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Newspaper
The Progress
Location
Shreveport, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 31, 1896
Page
10
A patchwork of quirky observations, small misfortunes, and letters from readers. Items include social foibles, odd accidents, a fire scene in St. Louis, a Bridgeport roof incident, a Fort Wayne court claim, and a violet-poison anecdote. Also references to biblical language studies, moonlight romance fails, a Newark telephone era humor, and stray remarks on Aramaic and Talmudic dialects.
A Talmage sermon uses farming imagery to urge deep conviction and personal reform. It links biblical agrarian references to sin, repentance, cross centered faith, and the need to reap grace now, with vivid scenes of threshing, garnering, and heavenly harvest.
A fragment notes that the linen cloth used for mummies, though thousands of years old, remains worn by Arabs of today. The text references Egyptian cloth and ancient wrapping practices, hinting at enduring linen utility across eras.
A fragmentary museum of ad copy and sensational tidbits runs through a 19th or early 20th century page. It mentions a canary owner and odd quirks, then pivots to health quackery and tonics promising quick cures, with Ludic brand names and booster lines about speed, vigor, and a rapid cold cure.
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