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Newspaper
Jeffersonville Star
Location
Jeffersonville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1920
Page
2
Fragmented OCR text describes a wartime trench art story with damaged names and unclear events. It references a photographer for face reconstruction and mentions individuals and places in a garbled fashion implying a personal or wartime drama surrounding injuries and identity.
A courtroom recounts a street scene over a bet at a cigar shop. A man admits striking another after a dispute over a $10 wager tied to a game score. The judge notes a ten dollar fine and considers responsibility, with the Chicago News cited for background.
In Brook street Buckland's hotel transforms into a Guards club site featuring a sound proof Handel suite named after the composer who lived there. It provides musically inclined visitors a place to practice instruments like piccolo or bagpipes without disturbing other guests.
The text traces two names for a cornmeal cake. A journey-cake equals a johnny-cake, made from Indian cornmeal with milk or water, salt, and baked on a griddle or toasted. When baked on a shingle before coals it was called journey-cake for its speed.
A Sunday School scene has a teacher and a young student discussing Peter and an error as well as a running joke about mushrooms. The brief reflects a light, older newspaper tone and uses simple moral context.
Lesson centers on David’s adultery with Bathsheba and Uriah’s murder, then Absalom’s revolt and David’s grief. It highlights idle living as temptation, the cost of sin, and the sorrowful royal response as a moral warning and reflection of divine justice.
A prayer asking for thanksgiving, love for God and neighbour, and forgiveness through Jesus Christ. The text pleads for inspiration toward good deeds, sincere repentance, and cleansing by the Lord, ending in a plea for blessing and grace.
Sir Matthew Hale says keeping the Sabbath has brought singular comfort and advantage. He notes that Sabbath observance blesses the rest of the week and makes the week ahead blessed and prosperous.
A theological exegesis explains the need for spiritual rebirth through the Holy Spirit. It argues that without regeneration, a person remains in spiritual ignorance and weakness, citing scripture to show that true life, knowledge, and power come from surrender to and acceptance of Jesus Christ.
A compact reflection notes that recollection is the sole paradise from which we cannot be expelled, attributed to Richter.
A reflective quote attributes guilt to a man who accepts wrongdoing and feels a sting in his soul, conveying a moral judgment on conscious guilt and self-awareness. The line emphasizes inner torment as a measure of true responsibility.
A fragment discusses how doing good deeds grants a longer better life. It frames moral action as a path to personal improvement, mixing aphorism with a hopeful tone. The text hints at philosophical and religious perspectives on righteous living.
Fragmentary words hint at a meditation on happiness, contrasting feeling with thought. The readable bits suggest a philosophical reflection without clear subject or context.
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