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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 10, 1889
Page
7
Poetic exhortation to endure hardship in combat, praising endurance and the spiritual prize. Emphasizes no fear of wounds, continual striving, and the belief that divine life is carried in struggle. Addresses courage, persistence, and the joy of striving even in defeat.
In a Blackpool area mining community Rough Jack plots to attack the Forrester family over wages and discipline. Young Jim, a trusted collier boy, betrays no fear as a hired moment of mercy ends in a reluctant truce. Harry Forrester intervenes to save Jim, and Jack, moved by the act, pacifies his gang with a promise to mend.
A new automatic station device, a message cabinet, lets hurried or forgetful passengers leave notes for a penny. The machine records the message on a slip, stores it inside, and later reveals it to the sender by turning a handle and displaying in a fibrous column. The system promises secrecy and impartial delivery to the correct recipient.
The article surveys evolving mourning dress and ladies wear, noting dull black shades and child mourning in New York terms. It highlights new maid livery in England, exotic home decors, wig and scalp artistry for royalty, and shifting trends in fabrics, colors, and accessories shaping summer wardrobes with numerous named styles and materials.
A compact collection of aphorisms on virtue burdened by typos and mixed capitalization. Lines urge charity, wisdom, home, motherly love, passion restraint, and confidence in success while debating virtue versus vice with fragmented phrasing.
A historical note describes Boston canned goods, detailing Finian Huddies cans and smoked New England haddock, along with mackerel, sardines, and herring sold widely. It explains boarding lines for a coast fishery, the canning of clams and chowders shipped inland, and lobsters boiled and prepared similarly for export.
A Russian industrial journal notes Caucasus pyrethrum flowers supply insecticidal powder sold under names like ineed powder and death to insects. Dalmatian flowers are white. Caucasian blooms fetch higher prices when scarce. Exported Caucasus pyrethrum is now shipped as cut stalks, dried in shade, and kept pure, with issues of mislabeling and mixing with other flowers observed.
W Martindale in London Padua Opinion recounts a Corsican student famed for vast memory. Attested by four Venetian nobles he memorized 96 000 words, repeating them in order, backward, and by every alternate word to prove flawless recall. Moretus calls him the most extraordinary man he has met.
A condensed excerpt from Rev C H Parkhurst praising the cross as divine love and sacrifice. The text links the cross to cosmic imagery, God’s holiness, and the need to see sin in the light of that holiness, urging consecration and moral steadfastness through faith in Christ’s crucifixion.
The piece argues for happiness as a Christian duty, praising joy in nature and faith, citing Wordsworth Coleridge and Goethe to illustrate how joy supports duty. It warns against gossip and moral laxity, noting a Lords debate on liquor trade in Africa and the need for stronger restrictive measures to curb alcohol’s harms.
A Roman Catholic pledge campaign led by Cardinal Manning echoes in Brooks as St Peter’s parish builds a temperance movement. Father explains that many Catholics live near rum shops and vows to strike at the root of drunkenness, urging firm action despite saloon opposition. Prohibition discussions flood editorials from Pittsburg Leader and local reports on enforcement and public welfare.
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