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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1891
Page
7
A historical record notes that the charity association has served 37,626 people, provided meals for 570, furnished clothing and shoes for 1,033, and aided 540 women with sewing for 16,021 employee visits. It mentions 133 consumption cases treated, 783 securing temporary employments, and 83 fraud findings, plus fresh air and public bath departments.
A French inventor creates a small framework to hold a pill and directs liquid to wash it down. The idea mirrors prior methods by other men who claimed new powders aid administration. The report recalls a New York area note and mentions Japan’s refined cruelty in royal palaces and Ohio's constitution veto power.
The text describes historic timber drives on the Ottawa area with logs and squares: driving crews in knee breeches using log hooks, booms spanning rivers, and slides guiding logs to mills. It notes raft camps with cook houses, and mentions raft journeys from Chaudiere to distant falls, plus the use of cribs, slides, and central house on rafts. Also touches on protective tar methods for trees and wagon tire issues.
A fragmentary prose piece ponders military terms and metaphors, questioning artillery roles the funding of bayonets and the meaning of shell music within an imagined military lexicon. It playfully raises garbled phrases and cryptic questions about regiments, weapons, and reporting.
Chief Lot of the Lower Spokanes outlines causes of Native decline in health and diet. He advocates establishing phsiological and sanitary laws, local schools, and agricultural living to improve fitness and longevity. He notes disease among young men, school attendance at Chemawa, and successful farming as a path forward.
A report notes G Mateon brought a peculiar potato shaped like a male child head to the office on a Monday. The owner claims the lone specimen grew only on his land in the county, with Bondam and Gio. Record referenced in the inquiry.
A religious meditation opens with a prayer to bear burdens and seek calm amid fear and injustice. The piece urges patience, trust in the Lord, and restraint against anger, while envisioning a coming day when truth prevails. It blends poem with a parable about an antique ivory casket and moralizing reflection on character. It ends with a Christian testimony of a Japanese Confucian converting upon reading St Paul and the Gospel of John, recognizing divine light without quarreling over authorship.
Faith and prayer unlock Christ's power for believers and communities. Trust in Jesus activates his omnipotence, transforming the faithful into conduits of divine energy. Weak faith weakens action, for without belief the tap is shut and miracles fade from sight. The author urges steadfast, practical faith as the sole condition for Christlike works.
Dr B F Sample writes of a cautious passenger who reads the Bible to answer if there is a path to God save through Christ. The seeker questions, reads prophecies and gospels, and, moved by a star from an unexpected source, becomes an earnest inquirer, while faith endures despite trials.
A French scientist presents statistics claiming a large portion of the world’s most famous scholars are elergyme, suggesting a link between upbringing and learning success.
A long editorial blend condemns alcohol as a global scourge, praising temperance campaigns and a Russian village initiative that closed liquor stores, with Tolstoyan supervision and church support. It links abstinence to health, productivity, and social virtue, noting educational and moral implications across communities.
An aging monologue on alcohol warns of the ruin of husbands and wives, detailing a plan to profit from a drinker’s downfall and urging temperance. It cites drunkenness wrecks, prison, and poverty, with statistics on deaths, crime, and social harm from alcohol in England and regions like Fiji and Virginia.
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