11 Sep 1902
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Newspaper
Vienna Progress
Location
Vienna, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Sep 11, 1902
Page
1
A long reader’s column uplifts moral maxims and social critiques. It laments vanity, gossip, and folly while praising prudent behavior, self control, and the evolving role of women teachers as central to progress and civilization.
A humorous list frames a wife’s duties as commandments from a jealous husband. It lampoons domestic norms with lines urging obedience, restraint, and thrift. The piece notes the scarcity of the United States gold dollar, with dealers paying up to three dollars for coins and mints not producing since 1989.
A Sunday school reflection stresses parents teaching children to memorize the Ten Commandments and to understand obedience. A foreign nobleman’s remark on American impertinence contrasts with a widow’s tale of a rebellious son who ends in crime and imprisonment, illustrating the deadly costs of disobedience and drunkenness. Obedience is presented as God’s first law.
The piece argues consolidating weak rural schools into central graded schools is practical and cost effective, citing Massachusetts Wisconsin and Maryland examples. It notes transport to central schools yields better attendance and savings, then shifts to a long meditation on the surname Smith, its ubiquity from Teutonic roots to global presence, and a reflective weather poem about summer fading into winter.
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