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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 27, 1892
Page
3
A混sized collage reports on San Francisco's Japanese community, George Eliot quotes in The Dallas News, Montanan miners who sign late, and the Denmark silver service for a golden wedding. It cites Empress Eugenie and Empress Elizabeth, a New Jersey membranola leather venture, and German reflections on cavalry reviews and peasant labor. Warnings on dam safety in Pennsylvania and cloudburst flood threats anchor the piece.
A Pennsylvania narrator recounts a fall chestnutting trip with Leroy Lyman that turns into a brutal deer fight. He wrestles a wounded buck in a creek, uses stones and a broken knife, and is finally defeated by the animal before Leroy emerges from hiding to claim the kill. The tale blends bravado with cautionary danger from the wild.
A collection of pithy maxims on faith, virtue, and temptation. It asserts God’s guiding hand in daily life, warns against deception, and emphasizes humility, generosity, and steadfast Christian conduct. It contrasts worldly urges with spiritual discipline and outlines tests of true faith.
An American lady, bent on originality, buys a wonderful dress whose trimming uses 1800 buttons of different colors shapes and sizes. There are 100 buttons on each sleeve 330 on the collar and the rest scattered across the garment.
A selection of maxims on virtue kindness and human nature. It urges generosity keeping promises with children and treating others with equal regard. It compares essential truths to air blood light and liberty and notes wisdom comes from seeking advice learning from mistakes and valuing love.
Accounts describe ostrich mating groups with hens laying 25 to 35 eggs, male incubation, and dramatic brooding shifts leading to fatal clashes between old males over broods. Also cited are worms shaping sands in Holy Island and Northumberland, with estimates up to 3,146 tons per acre yearly and potential inches of sand moved, showing how collective action creates landscape order.
A fragment from a New York dialogue shows Old Friend advising to keep wife informed. De Broker jokes that he always tells her of his loases and gains, highlighting a humor about married disclosure.
An old temperance missive urges warning against drink. It cites a Melbourne style call to ban alcohol, praises abstinence, and quotes Rev H P Doyle, C S P, on how liquor harms body, civil life, and spirits, comparing alcohol to a disease and intruder in a family.
The article compares Britain's 1891 drink expenditure to the United States, noting UK spending around 706 million dollars or about 16 dollars per person, with rising total intoxicants but a shift toward more beer and less distilled liquor. It argues British heavy drinking is waning and cites temperance optimism.
In Mendocino County Wisconsin a lumbering town of 1103 people has thirteen saloons and a mill payroll of 29090 a month with over 5000 spent at the saloons. Nearby there is another town where payroll is 1200 a month and none is spent on liquor. The mill company owns the town site, forbids saloons, and funds a church and minister.
The Feuille de Hygiene et da Politique Sanitaire of Neufchatel argues that small daily glasses of liquor can covertly transform a good citizen into an alcoholic. Habitual moderation binds individuals to drink and often causes harmful hereditary and after effects, while many underestimate the danger of such use.
A scattered temperance roundup notes Branca wine output, hospital expansions, and Canada’s revenue versus expenditure on drink. It cites Auburn Maine police staffing, industry moves to ban intoxicants at events, vine destruction in France, rail workers’ tobacco and alcohol use, a Kansas representative claiming an old Illinois liquor sale ban near fairs, New York excise law favoring saloons, Harriman Tennessee liquor opposition, a book dealer fined for giving liquor, and an appeal on prohibition legality.
Readings on walking in faith and resisting worldly currents. A sermon style reflection by J E Hurlbut urges trust in God through tragedy and aligns life to Thy will. It contrasts sorrow with spiritual illumination and a later exhortation on enduring worldly pressures via spiritual steadfastness as taught by Spurgeon.
James E. Murjoule recalls a quiet dawn moment when President Lincoln knelt by an open Bible and prayed for wisdom to lead the nation. The scene, after Bull Run, shows Lincoln crying out in sorrowful tones for divine guidance.
Excerpted from Guide to Holiness, the piece argues that iniquity venues would answer that Christians should be spotless while many professing believers crave some sin. It laments that regenerate life fades in some, diminishing the desire for entire purity.
Between twenty and thirty years ago three English boys played in a wood-lodge one summer forenoon. One boy prays, recalling his morning prayer before joining the others. He grows into Captain Hammond, who served Queen and country nobly, and fell leading his men at the Redan during the siege of Sebastopol, a faithful soldier of Christ as well.
A speaker argues that a person’s character on Sunday shapes trust in work and life. He cites a bank employee fired for Sunday use and a potential cashier trusted for refusing work on the Sabbath. A large employer warns against leisure Sunday riding and occasional liquor. The message exhorts boys to honor the Lord’s Day and Bible teaching.
The Bible is large or small by the reader's spirit and heart. Wise scholars may find it sealed without the Holy Ghost teaching. Its truths are hidden from the prudent and revealed to babes. Remember to seek the Spirit when you read.
The text cites ancient replies to calumny by Epic tetus Anaximander and Plato as virtuous attitudes toward reproach, then contrasts with Chicago’s 6000 saloons selling 2,021,696 barrels of beer costing over 40 million dollars. It argues money wasted on alcohol harms society and morale, urging saving for better homes and schooling.
A German anatomist reports after careful study that a woman's knee cannot sustain a standing posture. The finding prompts consideration of framing and displaying the decision in a public place.
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