Indiana Progress and Diverse 1892 News Items
A miscellany from Wepnerepar dated July 20 1892 reports on wealth concentration in America and rising art prices in Paris. It notes teaching the dumb to speak, a German dictionary by Dr Sander, and copper coin issues in England. Greece faces timber shortages and will import wood as building booms rise. Colby College graduates show mixed earnings, with Merrill leading at 1600. A Pittsburgh clergyman requests corporal punishment as a remedy to crime, while Cuba’s firefly reading light offers a novel illumination option.
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George Hodges
Pittsburg
Pearls of Thought On Beauty And Society
A reflective essay on human relations and culture argues that appreciation rests in moderate hope and kindness, true nobility fades with equality, beauty claims a special right, and wisdom lies in useful seeds over weeds. It contrasts memory, ego, and civilization with gentle service and lasting value.
Treed by an Elephant in India Safari Tale
An American traveler recounts a dangerous encounter while elephant hunting in India with Tagore. After a massive elephant attacked and toppled his tree, he escaped by leaping to a neighboring tree with Tagore’s aid and friends, vowing not to hunt elephants again.
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India
Tagore
Chicago Mail
Song Bird Destruction and the Audubon Legacy
A New York Forest and Stream note mourns the Audubon Society's 1838 disbandment and condemns fashion driven bird feather use. It cites an ornithologist comparing millinery killings to museum collections and cites a Florida trip slaughter. The piece laments ongoing bird destruction by both market and hobbyists, urging conservation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Audubon Society
New York Forest and Stream
Florida
Holding Back and Witherby Cad Talk About The Button
A fragment shows Von Blamer talking with Punk about a button near the cost, planning to alert his wife and save enough money to buy her a new crown. The exchange hints at a humorous or theatrical scene between characters.
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Witherby
von Blamer
Cadly
Buen
Punk
Imported Rail laborers suffer while awaiting due pay
The Reading Lancaster and Baltimore railroad laborers, promised $2,000, trek from Moinsville to Adamstown as police guard bridges over the Schuylkill. Many are scantily clothed and subsist on roots. some 9 dozen secured transport to New York while others seek funds from a syndicate.
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Reading, Lancaster and Baltimore
Moinsville
Adamstown
New York
Last Day at New York Christian Endeavor Convention
The final day of the Christian Endeavor convention in New York began with a Madison Square Garden prayer meeting led by H. B. Penn of Boston. About 10,000 delegates attended as reports from the Conferences Committee noted denominational rallies and a $1,500 missionary church fund in Salt Lake City. A Quaker rally featured D. Sankey on Christian Endeavor, while a St. Louis man mispronounced “Pantechnicon” at a local blood vessel society event.
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Convention of Christian Endeavor
New York
Madison Square Garden
H. B. Penn
Boston
Committee On Conferences
Re Tirectiones
Ef Shaw
Univety
Salt Lake City
Friends
D. Sankey
Congress and Labor Troubles Weather Trade Outlook
R. G. Dun Weekly Review reports fair crop prospects with weaker grain and cotton. Manufacturing active except iron works stalled by wage disputes. Silver bill passed Senate boosting gold exports and stock recovery. Iron and steel demand up amid Home stead strike. No. 1 anthracite priced at $1.50. Western trade growing. diverse regional improvements. Overall cautious optimism with labor issues easing and foreign trade steady.
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Congress
R.G. Dun & Co
Senate
Homestead
Thomas Company
Eastern Works
Cleveland
Cincinnati
de Oit
Chicago
Wisconsin
St Paul
Minneapolis
Omaha
Kansas
St. Louis
Nashville
Savannah
New Orleans
United States
Canada
Labor rioters threaten non-union miners in Coeur d Alene
A renewed violence report from Washington notes three non union miners killed by union men as Frisco mine is blown up by dynamite. Women and children evacuated to safety while union fighters vow to expel all non union workers from the mining district.
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Stoxam
Wasu
Coeur d'Alene
Frisco
METALS AND MARKETS FROM PITTSBURGH AREA PRICES LISTED
Wholesale prices for grains flour and feeds shown, including corn oats rye and flour types with per bushel or hundredweight figures. Dairy prices listed for butter cheese and eggs, plus fruit vegetables and miscellaneous items, followed by a live stock report from Liberty Pittsburgh yards detailing prime steers bulls calves sheep and yearlings with weight and price ranges.
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Pittsegag
Ohio
Elgin Creamery
New Cr'mail
New York
Atin Bey
Ees
State
Pénn
Pittsburg
Ministers and drunk man meet on road and prayer saves him
In 1870 or earlier near Aberdeen, three ministers found a drunken man in a ditch. One insisted on witnessing, kneeling to pray, and the man repented. The cottage hosts learned a prayer meeting had prayed for him and his salvation. Years later he remained a living example of faith’s power. A seaside Christian anecdote followed about a microscoped view of sin and the need for Jesus blood.
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Aberdeen
Jesus
Bese
London Temperance Chronicle
London
England
Martin Luther Receives Full Receipt Against Sin
A folk saying recalls Martin Luther debating Satan with a long roll of sins. Luther admits all sins but asks for more, and finally urges that at the bottom be written that the blood of Jesus cleanses us from all sin. This sacred receipt cannot be questioned.
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Martin Luther
Satan
Luther
Busin .S
Martin
Jesus Christ
Revival teaching and principled service in church history
A compilation from Christian Press and Church and Home reflects on revivals, Church unity, and steadfast conscience. It cites Josiah’s Passover, Pentecostal prayer after Christ’s ascension, and Ezekiel’s promise, stressing that genuine revival follows fervent church desire and obedience. It also recounts Dr Campbell’s principled stance during the Prince of Wales visit to a London Blind Asylum, praised for consistency.
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Josiah
Israel
Samuel
Mary
Jesus
House of Israel
Ezek
Zion
Isa. Livi
Christian Press
Campbell
London
Prince of Wales
Temperance Notes Spark Wide Debate Across Lands
A historical temperance feature discusses Dr. N.8. Davis's critique of the belief that moderate drinking harms none, plus a parable of a beer drinker who switches to thrift. It notes temperance efforts in Australia Britain Nova Scotia and Samoa, including laws, unions, and notable activists like Mary Allen West and Frank Turner with regional incidents and proclamations.
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Australia
England
Nova Scotia
Canada
Geneseo
Women’s Christian Temperance Union
Mary Allen West
Sandwich Islands
Japan
Frank Curner
Samoa
Samos
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Indiana Progress
Wepnerepar
Paris
Sander
New South Wales Department of Agriculture
United States Department of Agriculture
Greece
New York Sun
Colby
Reynolds
Walioch
Stoss
Wadsworth
Hurd
Nichola
G. A. Andrewa
Merrill
Storer
Sturvevant
Singer
Coal Beaver
Miss Sibley
Miss Beekman
Mica Knight
Cuba
Waita
THE
State College
Pennsylvania State College
Pattison
William
Keck
Lehigh County
Henry Davis
Philadelphia
Martin Eppley
Carlisle
Thomas White
Inghram
Greene County
Ofohn McHenry
Center Township
Cuantes Hespecer
Phillipsburg
William D. Walace
Frederica J. Smith
New Castle
Carnegie Company
Dean
Ira White
Washington
Gyonce Hammond
Joan Hammond
Wheeler Mines
Uniontown
Epward
Clara Gronoxs
Shenandoah
Ente
John Kline
Tulpehocken
Bethlehem
Mt. Carmel
John Monathiles
Huntingdon
Witchett, Baugh & Co
Mann's Choice
Bedford County
Orrraton Hayes
Kelly
Brown
Harrisburg
Philip Munil
Bellefonte
Dr. Gurnsey
Clearfield County
Mars
Porrmsey
Wilkesbarre
Berrying
Phe
Mahonoy City
Leyi Kline
James Gallagher
Potts’s Hill
Lancaster
Frank Musser
Wellsboro
Grance
Qricley
Christian Endeavorers
Pantechnicon
Bagis
God
Sin
Epworth Herald
Progressive Party
New House of
Aoe
Independent
Germany
Wm. Boe
N.8. Davis
International Medical Congres
London Pathological Society
George Key
Hee
Aatiyalea
Poseesaion
Ford Ward
Mass
Puck
Stare
Oma
Cirr
ToLapa
Fanne J. Coney
F. J. Custiny & Co
Bresenor
A. D
Mazz Thorary Hal
Acta
de Hozsie
A. P. Hoe
Pittsburgh Chronicle
Associated Proas
Ni Press
Bescham
Isaac Thompson
Dr. Sage
Hood
Mrs. Sutherland
Anna Sutherland
PN U Ou
Pemuereehres
Bre Kila
W. L. Douglas
Ted
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