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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 24, 1886
Page
4
A sermon reflects on Latimer and Ridley, discusses the circle of life and consequence, and asserts forgiveness can break the circle through Christ. The speaker rails against mistreatment of parents, praises redemption, and imagines saints and sinners’ influence circling the globe toward final judgment.
The Peacemaker, a submarine monitor built by Professor J H L Tuck, demonstrated underwater maneuvering on the Hudson River off Eighty sixth street. The craft sailed beneath the surface for up to nineteen minutes at times reaching depths of twenty-five feet, with a crew including pilot John G Holland and engineer John H Klyne, while a Herald reporter observed from the tug.
A broad roundup covers autumn dress trends with numerous fabrics, colors, and accessories, plus a note on the Massachusetts Woman’s Relief Corps reaching 4,745 members. It cites Queen Marguerita of Italy naming a woman physician, mentions Moscow’s planned university for women, and highlights rising female fortunes in Philadelphia. It also notes a new lampers industry and a widowed box maker who grew her business into a regional powerhouse.
The cost of major New York buildings is listed with figures for the Tribune, Drexel, Potter, Stewart, Cyrus W Field, D O Mills, and Produce Exchange, each priced from one to three million dollars. Additional large commercial structures and upscale apartment houses above a million are noted.
A historical note states Berlin contains about 20 000 houses with twenty to thirty families living in each. The observation highlights dense urban housing patterns and family concentrations in the city.
A sunbathing Lion lets a hornet land on his nose while swatting a wasp trying the same. The wasp argues equality of nuisance, and the Lion replies that everyone may choose the nuisance they endure, noting a distinction between tools like the hand organ and the accordion.
Humble artists in white or green turbans sit in market booths crafting delicate designs. They learn recipes from father or master, test varnishes, and seek buyers who inspect works with a bismillah. Their days end in tea houses, beads, and verses, all to fulfill Allah's will.
In a Century excerpt, General C O Howard describes a chaotic battle moment with his chief of staff Asmussen, mortally struck aide Dessauer, and a desperate rally to hold Devens and Schurz lines. He quotes orders, fears of panic, and his refusal to fire on his own men as they retreat.
A collection of missives includes a flirtatious plea to Miss Millie O Naire, a court clerk from Perry County, and reports of a bear killing a keeper at the Cincinnati Zoo. Also includes advertisements for Piso s Cure for Consumption and Ferro Phosphorated Elixir of Calisaya with testimonials from Dayton and Springfield Street addresses.
The text touts Buckingham dye for beards and Ayer cure against malarial poisons. It notes a Hamburg steamer laden with arms to Montenegr at Cattaro, swamp root kidney liver bladder remedy claims, and reports Greece suffers six towns destroyed and 600 dead with 1,000 injured.
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