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Newspaper
Vienna Progress
Location
Vienna, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Sep 29, 1898
Page
7
Dr. Talmage calls for a universal battle-cry to purge profanity, drunkenness, sexual immorality, and social corruption. He cites religious reformers and historic victories, urging God’s rise to scatter enemies, with America’s sins judged by Heaven and reformers mobilizing diverse groups.
The largest steel hull ever floated on the Mississippi was launched at the Jown Iron Works shipyard in Dubuque Town. The 308 foot long vessel, 56 foot beam and 87 feet over all covers 28 000 square feet about two eighths of an acre. Built for the Texas and Pacific Railway Company, she will be aged at New Orleans in transferring sure.
The article outlines how Cuba received many names after Columbus sighted it including Juana Fernandina Santiago Ave Maria La Lengua de Pajaro and the eventual standard Havana. It notes Havana’s move from San Cristobal de la Habana to the northern coast around 1649 and praises Philip II for arming the city and fostering strong local government.
A compilation of curiosities and peculiar claims from various origins. Topics include pigeon training in Belgium, aging rituals for a Russian, butter yield from milk, beetle oil use, and hotel pricing by height. It also mentions the Columbian voyage, a Bar Harbor incident with electricity, ancient mud baths, Egyptian uses, a Powhatan County man’s skin change, hatch tricks by Chinamen, and fish eggs hatched behind shells.
Paris correspondent reports a Military Hospital of Algiers dissection scene where a soldier deemed dead for three days suddenly awoke as a professor prepared to dissect. Three witnesses watched in astonishment as the man slipped from the slab, wrote a note to confirm life, then recovered fully.
The Baquiman shows artistic skill yet fails to render the human form, using a circle and lines to suggest the figure while excelling in imaginative sea serpents. The San Francisco Chronicle notes his strong imagination despite crude human depiction.
A Watertown newspaper reprints a story from Le Roy about John Young who fell from a scaffold and suffered paralysis-like symptoms. After doctors gave up, a grandma fetched Dr Williams pills which revived him. He now walks and moves again, crediting the pills for cure of palsy and related ailments.
A brief dialogue note presents a line about a sympathetic maiden asking why and a boy named Jimmy saying he has been fought rather than fought. The exchange conveys a colloquial tone and character interaction from the London Indy.
The ad column touts Cascarets and Candy Cathartic for clear skin and a blemish free complexion with a low price and guaranteed results. It promises purifying the blood and liver to banish pimples and blackheads. Also promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure with a $100 reward for any failure and claims internal use cures constitutional catarrh. Other pitches include Lyon & Co’s Pick and a tobacco ad praising purity and taste.
A collection of humorous lines and dialogue from Cincinnati Enquirer Chicago Post and Brooklyn Life featuring critics of corn booze soap taxes and paternal discipline. The snippets showcase character voices and social piques from satirical pages.
A scrambled advertisement touts No-To-Ba e as a life changing tobacco cure promising permanent quitting with frail claims. It cites broad endorsements and testimonials from multiple cities including Chicago New York Omaha and Philadelphia. The copy features exaggerated healing claims and free booklets with sample offers.
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