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Newspaper
Vienna Progress
Location
Vienna, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Oct 30, 1902
Page
2
A round of short items covers Col Watts Powell’s Americus trip, J B McDonald’s business travel to Waycross, Grace Benson’s Hartwell visit, and Miss Chiff Whitehead’s Pinehurst return. Notes on Vienna bridges, rail work, and the A B railroad push toward Christmas appear alongside farm and hunting snippets.
A promissory note for 29.66 dollars from W A Pittman to W D Murray dated November 1901 and due November 1 1902 was lost. All persons are warned not to trade for the note as it has been paid.
At noon yesterday in Cordele Ga a Ga Als railroad switch man named Gus Johnson was run over by an engine and torn to pieces. He had stepped onto a board at the back of the tender to ride back to the stopping place and fell when he missed his foothold. The engine passed over him scattering fragments along the track. He was about 18 and the son of Joseph Johnson of Cordele.
Three Nealy children aged five and twins about one die in a small frame house on J. W. Scott’s plantation two miles east of Unadilla. The blaze, discovered after the family had left to pick cotton, consumed the building and the bodies were found together in a corner behind the bed.
The report notes iron shipments are shifting away from mills to continue the line of the A B Railroad north of Cordele. This development signals ongoing expansion of rail infrastructure linking regional industry and transport routes as observed by Tt.ie.
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