Farming a Gospel Type at Mount Gretna Encampment
Rev Dr Talmage preached to farmers at Mount Gretna near Lebanon Pa on a Gospel message rooted in agriculture. He urged deep conviction sowing harrow and harvest while praising farmers and warning of modern city luxury. He framed grace as plowing sowing harrowing reaping threshing and garnering toward heaven with biblical examples and pastoral appeal.
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Sundry Observations On Human Foibles And Public Affairs
A compact excerpt surveys human follies and envy with wry humor. It notes Chicago’s grand exposition idea, evaluates speech versus action, and touches on mortgages, Sunday school, rumors, and wind in a German band. The piece segues into Boston coverage of the Grand Army of the Republic encampment, officer elections, and memorial plans, highlighting Veazey’s unanimous Commander role and fundraising for monuments.
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Chicago
Eiffel Tower
New Hampshire
Spain
Somerville Journal
Preserving natural flower colors with acids and parchment
A Deutsche Botanische Monatschefte method dusts salicylic acid on flowers in the press and brushes it off when dry to retain red hues. Another approach soaks blotters in salicylic acid alcohol and places them around blooms. Boracic acid works nearly as well, while Showland adds parchment sheets to keep delicate flowers' shape during sulphurous preservation.
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Deutsche Botanische Monatschefte
Showland
Enamored Youth Seeks Father's Consent for Daughter
In a humorous exchange cited by N Y Weekly a youth begs an older man for his daughter's hand. The father replies with a twist promising to be free of the daughter if they wed, then asks for a day to be named and time to reflect.
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Gramps
Amer
N. Y
Witty Quotations and Jests Roar Through Headlines
A collection of short humorous exchanges and quips from various papers. A man complains of a lost umbrella. a man boasts about knowing his wife after two days. a girl at a children's concert mocks encores. jokes about Magsey learning to write and a bank check signed after three years.
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Leeds Mercury
Weary Wiggins
Magsey
Lazy Leary
Boston Herald
Iron Prescription Prompted by Rusty Town Joke
A humorous quip from St Albans Advertiser cites Dr Smith advising iron tablets after a patient jokes his blood is impoverished. Mr Jones responds that his wife says he already looks rustier than any other man in town.
Curious insect lights reveal no dead mosquitoes
A Bangor Me report notes a tramps’ intellectual aura and bookish baggage, a Georgia planter grows red cotton with seeds from three-year-old finds, and an odd West Chester race where runners remove and recouple shoes before sprinting to finish.
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Bangor
West Chester
Grand Army week ends with pensions and memorial plans
The National encampment closes after pension committee report praises new disability pension law. resolutions favor moving Grant's remains to Arlington and creating a National museum at Ford's Theatre. Officers elected include Surgeon-in-Chief LB Stevens and Chaplain-in-Chief Myron W. Reed. over 1,000 attend a Mechanics' Hall banquet. The Women's Relief Corps reports totals and elects officers Mrs McHenry as national president and Elizabeth Turner as senior vice president.
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Denver
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Mechanics’ Hall
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Sickles
Corporal Tanner
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Boys In
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McHenry
Iowa
Elizabeth A. Turner
Massachusetts
Noted Scientist known as Shoemaker Astronomer Dies
William Dawson famed as Shoemaker Astronomer died at 57 in Spiceland Indiana from blood poisoning. He started as a shoemaker apprentice and educated himself in astronomy, becoming a world renowned scientific astronomer with publications and several instruments including a large telescope at his home observatory.
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Shoemaker
Spiceland
Ind
New Castle
Argentina Vast Land Surpasses Major European Nations
The article asserts Argentina covers over 1.2 million square miles and is larger than Britain, Ireland, France, Germany, Austria Hungary, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Belgium, the Netherlands, Greece, and Turkey. It notes Patagonia lies within Argentine territory and forecasts vast agricultural potential with 10 million people fed. It cites 17 million cattle and 100 million sheep valued at 400 million dollars, with wheat quality praised and poised to compete with American grain.
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Austria
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Emperor creates finance ministry in place of treasury
Emperor William establishes an imperial ministry of finance with Herr Miguel as the new minister. Previously mayor of Frankfort on the Main, Miguel has been a leading socialist and ally of Karl Marx. He once declared in a public address that Germany should have a republic as the only form of government fit for educated and noble-minded men.
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Miguel
Frankfort-on-the-Main
Germany
Socialist Party
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Missouri Pacific Train Held Up and $90,000 Looted
The Kansas City limited express No 3 on the Missouri Pacific was stopped near Tipton and $90,000 taken from the Pacific Express Company safe. Two masked robbers led the attack with confederates at the car, and the gang fled toward Otterville as sheriffs and detectives pursue them.
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Otterville
Sam Avery
Avery
St. Louis
Census counts near completion for 64 million U S population
Wasnisneaton Aug 18 The Census Office reports the population tally nearly complete from 45 000 enumeration districts with about 1 200 returns still needing counting The current total stands at 62 695 955 and a final figure near 64 000 000 is expected once all districts are tallied.
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Wasnisneaton
United States
Large Denver & Rio Grande blast wrecks village
Aug 18 report from Rep CrirrF Col details a massive blasting by Rio Grande contractors to finish road work. They evacuated the town, set off over a ton of powder, and left five houses destroyed and thirty damaged beyond repair. owners to be reimbursed by the contractors.
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Denver & Rio Grande Railway
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