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Newspaper
The Progress
Location
Shreveport, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 10, 1894
Page
6
A jumbled compilation covers diverse topics from economics and industry to culture. It notes canal investments in New York, evolving crime trends toward train robberies, a London praise of American kindness, a proposed new magazine in New York, and details on rituals of public art, frost warnings, and a Masterman portrait controversy in New London.
A detailed look at Bank of England note paper highlighting its whiteness and fine texture, water marks created by steel dies, linen component purity, and manufacturing precision. Notes are five by eight inches, weighing eighteen grains pre sizing, with variable thickness for sharp impressions and security features to deter forgery.
An Ohio woman, Mrs Slattie A. Robinson of Dayton, has risen to supreme chief of the Pythian Sisters. She was the first Ohio woman to sign a charter and later served as grand chief and supreme senior as the order expanded nationwide. She has held high rank in other orders as well.
The article discusses whether the discourse on the Mount is Mathews abridged version or a separate delivery. It places Jesus on the Horns of Hattin, teaches the Beatitudes and the Law of Love, and contrasts riches with spiritual poverty. A humorous ending follows about a pie theft in a boarding house.
An entertaining bulldog mascot named Jack Napoleon owned by William F. Murphy draws attention at bicycle meets. He wears a stovepipe hat and eyeglasses, smokes a briarwood pipe, and barks or growls with team triumphs or losses. At 13 years old he still enjoys three meals daily and has a monkey named McGinty as a riding companion.
A Georgia public school lists a pupil described as a forty three year old negro woman. Global coffee prices are listed by country from high to low with France at $310 a ton down to Great Britain at $70. The shah of Persia owns a twelve inch Shetland pony, smaller than Baroness Burdett Contta’s famed miniature.
A Rochester Democrat and Chronicle report describes a near disaster when a lightning strike illuminated a line ahead, revealing four stationary freight cars on the track. Engineer Ed Koer and fireman Schaffer applied brakes as the locomotive jolted and nearly derailed, saving over 200 passengers.
A small village near Boston hosts a circulating library with one open day weekly. A dignified local woman and community leader browses the catalog with a friend. She remarks on The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table by Holmes and praises Mary J. Holmes writings as consistently good.
A lively scene backstage with a box office clerk noting a big crowd and $900 in the house. Rich Patton needles critic Mr Blank as a newspaper deadhead while Te dais Siftings and family anecdotes headline a quirky page of society talk and linguistic misunderstandings.
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