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Newspaper
The Progress
Location
Shreveport, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1896
Page
3
The devotional lesson urges youth to avoid drink and gluttony, stressing temperance as a duty. It cites Proverbs guidance on heart, speech, and the end of the wicked, warns against wine-bibbers and gluttons, and endorses truth, parental counsel, and the temperance pledge.
A sweeping roundup reports injuries from a Plaquemine accident and robberies in Algiers and St James. It covers a murder case in Alexandria, railroad injuries, a poaching case, a liquor law violation, a hijinks on a train and a rape charge in New Orleans. A mixed bag of local incidents, arrests and court actions across several parishes.
A miscellany of anecdotes and facts spanning literature music and politics features in this fragment. It notes Susan Anthony famed as a top U S brandmaker, mentions composers Grahms and Kaiser songs profits, cites pensioner David McCoy aged 104 and Hosea Brown at 102, and records a quirky tale of a sheriff election in Wolfe County Kentucky ending with a shared spoils arrangement after a lot draw.
Hicks Phraser proclaims he owes everything to his wife while Wicks jokes he owes everyone in town. The two physicians debate a patient who is extremely rich and in need of consultation, highlighting humorous street chatter.
Sociation has a game protective in Texas. Lord Salisbury dislikes smoking and avoids smoking rooms. The most valuable sword in England is the Egyptian gift to Lord Wolseley, valued at 200000 dollars. A London newspaper column suggests the latest idea in its pages.
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