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Newspaper
Warren Ledger
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1887
Page
9
An archival line from The Ledger published in Warren Pennsylvania in 1887, noting editor office location at Basement Library Building at the corner of Third and Liberty streets. Proprietors listed as Reep Buos.
A temperance column praises the Supreme Court ruling overturning liquor interests. It lauds the decision as decisive, nonrandom, and comprehensive, noting foundational rights and community welfare arguments while contrasting Kansas and national perspectives. The piece blends religious rhetoric with legal analysis, concluding with praise.
Count Mickiewicz, returning from China, tells the New York Tribune that among China's better classes intoxication is nearly unknown. Drinking brandy leads to ostracism and isolation from respectable society. The high cost of liquor and distrust of intoxicated individuals render drinkers seen as fools or insane. Opium use is similarly frowned upon. A few missionaries among the Chinese elite could find a useful field of work in this country.
Dr J J Hansford argues alcohol as medicine provokes stomach irritation and reduced nourishment due to nerve impact. Temperance items cite Maine corn cans vs whiskey, Knights of Labor temperance gains, Paris drink shops growth, and a joint pledge outlawing liquor in home fishing fleets across several European nations.
A preacher contrasts destructive worldly amusements with lawful recreations and urges use of music gymnasium parlor games and charitable acts as wholesome sources of joy. He argues God made the world for all, but His children deserve special privileges and calls for practical goodness over pure pleasure.
A 19th century sermon fragment recalls the curse on the lukewarm, urges decisive devotion to God, and cites Be that believeth on me followed by a remark on faith’s power to enact greater works. It notes Rev Dr James Culross and temperance preacher Anders H. Berg preaching across Sweden.
Religious reading text portrays a speaker’s inner transformation as a woman’s words and a divine vision shift the narrator from fear to reverent acceptance. An ethereal scene unfolds with a white robed angel and a sense that earthly beauty pales beside transcendent pain and grace.
A son urges his father to join the church citing Christian doctrine and grace. The father counsels careful motive and true conversion, defining the church as Christ’s followers and the shepherds’ example as a model for prompt action, joy, and proclamation.
The piece argues that true preaching must strike at the heart of the spiritual life within people. It condemns indirect, evasive, or trivial sermons and urges ministers to be direct, thoughtful, and aligned with a higher spiritual aim to reconcile the soul with the divine. It notes hearers hunger for deeper, more purposeful proclamation.
Sir Wilfrid Lawson offers a proverb about never getting lost on a straight road, warning that attempting shortcuts and dodging principle leads to scrapes. He attributes the remark to a great man and cites Tom as fond of it.
A compilation of maxims on virtue and prudence. It warns that evildoers fear responsibility and aloneness, urges keeping out of harm, and extols cleverness, anticipation, and regular reckonings. It notes how standing in one’s own light creates shadows and advocates cheerfulness, self-reliance, and understanding in advocacy.
The article recounts numerous self-inflicted explosion deaths from the 1870s to the 1880s, detailing cases in Alsace, Suffolk, Scotland, Nitshill, Runcorn, Canterbury, Dunedin, Munich, Bois de Souloy, and the West Coast of Africa. It notes a pattern of deliberate suicide by blast, including a king on Falithe who used gunpowder to destroy himself and his palace rather than submit to Muhammadans.
In Full Moon Gulch the Belle of the West crews have secured timber during mid winter. Captain Jackson proposes using freshly fallen snow as sled each load slides down the slope to the park below. The plan likens snow slides to lightning and notes its potential usefulness despite fears of danger.
A lady tells her maid she will take a train at six and asks to be woken at five. The maid asks for guidance by ringing the bell a quarter to five so the mistress can wake herself to call at five. This dialogue from Youth's Companion captures a domestic routine.
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