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Newspaper
Cleveland Progress
Location
Cleveland, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Sep 21, 1894
Page
1
A sermon arguing that small doctrinal differences divide Christians into many denominations, urging liberty of conscience and unity against bigotry, intolerance, and sectarian conflict. The speaker cites Shibboleth, church history, and the Atlantic disaster to illustrate cohesion and rescue. He calls for mutual respect across faiths and the end of denominational hostility.
A humorous cartoon caption from the Washington Star features a dining mishap where a customer complains he ordered bluefish but received black bass. His irritable mood leads to a quip about color blindness from his wife, while a separate gag mentions a baby and a safety pin.
A New York Advertiser correspondent describes Rangoon’s great golden pagoda perched atop a hill, approached by a long stairway. Beggars line the path, many with leprosy, clamoring for alms and hindering visitors.
A garbled 19th century fragment discusses animal habits tax schemes in Mary and England, a Brooklyn youth charged as vagrant, birds in Australia, and a test breaking an egg with one hand. It mentions Cerbrea subjects, queen cells, and a sheep with twin lambs, suggesting a miscellany of curiosities and social notes.
Barstow worker James McMurtio amputated his own left hand below the wrist after severe crush injuries from freight cars. He cut away the limb in his hotel room, endured extreme pain, and attended the wound until a physician arrived. later reports stated he was improving in Pomona, California.
The text traces the spread of silver enameling in Reugia after 1550, noting Ovehinni kov as a key Moscow pioneer who opened a school. It highlights St. Petersburg and Moscow as centers with factories, the use of stamping machines for common items, and a peasant-driven, village-based silver trade around Kostroma near the Volga. Peasants sell goods through middlemen to markets including the capitals and abroad to the Balkans, Persia, and Central Asia.
A Bible distributor dies in New Hampshire at 76 after distributing 120000 Bibles. In New Jersey Cranberry Park hosts about 100 vagrants seeking cranberry picking with little food or funds. Western Australia enforces a 650 pound Sunday alcohol penalty. Perth hotel fined 160 pounds for Sabbath drinks. Licenses ban licensees from leaving premises more than 28 days yearly without magistrate permission.
A description outlines a heavy white linen bed cover with blue linen flows and fringe, suggesting a blue and white room. An economical option uses heavy unbleached cotton with woodbine etching in green brown and yellow, red berry accents, yellow crewel stitching, and a feather stitched hem. A narrow scarf matches the design for pillow coverings, noted for easy care and upkeep.
A hotel guest requests another room claiming discomfort with a neighboring German musician. He complains the player’s loud clarionet and door pounding ruined sleep, citing a dispute over shared keying that spoiled the mood. The anecdote reflects hotel life and cross cultural humor.
A Brooklyn Eagle excerpt quotes two Boston men debating a public contest with odd remarks about vocal chords and a proposed practical analysis of a foaming beverage shown on a sign. The exchange hints at a playful or satirical scene rather than a formal event.
An odd riddle notes a shoe size half the glove number with examples like glove six then shoe three. The piece shifts to ads for Ho-tetter's Stomach Bitters and Kilmer’s Swamp Root, claiming cures for dyspepsia malaria kidney trouble and nervous debility. It promotes Syrup of Figs as a safe laxative and warns against inferior products from California Fig Syrup Co Manufactured by the California Fig Syrup Co.
U. S. Government chemists examined brands and report Royal Baking Powder is absolutely pure, strongest in strength, and superior to all others.
A passage notes Aunt Dinah’s Maryland biscuit method with two quarts of flour lard salt and cold water mixed to a stiff dough then shaped baked and browned in about twenty minutes. It contrasts eastern shore handwork with western shore beating method and remarks both styles yield delicious flaky biscuits.
A cluster of folklore notes about a Laos plateau shaping local superstitions and rainfall beliefs contrasts with a string of mid nineteenth century advertisements. Included are cures for skin itch and eczema, a novelty wire fence offer, a clover root purifier, and Mrs Winslow infant soothing syrup.
The article surveys several apocalyptic theories from scientists describing the earth melting into water, gravity reversing to crush us, the world spiraling toward the sun to burn, humanity regressing to nothing, and a move toward the equator to freeze.
A note from Nebraska Woman's Weekly argues that as civilization extends to recognizing mothers rights, mothers will in turn safeguard their children's rights in society. It frames maternal protection as a natural progression of civil progress and family welfare.
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