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Newspaper
The Progress
Location
Shreveport, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 07, 1896
Page
11
A sermon reflects on nature as a scriptural lesson, detailing a vivid autumn landscape and Genesis like expansions on God’s power. The speaker urges steadfast faith amid decay, praising creation, memory, and the promise of resurrection through Christ.
A London Tid-Bits item recounts a Sunday school fund scheme where Superintendent Mr Smart tests earning by paying each bar half a frown. Johnnie's crown money grows to a halo joke, while Thomas reports loss after a mix up with Johnnie. The tale ends with a pun on earned crown versus lost crown.
A North Dakota farmer drove his wagon across the boundary into Manitoba with oats and sold them to a Chrystal Jetty dealer for nine cents per bushel. A customs officer arrested him for duty evasion, noting the farmer believed free trade existed since Laufler's election. He must now pay ten cents per bushel.
A fourteen year old future premier, Lud Rosebery, delivered a notable speech at a volunteers dinner hosted by his grandfather. The juvenile oration, acknowledging a vote of thanks, was regarded as a strong early display of leadership and public speaking skill.
After a heavy snowfall the air becomes unusually clear as snow and rain remove impurities. The primrose is noted as an early flowering plant, its bloom aided by the conditions created by winter precipitation.
The New York Sun examines per capita tea and coffee consumption in the United States and Europe, noting Americans drink more tea than coffee on average while England leads in tea use. It compares US, Germany, France, Austria-Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, Russia, Canada, and other regions, with figures on yearly purchases and domestic versus foreign sugar and coffee imports.
At a coronation celebration a wealthy American girl attracted many admirers including Hing Chang, an East attaché. He offered to buy her, was told American girls aren’t commodities, and performed a ceremonial act of homage instead. He arrived with a retinue, bearing an enormous floral arrangement, and delivered a flowery oration translated for the girl and her friends.
In a Brooklyn courtroom a defendant pleads innocence to theft after being found with two chickens from a neighbor. He says he took the birds with permission and explains offering to help a jobless man, not to steal, while a barbed exchange with the accuser is recorded in lively dialect.
A California woman who took in washing won a $15,000 lottery and was then confined in an insane asylum after her husband refused to work. Moral: avoid lottery purchases yet continue washing. A Baltimore man used fly paper to trap fleas, covering his legs and walking around to spread the sticky traps, catching many fleas in the process.
A fragmentary report blends a legend of the largest age and whale encounter with stray notes on blind horses behavior and early writing implements. It weaves in historical allusions, jokes with a judge, and a brief item about a New York police mascot boy in uniform.
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