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Newspaper
Vienna Progress
Location
Vienna, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Sep 25, 1902
Page
6
A classroom poem where a teacher asks about favorite flowers as study hours drag on. Children name flowers. Dick riffs with a playful twist, asking for the four o'clock instead of a flower. The verse captures light humor and schoolyard whimsy.
The Ohio State Journal notes Jones Brown remains calm in disputes while Smith asserts his opponent is provoked by feigned sympathy. The piece discusses temper and perception in disagreements.
A Yonkers Statesman item quotes a writer claiming wild beasts do not live long while Crimsonbeak counters that some may outlive him if they encounter him first. The brief exchange underscores local intrigue and animal lore.
Rural New Yorker notes no heavy apple crop this year as frost disease and floods reduce yields in key apple regions. Some locales offer hopeful reports but overall margins show smaller harvests in major producing areas like New York Michigan and New England faces. Country Gentleman comments on lesser regions expecting inferior yields.
In Atuguat prepare ditches and drains, earth up celery, sow forage and root crops. Endive and spinach may be sown now. Celery should be kept growing. Rape grows till fall and can be drilled with late crops. Kept clean late cabbages with nitrate of soda if needed. Turnips can be grown in standing corn and mature before frost. Rye follows after corn. seed deeply. Bush cutting is in order.
The Denver chamber of commerce says sugar beet farming in Colorado has expanded rapidly in two years, progressing by leaps and bounds and expected to soon top all other farm products in value.
Derlef Mention warns Bermuda will eventually kill rust. Phant pecan grove is the latest recommendation. Hairy vetch aids Bermuda grass. The boll weevil remains a strong incentive to diversify cotton belts. September sowing of various salad plants and ridge planting of vegetable seeds advised. Cabbage and collards suggested for winter use. Bermuda mixed with Texas blue grass cited as ideal pasture from Nearth Carolina to the Gulf. Cassava thrives on sandy soils rich in bumus.
A historical note warns that ads promising easy money entice readers to write to a mysterious sender, requesting a shilling in stamps. Respondents often receive a laconic postcard saying Do as I do, a pattern echoed across English newspapers of the era.
A New York Press quip quotes a tramp asking Raymond Hitchcock in Central Park if a leopard can change its spots. Hitchcock replies that a tired leopard can simply move to another spot, a humorous take from a morning in the menagerie.
The article explains that modern hosts favor crystal tableware with tinted petals at the mouth, shaping the nectar cups to echo blossoms. White crystal stems showcase blue violet orange or green hues as color blossoms greet guests, with Carl Bad crystal branding on decanters and larger glasses.
An ash rack designed for summer cottages holds delft plates and cups as a background. It features a watercolor sea motif with fish among water lilies, and the deep delftware tint contrasts well with the soft gray toned ash.
Instructional notice explains washing flannel blankets with borax and soft soap. Dissolve two tablespoons borax and a pint soft soap in cold water, cover blankets, soak overnight, then rub, rinse in two waters, and air dry without wringing.
The article notes cornstarch is valuable yet often not cooked enough to remove its raw taste. It mentions cornstarch pudding or blancmange as unpopular, especially with children, who would find it nourishing if palatable.
An Indianapolis News editorial warns that swearing by boys leads to ruin and urges stricter curfew enforcement. It calls for involvement of pulpits, press, police, parents, schools, and the community to curb the bad habit.
A humorous exchange quotes a boy answering what peace means. Miss Gray asks for the meaning after a patriotic recital. The boy replies peace comes when his mother has washed and dressed all six children for school, then she says, now I’ll have peace.
A six year old girl laments her mother works late. she longs for time together and a loving bedtime song. The child wishes for a small companion to share play and for her mother to sing at night. She fears loneliness when the carriage doors close and prays for relief from separation.
Reports from 122 counties show crop and fruit prospects across Georgia. Corn acreage 103 percent, cotton 96 percent, oats 84 percent, wheat 87 percent, sugar cane 91 percent, rice upland 99 percent, rice lowland 87 percent, sorghum 99 percent, clover 103 percent, fruit general 72 percent with peaches 64, apples 63, pears 68 and grapes 95 percent. Rain is needed in many areas, but some showers occurred. Commissioner C. S. Stevens, Atlanta, June 13, 1902. The Roosevelt Livery introduces a distinctive yellow green livery for the president and attendants to aid recognition as he distributes diplomas to Annapolis cadets.
While in England Mark Twain recalled being taxed for his head as gasworks and wrote Queen Victoria a protest brief. He later met the future King Edward VII in Hamburg for a long walk and chat. On bidding farewell the prince reminded Twain of a Strand procession and a bus encounter.
In Dundee the police magistrates ban pingpong in places selling liquor citing its link to drunkenness. They state public houses have provided pingpong tables for patrons and the pastime has grown enough to overwhelm jails. The ruling prohibits playing pingpong where alcohol is sold.
A Chicago News retells Captain Lindsay a British officer killed at Brakenlaagte during the South Africa conflict. While walking among troops at Magersfontein he joked that “they never hit anyone” and was struck by a bullet, later telling his men the remark “proves the rule” as he was carried away.
Among Aubrey de Vere's reminiscences a passage contrasts Burns praise and scorn. Tennyson extols Burns delicate songs while deeming his serious pieces superior. Wordsworth also lauds Burns bringing poetry back to nature yet dislikes the amorous verses. Henry Taylor finds Burns’ lyrics and serious works tedious.
A Washington Post illustration shows Secretary Shaw recounting a tale about a man who made money by accident and a poor seven up player who, after two hours of losing, fumed and left declaring the era’s danger is the enormous prosperity of doggone fools. The anecdote is used as a critique of current trends in wealth and foolishness.
In Sir Barrington Beaumont's memoirs a dialogue recounts a Scotch lord and Lady Clermont debating Scots abroad. The lord quips that exit checks ensure only men of understanding leave Scotland, prompting George Soterys to remark that the lord must have been smuggled.
Maurice Gogle, eleven, has supported himself since eight by selling papers for the Grand Rapids Evening Press. He employs a helper, trades evenings for deliveries, helps at home, and saved income to buy a wheel, clothes, books, and 20 in savings. He expects better earnings next year, balancing work with sport.
A boy visits the shop for a new sieve for the milk strainer and returns with a repaired one. He pours milk on the floor to test it and tells his mother it still looks bad, illustrating a humorous misfit between repair and result.
A compact verse fragment portrays a hurried scene at lunch where a speaker recalls leaping and imagining bones on a plate. The lines convey urgency and a eerie, dreamlike imagery within a brief teaser of danger and whimsy.
In a western military post home two brothers Teddy and Eddy plot a bath surprise for their father. They pour a seven pound bag of salt into the tub, thinking it will make a salt bath, while their mother also notices a missing sugar bag. The tale ends with the humorous consequences of the mix up.
A woman long uses ordinary table oilcloth to cover bedroom and summer cottage floors. She lays it with ample paper beneath for spring and body, finds it wears well, wipes clean, and costs little. Wide ranges of patterns surprise for sale even in country stores. Two recent desert camp examples include a green oak leaf on brown and a geometric design in ocher tones.
The question of General Nelson A. Miles’s forced retirement from the army’s command raises the likelihood that Major General Brooke, stationed at Governors Island as senior officer, would succeed him. A 1879 parallel recalls Brooke’s rise alongside Miles, with Brooke noting the star would not come while Miles remained ahead.
Describes a pension discussion for 57 year old Mrs Madalena Granatta near Nocera Naples. Her husband died ten years ago after nineteen years of marriage during which they produced sixty two offspring, fifty nine sons. Triplets occurred eleven times in nine years and on three occasions four boys were born, and once four boys and a girl.
The Rochester Democrat notes Lord Kelvin is seventy eight and barred from a western railway job by a rule capping age at thirty five yet he outworks many youths and remains a valued thinker. It adds that the era’s greatest work is done by men over sixty, many beyond three score years and ten.
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