A True Hearted Girl Arrives for Meeker Miner Romance
Elizabeth Collard narrates a winter tale at Urand e Junction Colorado. Bob Traversly, injured in a mine accident, woos Elsie while awaiting Word from Cairo. Snowbound weeks end when Elsie finally reaches Meeker and their Christmas plans resume with a wedding in sight.
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Elsie
Bob
Miss Maors
Hank Simpson
Hank
Meeker
White Canyon
Bob Traversly
Cairo
Mr. Renfrew
Tin Cup
Grand Junction
Elizabeth Collard
Omaha Bee
The Glorious March sermon by Dr. Talmage abroad
The Rev. Dr. Talmage's foreign preaching tour continues with sermons in Edinburgh Inverness Aberdeen Dundee Glasgow and Sunderland. He preaches The Glorious March from Solomon 6 19 praising the church while contrasting critics. He urges strong church membership and faith.
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Solomon
Church of God
Fultons
Morses
Whitneys
Perrys
Livingstones
Church of Christ
Nebuchadnezzar
Darius
Lord Claverhouse
Philadelphia
Church of Jesus Christ
Typewriters and the rising power of the church as light
The passage extols typewriters as a modern office boon increasing productivity and literacy while praising the church as a guiding light. It envisions an expanding missionary army across America and Europe marching to triumph under Christ, culminating in the church shining "clear as the sun" and "terrible as an army with banners."
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Talmage
Church of Jesus Christ
Heaven
Paradise
Christ
God
Wilds
West
Tablelands
Ocean
Pacific
Red Sea
Ching
Siberia
Himalayan
Palestine
Xerxes
Earth
Celestial Mansion
Great Greeks and the birth of reason and beauty
Ernest Renan, speaking at a Paris banquet of Greek studies, lauds ancient Greece as the birth of reason and liberty. He argues Greek civilization founded morality on reason, discovered natural law, and created beauty, inspiring Rome, the Renaissance, and future renaissances.
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Association of Greek Studies
Paris
Ernest Renan
London Daily News
Greece
Weil
Copernicus
Galileo
Newton
Rome
Bundles Barred as Dynamite Fears Grip Senate
A narrator describes the August Senate fear of dynamite and a ban on bundles and handbags in the gallery. An usher cites alarm after a past dynamite incident, while the speaker questions the logic and notes contrasting doorway rules. The scene ends with the narrator entering the gallery with a parcel.
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WSS
Senate Gallery
Vientine
Senate
Ru Sage
Vanderbilt
Ory
Washington
Cat protects wren nest by killing snake in Pennsylvanian yard
In a mountain district farm in Pennsylvania two wrens built a nest under an old house. A tame white cat watched the young and once guarded a weak fledgling from a black and yellow garden snake, killing the snake with one bite while the farmer looked on.
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Mountain
Pennsylvania
What Worries Him
An English sparrow tells another it does not mind being shot but takes offense at being used as a reed bite that hurts its feelings. The exchange ends with curiosity about why such taunting troubles the bird.
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Boston ‘Transcript
Minerva Press
Brooklyn
Half of the paper chosen in a domestic exchange
A humorous exchange shows Mrs Wickwire asking for the better half of the paper and Mr Wickwire offering the “woman half” in a light domestic moment. The dialogue centers on sharing and a playful division of content.
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White River
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Desert Isle
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Sol
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Simpson
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Vicksburg
Sunderland
Bach
Slowit
Boston
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