Light at Eventide From the Cross, Talmage Sermon
Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage preaches at Brooklyn tabernacle that evening light follows disaster and old age. He likens personal trials to night turning to luminous God’s grace and foresees a triumphant Christian era when virtue,救 charity and faith prevail across nations.
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T. DeWitt Talmage
Brooklyn Tabernacle
Ocean
Cordilleras
Jupiter
Christ
David
Job
St. Paul
John
The Joyous Vision of Death and Heavenly Light
The speaker extols death as liberating, praising the spirit's release and the radiant life after death. The passage chronicles visions of Heaven, the gate, password, and the transforming power of faith, ending with gratitude for light in the evening and the dying hour.
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Earth
Heaven
Lebanon
Archangel
Jesus
Gate of Heaven
Jordan
A Chamois Hunter Survives Freeze and Flood in Glacier Trial
Newman Hall recounts a climber who fell into a Mer de Glace crevasse and escaped death by sliding through ice passages to a flooded chamber. After diving into a dark pool he was ejected into a valley scene of Chamouni, experiencing a near death moment and spiritual reflection.
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Newman Hall
Mer de Glace
Vale of
Chamouni
Temptation as the Path to Higher Life in Pulpit Thought
A preacher argues that sin and limitation foster holiness and character growth. By citing Paul Augustine Gough Beecher and others, he links education in vice to eventual virtue, asserting progress comes through wrestling with temptation toward a larger life and final bliss.
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Paul
Augustine
Gough
Beecher
New England
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The passage reflects a didactic moral about enduring adversity and resilience, comparing personal growth to saving a ship by discarding cargo and suggesting integrity improves character. It quotes Ex, conveying timeless inspirational themes rather than a news event.
Paul at Corinth in the early Christian mission
The lesson notes Paul’s year and a half stint in Corinth after Athens, its status as Greece’s commercial hub, and the corrupt backdrop that shaped his mission. It covers Silas and Timothy joining him, Corinth’s port cities, and the value of honest labor as a Christian virtue and outreach tool.
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Paul
Corinth
Greece
Ephesus
Philippi
Silas
Timothy
Luke
Phil
Berea
Thessalonica
Lewin
Mars’ Hill
Socrates
Peloponnesus
Acrocorinthus
Acropolis
Venus
Peninsula
Xenophon
Aristophanes
London
Paris
Hercules
Christ
Moving World glimpses and engineering feats of the era
Telegraph messenger boys in Boston bicycle around town delivering telegrams. Amman California unveils a gas escaping device. German invention eliminates smoke from coal combustion. Florida’s Bell plans a large hotel among live oaks. A massive cantilever bridge over the Mississippi at New Orleans, costing five million dollars, built by Chicago men. Montana tobobgan express freight lines flourish. French artisans unveil a diamond-set circular stone-cutting saw with strengthened edge.
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Boston
Amman
California
Florida
Bell
Mississippi River
New Orleans
Chicago
Boulder
Montana
Obscure Personal Notables From Early Local Notes
Joax L Herrick of Salisbury North Carolina is ninety years old and weighs 230 pounds CuHaktes Monoxy resident of Kings County New York invented the monkey wrench and sold his patent for 2000 Luke Sim of Acton Massachusetts perhaps the only living man whose father fought at Bunker Hill Mr Smith who was in the rebellion is eighty.
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Joax L. Herrick
Salisbury
N.C
CuHaktes Monoxy
Kings County
N. Y
Luke Sim
Acton
Mass
Bunker Hill
Mr. Smith
Wild Pea Vine Beauties Prairies Of The Midwest
The wild pea vine or American vetch grows on Minnesota and South Dakota prairies. This slender plant reaches one to three feet and uses leaf tendrils to cling. Its blue to purple blossoms make it ideal for bouquets. When land rests a year the blossoms cover May and June with a blue floral display.
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Minnesota
South Dakota
Lengthen Bloom by Early Harvesting of Wild Peas
Prairie Farmer notes that picking flowers as they fade extends bloom and that Vicia Americana, a native pea, feeds blister beetles Cantharis Nutalli. These insects devastate wild patches and also attack cultivated beans, reflecting a shift in insect food habits.
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United States
Europe
Texas Road Bonds Aim for Year Round County Roads
Texas legislature adjourned after approving a road construction act. Counties may issue bonds up to a fifteen mill tax cap on assessed valuation to fund roads and bridges. Bonds run 10 to 40 years, not below par value, and funds must be used solely for roads under engineer supervision. If effectively administered, Texas could lead western states in durable country roads.
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Texas
Chicago Evening Post
Open Shed for Cows Combined with a Carp and Grain Chamber
A barnyard shelter on three sides improves animal comfort in cold months and protects stock from sudden storms at night. The illustrated shed combines a corn and grain chamber placed at mid stairs, keeping feed at hand and easy to store after threshing or husking.
Burial customs of the Utes described by Chicago Times
The article outlines Ute burial practices from scaffold graves to ground interments. It notes elaborate ceremonies, concealment of graves, and the taboo on whites visiting the dead. It recounts Ouray the chief dying of Bright's disease and the tribe later preserving some possessions despite ancient destroyed rites.
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Plains
Colorado
Ouray
Ute
Bright
Quray’s
Chicago Times
A Literary Order and the Mood of Publication
An optimistic narrator recalls sending a poem to a paper and receiving a rejection note urging gloom and despair. The clashing advice mocks cheerful verse and mocks a poetry market driven by melancholy. The piece ends with an ad for B F Johnson Co promoting engagements.
Smugglers, Mistaken Identities Highlight Brief Clippings
A collage of brief humorous items runs from misread book requests to hair dye ads and quips about Shakespeare, baby cries, and smugglers who avoid regular customs. Notable lines include a bookshop mix up and a cash rumor, plus a sly jab about a smuggler.
Quotation Verse Fragments and Humorous Snippets
A collage of clipped witticisms and quips from various papers includes playful lines about detectives and evidence, a remark on Gettysburg, turtle speed, law, Beecham's Pills, a chicken gag, bank cashiers, a debutante, and a theatrical truism. The snippets showcase light, humorous, or regional tone pieces typical of late nineteenth or early twentieth century miscellanies.
Syrup of Figs Promotes Health Fittingly
An ad touts Syrup of Figs as a pure liquid laxative improving health by cleansing the system and aiding kidneys liver and bowels. It claims wide medical approval and lists 50c and 1 bottle sizes sold by druggists, manufactured only by the California Fig Syrup Co.
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California Fig Syrup Co
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