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Newspaper
Indiana Democrat
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 18, 1908
Page
6
A passage from Edith Wharton in Scribner's Magazine extols a fixed star as the enduring beacon amid shifting worlds. It speaks of ancient pyramids and the immensity of space, contrasting mortal vanity with a guiding Truth at the center of a changing cosmos.
Dick Matson hides in chaparral and watches Escalante threaten his lover Dolores. After a dramatic capture by sheriff, Matson reveals his plan to marry Dolores and end cattle theft on the Cross Bar Y. The couple flees into the forest as Escalante faces life imprisonment and potential pardon.
The carpenters' union of Winnipeg Manitoba touts three members as continuous for over thirty six years claiming a union record. The boast highlights long serving members within the organization.
A man in front of a laundry talks with the clerk about hiring a laundress for his wife Sarah. Banter covers her cooking, washing, and a boastful claim she can smoke corn-cob pipes. The clerk warns against crossing her and jokes about alternatives, ending with the man noting his black eye from crossing a strong woman.
The Philadelphia Press notes varied preserves and syrups from across regions. It describes red pulp jam from the wild rose seed vessels, peach leather dried from peach juice, and Turkish grape molasses sheets. It mentions walnut strings coated with grape molasses, orange syrup in California, and Virginia watermelon syrup as local delicacies.
A historical note explains heavy sugar use among lumber camp and mine workers in Canada and colder U S regions. Molasses sweetens tea and coffee and even many foods. Sugar occurs naturally in fruits and milk, with carbohydrates dominating daily nutrient intake.
The Canadian Government decides to enact Parliament legislation providing pensions for old age. The main aim is to encourage thrift and saving among the working classes.
A historical note records that the title Reverend was first used in England in 1657. The origin marks a shift in clerical honorifics during the mid seventeenth century.
The Brooklyn sermon uses Paul shipwreck as metaphor for daily checks on honesty justice and sympathy. It argues for anchors of faith and righteousness amid widespread temptations and societal faults.
The speaker urges steadfast anchors in troubled times faith hope love and prayer. He emphasizes faith in God and neighbors, hope in eternal goodness, love as universal service, and prayer as strength to persevere. He praises redeeming love for New York and Brooklyn and calls for service to those in need.
A meditation on receiving the Holy Ghost as essential power for mission. Jesus, the apostles, and Moody stress Spirit endowment as the source of effective witness. Believers must seek and use this power in prayer and outreach, as God’s representatives.
The excerpt urges a modern need for self mastery through steady restraint and active life rather than harsh fasting. It favors diligent work, cheerful activity, thoughtful leisure, and prayer to attain spiritual discipline and crucifixion of the flesh in a practical, heartfelt way.
The quoted passage speaks of blessing God amid wilderness and long nights, praising trials as discipline. It asserts bereavements, losses, and sacrifices forge wisdom and nobility, calling sanctified affliction an angel guiding souls toward heaven.
The message emphasizes that God saves not for personal gain but so believers work for Him and ensure no follower goes hungry or thirsty. Sacrifice and unselfishness are stepping stones to glory, with the after-work of fostering a friendly Christian spirit shown to new converts as real evidence of support on earth and in heaven.
A Missionary Worker cautions that human sympathy can mislead believers as the cross denotes more than sin, separating from friends and earthly good. He urges sustaining divine sympathy for God's children in trial and warns against hastening the cross before its appointed time.
The text notes the preparation of laws to prohibit manufacture and import of these aids in the islands. It fixes a punishment of 600 nodes per packet imported or transacted and destruction of cards found. Cebu P. Ty.
An advertisement proclaims Hall's Catarrh Cure as the only proven treatment for catarrh, a constitutional disease. It promises blood and tissue action to destroy the disease’s foundation and build up the patient, with a $100 reward for any cure failure and testimonials available. Also promotes Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
The article notes mercury columns used to measure high pressures. At Butte Aux Cailles in France a 1650 foot column records 660 atmospheres, at St Etienne a 1380 foot column records 630 atmospheres, and on the Eiffel Tower a 1000 foot column records 440 atmospheres. England's highest is 176 feet at Manchester Technical College.
A fragmentary seed company ad from La Crosse Wisconsin touts a mail order catalog. It claims 12 cents buys seeds mailed to you and 160 cents adds a Berliner Earliest Cauliflower package. Names John A. Salzer Seed Co and locations appear with tantalizing yields and many flower varieties.
A Chicago News summary reports Senator Johnston of Alabama, living in a Birmingham home, gardened in overalls when a fashionable visitor questioned his long service and wage. He humorously deflects, noting marriage binds him to Mrs Johnston for life, while the visitor calls it peonage.
In Kansas City police arrest Sunday musicians while several Philharmonic participants named Beethoven Rosini Mendelssohn Chopin and Wagner escaped. The marshal asks grand jury to issue warrants for those listed on the program. Separate reports note halls of Congress actions on peonage suffrage army pay consular service and naval affairs.
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