Life Worth Living Says Dr. Talmage Sermon
The sermon urges life as a divine trust and aims to inspire worth while living. It contrasts wealth focus with spiritual purpose, citing Solomon Jeremiah and examples like a young man at twenty, a farmer mother, and philanthropists such as Peter Cooper and Frances Leere. The talk ends noting rewards for faithful living and eternity beyond time.
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Talmage
Solomon
Jeremiah
New York
Brooklyn
Plato
Seneca
Confucius
The Conqueror Worm reads its tragedy on stage
A Poe quatrain frames a theater scene where angels weep as a blood red form devours the stage. The worm feeds on the mines while vermin gore stains the darkness. The curtain falls as pall and storm sweep the theater. The angels rise to declare man the tragedy and the Conqueror Worm its hero.
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the Conqueror Worm
Edgar Allen Poe
Non-Swearing Knights Planned Divisions in Chicago
A Chicago Chronically reported item describes R. C. Wynn leading the Non-Swearing Knights effort to form divisions in Chicago to curb profanity. The vow requires only an effort to abstain from swearing, with no penalties and no guaranteed compliance.
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Chicago
R. C. Wynn
W. Kerr
Wynn
Chroni
Curious Lands in 3 Florida Saddle Lake Mystery Land
The Gainesville Sun reports Payne's prairie south of the city covers about 50,000 acres. A water-filled savanna lies along the lake with many thousands of cattle and fine horses grazing on border islands. Subterranean sinks drain and refill the lake, creating dramatic changes and a honeycomb ground that could yield vast drainable land.
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Payne’s Prairie
Gainesville
Florida
Odd Tidbits From an Old Paper On Apple Crops And Whisky
Notes recall Jay Gould at fourteen writing honesty musings while reports claim thirteen thousand gallons of whisky head toward the Klondike. An Independent writer notes four states officially use the term commonwealth Massachusetts Pennsylvania Virginia and Kentucky. Kansas and Missouri boast big apple crops as other states see poor fruit. New York buyers swarm these states buying apples in sight.
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Jay Gould
Klondike
The
Independent
Union
Commonwealth
Massachusetts
Pennsylvania
Virginia
Kentucky
Kansas
Missouri
New York
Fashion's Field Brightens With Silver Gray Fall Trends
Gray dominates the season with silver gray appears in hats gloves gowns and accessories. Double breasted Eton jackets with integrated sleeves lead early fall designs, satin fabrics and ribbon accents promise updated waistlines and broader ribbon usage including bows on the left waist.
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Eton
Riches and royalty notes from early gossip column
Dickens leaves 500000 to descendants who are said to be out. Daudet delays a life based novel until its real hero dies. Walter Kennedy, Indiana, named Venezuelan mining chief, reputedly owns vast lands, slaves, and an immense income. Hall Caine receives 50000 advance on The Christian with plans for a dramatic version.
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Walter Kennedy
Indiana
China
Hall Caine
Oddities from Around the World and 19th Century Notes
A collage of brief global curiosities notes coinage in Johannesburg and old New York Elm Street, scarlet fever bed counts in London, Jumbo the steer, ancient wine bacteria, Father Kneipp and Woerishofen, a new bank window safety feature, a maiden’s flower theft in Kansas, Massachusetts deceit penalties, jubilee coinages, Bulgarian wrestling, and toxic perspiration experiments in animals.
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Johannesburg
Metropolitan Asylums Board
London
New York
Peter Cooper
Elm Street
Wichita Eas
London Lance Re
East
Europe
Asia
Africa
Wortmann
Woerishofen
Sebastian Kneipp
Litire
Father Kneipp
Atchison
Kas
Massachusetts
M. Arbing
Bad Luck Tales From Aboard And At Home
A collection of anecdotes from the New York Ledger recounts fortunes halted by mischance. An Indian captain saves twenty five thousand dollars only to learn his bank failed on arrival in England, delaying marriage until Bombay. A wealthy father’s clemency comes too late as a son ignores a reconciliatory will. A would be author loses his breakthrough when a compositor spoils the page, leaving the story unsold and the author disappointed.
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India
England
Bombay
Sheas
Liverpool
New York Ledger
Right Sort of Job Odious Oliver and Moldy Mike exchange quips
Odious Oliver jokes about wanting the right sort of job where someone else does the work for ammytoor photographers. Moldy Mike expresses surprise and asks what kind of job. The exchange appears in a World newspaper snippet with humor and dialogue.
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Oliver
Mike
Ollie
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Dr. Talmage
Jesus
Luxembourg
New Hampshire
Susannah Wesley
Frances Leere
France
Germany
Heaven
Madeleine
Sarah House
Muncie
Hinshaw
Obin Stevens
Conrad Stevens
Huntington
Ana
Qui Cror
Lorida
Dickens
Alphonse Daudet
Guzman Blanco
Venezuela
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