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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 15, 1887
Page
4
preacher argues for urban reform led by salt cleansing of corrupt waters and moral revival. He calls for cleaner streets and schools, a Christian press, compulsory education, and reformatories to rescue homeless children and salvage youth from vice.
A preacher exhorts Brooklyn worshippers to convert city decline into action. He contrasts prosperous churches with social neglect, urging immediate effort to feed the hungry, aid orphans, and shelter wanderers, lest the city fall into ruin despite wealth.
Judge Wright reports a deadly duel between Don Ryan and Burke known as The Terror of the Blick Range in Silver City New Mexico. Burke produced two 45s at dawn as they faced off. Ryan checked his gun and fired in self defense. Burke fell, shot through the head near the bridge. Ryan posted $4 000 bond.
The Rev. Somerville, newly appointed Moderator of the Church Assembly, travels the Highlands of Scotland delivering gospel sermons translated into Gaelic by local ministers. He notes the Highlands draw large crowds in all weather and times for communion, a feature unlike any other region.
The New York Times describes four city bag factories employing 50 to 60 youths each with multiple machines turning out hundreds of thousands daily. Demand outstrips supply as orders come from distant towns. A new labor saving machine is being set up, and factories use straw, white, and manila papers with black ink. Key grocers and variety stores have custom blocks, and one factory also makes package handles under patent monopoly.
A missionary travels Palamcotta in Tinnevelly British India noting neat houses and a welcome sign. Inside a family Bible, slips of paper mark portions for family prayer and private reading by husband wife and children.
The guide urges masking selfish ego and wealth while showing sympathy for others. It stresses avoiding ostentation from wealth or learning and focusing on understanding others and deferring to their feelings and preferences.
A San Francisco Chronicle correspondent portrays Vera Cruz with cobblestoned streets, open sewers, and al fresco portales. He notes two-story houses in yellow and green, alameda sidewalks, beacons at Extra Muros and Ulua, and lively street life including fireflies and coconuts. The market, charities, and a grim Ulua prison hold prisons and sea-chin injuries, while craftsmen carve intricate items from coconuts and pine.
Distances for an around the globe journey along the equator are outlined from New York to San Francisco and on through major ports. Total route segments include New York to San Francisco 3450 miles and San Francisco to Yokohama 4764 miles, continuing via Hong Kong Singapore Calcutta Bombay Aden Suez Alexandria Marseille Paris London Liverpool back to New York for a full circuit.
An exchange writer recalls experiences in Colorado and Utah and asserts he never saw an Indian with a cold. He concludes that it is our hot rooms that leave us susceptible to colds.
A collection of home cooking instructions detailing Snort Cooxies using lard, rice flour, brown sugar, an egg, lemon angx and milk. CauliLowers are blanched with salted water until tender. Country Puppine layers bread fruit and custard bake until fruit cooks. Tomato Sour uses beef, ham, tomatoes, stock, pepper and salt with optional flour thickening. Srrxacy describes a boiled and creamed vegetable with butter. Spinach a la creme provides a butter cream method with cream and eggs. Peach Meringue custard layers peaches with custard, baked and finished with meringue and cream.
A collection of practical home hints including a hot lemon for colds and linen gloss with gum arabic, kerosene stain removal with blotters and heat, sewing buttons over a darning needle for looseness, reversing facial rubbing to reduce wrinkles, removing grease with cold water and soap, kerosene wetting for long standing spots, and a soda solution for cleaning old painted woodwork before repainting.
The Temple of Zion rises as a remarkable edifice modeled on Solomon's temple within ten acres. Built of white granite with six window tiers, it features symbolic motifs and the Eyes of God. Estimated cost about five million dollars, funded entirely by church tithings, with completion expected in about one year.
A new American cool dry air process in England uses furnace-dried air at 80 to 90 degrees Fahrenheit to pass through moisture laden material. It reportedly finishes oak logs in nine days versus years of natural drying while preserving delicate fibers and chemicals.
A Cleveland meeting of microscopists discussed whether ancient rocks from Nineveh used in lenses could imply early microscopes. The true inventor of the magnifying glass remains unknown.
Two astronomers from the Grand Ducal Observatory in Carlsruhe report that Uranus shows a distinctly elliptical disk rather than a perfectly circular one. This observation marks a notable deviation in planetary appearance.
Many people refuse cod liver oil for its taste but Scorr’s Exursion of Cod Liver Oil with Hypophosphites is palatable like milk. It’s claimed as the best remedy for consumption scrofula bronchitis general debility wasting diseases in children chronic coughs and colds. Physicians in many parts report children take it with pleasure and endorse Scott’s Emulsion.
An advertisement urges readers to buy Dr Harter's Iron Tonic to brighten the cheeks and revive a weak, nervous patient described as the idol of my heart. It cautions that solitude dulls the mind and society dissipates it, appealing to devoted lovers.
An advertisement asserts procrastination harms health and sales a quick remedy. It claims the product can quickly cure serious disease, restore vitality, stabilize appetite and sleep, and transform a weak constitution into a healthy one, saving from lingering illness.
A brief advertisement notes cures for piles fisture rupture and strict ure with a ten cent stamp offer from the World’s Dispensary Medical Association based in Buffalo New York.
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