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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 06, 1889
Page
4
A Des Moines Iowa sermon likens Noahs Ark to Christ’s open door offering universal salvation. The preacher urges families to enter through the side of Christ, warns against delaying faith, and stresses bringing whole households including spouses and children into the ark for safety and eternity.
A preacher pleads for family salvation through Noahic faith, urging parents to bring every relative through Christ the door. He compares prayer to a whispering gallery, stresses not giving up on prodigal kin, and imagines a reunified eternity with family in the ark.
The article compares eighteenth and early nineteenth century piracy to modern incidents in Chinese waters. It notes Chinese pirates blocking ports with small gunboats and large gangs, the risks to European crews, and the organized spread of piracy as a business among coastal villages, with small fortunes from plunder distributed among followers.
Dr. Wm. M. Garrard returns from Cheyenne citing an atmospheric phenomenon that overcharged residents with electricity. Seven weeks of persistent high winds, up to eighty miles an hour, dried ground and generated shocks causing insomnia and mood changes. People described as walking electric batteries. some left for relief in California.
Name Helen M Avery of the Interior Department praised as the most accomplished penwoman among Washington clerks. She writes commissions promotions and dismissals. her penmanship is uniform and clear and she also creates ink drawings. She works about two hours daily with a near life tenure and earns 1600 dollars a year.
A young man in California assaulted a clergyman after the church refused to admit his mother as a member, prompting police involvement and concern over church access.
A scowbased mining setup on the Stanislaus River two miles below Robinson's Ferry uses a fifteen horsepower steam engine and a powerful suction pump to draw fifty tons of sand and gravel per hour, discharging through a long flume ten feet from the stern. Large rocks are cleared by derricks as capitalists in Chicago back the venture amid expected rich gold deposits and strong returns.
Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription is promoted as a potent tonic for worn out and overworked women including teachers milliners housekeepers and others. It claims to support stomach weakness indigestion bloating back pain and sleeplessness while offering a women’s health treatise for ten cents. Buffalo New York distributor notes a price of 1.00 per bottle or six for 5.04 with a positive guarantee.
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