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Newspaper
Vienna Progress
Location
Vienna, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Sep 08, 1904
Page
4
A fragment from Vienna Progress notes varied items from a stroll through McGirt gin to Hart County social topics. It tastily airs musings on fairs in Houston, pine knot curiosities, mortality, marriage figures, fashion folly, currency reform, suffrage jokes, and Roosevelt era wages and rail costs.
Secretary Phil Cook mails election blanks for the general election on October 5. The state ticket may be the longest yet with over seventy five names plus four constitutional amendments. Democrats appear to be the only major candidates if Populists do not field a ticket. Amendments seek to cap the tax rate at five mills, reduce or increase county counts, adjust state house size, and allow local school taxation votes.
The Atlanta Journal promotes daily news and views for the presidential campaign with bright, nationwide coverage. Subscriptions offered at 7.00 yearly for Daily and Sunday by mail, 3.50 six months, 5.00 daily yearly, 2.50 six months, 0.12 weekly carriers, plus a special 8.00 offer for 16 months. agents invited with commissions.
Georgia promotes its state university as the best equipped and cheapest in the South Atlantic, costing $125 yearly for room, board, fees, books and laundry. It claims 2600 alumni, strong faculty, athletic drills, and courses in Agriculture, Law, Pharmacy, Medicine, Teaching, Sciences, Classics and Engineering. W Hill Chancellor.
Lamar Gray of Macon Georgia advertises an undertaker service at Progress office selling coffins and robes. He invites deposits to invest in an outfit and promises to ship coffins by the next train, with prices ranging from three cents to higher amounts as desired.
Classified notice offers a $50 reward to any person who sells goore or alioma. The offer promises satisfactory money back. Addressed to clerks and salespeople, the notice ends with a call to action and mentions Dr. White Electric Comb Co. in Decatur, TL.
Dr. R. M. Carlisle and Company advertise Carlisle’s L and B as a universal cure claiming it kills germs of all diseases by inhaling and drinking the same. They also promote Carlisle’s Liver Pills weekly and advise eating anything to grow fat and happy. Macon Georgia address and druggist availability follow.
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