The Armenian Massacre as Threat to Christendom and Monroe Doctrine
In this 1896 address the speaker denounces Ottoman Armenian massacres, condemns Turkish state crimes, praises Clara Barton and the Red Cross, and argues humanitarian intervention is mandated by faith and the Monroe Doctrine. The piece links Armenian suffering to global Christian duty and calls for relief and action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lucknow
Cawnpore
India
Paris
Armenia
Constantinople
God
Heaven
Christ
David
Turkey
America
Christian Herald
New York
Washingtonians
Angel of Mercy
Clara Barton
Fredericksburg
Antietam
Falmouth
Cedar Mountain
Metz
Johnstown
Charleston
Michigan
Masaachusetts
Patent Office
Red
Deliverance
Atlantic
Mediterranean
Galilee
Red Cross
Home economist tips for odor control and meal upgrades
Practical kitchen notes advise keeping a small dish of powdered charcoal in the fridge to absorb odors and changing it every few days. Dry rolls can be revived by dipping in water and a brief bake, while a coffee cup can be made more nourishing by whisking in a beaten egg with cream and sugar before adding coffee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jobbers
R. D. Hubbard
Mott
Ho Rio
Java
Japan
Chicago
Notes of the Day Chronicle of Varied 1878 Events
A lunar moth captured in Stratton Strawless wood in 1878 sells in London for 30 dollars. Three London chimney sweeps are fined for canvassing for work. Cleveland to get a Hul House style college settlement. Mozley’s Missouri district spans 240 miles southward. Henri Menier buys Anticosti Island for 1 million francs. Monkey skins export from the Gold Coast averages 175000 annually.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stratton
London
Hul House
Chicago
Andover
Boston
Cleveland
Mozely
Missouri
Henri Menier
Paris
Anticosti
Canada
Gold Coast
Feudalism in America Critics Cite New Aristocracy Rise
A French critic M de Graucey declares a new American aristocracy emerging from millionaire wealth. He argues wealth concentrates power beyond European nobility, with landowners and armed cowboys echoing medieval feudal seigneurs. He notes decadent attitudes among women and a drift from democracy toward feudalism.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mandat-Graucey
United States
M. de Graucey
American
Europe
Wiseacres
Bourget
The Minister's Blunder at Paget-Whitney Wedding
The Rev John Wes ley Brown read the burial service by mistake during the Paget Whitney wedding at St Thomas church. He paused after reciting I am the resurrection and the life and whispered Heaven and earth before recovering to finish the correct ceremony.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Wesley Brown
St. Thomas’ Church
St. Paul's
Paget-Whitney
Heaven
Potter
Medicine A physician tells of cartridge mix up
A Pocahontas County Virginia doctor recalls a patient who swallowed two 32 caliber cartridges by mistake for medicine capsules. The man took them at night and only realized the error after swallowing them. No serious harm occurred, though he endured hours of anxiety.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pocahontas County
Virginia
Military progress would shorten wars says Captain James
In an address to the Royal United Service Institution, London, Captain James asserted that modern military development would shorten the duration of war. He argued that while battles would be more deadly, overall casualties in a war would decline due to improved methods of treating the wounded.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James
Royal United Service Institution
London
Literary Notes on Temperance and Periodical Arts
The January issue discusses Stanford President Jordan's critique of Scientific Temperance, plus notes on Mrs. Humphry Ward's Sir George Tressady and new works in Art Amateur Cosmopolitan Atlantic St Nicholas and other magazines. It highlights fiction by Stevenson and Allen, Hawthorne notebooks, Pirate Gold, and Youth's Companion adventures, with subscriber gifts and prize reports.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Popular Science Monthly
Jordan
Stanford University
Humphry Ward
George Tressady
Percy Ive
Cleveland
The
Midland Monthly
Des Moines
Johnston Brigham
Brigham
Midland
Stevenson
Sarah Grand
Zangwill
James Lane Allen
Kentucky
Atlantic Monthly
Nathaniel Hawthorne
F. J. Stimson
J. S. of Dale
Boston
Julian Ralph
Harper's
L. C. Maxwell
Companion
Ladies’ Home Journal
Albert Lynch
Des Moines Doctors Advertise Noted Surgical Institute
Drs Montague and Williams of Des Moines advertise one of the Wests best surgical institutes led by Dr J H Drake head physician and surgeon. They claim tough cases including a demented youths mind and brain restored by a simple operation and offer board and treatment at low Drake Sanitarium Co 706 W Fourth St Des Moines IA Phone 352.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
J. H. Drake
Drake Sanitarium Company
Drake Sanitarium Co
Fourth St
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DR. Talmage
Sultan
Monroe
Garden of Eden
Mahomet
Egypt
Dardales
Russia
Constanle
Stamboul
Berlin
Ible
White House
M. Graucey
Blander
Sara Beaumont Kennedy
Ed. W. Sandys
Horse of Society
E. B. Abercrombie
R. G. Taber
Yukon
W. Wilson
Forest and Stream Publishing Company
E. Hough
St. Nicholas
World
Vienna
Emerson
Hawthorne
Uncle Sam
R. George Gorn
Mitchellville
Iowa
Mr. Goens
George Goena
Drs. Mon & Williams
George Gorns
George Goene
Drs
West Fifth Street
Macrae Bros
Cash Crocers
F. M. Oakley , Co
Advt. Agts
Omaha
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