Minute Sermon by Rev Karl Bayer on duty and sacrifice
The sermon Expounds Luke 17 10 duty as a hard but necessary path. It contrasts rights with obligation noting liberty as by product of obedience and happiness found through duty. It references Latimer and Christ as models and urges believers to walk the lowly path of duty toward God’s Kingdom.
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Karl
Bayerbury
Hugh Latimer
Latimer
England
Europe
Holy
Christ
Earth
It Really Cost to Mail Letters Back in Early Days of Texas
Telegraph and Texas Register (Houston) on February 28, 1842, explains new postage rules. A single sheet mailed within fifty miles costs twelve and a half cents, over fifty to one hundred miles eighteen and three fourths, over one hundred to two hundred miles twenty five cents, over two hundred thirty one and a quarter. Double letters pay double, newspapers within four hundred miles two cents, books and pamphlets per sheet same as newspaper postage. The law takes effect March 31 next.
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Telegraph
Texas Register
Houston
Hiccough Champ Brings Milwaukee Man to Bedbound State
A 70 year old Milwaukee man, Andrew Brunhart, suffers near constant hiccups for five days. He gasps 10 to 20 hiccups per minute, remains bedbound, and relies on an oxygen inhalator during his worst spells. Eating and drinking are hindered by frequent spasms.
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Andrew Brunhart
Milwaukee
Wis
Brunhart
Government Typists Sought For Immediate Federal Jobs
United States government seeks stenographers and assistants in Washington DC. Applicants must be 18 or older and not past their birthday on filing. Stenographers require 80 words per minute dictation. Salaries start at $130 monthly with room and board via the Defense Housing Register. Housing costs range from $20 to $88 monthly. Apply at the Civil Service board post office or the Tenth U.S. Civil Service District Office in New Orleans.
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United States
Washington, D.C
API
Defense Housing Register
Washiton
Washington
Clit Service Board
U.S. Civil Service di
New Orleans
Tin salvage drive to reclaim used toothpaste tubes
Newark reports the first shipment of 347 pounds of used tin tubes as the Tin Salvage Institute scales up a nationwide drive. Volunteers from drug stores nationwide funnel tubes to a centralized smelter, with WPB approval to ensure timely delivery for war needs.
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Newark
N. J
Tin Salvage Institute
United States
Los Angeles
America
War Production Board
Lee H. Bristol
The
Salvage Institute
Bristol
Romance Behind Screens in Tropics Warns Soldiers
New Orleans report advises soldiers stationed in the tropics to pursue courtship and night activities behind screen doors to avoid malaria bites, per Dr. Ernest C. Faust of Tulane University, parasitology professor.
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New Orleans
Tropics
Ernest C. Faust
Tulane University
New York Man Begs For Money to Pay Income Tax
Reinhold Backarth, arrested in the Bowery for begging, told Magistrate Ambrose J. Haddock in night court he was trying to raise $35 to pay his income tax. He said he worked steadily as a father until an accident four weeks earlier left him laid off and short of funds. Sentence suspended.
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New York
Reinhold Backarth
Bowery
Ambrose J. Haddock
Baccarth
Knits Sock a Day Keeps War Soothe in Modesto Family
Mrs. Eliza McPherson, 87, of Modesto, known from a fighting family, knits about one sock daily for the Red Cross as part of the nation’s wartime effort. Her son serves in the service, and she continues the charitable craft at home despite years.
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Eliza McPherson
Modesto, Til
Army enlistment drive seeks men 18 to 45 in El Paso
The United States Army solicits qualified men aged 18 to 45 for immediate voluntary enlistment. Married men eligible for support. Citizens with excellent character and skills in ordnance or mechanics prioritized. Rapid enlisted advancement with pay rise. post three months, opportunity to apply for officers training, four month course, commissioning as second lieutenants with pay from $140 monthly. Contact U S Army Recruiting Station Room 150 U Courthouse El Paso or Fort Bliss enlistment office at Fort Bliss street car line.
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United States Army
United States
U. S. Army
el Paso
Texas
U S. Army
Fort Bliss
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Oklahoma
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