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Newspaper
Vienna Progress
Location
Vienna, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Sep 16, 1897
Page
3
Glass water pipes of glass and asphaltum are described as highly satisfactory and sanitary. They are cheaper and longer lasting than iron and lead, provided they are properly installed and protected.
An anxious, querulous tone is blamed on nerves and unsettled temperament. The text touts Hostetter's Bitters as a remedy to calm nerves and improve digestion, followed by claims of relief from dyspepsia constipation rheumatism and related ailments through tempering and assimilation.
An Atlanta firm seeks live agents in every county to write life and accident insurance. Four-year operation offers six forms, strong commissions, and quick earnings. Send details to 707 709 711 Equitable Building, Atlanta, Georgia.
An OCR laden notice markets a range of nostrums and tobacco products including EE-M and Hall's Catarrh Cure. It claims cures for catarrh fever rheum and lung complaints and urges mail order sales via brokers in Atlanta and Toledo. The piece cites testimonials and doctors and mentions prices and suspicious health claims.
An excerpt from periodical chatter juxtaposes quack medical claims for Hood's Pills with social round of a city woman, noting blood purification as key to vigor and temperament. Amid fictional dialogue, neighbors discuss calls, club meetings, and seasonal obligations, illustrating era manners and everyday concerns reflected in press humor.
Rev Dr Talmage delivers a sermon on the question Is life worth living concluding that wealth, social status, and worldly success fail to satisfy. He cites Solomon and Jeremiah and extols a life lived for God and others, praising humble duty, family sacrifice, and moral integrity as the true measure of a life well spent.
The Mark Lane Express notes a constrained harvest with weather harming output. Estimates place global wheat at about 41,000,000 quarters in doubt, while American yield prospects suggest 63,500,000 quarters with potential shortfalls in Russia and France. The report warns of strained supply if demand remains strong, risking a spring food crisis.
Report describes a brutal clash between lower class factions at the University of California leading to severe facial injuries to Benjamin Kurtz and extensive damage to several others. Witnesses recount a bloodied scene with lost teeth, disfiguring wounds, and multiple serious casualties as tensions flared over leadership mandates.
Pearly Bradford, a nearly eighteen year old mother from East St. Louis, asks Dr Woods for aid to feed herself and five living children while most of her offspring lie dead. Bradford, a Black woman from New Orleans, claims her husband seeks work. authorities verify her statements.
A mutiny has broken out among Congo Free State troops in Vera Din rlet of Africa. Reports say mutineers killed fifty nine Belgian officers and men and destroyed forts, committing depredations in their wake.
A fragment from Harper's Bazar humorously contrasts active husbands with passive spouses. It features a quoted exchange about routine, bedtime, and liveliness, followed by garbled OCR text referencing patent medicines and drugstores with faded names and prices.
A 19th century advertisement extols Lydia E. Pinkham and her Vegetable Compound as superior to family doctors in treating female illnesses. It claims women conceal symptoms from physicians, boosting Pinkham’s appeal, and cites testimonials of cures affecting American women from Salem to Dyno and beyond.
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