14 Jul 1893
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Newspaper
Cleveland Progress
Location
Cleveland, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jul 14, 1893
Page
1
A three month rush shows public demand for good goods at low prices. The ad lists many items from Nainspan to linens, silks, muslins, ginghams, shirts, and boys clothing with deep discounts. Highlights include 4-4 bleached domestics, China Silk, Zephyr Ginghams, and suit prices from $8 to $26.56. The notice emphasizes value and wide range of dry goods and clothing.
An anecdote from New York Herald shows Edison and two assistants failing to compute lamp volume until Edison reveals a water-filled cap method. A Scientific American excerpt cites a European cholera expert linking extermination to river hygiene and cremation of the dead in India and Egypt’s Nile delta to curb disease spread.
A sermon explores the publican's plea God be merciful to me a sinner, comparing it to other scriptural examples and modern testimonies. The pastor cites Luke eighteen, extols mercy over works, and recounts a black man's conversion story as a vivid endorsement of repentance and divine forgiveness.
A Greenville dispatch notes Clemson Agricultural College opened Thursday with about three hundred students registered for the first day. The event drew an immense crowd of farmers and friends, highlighting regional agricultural progress and the college’s pride for South Carolina farming communities.
A Washington State practice uses mud shoes for plowing in wetlands north of Sumner each spring. A heavy eight by eight to ten inch board holds a red hot shoe on the hoof with a circular iron band to secure it, letting horses work in soft ground after a short adaptation period. A Chicago Herald note follows about a prank on John Washburn in West Union, Ohio, leading to a deplorable outcome.
A collage of quips from various papers including Chicago Inter Ocean and Tit-Bits features humorous lines about dreams of fair women capital punishment and a typewriter request. The snippets span playful banter between lovers mothers and managers with quick one liners and social observations.
A Vienna watchmaker has devised a small automatic clockwork device to fit firearms allowing troops behind the front to fire with precision over heads without injuring those in front. The mechanism would raise angles automatically to discharge ammunition, potentially enabling longer rear positions in battle. Tests are underway by an Australian War Office committee to assess practicality and compare with a German rival invention.
A writer in the Atlantic Monthly laments over using a term life ache to label the sorrowful state that fills days with penury. The piece argues human nature is impressionable and finely strung, not tough, and avoids overemphasizing emotional pathology.
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