Easter Sermon Celebrates Resurrection and Cemetery Beautification
Dr. Talmage at Brooklyn Academy of Music argues Easter reshapes cemeteries into living memorials. He extols Machpelah as Providence’s model, imagines resurrected bodies renewed, and envisions cemeteries becoming temples of beauty with faces and voices restored at last.
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Revival tale from Richmond tests forgiveness line
In a Richmond revival a man, recently abandoned by his wife for alleged cruel treatment, seeks forgiveness. He argues the Lord forgave him, but the wife refuses, stating that even divine mercy cannot erase his past crimes.
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Senate and House Edge Through Busy Congressional Session
Senate discussed Montana election cases and anti trust reform while urging irrigation surveys funding. House advanced Idaho admission, New York Hudson bridge bill, and public building appropriations for Aurora Illinois and Leadville Colorado with census and Chinese exclusion debates.
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The Child and the Man from Harper's Magazine
The little son of Gen Crittenden loved his father's war horse named for John J Crittenden. He questioned a retreat and blamed his father for turning the horse around. The boy grew to manhood and died facing the foe with his men at Little Big Horn.
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A Vexing Question on Employment Fate
A columnist laments the limited supply of jobs for drivers clerks salesmen and young office workers. The piece asks what guardians and teachers can do to help and notes how disappointment weighs on thoughtful people facing uncertain futures.
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Whaling Harpooner Lost To Line in Swift Accident
A Philadelphia Times letter recalls a brutal whaling moment in which an oarsman disappeared after a rope caught his leg. The harpooner turned for water, handed him a cap, and vanished as the line pulled him overboard without a warning.
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Buried Treasure Hoax and Pirate Lesson on Barrow Island
Four Maryland boys Henry Hing Robert Irving George Willard and Thomas Brown seek treasure on Barrow Island near the Chesapeake Bay. They ally with a hermit who fakes pirates and a treasure trap, get captured by real robbers, and return home to a chastening but playful reveal. The ruse ends with the boys abandoning piracy and honoring the hermit.
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Lost on Grand Street A Man Seeks a Whetstone
A man wandering Grand Street cannot recall the word for a whetstone. He asks a passerby who suggests the term, then enters a store confused about his need. He jokes he might buy a random tool like a knife sharpener or an ax, dreading a mix up with knitting needles or a rat trap.
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Judgment on a hustler ends in betrayal in New York
A man from New Haven converses in Union Square about a hustler he recommended. The hustler later elopes with the man’s daughter and then his wife, taking $10,000 in cash, while the culprit then wheels on five detectives.
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New York Sun
Snow and Ice Astonish Natives in Far Lands
The Montreal Star recounts how tropical natives marvel at snow and ice. It cites Sir William Macgregor on Mount Owen Stanley and Ehlers on Kilimanjaro with natives feeling burns from ice. Von Francois notes natives mistaking snow for butterflies in Germany.
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A Nice Bluff
A life insurance agent pressures a sick man with death risky talk but the citizen feigns a two month prognosis to stall. The agent backs off, leaving the door open for a future sales pitch and a wary exchange at the doorstep.
debates on building a presidential residence continue in Washington
Washington discussion centers on replacing the White House with a larger executive mansion and private residence. editorials argue for a new home but question needs and funding while noting current plans may suffice for both roles.
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