Sabbath Reading Let Not Your Heart Be Troubled
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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 08, 1886
Page
4
Nothing to Do in the Faithful Call to Service
A devotional poem urges believers to fulfill duties in daily Christian life. It frames tasks as prayers, teaching, guiding souls, and tending the weak, echoing Jesus’ instruction to follow the path he walked. The refrain laments the feeling of having nothing to do while real work remains.
The Husband Nho Must Play Cards
A Rev Jones quips that card play is a poor pastime and may harm souls. He mocks wives who rely on cards to entertain husbands and jokes about sending such men to an asylum or giving children a toy wagon instead.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rkev
Sam Jones
The Praying Boy and His Father
A Sunday school boy prayed for his wicked father who ran a saloon and caused others to drink. The teacher urged continuing prayer and, after weeks, the father quit drinking and selling liquor, choosing an honest life after hearing his son pray for him. The Weekly Baptist.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lord Jesus
The
Weekly Baptist
The Progress of Christianity and Civilizational Change
A reflective meditation on early Christian life and the rise of Christendom. The author contrasts Judas and Peter with modern atheism, warns against scholastic belief, and urges a living faith: belief in God as trust, submission and service.
Unnamed sermon on redemption and Christian spread
In a sermon by President Hitchcock the argument centers on moral evil, divine regeneration, and Christ's return at Pentecost. The text asserts God the Father, Spirit, and Son shaping believers and says Christianity’s progress from 500 to 400 million is unmatched, with theGospels as divine and translation faithful.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
God
Christ
Jesus
Hitchcock
Corns and bunions ruin lovers and comicity of life
A humorous lecture from the Williamsport Breakfast Table catalogs the mischief of corns and bunions. It argues ill fitting shoes cause corns, notes their social and moral havoc, and urges shoes be shaped to feet for health and happiness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cupid
Williamsport
Eye and hair traits across Italy from Mantegazza study
The study reports Italians mostly have chestnut irises at 64 percent, with black 22 blue 11 and gray 3. Hair is 71 percent chestnut, 26 black, 3 blonde with Venetia higher at 8. Beards vary by region, and red hair is rare though present in Santi Agata di Puglia. Baldness commonest in Tuscany with 20 of 10 000 rejected for premature baldness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. Mantegazza
Piedmont
Lombardy
Venetia
Italy
Tuscany
Rhine
England
Santi Agata di Puglia
Nature
Death of Italian revolutionary Gen Pietro Roselli in Ancona
A peer of the ancient Stoics Gen Pietro Roselli died in Ancona Italy. He belonged to the revolutionary committee of 1849 and refused favors from authorities living in a garret and patching his old uniform. His charity pension offer was spurned and he died a stranger in his homeland.
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Ancona
Italy
Pietro Roselli
Revolutionary Committee
Utica
Roselli
Spelling Variants of MogG Megone Name
A Maine Journal notes four spellings of MogG Megone, Whittier’s renowned figure, in a Massachusetts archive deed. The Indian chieftain’s name appears as Mog Heg-Gone, Mog heggone, mn, and Mogg Heigon Taeilos.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mogg Megone
Whittier
Massachusetts
Maine Historical Recorder
Taeilos
Frogs and Toads and a Little Music Tale
A passage from Harper's Young People blends a children’s vignette about a modest girl with a tale of a Brooklyn boy who pursued music, then shifts to a science section on frogs and toads. It explains breathing, frog tongues, and amphibian life cycles including the Surinam toad’s unusual eggs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Surinam
Harper’s
Frog metamorphosis from spawn to mature amphibian
The article traces the tadpole to frog transformation from eggs in frog spawn to external gills, lungs, loss of a tail, and limb development. It notes the tadpole’s early resemblance to fish, breathing changes, and eventual emergence of four legs, then describes the frog’s posture, torpid wintering, and skeletal features like longer hind legs and lack of ribs.
Lucky Men Who Get Rich From Mining Stocks
A Chicago Herald report quotes a street observer noting Marshall Field’s luck with mining investments. The man recounts Field taking $300 in Chrysolite mine stock years ago, which yielded about $30,000 in dividends over seven years.
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State Street
Harrison
Palmer House
Marshall Field
Field
Chicago
Chicago Herald
Rhode Island Farmers Depend On Rocky Crop For Income
A Providence letter notes many Rhode Island farmers rely on carting rocks from their land to the city and selling them for 75 cents a ton. The rocky soil makes rock collection their main crop, easy to gather and saleable.
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Rhode Island
Providence
Prope Who Run Others Businesses Often Miss Dividends
Motive of self styled managers is control rather than profit with no cash dividends paid despite their involvement in running other firms.
Conversation as the art of arts and social grace
A Boston Traveler excerpt argues conversation surpasses knowledge and training. It praises true conversational talent as rare and essential, noting that culture lives in responsive vigor, not mere facts. It contrasts external polish with genuine dialogue and personal magnetism.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Emerson
Boston Traveler
Tailors and Fools in Fashion's Shifted Frills
An Albany Journal reader notes the fickle drift of fashion from tight trousers to visible watch chains and back to subtle carry methods. A tailor recalls Carl Schurz leaving a latest style order while asserting honest customers are rare and that fools are the most profitable in tailoring.
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Bean
Oswald
Albany Journal
New York
Carl Schurz
A Masher Beaten Back By A Clever Young Woman
A Buffalo man seeking a rendezvous with a plain young woman followed her after a prayer meeting. He proposed a restaurant visit but was deterred when she invited him home to meet her parents who would pray for him. He declined and left rather than face the family.
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Buffalo
Buffalo Courier
Arsenic fumes curb cholera near Bissoe works
Mr. S. H. Davey of Cornwall England confirms Dr. Tommasi-Crudelli that arsenic prevents cholera and other zymotic diseases. Over forty years many outbreaks occurred near Bissoe arsenic works, yet within about two miles of the source no case has been known.
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S. H. Davey
Cornwall
England
Tommasi-Crudelli
Bissoe
Wilson claims opium cure through kidney and liver restoration
An interview with H C Wilson and partners describes Warner's safe cure as the sole effective treatment for opium and morphine addiction. Wilson asserts success by first restoring kidney and liver function, cautions that patients must follow this protocol for lasting results, and notes medical endorsement of the remedy.
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Cincinnati
Loven
Filaon
March, Harwood & Co
St. Louis
H. C. Wilson & Co
Warner
Loveland Opium Institute
Wilson
Materia Medica
Mr. Wilson
Meg Megan
A Southern Cure for Spring Fever
A Georgia Farmer column prescribes a potions recipe using dogwood cherry poplar bark graybeard root ashes brimstone sulfur saltpeter and blacksmith cinders. The remedy calls for repeated nine day cycles to restore health and increase weight, as quoted in the Atlanta Constitution.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Graybeard
Georgia Farmer
Atlanta Constitution
Sculptor Dennecker Finalizes Christ Statue After Child Test
The sculptor Dennecker toiled for two years on a Christ statue. A girl in his studio once called it “a great man.” He pursued six more years, then the child told him it echoed the phrase “Suffer little children to come unto me” from the kingdom of heaven, and he rejoiced.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brooklyn
Europe
Paul
Dennecker
Kingdom of Heaven
Milwaukee Bar Fight Sparks Trot Sting and Threats
A stuttering bartender laments a troublesome tramp after a barroom brawl in Milwaukee. The scene dissolves into comic banter before the tramp leaves into the cold. The passage shifts to medical notes praising Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters as a nerve tonic and remedy for various ailments.
Royal Expenses Across Victoria's Family Revealed
A list shows annual funds for the British royal family including Queen Victoria at 3.1 million dollars and various members such as the Prince of Wales at 600 thousand pounds and numerous princes and princesses receiving tens to hundreds of thousands in support.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Queen Victoria
Prince of Wales
Prince Alfred
Prince Arthur
Princess Royal
Princess Helena
Princess Louise
Princess Beatrice
Duchess of Albany
Duchess of Cambridge
Princess Augusta
Duke of Cambridge
Duke of Edinburgh
Princess Mary
Prince Edward of
Saxe-Weimar
Prince Leiningen
Prince Victor of
Hohenlohe
Lucretia Borgia Appearances Reconsidered as a Gentle Mother
The Boston Courier argues Lucretia Borgia was not a murderess but a kind wife and mother, while suggesting Nero may have founded an orphan asylum, then lists six requirements for a happy home: integrity, tidiness, affection, cheerful light, industry, and heavenly protection.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lucretia Borgia
Nero
Boston Courier
I Was a Tramp With a Wooden Leg
A buggy-washer at a livery stable recounts how a nitroglycerin explosion in Pennsylvania injured his leg and killed several companions. He describes the blast lifting the tree and burying bodies, leaving him with a severed leg but the least injury among the group. He jokes that any stray can prompts him to tip his hat and say he has not been there today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pennsylvania
Heaven
Detroit Free Press
Bishop Gilmour Endorses St Jacobs Oil for Rheumatism
One of many church dignitaries praising St Jacobs Oil for rheumatism this month is the Right Reverend Bishop Gilmour of Cleveland Ohio.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bishop Gilmour
Cleveland
Ohio
Broken China Gift Sparks Rich Remittance Trend
A San Francisco man plans a birthday surprise for a distant relative by mailing a broken piece of china, predicting the recipient will mend it and send remittances in thanks. The anecdote reflects social shifts toward full names, propriety, and genteel conduct in letters and gifts.
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San Francisco Chronicle
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