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Newspaper
The Progress
Location
Shreveport, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1896
Page
10
Scattered excerpts discuss public mood, clerks, and praise culture alongside notes on currency redemption errors. Reports on kite photography by William A Holdy, Whistler portrait gossip, royal birth laws, and Vanderbilt divorce cases provide a mosaic of era hinges.
Washington reports a Talmage sermon urging young men to resist temptation and pursue industrious, religious lives. He warns that neglecting Sabbath rest and indulgence in false ambitions lead to ruin, urging steadfast faith, home roots, and personal discipline as defenses against sin and decline.
Sir Thomas Browne, a physician who devoted leisure to science and letters, became a leading authority on British zoology and botany. He coined commensality to describe living together at the same table and pioneered the scientific study of graves and their contents while detailing anatomy of animals such as the horse, pigeon, beaver, badger, and whale. He examined animal metabolism and gait, swimming, and buoyancy, contributing notes on the sperm whale and broader natural history.
Bar Harbor residents discuss virtue during off season as saloons close and prohibitory law enforcement rises. A Sunday closing push for all stores follows the season’s end, amid social tensions and calls for moral reform. The text also notes dissatisfaction with medical cures and jokes about widower marriage bans.
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