The Christian Sabbath War on the Lord’s Day in America
Rev DeWitt Talmage condemns secular entertainments as a foreign invasion of the Christian Sabbath. He argues the day must be kept holy, citing New York law, contrasts Parisian Sunday culture with American quiet worship, and warns that Sabbath breaking threatens religion, society, and republican government.
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Church of the Living God
France
Napoleon III
Republic
Supreme Court
Lord's Artillery Corps
God
Church
Free Institutions of
America
One Step Forward in Duty with God
Worry fades when duty is clear to move forward one step leaving consequences to God. We cannot turn back or stand still, and the next step must be taken. If future trials arise, God will help us meet them. The rest lies beyond our present sphere. There is no comfort apart from intimate communion with God.
Presentation in the Temple Lesson Notes from Peloubet
The article outlines Luke 2:25-38 with the Presentation in the Temple Mary and Joseph offering rites for Jesus. It explains the poor’s offering and redemption of the firstborn, plus guidance on consecrating children to God and the light Jesus brings to the world. It includes practical thoughts on childhood devotion and early life dedication.
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Temple
Peloubet
B.C
Jerusalem
Joseph
Mary
Bethlehem
Jesus
John the Baptist
Hebrow
B. C
Joshua
Simeon
East
Israel
Levi
Africa
Christ
College
Christo Et Ecclesia
Moses
Calvary
Titus
Disraeli
Electric trends loom in early 20th century transit and tech
United Press reports the Derby result from London. Paris plans an eastern western underground iron tunnel twenty feet wide. Canadian Pacific sights electric traction on the Rocky Mountain division with Kicking Horse pass testing. General Electric Launch Co prepares a forty six foot electric launch for Congressman Sorg with two motors twin screws and 144 battery cells, aiming twelve mph.
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United Press
Direct United States Cable Company
London
Paris
Canadian Pacific Railway
Rocky Mountain
Kicking Horse Pass
General Electric Launch Company
Morris Heights
Harlem River
N. Y
Congressman Sorg
Ohio
Consolidated Electric Storage Company
Winter poems meet spring in shared lines of wit
A lighthearted dialogue shows seasonal shifts as poets trade winter verse for spring. Mamma notes church arrivals, Dicky jokes about lateness, and a plan with three janitors—Irish, colored, and German—keeps flats warm, cutting coal use and prompting electric fans.
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Dicky
Deadly gale sweeps Minnesota and South Dakota towns
A cyclone like windstorm traversed southwest to northeast across southwestern Minnesota and eastern South Dakota with ten dead. Victims include Guidan Milaca Minn and Jennie Lindstrom St. Paul. damage hit farms, towns, and Collegeville. The storm damaged property, crops, buildings, and university facilities, with no further loss of life reported.
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Minneapolis
Minn
Minnesota
South Dakota
Guidan
Milaca
G. T. Hicks
Pipestone
Johnson
Larimore
N. D
Jennie Lindstrom
St. Paul
Darwin
John
Sleepy Eye
John Weiss
Cold Springs Minn
John Winkie
Prairie
Jacob Winkle
Alpena
Mellette
St. Lawrence
Aberdeen
Tracy
Echo
Benville
Litchfield
Collegeville
Stearns County
St. John’s University
Windom
Charles Mietke, Jr
Mietke
John Schmidt
Lake Harriet
Gardner
Lemke
Income tax provision advances in Senate vote
The Senate finished the income tax section of the tariff bill around noon. Senator Hill moved to strike the tax, warning of court challenges if enacted, but his motion failed 24 to 40 with Democrats Hill Smith and Murphy voting aye. Committee amendments set liquor tax at 1.10 per gallon and eight year bond period.
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Washington
Senate
West
Harris
Brice
Hill
Smith
Murphy
McPherson
Hansbrough
Mitchell
Oregon
Pettigrew
Power
Shoup and Teller
First bale of cotton sells for 235 at Texas exchange
In Houston on June 29 the season's first and earliest U S bale of cotton sold at public auction for 235 dollars, about 39 cents a pound. The bale came from Duval county, which last year set a world record with the first bale on June 30. Texas reports upbeat growing prospects as picking starts in under three weeks.
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Duval County
Tex
Houston
United States
Cotton Exchange
Texas
Murder and suicide after love demand in Iowa
In Muscatine Iowa on June 29 Jacob Ising shot Mary Tefolt daughter of a German farmer who employed him near Nichols because she refused to marry him. Ising then shot himself in the head and will die.
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Muscatine
Jacob Ising
Mary Tefolt
Nichols
Tefolt
Wright shoots son in law in Texas field murder
In Denins Texas on June 20 J A Wright killed his son in law J J Glover as he plowed. Family troubles were cited as the motive. Wright surrendered to authorities.
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Denins
Tex
J. A. Wright
J. J. Glover
Wright
Damages Demanded for a Killing in Campaign County
A civil suit filed in Champaign county circuit court seeks $8,000 in damages from Gallagher over the Gallagher Taylor murder trial in Gifford last February. Gallagher was acquitted on self defense. Taylor’s family initiates the action.
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Champaten, Jr
Champaign County
Gallagher-Taylor
Gifford
Gallagher
Taylor
Michigan's First Female Notary Is Appointed
Kalamazoo Michigan June 29 Mrs H T Barry of this era has received a commission as notary public she is the first woman in Michigan ever appointed to that office.
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Michigan
Kalamazoo, Mich
H. T. Barry
The Great Strike Stoppages Hit National Railroads
The American Railway union led a nationwide boycott against Pullman cars causing widespread rail stoppages. About 35 500 workers across Chicago & Alton Chicago & Eastern Illinois Belt Line Union Pacific Denver & Rio Grande and related lines are on strike. Perishable freight ruins on side tracks as travel halts from Pacific coast to Dakotas.
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Carcaco
American Railway Union
Pullman Company
United States
Pullman
Chicago & Alton
Chicago & Eastern Illinois
Belt Line
Chicago
Union Pacific
Denver & Rio Grande
Topeka
Santa Fe
Chicago & Eastern
Northern Pacific
Southern Pacific
Denver & Rio
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
Chicago & Western Indiana
Pittsburgh
Cincinnati
Chicago & St. Louis
Louisville
New Albany
Monon
Chicago & Grand Trunk
Chicago & Erie
Ilinois Central
Baltimore & Ohio
Chicago Great Western
Wisconsin Central
Cincinnati Southern
Chicago & Northwestern
Milwaukee & St. Paul
Fort Wayne
Burlington & Quincy
Union Stock Yards & Transit Company
Knights of Labor
Debs
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul
SS Louis
Mobile & Ohio Railroad
Los Angeles
San Diego
Emporia
Birchfield
Kan
Gents Fe
Chisa
Caldwell
West
Texas
New Mexico
Arizona
California
Nebraska
Colorado
Utah
Montana
Oregon
Idaho
Minnesota
Dakotas
Pacific Coast
Soldiers Honored at Iowa Monument Portraits and Bas Reliefs
Des Moines reports Iowa soldiers to be honored on the Iowa Soldiers' Monument with fourteen medallions including Gen. Charles L. Mathies and Gen. William Vandever. Bas reliefs will depict Shiloh and Fort Donelson moments with figures like Gen. Tuttle, Capt. Twombly, and others. Excavation is complete and sculptor Rohl Smith prepares the figures for unveiling.
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Des Mores
Charlies L. Mathies
Burlington
Iowa
Iowa Soldiers’ Monument
Soldiers’ Monument Commission
Des Moines
Charles L. Mathies
Fifteenth
Iewa Infantry
William T. Shaw
Fourteenth
Iowa Infantry
William Vandever
Ninth
George A. Stone
Twenty-fifth
Iows Infantry
Samuel Rice
Thirty Third
John W. Nobie
Third
Iowa Cavalry
Secretary of the Interior
J. M. Hedrick
J. B. Weaver
Second
Samuel McFarland
Nineteenth
Battle of
Prairie Grove
J. F. Hartman
Joseph Grifith
Thirty-ninth
Noah W. Mills
J. C. Parrott
Seventh
H. H. Trimble
Germany
Shiloh
Fort Donelson
Donelson
Belknap
Winslow
Hatch
Monument
Rohl Smith
Prohibition Amendment League
Iowa Prohibitory Amendment League
W. R. Cole
Mount Pleasant
John Mahin
Muscatine
L.S. Coffin
Ft. Dodge
League
Cole Brothers
North Jefferson Street
Notable People Anecdotes and World News Notes
Cronce Francis Train seen on a Madison Square bench on pleasant days. Cottmpus Delano at eighty six remains active with horseback riding. Yale Professor Scriptum sleeps with ears plugged to drown night sounds. Voorn of Battle Creek claims to know where $100000 of a Mexican vault robbery proceeds were buried. Tennyson memorial in Isle of Wight to be a 34 foot iron cross designed by John L. Pearson. Johnny Angel, a Brooklyn pupil, caused a ruler incident at school, ridges in his hip pocket misfired. Central News from Paris via long distance telephone now reports important news from London.
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Cronce Francis Train
Madison Square
New York
Cottmpus Delano
Ohio
Interior
Prof. Scriptum
Yale
C. F. Voorn
Battle Creek
Mich
Vovel
Tux Tennyson
Isle of Wight
John L. Pearson
Royal Academy
Tidewater
Tennyson
England
America
Johnny Angel
Brooklyn
Johnny
Fire destroys state property in Auburn prison
Ausurx New York June 23 A Thursday fire at Auburn prison destroyed 40000 dollars in state property. The blaze started in the south wing housing state industries broom shop wood working and the novelty shop and spread rapidly aided by broom corn paints and varnishes. The fire damaged about 250 by 40 feet of the building.
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Ausurx
N. Y
Auburn
Jennie Campbell Receives 13600 Settlement From Pullman
Jennie Campbell of Chicago was paid 13600 by The Pullman Palace Car Company in a settlement after a Pullman coach incident in Sioux City where porter Marcus Caraser assaulted her. She filed suit in Sioux City and the matter was resolved.
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Jennie Campbell
Pullman Palace Car Company
Chicago
Sioux City
Marcus Caraser
Drowning of Miss Emily Alexander at Bram Nebraska
Miss Emily Alexander of Bram Nebraska drowned Friday after she was swept into the Missouri River by a collapsing riverbank mass of earth. Her body was not recovered.
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Bram, Neb
Emily Alexander
Missouri River
Murder Plot Tied to Carnot Killing Sparked By Anarchy
Police traced a conspiracy involving Santo Laborie and Granier in Montpelier linked to the Carnot assassination. Granier killed himself as officers closed in, while Laborie confessed in custody that Santo planned to go to Lyons to kill Carnot. Commemoration services planned in America and Paris after Carnot's burial.
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Carnet
Paris
Granier
Montpelier
President Carnet
Carnot
Santo
Laborie
Vaillant
Henri
Ravachol
Lyons
Patenotre
United States
St. Matthew's Church
Cardinal Gibbons
State Department
M. Casimer-Perier
Casimir- Perier
Premier Dupuy
Merz
France
Oil Tank Explodes After Lightning Strike at Standard Oil
A 50,000 barrel Standard Oil tank near Lana Ohio caught fire during a strong storm after a lightning strike. Firefighters and about 1,000 workers fought embankments and used cannons to prevent further explosions. Loss estimated at 75,000 dollars. In Parkers, thieves tortured storekeeper John Howard to obtain 170 dollars and goods. he is in critical condition.
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Standard Company
Lana
Jaume
Standard Oil Company
Standard
Ich
Parkers
John Howard
Howard
Ice prices soar as strike pushes up to ten a ton
Long ice cars sit on congested tracks as content melt near arcaeo. Wholesale ice rises from $2.75 to $10 per ton, with potential continued hikes if the strike persists, threatening household budgets.
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Lee
Arcaeo
Labor Day becomes national holiday signed into law
Washington June 20 The bill creating Labor Day as a national holiday became law after Mr. Cummings of New York who introduced the bill delivered it to the president on Thursday for signing.
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Washieton
Cummings
New York
Japanese Shut Out Of Citizenship, Judge Rules
Judge Colt in the United States circuit court rules Japanese not eligible for citizenship under the Chinese exclusion act. The decision follows the case of Shebata Saito, heard about a month prior, who sought naturalization.
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Boston
Colt
United States
Shebata Saito
Bill Admitting New Mexico Passes House Unopposed
Wasuiveton June 29 The bill admitting New Mexico passed the House without opposition.
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New Mexico
Wasuiveton
House
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