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Newspaper
Mooresville Guide
Location
Mooresville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 21, 1898
Page
3
Dr. Talmage argues women should seek honorable occupations beyond marriage and home. He lists professions from stenography to flower work, penmanship, teaching, and factory roles, noting a post Civil War shift that expanded female employment. He offers religious encouragement and frames toil as a virtuous calling.
A fragment praises women across history and present, naming figures like Maria Takrzewska and Helen Chalmers, and honoring countless unnamed heroines whose courage and sacrifice fought battles unseen and unrecorded by the world.
A fragmented notice describes a western New King area entertainment auction with peculiar buyers and a public sale. It notes an unusual description of attendees and odd goods including food provisions, with a focus on quirky items and the auctioneer’s remarks as bidders gather.
A sunbeam enters Roy's world in a rainbow of reds oranges yellows greens blues and violets. It dances on Roy and his white waist then on his collar as he exclaims to his mother. His mother explains the sunbeam dressed in bright colors to make him happy in the glass house.
Boston reports show New England manufacturers unable to compete with southern mills as 135,000 workers face wage reductions. In Biddeford 3,200 refuse to work closing two mills, Lewiston's 400 weavers stay out, and New Bedford mills enter a protracted industrial battle testing discipline and solidarity.
Incoherent text fragments describe unclear events with possible names and places obscured by OCR errors. Unable to determine a coherent main item, persons, or organizations from the provided snippet.
Serious rioting erupted in Paris on Sunday tied to Zola's attack on the government over Captain Dreyfus's imprisonment for alleged disloyal letters. Protesters shouted death to Jews as bands of students roamed the streets damaging a house mistaken for Zola's. Dispatches warn the republic faces great danger.
United States Commissioner of Patents Benjamin Butterworth of Washington died at 3 15 this afternoon in Thomasville Georgia. He had come to recuperate from pneumonia and had improved until two weeks ago when uremic convulsions followed. His wife and children were at his bedside.
New York report states Logan Carlisle chief clerk of the Treasury under the last Cleveland administration died suddenly at his father's home, John G. Carlisle ex Secretary of the Treasury. He had been ill over a year and recently returned from Hot Springs. Heart failure listed as the cause. Burial set for Covington Kentucky.
Adam Furl aged seventy eight died Saturday morning after a long illness attributed to the grip and old age. He was a prominent Lafayette business leader, first president of the Lake Erie and Western Railway and associated with other railroad ventures. He also led the Belt Railway Land Improvement Company.
Christopher Auger a retired national army officer died of old age at home in West Washington Sunday. He served with General Grant in Mexico and throughout the Civil War and held commands in frontier uprisings. He lived in Washington after retirement and was survived by his era West Point classmates.
Charles Pelham Villers, long serving member of Parliament for South Wolverhampton and noted as a father of the House, died after a lengthy parliamentary career spanning the Plauss era. The report recalls his continuous service and prominence in the Commons.
Mrs Henry Keck drowned during a baptism at Ten Mile creek in Huntington West Virginia. Rev J C Enoch conducted a two month revival with twelve converts to baptism as the crowd watched along the banks. Mrs Keck’s weight and rushing water caused the immersion to fail and both she and the minister were pulled under. Mr Enoch rescued after an hour but she died.
The Merchants' Association surrendered after a nine day battle over ad rates. Newspapers, backed by unions and public support, won a higher rates agreement than before as merchants withdrew ads during the conflict.
Secretary Wilson says inoculation trials in Iowa and Nebraska show hog cholera can be cured and prevented at low cost. Trials cured eighty-two percent of sick hogs and protected healthy ones, with potential yearly savings and need for a Congress appropriation to distribute serum nationwide.
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