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Newspaper
The Progress
Location
Shreveport, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 01, 1896
Page
11
A garbled OCR fragment from a Louisiana newspaper page mixes scattered names, places, and numbers with long stretches of indecipherable text. It references various people, dates, ships, and measures, but contains no coherent event or figure to anchor a clear news item.
Haford Miller, a Linden youth, reportedly improved dramatically after taking three boxes of Dr Williams Pink Pills for ills including dropsy. Witnesses credit the tonic with restoring vitality over about a year, noting a strong recovery from illness and a return to a lively, healthy state. The report cites local residents, a Linden druggist, and mentions the medicine’s availability by mail from Schenectady.
The article highlights the rising role of women in church service, focusing on the deaconess canon adopted by the 1889 general convention and its spread across dioceses. It notes flourishing schools in New York and Philadelphia, the training of laywomen for evangelical and philanthropic duties, and momentum to ordain educated women in diaconate roles, with literacy and teaching advances in big cities and plans for Japan.
A prominent aluminiia manufacturer asserts the veracity of claims about diaminium being used to craft artificial limbs and teeth. He notes its popularity and wide adoption in dentistry, horseshoes, military gear, racing shells, cooking utensils, and the construction of yachts and torpedo boats.
A mind reader shows his skill to a party of ladies and gentlemen by reading a newspaper through two folds of horseblanket. A young woman leaves, saying she will not stay in the calico dress any longer.
The late George Augustus Sala quipped that on his last visit to this country only the American pie had deteriorated, and he sharply criticized American desserts in a rebuke that reflected his sharp wit and travel writings.
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