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Newspaper
Vienna Progress
Location
Vienna, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Oct 31, 1893
Page
4
Colonel T. A. Dodge notes in Harper's that in Algeria the donkey often lacks a proper saddle with an 80 wide pad serving as a seat. Riders sit astride or sidewise using improvised stirrups from bags, a method deemed perilous and unfit for the U.S. farmer's standards.
A Worldly woman argues training a daughter to be agreeable without mocking others. The piece notes current youth humor revolves around tearing others down, especially by bright people. It condemns ill will toward hurried, ill dressed women and warns against cruel amusement in social life. House wife.
A New York Weekly snippet features Ragged Robert debating anarchists who seek a battle cry. He mocks their “Bread or Blood” motto and suggests a riotous shout of “beer or blood” would rally patriots to noble deeds.
An old column uses playful dialogue to discuss bric a brac and fashion fading in households. It then promotes Hostetter's Stomach Bitters and Brown's Iron Bitters as cures for dyspepsia nerves and debility, urging readers to contract debts in a counterintuitive way while noting a Georgia agricultural college renovation and new business training facilities.
The report traces daily Senate and House activity from day 65 to 69, noting cloture delays on the silver purchase repeal, debates on monetary policy and free coinage, plus passage of a railroad bridge bill and various resolutions. It records quorum issues, adjournments, committee actions, and formal notices surrounding the Chicago exposition acknowledgments.
A. T. Goodwyn, chairman of the Alabama Jeffersonian state executive committee, issued a call for a November 16 meeting in Birmingham to map campaign plans and coordinate with third party supporters.
The Bringwick board of health reported two deaths and twenty one new fever cases in the past 24 hours. Farmers in North Carolina expect higher cotton prices and hold their crop while other items note legal rulings, ship arrivals, bank failures, and local disturbances across the country.
Champion J J Corbett received a dispatch from the Olympic Club of New Orleans offering a 20000 dollar purse for the Corbett Mitchell glove contest to be decided at their club. He accepted with conditions including a 10000 dollar deposit and an earlier date than the Coney Island club schedule. He noted willingness to accommodate Mitchell and thatTam was released from the Coney Island agreement.
James A. Demaree founder of the Knights of Honor dies in Louisville. W. G. Lennon, Knoxville agent for Continental Fire, charged with $2700 embezzlement. warrant issued. General W. L. T. Prince, Pee Dee region lawyer and secessionist, dies at Cheraw. Brunswick health board logs 30 fever cases in 24 hours. 15 white deaths 42 total deaths 8.3% mortality. Distillers in North Carolina face whisky tax rise. fears small distillery closures. Augusta resolves to push Congress to repeal bank note tax. Fire destroys gunhouse near Camden and barns in Wilcox county. William Randolph arrested in barn arson probe. total loss ~9000. alleged whitecaps. Savannah reports naval stores market boom with higher spirits and rosins. cotton price hold urged by farmers. Spartanburg clash with Southern Express ends with recovered whisky keg.
The bondmen of Adolph Krug and Seattle banks arrange to return 122000 to the city treasury. Also reported, Gounod's body moved to his Paris study, and Puget Sound National and First National banks in Everett and Ellensburg reopen after the panic. Fires, rail robberies, and prison sentences fill the rest of the dispatches.
The American Federation of Labor executive committee met in Washington and adopted a plan to urge senators and representatives to enforce the eight hour law. They will call attention to government building project violations and address the Geary law spirit inaction. In Paris, Gounod dies after days of coma following a stroke.
Clarksville Tennessee hosted a large ceremony for the unveiling of a Confederate monument at Greenwood cemetery. The Vermont granite shaft stands forty eight feet three inches tall with a bronze eight foot infantry statue atop and sixteen foot six inch cavalry and artillery statues flanking the base. An inscription honors Confederate soldiers who fell and notes history preserves their fame despite loss.
New Orleans cotton exchange notes a larger movement than last year with 16 327 bases excess for the week ending October 20 compared to 1891. The twenty days in October show a total excess of 49 483 over last season, while the October period trails the year before last by 394 859. Overall fifty days from September 1 show 18 454 ahead of last year and 721 927 behind year before last.
A Chicago special notes the last week of the exposition will draw crowds despite a blizzard threat. Officials say President Cleveland and his cabinet cannot attend, guiding the final program. The day highlights Christoper Columbus landing aboard the Santa Maria then touring Lake Michigan and disembarking opposite the manufacturers' building to view exhibits.
A European note on a new Italian book about famous women, and diverse items show women in professions from engravers to veterinarians. Tobacco abstainers gain measurable health advantages, and social reforms touch Sweden, Moscow, and Norway. A gospel wagon mission heads to Gypsy centers as Amherst College finds non users healthier.
Poetic tribute extols the enduring love of a mother whose time is near end. It evokes a child’s fear of her absence, praises her comforting touch, and urges tender care to sustain her declining years as described by Bugle Call.
A New York Times report describes a lawn party lemonade stall where a well known New York woman preserves the drink’s quality by keeping extra lemon juice in reserve and adding it cupfuls as ice melts. She also adds powdered sugar to maintain perfection throughout the event.
A New York Weekly cartoon features a farmer and autumn boarder debating water depth by a narrow stream. The boarder complains about advertised boating waters while the farmer asserts depth despite the stream’s width.
Knowledge Brings comfort and improvement and tends a enjoyment when rightly. The many who live better than others and enjoy life more with less expenditure by adapting the world's best products to physical needs attest the value to health of the pure liquid laxative Syrup of Figs. It cleanses the system and aids kidneys, liver and bowels without weakening them. Sold by druggists in 50c and 1 bottles, manufactured only by the California Fig Syrup Co.
Jesse Barker of Humboldt Kansas credits August Flower with ending fifteen years of biliousness and constipation. He describes renewed life and urges others with dyspepsia and biliousness to try the remedy based on his improvement.
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