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Newspaper
The Progress
Location
Shreveport, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 05, 1898
Page
23
The text emphasizes readiness to serve, noting that personal outreach is learned through practice and failed attempts. Philip embodies prepared obedience, showing patience, thorough duty, and swift response to spiritual prompting. The depth of devotion is shown by prompt, decisive action when duty is clear.
The piece recalls the first Methodist preaching place in the world in Bristol at the Horse Fair. It notes its opening by John Wesley in June 175 and mentions debt repayment, class system, and pew rents as early practices. Clergy including cis tren leys administered sacraments.
An account describes The Old Room in Bilstul England where Francis Asbury offered to work in America responding to Wesley. It notes Dr Coke being separated by Wesley to govern in America and found the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1784. The building now houses Welsh Calvinistic Methodists. Emnizeer chapel stands opposite on King Street and relates to Wesleyan era practices after Wesley's death.
Tangas Tapio notes that league topics this year focus on practical devotion. A Methodist Epworth League committee plans to shape evangelical meetings and sermon topics for a long trip toward substantiality.
An article in The Housewife outlines how heart and capillary health depend on diet, exercise, and bowel regularity. It warns that overeating, spicy foods, excessive meat, sugar, and alcohol damage circulation, while iron rich spinach aids digestion. lifestyle in city life accelerates vascular aging. It notes the role of nervous stimulation and concludes with a cautioned view on aging in forties.
A lively excerpt from Cincinnati Arvaicer shows Mr. Perry Patettic reacting with amused admiration to a temperance lecturer. He muses that if a man can move a crowd with such vigor, what could booze do to him or to society.
A nostalgic note describes maple sugar candy and how to melt it with a splash of water, boil until it smooths, and forms a waxy surface. It offers simple steps to spread onto surfaces and serves as a reminder of traditional maple confections.
Weekly market quotations show prices for grains, meats, breads, coffee, sugar, molasses, tobacco, and produce. Items include flour at 5.65 per barrel, sugar around 66-8c per pound, coffee near 81-2, onions 25 per bushel, potatoes around 6 per barrel, and various seed and bagging prices.
Fragmentary OCR lists various hardware items and prices including shovels chains hats and screws. Mentions like Kelly Pointe Buws Ida LL wi Shovels and Trace Chains per pir appear with scattered quantities and prices such as 19.99 and 125 per dozen. Result is a garbled catalog note from a hardware store.
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