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Newspaper
The Progress
Location
Shreveport, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 05, 1898
Page
7
A short reflection explaining that living near Christ is the best way to know love and serve Him, emphasizing personal devotion over fault finding and urging deep near communion with Jesus.
A fragment reflects on tenderness and love in a woman's hands and a long life of good deeds. It contrasts a poetic homage with a church youth league growth discussion, noting rapid chapter formation then anticipated shifts toward broader organizing, unions, and training within the denomination.
Rev L P Tucker, elected president of the Epworth League of Vermont conference at the 1895 session, is a Vermont-born minister with a long state career. He converted at 10 and advanced from Sunday school teacher at 14 to local preacher by 20, studied at Montpelier seminary, and has served Johnson Wilmington Bradford and Northfield charges.
Methodists, Baptists, Episcopals, Catholics, and a Jewish congregation list pastors, service times, and Sunday schools for Jordan Street, Texas Street, and Fanin Street intersections. Also notes sermon times, prayer meetings, and league schedules. Market commentary discusses cotton fluctuations alongside grains, bacon, sugar, cornmeal, eggs, poultry, and oats with general instability and price watching.
A compact, era‑tinged reflection essay lines out paradoxes and maxims on faith, self, sin, and the restless urge to redefine beliefs. The piece weaves religious phrases with ironic quips about life, death, and a society convinced by the free gospel that costs nothing.
Mrs Abram Bond, a prominent figure, died last Saturday morning at her residence in the city at age 67. The obituary notes her status as presidenter and records the passing as a local loss to the community.
General local market quotations corrected weekly for round lots from first hands. Cotton prices across grades Ordinary to Good Middling listed with last week and today figures. Provisions, bread stuffs, coffee, tea, sugar, tobacco, esculents, seed potatoes and packing materials priced. Includes grains and feedstuffs, chickens, butter and turkeys with per unit values.
Readable items describe hides wool and leather goods with prices and tools. Entries include dry hides, sheepskins, tanned leathers, axes, plows, shovels, and iron fittings with unit prices and per-dozen or per-pound rates. Names and places are unclear due to OCR corruption but reference market trade goods and farming equipment.
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