Opportunity Countless Lives Through Prompt Good Deeds
A Denver sermon on Galatians 6 urges swift decisive action when opportunity appears. The preacher warns that opportunities vanish quickly, but when seized they reshape lives. examples include influencing coworkers, family, a young man in the city, a homeward sinner, and a miner and clergyman in past events, all leading to spiritual triumph and eternal reward.
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Monte Carlo's Patrons and Casino Dynamics
The piece notes English American and French patrons favor Monte Carlo while many travelers head to Switzerland or Paris in summer. It discusses casino economics, roulette versus chemin de fer, and why ladies contribute most to profits, with clubs and cosmopolitan visitors shaping patronage.
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Switzerland
Italy
London Daily Telegraph
Riviera
London
Europe
Paris
Cercle de la Mediteranee
Nice
Rouge Et Noir
Trent-Et-Quarante
Fooling the Schoolmarm
A columnist recalls a friend in Omaha with a daughter at a private Washington school where letters are read. A forbidden romance reaches the reader as a trusted male letter appears, prompting the girl to toast the masculine handwriting with heated curling tongs. The piece mocks rigid chaperonage and ends with a cautionary moral about love and copper chloride.
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Omaha
Washington
Washington Post
Washington News Roundup of Political and Economic Shifts
Secretary Carlisle recommends post office improvements and a new building. House clashes as Breckinridge and Heard trade insults, later apologizing. A resolution seeks presidential information on British actions during Hawaii rebellion. New York bankers return gold as bonds issue announced. Carlisle poised for Supreme Court seat after Jackson. Pacific railroad funding faces opposition. nationwide press backs Cleveland policy. Senators Gorman and Hill push for quick financial action. Germany eyes tariff war to appease agrarian interests. Maxwell resigns over income tax dispute. North German Lloyd Elbe sinks in North Sea. 400 aboard, 25 survive.
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Lee Mantle
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Pacific Railway
National Military Park
Gettysburg
Chinese peace envoys reach Hiroshima for preliminary audience
News from Asia reports peace envoys arriving in Hiroshima and granted a preliminary audience by Japanese ministers. Other items note Major Oddi's mental breakdown, the peril of 200 aboard the Amerique near Cape Agusta, and growing frontier tensions between Mexico and Guatemala.
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Chefoo
Wei- Hai-Wei
United States
Dun's Review notes brighter business on gold loan strength
Dun's Review of Trade says business brightens on the prospect of a new gold loan. Mrs. Joseph Studebaker of Anderson Indiana dies after fasting and sleeping for 117 days. Steamship Kingdom, forty two days out from Shields to Charleston D C.
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Political turbulence and state affairs across the nation
A compilation notes Republicans in New York planning a power move to oust Democratic state officials while Illinois advances militia funding and a rebuild of an insane asylum. Other items include Wyoming and Indiana political moves, Newfoundland annexation talk, Costa Rica Guatemala support, stock-market strains, and wartime naval searches for wrecks.
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John W. Wilson
Soldiers’ Home
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Anna
United States
Newfoundland
Costa Rica
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Mexico
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Obituary Notices of Col Dawson and Notables
Col Nathaniel C H R Dawson longtime US commissioner of education dies in Selma Alabama. Mrs Augusta Tabor ex Senator H A W Tabor’s first wife dies at her California home. Miss Marguerite Shepard daughter of Col Elliott F Shepard dies of pneumonia in New York. Capt Isaac Keys federal officer under Grant and Lincoln and banker dies in Springfield Illinois. Theatrical figures attended the funeral of John W Norton former St Louis opera manager.
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Augusta Tabor
H. A. W. Tabor
California
Marguerite
Elliott F. Shepard
New York
Isaac Keys
S Grant
Lincoln
Springfield
Ill
John W. Norton
St. Louis
Deaths and violence across states reported in crime notices
Deputy State Game Warden Hicks of Wisconsin found dead and believed murdered by poachers. Catherine Morrison of New York killed herself in a church confession. Bud Ellis, a Methodist preacher of Aurora Missouri, killed his wife and daughter then died by suicide. Solomon Leopold of Indianapolis, an insurance agent, died by his own hand. Danville citizens threaten lynching of a detective tied to Rev W E Hinshaw murder arrest. Dr A B Becker of Florida fatally shot by a husband opposing a summons. Arizona bandits rob a Southern Pacific train near Wilcox, dynamite blast yields fifty thousand dollars.
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Wisconsin
Catherine Morrison
New York
Bud Ellis
Aurora
Solomon Leopold
Indianapolis
Danville
Ill
W. E. Hinshaw
Dr. A
Becker
Florid
Arizona
Southern Pacific
Wilcox
Congress Sifts Bills and Debates Financial Measures
Congressional records show multiple actions across chambers. Legislation ranged from a compromise financial measure and a mileage ticket sale bill to a debt funding plan for Union Pacific and Kansas Pacific railroads. A currency and gold standard debate continued with votes and adjournments. A Gettysburg military park bill and agricultural appropriation moved forward.
Central American Leaders Pledge Unity in Mexico Guatemala Tension
In Guatemala City on January 31 President Barrios hosted Honduran Minister Arias and Nicaraguan Minister Gomez with Salvadoran Estupinan. They pledged solidarity against any Mexican aggression. In Washington on February 1 Mexican Minister Romero anticipated an amicable Guatemala Mexico accord and warned no war is expected.
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Barrios
Arias
Honduras
Gomez
Nicaragua
Estupinan
Salvador
Central America
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Romero
Mexico
February Highlights in Periodicals and Books
The note covers Golden Rule editor John Willis Baer predicting fifty thousand delegates at a Boston meeting next July and mentions high attendee estimates. It surveys February features in St. Nicholas and Atlantic Monthly, including Mrs. Ward’s A Singular Life and Mrs. Alexander Graham Bell’s lip-reading story, plus Rowland E. Robinson’s account of sight loss. It adds Outing and Popular Science Monthly items, and references Lad Home Journal’s marriage article Heigh Ho for a Husband.
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John Willis Baer
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S. G. W. Benjamin
Persia
Portsmouth
Rowland E. Robinson
California
Northwest
Popular Science Monthly
Samuel T. Armstrong
New York
Lad Home Journal
Burt Harrison
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