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Newspaper
The Progress
Location
Shreveport, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 07, 1893
Page
2
An assortment of historical notes and anecdotes covering health rumors about alcohol and contagion, wildlife curiosities, political figures, World’s Fair impressions, and personal portraits. The text mixes stray facts, deadpan humor, and brief personality sketches without a single cohesive story.
Fragmentary Sunday School note on faith and justification through Christ. Discusses peace with God through justification, the love of God poured out by the Holy Spirit, and the believer’s union with Christ. Emphasizes tribulation producing patience, hope, and the life of faith in Christ.
Sept. 30 event in St Louis carnival crowds march through St Lane in Hillatine with spectators filling the streets and notable attendance by travelers in a metropolitan west and southwest setting.
The city houses more than 75,000 lights with over half electric, downtown arches vying for attention as panoramas flash colors and traffic halts. Notable displays illustrate American letters of life and a U S Spain eagle showing under the glow, with ten more electric attractions and rail rates cited as low.
A fragmentary note describes souvenir spoons showing different ships from a naval review sold in silversmith shops. It mentions a double headed limbrd found near The Dalles with heads and feet arranged to propel either direction. A corkscrew free cork and patent loops on bottles are noted as innovations.
The article surveys the post office department costs and revenue, notes Massachusetts women living past 80, mentions female spiders as larger and more ferocious, cites a Babylonian financial book from 700 B.C., and ends with a fragment about Herastle flewt on re.
The Bowery era saw early car lines with 0 horses and 2000 cars, expanding to nineteen railroads carrying hundreds of millions of passengers annually. The Victoria Cross tale referenced a Maltese make and a famed act of bravery, linked to Sebastopol.
An English paper recounts a humorous incident of a lady searching a pew for a purse after a hansom ride on Market Street in Shreveport Louisiana. A learned clerk at Vermont Supreme Court is noted for sharp remarks about dismissing idle docket entries amid a case of notable value before Judge Chate.
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