What is in a Name as Talmage Praises Jesus
The Rev. T De Witt Talmage preached aboard the Aurania in Quarrestows harbor, urging that Jesus’ name is easy to pronounce and powerful. He described how the name embodies Bethlehem to Calvary, and how it outlasts emperors, with believers citing its enduring glory and universal reach.
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Crentarion
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Gethsemane
Calgary
Dom Pedro’s Retirement and a Humble Debt Tale
A Philadelphia Inquirer recollection recounts Dom Pedro’s retirement from Brazil’s throne. It notes his democratic stance and a comic incident in Alexandria where he fled a royal chariot, avoiding fare payment, prompting the narrator to cover 50 cents owed to a jehu, illustrating his contempt for ceremony.
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Counterfeit Would Do Anecdote From War of 1812
A Pennsylvanian demanded specie from a bank late in the War of 1812 era. The cashier refused gold and silver and offered no U S bank notes or New England bank bills. In desperation the man urged payment in the best counterfeit bills the bank could produce.
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United States Bank
Weighing Dispute Over Sugar Sparks Cheating Claim
Mrs. Broughne accuses Jones of cheating when she saw him rest his hand on the scales while weighing sugar. Mr. Broughne dismisses it as harmless weighing.
Doings of Congress Senate and House Debates
Senate discusses Montana credentials for Maginnis and Clark and surrounding contest. Bills pass for Milwaukee harbor obstruction removal and Columbia River improvements. House debates customs administration bill and a World’s Fair plan for 1892, with clashes over duties and carton shipments. Senate and House face controversy over Montana senatorial credentials and western-improvement funding.
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Willian A. Clark
Martin Maginnis
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Umbrella Misplaced Promptly Recovered at Western Union
A Hartford man forgot his umbrella at the Western Union telegraph office. A messenger found it and, after being summoned by phone, raced to the telephone box waving the umbrella and shouted Is this it. The owner, four teen blocks away, replied with a surprised Waal, I swow.
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New York Sun
Archaeologist Traces Early Man in Glacial Era
Prof. G. Frederick Wincut has explored the Trenton gravel and determined man existed on this continent during the glacial advance.
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G. Frederick Wincut
Trenton
Miserly Oshkosh Matron Tricks Boys for a Coin
An old woman in Oshkosh, famed for hoarding money, sends two boys to find a dropped 5 cent piece in a wood box. The reward is a coin and a whiff of perfume, after which she dismisses them as dear children. The tale highlights her extreme thrift and odd bounty.
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Oshkosh
Isaac
York
Pump Down the Ozone Towers in Cities
Sir Edwin Chadwick envisions towers to pump down ozone from above to purify neighborhoods. He cites a rapid one thousand two hundred revolutions per second mechanism and notes Eiffel’s approval. He says trials on ships show promising results and compares the idea to improving air in public offices and near St Pauls.
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England
St. Paul’s
Replanting of Teeth Suggested by Liverpool Dentist
The Liverpool Mercury notes that a tooth can be extracted cleaned and restored to its socket and become a useful natural instrument. One Liverpool dentist regularly does this and it surprises many. A shipping office gentleman had a tooth treated years ago and it remains serviceable. The piece wonders about extracting old teeth and inserting new ones as a potential boon.
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Liverpool Mercury
Liverpool
Mercenary Ohio Doctors
Indignation rises in Findlay as local physicians form a combination to raise visit fees from $1 to $1.50 during the grippe epidemic. With many patients ill, doctors stand to gain substantially from the higher charges.
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Increased Fifteen Thousand Fold- A Very Lucky Countryman
The Louisiana State Lottery drew ticket No 98455 belonging to Z P Cole of Pearsall Texas winning one fortieth of the 600000 capital prize in the December drawing. Cole sent the ticket to New Orleans where it was cashed and the money returned quickly. He plans to use the fortune to improve his life. January 8.
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The Dead Doctor and the Spectral Visitor
A physician recounts reviving dead tissue and a haunting on the anniversary of the experiment. He narrates a Berlin ball encounter with the revived man and a stalker from Fifty-seventh Street who reveals his true identity as the specter. The reporter flees the house as danger nears and the doctor collapses.
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Copsul
Seattle
Auen
A Century Talk on Population and the Cosmos
The piece recalls Herschel posing a question on population growth since Cheops. If humanity began with one pair and doubled every thirty years without war or plague, how high would humans stack to reach the moon, Neptune, or beyond. The dialogue escalates to absurd heights to illustrate the waste of war and famine.
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Irish jury law joke noted by London dinner guest
A distinguished Irish judge recounts the jury's instinctive move to the prisoners' dock after the new Irish jury law took effect. He notes nine jurors walked to the dock by habit, highlighting the awkward adaptation time for jurors to the new duties.
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Phelps
London
Never write without something to say says Burdette
Anecdote from Brooklyn Eagle where the Experienced Writer chides the Young Journalist for filling a third column without substance while flies hover over the journalists and writer. The remark prompts swarms of flies to settle on the Experienced Writer for the day.
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Brooklyn Eagle
Early Morning Walks and Patent Remedies Promoted
A satirical piece extols Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup and Salvation Oil as cures. It claims Sam defeated twenty years of rheumatism using Salvation Oil for 25 cents, suggesting these remedies as practical solutions.
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Tragedy Near Wausau Claims Logger
Matthew Haner, logging about ten miles from Wausau Wisconsin, was killed instantly by a falling tree. His widow and five children remain after he moved to the area about two months ago from Paubte leaves.
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Russian Lover Arrested for NYC Fatal Shooting
Mary Ferikovsky, a young Russian woman, was shot and killed in New York by her lover Michael Popoff. Popoff, said to hail from a respected Moscow coalshy family, was arrested.
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New York
Michael Popoff
Moscow
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Larkins the Forger Held in Sioux City Jail
Larkins, a resident of Persons Kansas for three years, is jailed in Sioux City for forgery. He posed as an ex prosecutor of geology and an ex Methodist minister, a deception previously unsuspected by townspeople.
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The Favorite Prescription Promises Cures for Women’s Ailments
An advertising notice touts Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription as a cure for chronic female weaknesses and distressing derangements. It warns slow, steady treatment is needed, promises satisfaction or money back, and offers a 160 page treatise for ten cents.
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Nightly disturbances plague hotel during social season
The report notes that such disturbances occur almost nightly in a large hotel and intensify when the social season peaks, causing repeated awakenings and disruption for guests.
Nightmares in Hotels Sparked by Deviled Crab Dreams
An uptown hotel clerk recalls guests haunted by nightly terrors and dreams of being locked in treasury vaults after overeating deviled crabs. The hall boy, night clerk, and porter responded to sounds of groans and cries, only to find the guest distressed but unharmed.
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Washington Post
Remarkable Bay Family Builds Schooner Axel and Beyond
A Pensacola area family of four brothers and a sister master a shipyard at East Bay. They draw lines, cut timber, and launch ships, with Capt G commanding the Axel on the gulf. They plan a larger vessel using family members in every craft and crew, timbered from local forests as steam work nears completion.
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Old Aunt Dinah Chooses Social Security Over Marriage
In Washington Past, Aunt Dinah, widow of a soldier earning $8 a month pension, considers re marrying. Her mistress warns marriage will forfeit the pension, prompting Aunt Dinah to declare no Black Georgia woman is worth more than eight dollars a month.
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