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Newspaper
The Progress
Location
Shreveport, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 08, 1898
Page
7
Dr Talmage extols a divine battle cry Let God arise to scatter enemies and urges faith in God first across reform efforts. He cites Cromwell and various faiths, denounces profanity, drunkenness, and social immorality, laments corrupting influences in cities, and calls for public moral purification and vigilance against vice.
The writer laments shallow morals corrupting cities and praises the White Cross movement while urging stronger laws and parental guidance to protect children and uphold virtue, calling on legislators and citizens to act before purity vanishes.
The Mississippi's largest steel hull, the Lintleyer, was floated at Lowe Iron Works in Datayne. It measures about 03 feet long, fifty six feet, eighty seven feet overall, with a depth of about 2 syne feet. Built for the Texas and Pacific Railway Company, it will be shipped to New Orleans during transfers.
A tropical hurricane battered Brunswick Georgia and surrounding areas, bringing 2 to 8 feet of water and winds 40 to 60 mph. Five feet depth inundated most business districts, with docks flooded and fires doused by rain. Losses run to half a million dollars, with railroads and ships heavily affected and several fatalities reported.
Mr Meekin asks Fenrietta if she will miss him when he goes to war. She replies with a sharp quip that Spanish marksmanship will determine how much he is missed, implying her own longing will be strong yet dangerous at home.
The hill near Jerusalem where Jesus was crucified is formed of limestone. The Dead Sea shores are lined with pumice stones ejected by a volcano that destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, cities said to have sunk beneath the Dead Sea.
The piece notes New York as the first chartered city in 1664. It then humorously remarks that after trimming pantaloons for years they become thin and immodest. A fragment mentions Carvera ships and a fire scene described as having blazes knocked out.
The Bayou Macon Baptist Association met at Wishsporo with many prominent preachers in attendance. Heavy rains caused widespread flooding across the parish damaging rice crops, delaying ginning and threatening yields. Monroe plans bond funds for schools, sewer, waterworks and electric light under a ten forty plan.
Wisconsin begins a traveling library for soldiers, providing 15 to 18 volumes per company in weatherproof boxes, with exchanges among companies. Reading matter funded by local people, plus paperbacks magazines and illustrated papers sent without returning. Buffalo imitates the plan in essence. The second fragment shows a courtroom exchange about belief and an oath.
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