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Newspaper
Vienna Progress
Location
Vienna, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Oct 13, 1898
Page
6
The Dreyfus affair dominates French life as a recent death at Devil's Island shifts focus to a possible new trial. Emile Zola Clemenceau and others push for revision while Mme Dreyfus presses to clear Alfred's name with international support.
A fashion feature details circular flounce capes with cutaway fronts and double-breasted buttons, plus a seven-gored skirt, guimpe effects, and lavish trims. It highlights a stylish autumn costume in castor broadcloth with brown satin and velvet accents and notes on waist shaping, basques, sleeves, and decorative passementerie.
The piece recounts how L Eclair exposed the Dreyfus affair to unprejudiced French readers, fueling support for revision. It notes Dreyfus had spent nearly two years confined on Devil's Island before his degradation at the Ecole Militaire in Paris, where his insignia were torn away and his sword broken.
Mrs Augustus Thistlewood of Providence R I has married six times. At her last wedding four former husbands acted as ushers, the fifth sent regrets and a gift inviting the couple to honeymoon at his house. The average term of servitude for these husbands was ten months, all divorces granted on the lady’s application without opposition. The marriages ended due to her tart diplomacy convincing them they were ill matched.
Randolph E H Waters, an inmate at Leavenworth Soldiers Home, visited Elmwood Cemetery and read an epitaph he believed was on his own grave. His sister had placed the headstone two years earlier. Waters ran away at the start of the Civil War and wandered West after the war.
An old textile note describes collars cuffs shirtfronts and similar items once woven from linen now being made from aluminum. These aluminum parts are coated with white Japanese varnish and feature designs imitating weaving and sewing.
An OCR fragment blends statements on Cuba's freedom costs and American war finances with assorted medical product pitches. It mentions cures, tonics, and patent medicines like Stomach Waters and No-To-One, plus unrelated notes on textiles and a garbled exhortation about disease remedies.
A vintage advertisement touts Hood's Sarsaparilla as a superior autumn medicine that nourishes blood, improves appetite and digestion, strengthens vital organs, and wards off malaria and fevers. Hood's Pills are marketed for indigestion and claim purity and efficacy.
A New York fruit seller on a busy thoroughfare, fluent in Italian French and English, converses with diverse patrons and keeps a box of books on poetry history and biography under his counter. From immigrant to cultivated savant he reads ancient Italian and French chronicles and maintains a well selected library of history and fiction.
A letter from Mrs. J. C. Orms of Johnstown Pa extols Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for relief from head trouble dizziness hot flashes nervousness insomnia kidney issues and ovarian congestion. The piece notes Mrs Pinkham's decades of work guiding women and the current Mrs Pinkham directing correspondence handling up to one hundred thousand letters annually.
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