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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Feb 11, 1891
Page
3
A collage of late 19th century notes touches on church leaders, the Leipzig treason standard, France and U S rail construction, athletic interest, U S enlistments at Portland, Emma Abbott's fortune, New York lighting costs, dowry debates, California irrigation, oysters in Chesapeake Bay, Indian relations costs, and a Curio on Talleyrand and Mme de Stael.
The poem laments a forsaken garden haunted by memories of youth and past pleasures. Nettles and briars reclaim the site as moss covers paths where lovers once walked, and the speaker shares grief for beauty lost to time. The verse contrasts memory with mortality and lingering longing.
A Union Army scout recounts a 1867 desertion pursuit after a Sioux raid near the Republican River. He and Robinson were captured and held at an Indian village, where the scout used a mute persona to avoid harm while observing torture of Robinson and deception by Pawnee Killer. The escape finally came with a cavalry pickup. the narrative ends noting elephants might be tamed.
Religious reading discusses divine strength for the faint and shelter in God, with hymnlike reflections from Marianne Farningham and notes on Pauls epistles. It cites the phrase in Christ used seventy eight times, and remarks on images of motherhood in art as a universal face of the artist.
The text argues repentance is not mere avoidance of sin for profit or social gain. It cites private thoughts of a divine critic who says most men repent out of sorrow or fear, not true love of righteousness. True godliness must transcend worldly motives, or it will fail.
A Watchman reflection on providence and seemingly trivial events. It cites Lady Huntingdon and a wall hole that enabled a life-changing conversation, noting that God foresees outcomes of every personal effort and urges Christians not to despise civil concerns as they may aid spiritual good.
A bishop in Canada calls clergy to lead a united front against intemperance. He emphasizes personal teetotalism, collective action, and bearing the pledge banner. Clergy are to report New Year total abstainers in their parishes and enroll followers under the League of the Cross.
Governor Hill commutes a life sentence for a Sing Sing inmate from 1878 on the condition of five years total abstinence from liquor. If the convict drinks before the five years pass, the life sentence resumes and could be carried out. National Temperance reports the pledge as a safeguard against a dangerous offender.
A collage of temperance thoughts cites Hon James J Kilbreth on drinking as the root of crime and poverty. It cites 1889 English convictions for drunkenness, grog fallacy remarks by Lord Wolseley, and debates on life insurance risks linked to alcohol. It notes Pullman Indiana as a prohibition town and reports global temperance notes from Burma to St Johns Newfoundland.
A fragmentary page mixes street dialogue about food with advertisements for Dobbins Electric Soap and Hall's Catarrh Cure, plus assorted notices for medicines, books, and land sales. Includes brief allusions to Dr White's Pulmonaria, Dr Kling cures, and Tyler & Co listings. The tone resembles a late 19th or early 20th century urban newspaper page.
A World’s Dispensary Medical Association notice touts Dr Pierce’s Favorite Prescription as a universal tonic for female weakness. It promises guaranteed satisfaction or money back and offers a 160 page book, Woman: Her Diseases, and How to Cure Them, sent sealed for ten cents. Address Buffalo, New York.
Mrs. Sarah M. Black of Seneca Missouri reports two years of neuralgia affecting head stomach and womb with poor appetite yellow face dull head pain and mucus taste in mouth. After using August Flower she notes a wonderful improvement and claims a complete cure. testimonial from G G Green sole manager Woodbury New Jersey.
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