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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 04, 1888
Page
4
Reverend Talmage warns against casual oathology from Job's trials to modern street swearing. He cites families, workplaces, and courts where profanity depletes character, harms souls, and invites divine judgment, urging reliance on God for freedom from this habit.
A preacher portrays God’s mercy as shelter from sin and crime, urging love and service to Christ. He recalls a New England storm as a sign of divine protection and envisions a peaceful, covenant world rising from crime with Christian philanthropy marching like Israel toward deliverance.
A Paris area SPCA operates a three story heated home for rescued dogs and cats in Asnieres. The Faris Society maintains a property valued at 6000 dollars with annual expenses around 4000 dollars and runs two branch establishments in Asnieres. The superintendent cares for horses by reporting bad roads to the Seine prefect and ensuring humane treatment, including sponging at cab stands and sending old horses to Saint Denis for care.
Paper bottles are rolled from glued sheets into cylinders with tops and bottoms, then coated inside with a waterproof compound. Cheaper lighter and unbreakable, they require no packing material and can be mass produced by machinery, offering reliable supply year round.
The passage urges progress to advance beyond an ignorant past and to empower growth through determined action. It frames development as a nerve that sharpens resolve to break down barriers and push society forward.
An able bodied female oyster notes that producing 9,000,000 eggs is a fair season's work when she feels well. The remark reflects the oyster's stated reproductive capacity and endurance.
A collage of aphorisms on virtue, cheerfulness, wisdom, and human conduct. The author reflects on debt, truth, laughter, posterity, fatigue of life, and the calm bearing of heroes, urging balance between action and contemplation. The tone echoes late 19th century moral reflection and self-help prose.
An uptown New York grocer touts a new washing process from a Pittsburg inventor. Soak overnight with benzine then boil and add more benzine to remove dirt with little labor. He claims the smell vanishes during boiling and a pint covers two large washings.
Osmain Bey reports a cruel court prank at the Adlamite sultan's palace. White noble dwarfs, kept as officials in the seraglio, are used as targets of practical jokes. One method traps a dwarf in a rice dish with a cardboard niche, then steaming rice covers him, triggering a panic among guests before the dwarf endures a hot “Turkish bath” during ten to fifteen minutes.
It is estimated by authorities that 132000 tons of fish are annually disposed of at Billingsgate, the world's largest fish market, highlighting vast seafood waste.
A New York Telegram column warns pneumonia strikes unpredictably and links it to kidney weakness. It cites deaths in the city, stresses early detection, and promotes Warner's safe cure to restore kidney vitality as a preventive measure.
Acrostic poem frames business virtues as Action Dash Vim Energy Reason Type thrift Sales Indolence Nothing Gold Patience Advice You Success. Columbus Dispatch note dates the verse to Columbus Ohio. This compact verse links business success to advertising across a sequence of virtues and warnings.
A London Telegraph dispatch from Vienna reports juveniles eight to thirteen facing a suburban magistrate. The group robbed in churches especially during marriages, with one eight year old boasting how he reached into a grown person’s pocket while carried by a partner.
A scientific note describes a woman who snapped at her canary in anger to shame her husband. The bird fell from its cage and died within five minutes, illustrating the harm harsh words can cause even to mute creatures and urging kinder speech to protect others.
Barnum argues for a life governed by nature and common sense to achieve longevity and happiness. He urges temperance in eating and drink, rejection of intoxicants, regular hours, and avoidance of excesses, warning that vice brings pain and ruin. He grounds his advice in Cause and Effect and ancient wisdom.
The World Woman’s Christian Temperance Union adds scientific temperance instruction and prison and police work as new departments. Mary H. Hunt of Boston is named World Superintendent of scientific temperance instruction and J K Barney of Providence is World Superintendent of prison and police work, both already leading the same in the National W C T U of America after strong, successful work.
An advertisement extols Scott's Emulsion as healing for coughs colds and chest ailments claiming full benefits from cod liver oil and hypophosphites. It quotes Dr W R S Connell praising its use in tuberculous and straneous infections and ordinary throat troubles. The page also notes prohibition petitions in Washington and features humorous lines and a Pellets testimonial.
A discussion on literacy and thought cites that reading alone does not ensure understanding. It notes Dr Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery as ineffective without personal testing and self education. An Iowa woman wins $500 in Circuit Court for whisky sales causing her husband’s drunkenness. Dr Sage's Catarrh Remedy is praised for cures. Canon Wilberforce launches Southampton's Blue Cross Guild to unite longstanding abstainers.
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