risks actors face in tough roles.
The New York World quotes Tanks defending a story about Jonah spending three days inside the whale as a passable excuse. The remark suggests it's a better alibi than some used to avoid trouble.
Immense preparations mark Macon upcoming Dixie Fair with a one fare rate from all Ohio river points. Georgia Southern and Florida Railroad official G A Macdonald secured concessions at a Southern Passenger Association meeting in New York. Central City Park grounds and buildings are rapidly transformed for the extensive exhibition. The main building will be the largest in the state, aiding exhibitors. Local enthusiasm and broad regional travel are anticipated to boost migration to Georgia's empire state of the South and neighboring states. The fair aims to attract traveling farmers seeking new location or recreation as harvest season ends. The piece also promotes shorthand and typewriting courses offered by Miss McNutt's School in Knoxville.
The poem speaks of Dorothy A as a thrifty maiden content with cotton gowns in gingham muslin and organdy. She moves with stiff stately grace, crisp frills and tucks, and a roselike beauty that bewilders observers in a home and farm setting.
Claudia, an heiress, travels with Mrs. Robinson and falls for Gomez Ruiz, a Mexican actor. Her fierce independence clashes with class expectations as her fortune looms over love. When Gomez arrives in the States, Claudia fears his motives and a hidden truth about her wealth.
In a fragment from a New York Mercury piece, a man abandons a dream to wed Claudia, declaring he will never see her again. Claudia, now eccentric and solitary, never marries and spends her wealth on charity while aging quietly, her once bright beauty fading with time.
The seven year old daughter of Mr and Mrs F A Brock of Vineland New Jersey spoke again after two years of muteness when blood flowed from a finger cut. Doctors could not explain the illness which began with the loss of speech at age five and ended in apparent death before revival. The turning point came when blood exposure seemed to trigger speech and the girl began to improve daily, now articulating clearly.
Dr H L Mc Willie of Nashville recalls sniffing a carnation from a Lindell corridor and tells of a deadly plant in Mississippi. He recalls a two foot tall green stalk with black spots, a raw liver colored bloom, and a strong odor that prompted him to cover his nose amid buzzing flies. The account ends with regret for not heeding cautions to hold the nose.
The piece notes brutal parental bullying of wives in China and a tendency for some girls to seek shelter in Buddhist nunneries or drown themselves to avoid marriage. It cites 1873 suicides, references to literature like the Bride of Lammermoor, and contrasts with rare cases of serenely married couples. It mentions drowned girls in poor districts and insistent notices in public spaces. It also recalls infant deaths near Hong Kong and Pekin’s lack of infanticide.
A collage of humorous exchanges and quips from periodical columns. It blends light verse, social jests, classroom quips, auction banter, domestic irony, and brief anecdotes from newspapers like Saturday Night and Judge, ending with a note contrasting German and California beet yields and sugar content.
A Chicago era piece reports on rattlesnake age myths tied to rattle joints, noting early growth and brittle segments while cautioning against overinterpreting length as age. It also describes Eastern visitors to California being misled by ripe olives, detailing a planter’s box of olives near a San Diego rail junction with a warning placard for travelers.
A humorous New York Herald note describes crowds rushing from a station to grab free olives, only to spit them out as puckery and unpleasant. The planter enjoys the show from a hidden summer house, calling it a cure for the blues. The piece shifts to a Malden, Massachusetts case where Wakefield Burgess sues a neighbor over poisoned poultry. Judge Pettengill rules salt is not a poison and that the defendant used salt to kill weeds, leading to a non-suit for Burgess and a Massachusetts precedent potentially influencing the region.
A New Haven observer recounts a camel market in Tartary with rows of beasts raised on elevated platforms to display height. The scene is noisy with buyers, sellers, and camels. tests include piling items on the kneeling animal and a man hanging by its hair to test strength, marking superior camels.
A collage of miscues and curiosities from a newspaper page notes Pure Baking Powder supremacy, Chicago drainage costs at 25 million, state forest ownership in Germany, moonlit lunar heights, tarnish of silver by actinic rays, moths’ down protection, white clothing cooling, eye anatomy, unfermented wine in shops, and historic Bank of England notes. It also recounts Mars origin theories, gravitation claims, electricity as cosmic force, a Mars colonization tale, a tetter remedy ad, and chimney cleaning by gunshot.
The manuscript score of Tannhätser sold to a Leipzig amateur for 2400 dollars. A nobleman once wore a ring containing Isaac Newton’s tooth, bought in 1815 for 3650 dollars. Queen Victoria’s walking stick tied to Charles II uses oak from his era, with an Indian idol from Seringapatam, and Poltowa era coat later valued highly. In 1825, a coat sold for 23375 pounds and two pens for the Amiens treaty fetched 500 pounds.
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