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Newspaper
The Progress
Location
Shreveport, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 1897
Page
6
Shreveport notices a busy week with new Texas street brick buildings, a New Orleans excursion at 3.50 round trip, and the Thatcher Institute set to begin September 6. Local incidents include a rail switch derailment, dual fire alarms, mayoral culvert work, water improvements, boll worm worries, and ongoing paving progress amid fall rains.
A Monday night shooting on the Texas road left car repairer J D Worrell wounded in the back of the head by a single gunshot as he walked toward his boarding house. Worrell believes robbery was the motive. he had earlier changed two ten dollar bills in a saloon, which a local bum noted and sought to engage him about. The assailants fled after firing.
Worrell says three men lurked after he cashed a check at Mr. Johnson's Monday. He was wounded and sought aid at Mr. Mosely's boarding house where a physician treated him. Chief Nelson leads the investigation. residents urge patrols as the parish warns of rising danger with new shops opening.
The Cotton Belt route sells round trip tickets from Shreveport to Buffalo for the National Encampment of the G A R in Buffalo August 23 to 28 1897. Dates of sale are August 20 and the return limit is August 31.
One of America's most unique figures, Dr William F Warren, president of Boston University, has guided the school from a small academy to global prominence. His brother Neary W Warren is a Methodist Episcopal bishop. Warren's intellect and scholarship shaped the university, influencing Epworth League graduates and church thought. His 1897 baccalaureate sermon Art Thou a Human Being? appeared in Zion's Herald June 2 and remains profoundly impactful.
A devotional message urges facing danger through trust in God. It contrasts fear with cowardice and emphasizes resting fears on divine protection. The piece cites Paul’s example and calls readers to fill the mind with God’s presence and trust, promising angelic guidance.
The text urges cheerfulness as a source of personal relief and help to others amid suffering. It argues that true good cheer comes from trust in God and hope in His promises, not frivolity, and promotes joyful endurance for His sake.
A Wisconsin Lutheran remark proclaims that a man deemed too large for work is equally too small to live, highlighting a moral or social stance attributed to the Lutheran community.
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