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Newspaper
Vienna Progress
Location
Vienna, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Oct 25, 1900
Page
6
A fragmented column mixes political chatter on registration, candidates, and imperialism with satire about Dewey, Hanna, Roosevelt, and McKinley. References to the election, trusts, and public sentiment appear amid quips about the Bryan welcome and Lipton’s America’s Cup, plus notes on European events and Filipinos.
Notice warns about numerous brazen counterfeit bottles of Johnsons Chill and Fever Tonic circulating, including a Savannah fake that forced the original producer to alter its packaging. A physician from Conway Arkansas testifies the tonic cured Typhoid like fevers within 24 hours, and requests genuine Johnsons Tonic. The piece shifts to politics, asserting Republicans face a possible landslide in New York and accusing McKinley supporters of scare tactics. It also questions Porto Ricos debt and a carpet-bagging accusation.
A city resident buys groceries including butter lard cheese eggs flour potatoes onions canned peas and gas. The grocer says items come from New York Kansas City Minnesota Canada Maryland and New Jersey, yet all could be produced in Chatam county locally.
The Postmaster General asserts Republicans will win West Virginia by eight to ten thousand. He follows with a cautious figure claiming eight to ten thousand Virginia and Carolina negroes have been colonized in West Virginia, a conservative estimate that touches on migration and race.
The president states he confirmed the treaty with Sulu but rejects its provisions. He questions Mr. McKinley’s authority to pay the salary of the sultan’s harem reaper, highlighting a constitutional or jurisdictional dispute over official compensation and treaty implementation.
A Cleveland Plain Dealer note recalls a young Chinese medical student in town who entertains with stories of American life. He recounts a sunburn tale with a lace yoke and needles at odds with American fashion, then laments girls in streets with bare shoulders as he struggles to understand them. Also an ad touts English Spavin Liniment for horses, claiming cures and a $50 saving per bottle through Dr C T Stovall in Vienna, Georgia.
J H Woodwarp and Son offer five year loans on improved farm lands in Dooly County. Installment payments arranged with interest at 7 or 8 1 2 percent based on loan amount. Prompt money. Vienna Georgia lawyers handle the loan.
Advertisement promises a skin preparation that removes blemishes without injury to the skin, leaving it soft smooth and white. Claims one bottle suffices to convince, price 60c. For sale by Vienna Georgia with signature approval required.
G R Ellis offers loans on improved farmland and city property for 30 to 10 years at 7 percent interest with option to pay one fifth one tenth or one twentieth of principal yearly to stop further interest on paid amount no inspection fee commission law based at Post Office Building Americus Ga.
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