Agents Wanted Rev Sam Jones Sermons Book Ad
Rev Sam P Jones sermons promoted as unprecedented and startling. Describes an illustrated edition with portrait and 60 character sketches. Offers instant delivery, territory selection, and a 25-cent outfit via return mail from Roberts & Cole Publishing Co in St Louis.
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Sam P. Jones
Chicago
Cincinnati
St. Louis
Atlanta
Augusta
Waco
Memphis
Nashville
Sam Jones
Rebert & Cole
Bixeet
Louis
Homeward Dreams and Georgia Politicians in Focus
A fragmented reminiscence blends religious longing for a heavenly home with profiles of Georgia lawmakers in Congress. Henry Turner, Charles Crisp, and Henry Warris are praised for legal acumen and leadership while portraits of M. Hammond and others reveal party roles, ages, and chair duties amid reflections on pensions, labor, and governance. A court scene closes with a juror joke about whisky.
Milburn the Blind Chaplain Draws Wide Attention
The Washington Post profiles Dr. Milburn, the blind House chaplain of Nev., famous for sermons and prayers. Despite blindness since age five, he has traveled over a million and a half miles in his vocation, describes iconic sites vividly, and speaks on labor troubles with fierce clarity. He is tall, well-groomed, with a gray beard and keen eyes that seem to read his audience.
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Henry G. Turner
Quitman
Washington
Turner
Henry I. Warris
Georgia
Ife
M. J. Hammond
Atlanta
Soutern Darkey
Isbor
Wammond
Washington Post
Milburn
House of Representatives
Camiman
Westminister Abbey
Cologne
Notre Dame
Sierras
Rocky Mountains
Blue Ridge
Fife
Milturn
Georgia Congressmen Told by a Georgia Writer
From Washington to Cartersville the writer praises Georgia congressmen, notably Mr Norwood of Savannah. He portrays him as intelligent, deliberate, and capable on the House floor, recalling a sharp clash with Iowa’s D B Henderson that boosted Norwood’s standing.
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W. JL
Washington
Cartersville
Georgia
Congress of the
United States
South
Georgi
Mr. Norwood
Savannah
Jies
W-T. Wofford
Bartow County
Congress
D. B. Henderson
Iowa
Norwood
Won't Join the Circus Says Darnell in Courtroom Exchange
A Constitution journalist records F. J. Darnell the dwarf declining to join the circus after trading insults with a heckler who calls him duck legs. Darnell recalls a dollar seventy five fine for striking a man with a stick. He vents racism, notes selling The Constitution and produce on Werner's avenue, and mentions family illness but improving. He hints at spring uncertainty with months jokingly exchanged.
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Circus
Constitution
F. J. Darnell
Mariah
Werner's Avenue
Noriwood Attacks British Control Of Dollar Value In Debates
A dry satire recounts Noriwood Georgia defending the dollar’s honesty against gold advocates and blaming British influence. Lombard Street and Wall Street quip that the American dollar is worth 0 or 80 cents, framing the coin as bullion while recalling colonial money and the crown. An anecdote ends with a saltwise joke about a fisherman and a boy's bait.
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Noriwood
Georgia
Manve
Finny
Maryland
Lombard Street
Wall Street
Congress
United States
Ile
Lost of Drinking and a Loaned Pledge Tale
A 19th century tale recalls a worker who left the office for whisky, causing a cash drawer to accumulate 190 over seventeen months. The money was loaned at seven percent to a young man who bought tools and later returned the amount with interest. A grandmother’s gentle exchange with a child about dying and burial ends with the child asking for 10 cents.
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Pomeroy
Sal
Tuiner
A Kind Act From George V Childs Honoring Georgia’s Son
The Augusta Chronicle notes a generous donation of one hundred dollars by George V. Childs to help complete a memorial monument for Mr. Stephens, praising his public spirit and urging statewide efforts to honor Georgia’s remarkable son. It reflects on Childs’s wealth, restraint in giving, and the lasting legacy of Stephens in Georgia.
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George V. Childs
Mr. Stephens
Childs
Georigia
Hilside
Georgia
J. St. R
Augusta Chronicle
Printer and President Cleveland interview quoted
Lawrence Barrett spent a day with President Cleveland and describes him as a strong yet beleaguered leader. He cites personal mistakes and a lack of sympathetic counsel amid bickering among politicians. Barrett predicts a Republican administration unless Democrats unite, and closes with a birthday greeting to a boy.
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Lawrence Barrett
Cleveland
Ife
Mes
Barrett
Democratic Party
Benjamin Franklin the Printer Boy Who Shaped a Nation
A 1726 London anecdote follows a nineteen year old American who seeks work and proves his printing skill by setting type. He rises to influence at the office, becomes a printer, publisher, Postmaster General, congressman, and ambassador, dying in Philadelphia in 1790 at eighty four, with many American counties named for him.
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London
Ameriea
Vlad Fron Americs
Nathaniel
Ile
America
Philadelphia
Benjamin Franklin
Richard
New Discovery Cures Consumption Says D A Bredford
D A Bredford of Chattanooga Tenn credits Dr King s New Discovery for curing his severe lung cold and says he and his family have had best results with it Thousands report lives saved by this wonder drug First bottles free at Hallam Hamvick s Co s Drug Store
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D. A. Bredford
Chattanooga
Tenn
Dr. King
Hallam
Hamvick’s & Co
A Drummer’s Sleepless Night Tests a Faith
In a Western New York revival, Rev Henry Ward Beecher’s tale about a drummer sleeping through a sermon ends with a punch line. The evangelist asks who wants to go to heaven or hell, and the drummer finally replies that he is a hopeless minority, unsure of the vote.
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Henry Ward Beechers
New York
Tle Hak
Parson
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ATLAW
Meratt
Carrollton, GA
Court of Ordinary
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Brow &Brown
Whitesburg
Whitesburg Ga
E.G. Kramer
New York Exchange
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Fourth National Bank
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First National Bank
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Goa
Hartwell
Carrollton
Morrow
Srixsey & Co
Portland
Maine
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Jesus
Lori
Charles F. Crisp
South Western
Crisp
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Salem
Walton
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