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Newspaper
Atlantic Evening News
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 20, 1908
Page
8
A clipped historical note recounts the prophet Elijah fleeing the wrath of Queen Jezebel as told by a roadside preacher from the Highway and Byway sermon tradition. The fragment cites 1 Kings chapter 19 as scripture authority and frames Elijah’s flight as a moral or spiritual lesson.
A sermonette reflects on Elijah the prophet’s ascent on Mount Carmel and retreat into fear in the valley. It stresses that faith sustains service and that God gently corrects the wavering, sending angels to comfort and guide believers back to his presence and purpose.
Elijah, elated after Mount Carmel, fears Jezebel’s reprisal as she vows to kill him. A messenger warns the king’s threat and the prophet flees toward Beersheba, ending in exhaustion and despair in the wilderness, while Jezebel searches in vain for him.
Henry Hellenwig of Clinton New Jersey told his daughter a wither while she played his family’s old clock. A mouse trio emerged from the tickless mantel coil and began strumming chords while the man slept. He awakened at dusk to find his family homeward.
Congressman Richard Bartholdt of Missouri's Tenth district is hailed as the probable Nobel Peace Prize contender for this year. A leading figure in the Interparliamentary Union, he helped bring 200 American congress members to the Hague peace conference and holds praise from King Edward, Emperor William, and Andrew Carnegie. At sixty three, Bartholdt migrated from Germany, worked in printing, then journalism, and has served eight terms in Congress.
John H Edwards, a banker in his early thirties, resigns as assistant secretary of the treasury to become president of Mercantile National Bank succeeding F Heinz. His career spans Ohio bank clerking, Hawkers' association secretaryship, private secretary roles for Congressman Weaver and Postmaster General Payne, and service with Secretary Shaw. The nomination was sent to the Senate on Washington's Birthday per Horace Faylor's urging, and Edwards was confirmed despite a delay before assuming.
Quarterly review outlines the life of Jesus from preexistence to public ministry. Includes chronology of His years, key events like baptism and miracles, and guidance for map plotting of teaching sites across Palestine with emphasis on Jesus as light and life for humanity.
A fragmented 19th to 20th century composite piece references Jesus as Son of God and key gospel scenes. It entwines sermon-like topics with Biblical quotes, visions, and a digression on planetary life from Lowell and a Thanksgiving joke from Gallup.
Dr Purley A Baker head of the National Anti-Saloon League promotes a national temperance surge. Once a Buckboard preacher, he now travels in parlor cars directing a nationwide campaign with 250 paid workers, aiming to turn temperance into practical political action.
The duke of Leinster, Ireland’s premier peer, is due in America amid whispers of a handsome courtship with a young American girl. He survived a fatal fire at Duncombe Park and a cancer of the era’s childhood illnesses, building a strong constitution. He is linked to Lord Edward Fitzgerald and the Orleanist legacy through family ties and rumored romantic intrigues as described by contemporary society gossip.
A miscellany of humorous vignettes and reflections blending verse and prose. It riffs on writing for pay, idle philosophy, quirks of daily life, and social mores, with puns about coal, newspapers, and leisure. Notable bits reference a Georgia newspaper, a Nebraska poet, and social observations from a late 19th or early 20th century voice.
A column of wry lines on fame money and marriage customs. Observations include a barber shop joke about saying next and a critique of the word obey in ceremonies. A playful take on luck opportunity and wages shared in light verse.
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