Carry Your Cross for Christ Says Brooklyn Sermon
In a Brooklyn tabernacle sermon Rev. Talmage depicts Christ’s crucifixion in vivid detail to urge believers to bear their own crosses. He contrasts the brutal scourging and crucifixion with personal tests of faith, urging public confession and steadfast support for Christian duties even under pressure.
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Gettysburg
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The Cross of Christ Draws Men to Emmanuel’s Standard
A preacher cites martyrdoms from Cawnpore and Piedmont to urge believers to bear their cross for Christ. He recalls mission figures and firelit banners, urging the audience to join the Lord’s side and follow the cross as a sign of suffering and triumph.
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Cawnpore
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Son of God
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Emmanuel
Conscience-stricken man in Kentucky feud over 22 year old bill
A Louisville man seeks $1.50 for meals eaten 22 years ago at a Bullitt County hotel. An argument over interest turns physical, ending with both men jailed and vows of further action. The scene escalates into threats and a chaotic chase to the sheriff.
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Kentucky
Louisville
Sheriff's Office
An English Traveller Describes a Savage Camel
An English traveller in the East portrays camels as undomesticated and cruel creatures driven by revenge. He recalls a fourteen year old lad forced to load wood who later faced a fatal camel attack, the animal killing the boy before bystanders could intervene and the camel itself being slain.
Avalanches Ravage Swiss Regions and Valais Resorts
The season’s avalanche calamities in Switzerland and Piedmont surpass any in decades. Losses of life are highest on the southern Alps while cattle and property suffer on the northern side. Randa and many Saas valley villages are ruined. Sansgrund and Simpson Hospice are hit by air blasts splitting houses and killing livestock. The English Alpine Club appeals for aid, hoping for European relief.
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Valais
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Saast
Simpson Hospice
Europe
Alpine Club
London
Observer
Heads to the North Belief Backed by Experiments
The Globe-Democrat reports that French Academy experiments on a guillotined body suggest the head acts as one electric pole with the feet as the other. After death the body was placed on a pivot and the head moved toward the north repeatedly, while the body stayed still.
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French Academy of Sciences
Globe- Democrat
Largest Lighthouse Lens Arrives in Washington DC
A $15,000 Paris made lantern lens for the United States Government now rests in Washington DC. It is the largest lantern lens in the country, standing 15 feet tall with an internal diameter of 8 feet 8 inches.
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Paris
United States
Washington, D.C
Captain and drummer boy in siege at Custozza 1848
On July 24 1848 a battalion of Italian infantry held a hillside house against Austrian fire. A young Sardinian drummer boy delivered a battle note across the field, crawled down a rope, faced enemy fire, and was mortally tested before a daring Italian counterattack. The captain praised the boy’s grit and later embraced him as a hero after both survived.
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Hastiy
Villafranca
Mincio
Goito
Chicago Irish-Americans protest pope rescript meeting
One of the largest and most enthusiastic meetings ever held in Chicago brought Irish-Americans together to protest the papal rescript. Resolutions were adopted and speakers included ex-Congressman Eberty and Mat thew P. Brady among others.
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Chicago
Eberty
Matthew P. Brady
Dancing with the Dead in a Madrid Undertaker's Ball
In Madrid a coffin incident at a major undertaker's shop ended with the corpse emerging from its coffin during a grand ball. A man, thought dead, awakened to music and revelry, danced with the undertaker's wife and daughter, then revealed himself as the living guest. The joke arose from Spain burying the dead in full evening dress and the coffin lid locking only before interment.
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London
Spain
Madrid
First practical joke shapes Florence's wit in Broadway stint
Florence recalls a youth in Broadway theater earning ten dollars weekly. He feigned love with a fellow actor, invited her to an oyster house, and was robbed when he had no money. A benevolent stranger paid the bill with a counterfeit twenty, keeping eighteen dollars as payment for his generosity. The tale, from the New York Sun, anchors his lifelong humor.
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Florence
New York Sun
Two Stories of Congressman Pettigrew
Two tales recount Pettigrew of South Carolina the unionist lawyer before a Presbyterian judge. He proposes adjourning Good Friday for churchgoers. the judge declines noting docket fullness. Pettigrew recalls Pontius Pilate. In summer he softly challenges etiquette over black coat and yellow trousers.
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Pettigrew
South Carolina
Pontius Pilate
Philadelphia Record
Browning Refuses Magazine Payments for Verse
Mrs. Louise Chandler Moulton recalls Browning declining offers from Boston papers and English magazines. He says he cannot write for periodicals, preferring books bought by readers to prove interest. He adds that publication in magazines would make him an uninvited guest. His wife enjoyed social access though.
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Browning
Boston
Tennyson
Mr. Browning
Nashua Salvation Army Captain Defies Street Meetings
Captain Maggie Cartwell of the Salvation Army in Nashua New Hampshire was arrested after defying police orders to stop street meetings. The judge offered to file the complaint if she confined actions to marching with flags singing and tambourine beating. She refused to pay a four dollar fine and remains jailed for stubbornness.
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Cincinnati Enquirer
Salvation Army
Nashua
N. H
Maggie Cartwell
Maggie
Paralyzed Man Kidnapped Near Bois de Boulogne
London Daily Telegraph reports an elderly invalid in care of a nurse was taken from a bath chair in the Bois de Boulogne while the nurse briefly left for an organ. Authorities fear kidnapping for begging. A similar incident involved a weak young woman recovered from illness. Also notes Dr. A J Louis on cocaine as a ruinous force.
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Paris
London Daily Telegraph
Bois de Boulogne
Georgia girls defend well rope from venomous water moccasin
Misses Pearl Jones and Florence Reese of Georgia drew water from a well and found a water moccasin coiled around the rope. They clung to the crank until rescuers arrived and the snake was dispatched.
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Florence Reese
Georgia
Dakota county's vast size and global seating idea
Griggs County spans 710 square miles with 3,000 residents, enough space to seat the world population in armchairs. The dispatch notes a severe Montreal storm causing timber loss, a fatal Comp ton collapse, a Perrault family tragedy, Lichtenstein dispute at Perpetual Building and Loan, a Broadway umbrella assault on Billy Deutsch, and a brick contract for a La Crosse government building valued around $200,000.
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Griggs County
Globe
Austin, Minn
la Crosse
Wis
Dr Pierce's Pleasant Purgative Pellets Advertised
The ad touts Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Purgative Pellets as a superior remedy to older pills. It claims quick relief from various ailments and asserts the pellets earn daily laurels as the most popular cure when many ills abound.
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Jill
Dr. Pierce
Dr Sage’s Catarrh Remedy Promotion Claims Cure
An advertisement describes Nasal Catarrh symptoms including headache nasal obstruction and nasal discharge. It asserts the disease can lead to consumption and death, and offers a $500 reward to prove the remedy’s failure to cure. Drugstores sell the product for 50 cents.
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