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Newspaper
The Progress
Location
Shreveport, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1896
Page
11
A garbled report sketches varied social scenes including mentions of a duke of York gift list, women in chess, Japanese households, and guidance on infant water intake. It references individuals such as Mrs Taird and a Mr Duffey, with scattered notes on fashion, stage performance, and public behavior.
A mob in Vineland New Jersey battered down a door and seized Antonio Jano, accused of a brutal murder. In the cellar with him were his mother and brother, both claiming religious frenzy. The crowd reported the crime as a violent act stemming from a deadly feud.
Readable fragments reveal shells used in a house in Arizona and a claim that copper was the earliest metal used by man. Notes cover metals known today, gold fields in 1806, counterfeiting meteorites, a stained glass window paste invention, Alaska’s coastline, a Urals gold nugget, a petrified log with iron pyrite, and a coal efficiency test in Fall River.
A string of brief maxims contemplates sin and virtue, time, effort, conscience, and self judgment. It argues honesty earns reward, lost time cannot be recovered, and true character shows in action. The tone is didactic, urging moral conduct and self awareness.
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