David Captures Zion
A brief religious note highlights David’s capture of Zion as described in scripture, referencing 2 Samuel and noting the authority of the text. The item emphasizes biblical events and their historic or spiritual significance.
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Newspaper
Algona Courier
Location
Algona, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 13, 1907
Page
3
A brief religious note highlights David’s capture of Zion as described in scripture, referencing 2 Samuel and noting the authority of the text. The item emphasizes biblical events and their historic or spiritual significance.
The sermon urges pressing forward past obstacles, citing King David’s refusal to rest after becoming king. It frames the Jebusite stronghold as a test of courage, arguing progress requires hard work, risk, and perseverance. Victory brings glory to the nation and blessing to the hopeful, with a biblical reference to overcoming as a path to exaltation.
David feels content and fulfilled after his anointing as king over Israel. He enjoys the promised peace, wealth, and authority with Jerusalem as an impregnable stronghold, while the nearby Jebusites pose only minor depredations. He questions why to worry about open threats when his rule seems secure.
David wrestles with inner doubts about conquering Jerusalem from the Jebusites. Encouraged by conscience and faith in the Lord, he leads a daring night ascent through a water shaft, using the lame and the blind on the walls to motivate him. The city falls, and he proclaims the site the city of David, praising Judah’s beauty and the kingdom’s future.
Two young English syntrel from a Zoological Society meeting showed color change from chestnut brown to light drab with ears and feet retaining traces of the original color. They were taken from a nest as young and raised by a cat foster-mother, suggesting the color shift.
In Melbourne a movement seeks a statue for John Batman founder of the city. Seventy two years since Batman tied his boat to a tree near the custom house and wrote this will be the place for a village. The village grew into a city of over 509,900. Batman did not live to see its full beginnings.
The Earl of Surrey later Duke of Norfolk, famed for drinking and scandal, was so unclean that servants washed him during fits of drunkenness. He detested clean linen, and at Dudley North’s club he complained of rheumatism to which North replied with a sharp quip about trying a clean shirt.
The National Druggist notes Dr. Augustus Charles Bernays, famed for pioneering Caesarean sections and gallstone surgeries, was expelled by the American Medical Association despite saving thousands. It accuses the AMA of overreach and hints at a looming medical hierarchy, urging vigilance against a closed shop. Also mentions Salvation Army emigrant shipments to Canada.
The article discusses section honey production using comb foundations, preferred equipment, and practices to start bees early with bait sections. It highlights swarming as a major hurdle, and offers remedies: ample space, shade, ventilation, and careful hive management to reduce excessive swarming while maximizing surplus honey. It cites C P Dadant as a leading extractor honey producer and notes large hive practices with minimal swarms.
The article notes winter wind and snow seepings through cracks in a chicken house built with pine lumber. It advises external battens to block drafts and interior sealing with crude oil or coal tar to repel mites, aiming to keep the coop warm in cold months and protected in summer.
The piece argues against keeping aging roosters on farms as they consume feed without contributing value. It suggests shipping away such birds when traveling to town and criticizes the surplus of such birds on farms. The tone warns against maintaining low-quality farm stock rather than pure bred, high scoring birds.
A report from Onitaria station argues against dry mash feeding but suggests mash once daily, preferably mornings, to aid digestion. It notes substitutions such as sprouted grain soaked grain and occasional corn, with claims that warm mash reduces sickness and aids indigestion, especially on small farms with limited greens.
A Missouri Valley farmer suggests installing a dropping board in the chicken house to simplify cleaning. Clean once every fifteen minutes per week can handle over 100 hens, and covering the board with ashes or slaked lime after cleaning helps sanitation. Level roosts prevent crowding.
The piece advises keeping feeding dishes clean and nests clean with daily fresh straw, stressing that success in poultry depends on both small details and big factors. It urges charcoal and grit, pure cool water, and avoiding stagnant drink. notes that many country folk earn money from flocks and that imports keep egg supplies ample.
A historical note asserts a cure all in poultry yard management emphasizes preventive use. It mentions no need for stimulants ragging tonics and other makeshift remedies, presenting a simple approach as the main remedy.
Readers from Brooklyn and Oakland report recovery from catarrh of the stomach after using Peruna. Miss Mary O'Tirien credits five weeks of use for relief from four years of distress. H.7 Henpeman notes renewed appetite, weight gain, and improved health. Miss Julia Butler describes restored sleep and appetite, with strength and health returning. Catarrh here linked to indigestion and gastritis, with claim that removal of the catarrhal condition brings lasting benefit.
A husband and wife joke about economizing for a week of trout fishing as the wife presents old fly papers she saved, quipping that he said he would buy flies when fishing. The exchange reflects frugal habits and familiar domestic humor.
An old testimonial advertisement touts Hall's Catarrh Cure as effective for throat and sinus issues. It features figures like C. Cheney Co and Wateing Kinson Marvin as wholesale druggists and includes a promise of a free testimonial and a reward offer for curing persistent catarrh.
The Pilgrim Congregational church near London, founded in 1616, is hailed as the oldest in the denomination and its legacy includes recruiting London’s Mayflower men. References to remedies and slogans appear among unrelated OCR fragments.
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