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Newspaper
Vienna Progress
Location
Vienna, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Sep 12, 1901
Page
3
Readers write to the YPD pages expressing sympathy for editor Miss Howell, recounting personal losses, praising kindness, temperance concerns, and calls to avoid whisky. The exchanges praise friendly words, hope, and community in a rural letter column.
A long personal letter from Sam Slick to Orchard Shout editors discusses reading letters, school plans, and meeting editors. He mentions avoiding Milledgeville, visiting Vienna, and hopes to meet the editors and correspondents, especially the girls, while sharing sympathy for Miss Howel and the loss of his mother.
Pleasant Valley Georgia letter urges kindness over haughtiness and harshness. The writer claims kindness fosters happiness and ease in daily life, noting it improves relations with people and animals, while rude demeanor earns disdain and self contempt. A pleasant disposition helps attract friends.
A reader from Montezuma Georgia writes to praise the paper’s Young People’s Department and letters. He reflects on a recent country visit and protracted religious meetings, urging church members to set an example and write often to the department as a sympathetic listener to bereaved readers.
A letter from Peggy Anne urges thoughtful discussion in the Vienna Progress Magazine. She proposes exchanging ideas on history and education rather than romantic gossip, and asks readers to name a remarkable nonroyal woman who has died, signaling a call for informative content and youth engagement. Eds invite further submissions.
The Toledo Blade promotes itself as America s greatest weekly with 178 000 circulation offering news short stories and departments for all readers. It stresses plain facts for readers who do or do not read dailies and invites subscriptions at one dollar per year.
Advertisement notes Fresh fish on Thursday Friday and Saturday at H. B. Thompson and Co in front of the courthouse a line of staple furniture at N. B. Thompson and Co Notice to buyers D B Thompson offers to buy seed cotton in any quantity dry not wet between sunrise and sunset warns not to buy on credit now and to sell cotton instead of holding it for Fifteen Cents.
D B Thompson urges cotton growers to avoid ginning wet cotton. He insists on drying cotton in the field and declines to buy or gin wet cotton, stating his commitment to honest practice and dry cotton.
On Oct 1 Mrs. R. P. Mitchell begins a sale of a full millinery stock including hats trimmings and fur goods for fall and winter. The proprietor promises the best quality and satisfaction at low prices and invites customers to inspect before buying.
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