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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1889
Page
7
A grandmother and child Dot weave and wind a skein, facing knots both in wool and in behavior. The tale follows patience, discipline, and a moral about temper, truth, and youth’s knotty lessons as lessons echo into later actions and Sunday shoes.
The article surveys illnesses linked to various professions. Engravers, lapidaries, watchmakers, and seamstresses suffer eye strain, finger spasms, and arsenic or lead poison from dyes and threads. Sewing machines draw debate on female health, while writers, musicians, singers, actors, and teachers face pharyngitis and fatigue. Rail workers endure spinal effects from vibration. warns of long-term harm and urges prayer and moral reflection.
An Eastern potentate asked courtiers who they thought superior the man or his father. A witty courier answered that the father was superior because he had a greater son, prompting the demotion of the would be flatterer.
The Chicago Times notes the eastern point is Quoddy Head Maine the northern Point Barrows Alaska the western Alton Island and the southern Key West Florida from these four extremities the article examines the nation’s geographical center.
A sermon-like meditation urges Christians to be beacons of guidance like a lantern in a hut and a Christ-led life. It discusses knowing Christ by intimate acquaintance, faith anchored in God’s word, and trials as means to strengthen faith. Also notes temperance concerns and social issues observed in Whitechapel and broader America.
A set of temperance anecdotes from The Outlook recount a French corporal spared by a merciful colonel on the condition he never drink again, a farmer trading sheep to curb drinking, and a Chicago delegate probing temperance influence. Other vignettes discuss a man’s death by drowning after drunkenness and a verdict allowing damages from liquor suppliers, illustrating alcohol’s penalties and moral lessons.
James McCrispin of Kensington, a Philadelphia suburb, now has six children with the birth of a second pair of twins within twenty months. The family already welcomed Sammie and Johnnie, and Katie and Jennie arrived recently. McCrispin, a tank builder, notes a long twin lineage through relatives.
President Henry Morton reviews factory methods for making dynamos and incandescent lights with illustrations from this country’s largest plants. The issue also notes Harper and Brothers forthcoming The Quiet Life poems by Austin Dobson with Abbey and Parsons illustrations. Back issues of The Century Lincoln History are cited, with high print runs and availability. An advertisement for Dobbins Electric Soap promotes its value, followed by an appeal for information on Johanna Wilson, heiress to an estate in Ireland, last known in Webster City Iowa.
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