The Sunday School Lesson on Genesis and Esau's Birthright
The piece discusses Genesis themes through Jacob and Esau’s story. It notes parental favoritism, hunger, and the birthright's value, linking the ancient text to New Testament lessons and personal faith. It cites Genesis chapters 25 to 27 and Matthew and Hebrews passages to urge spiritual priorities over worldly appetite.
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Mihass
Isaac
Ishmael
Jesus
Samuel
Tahal
Moses
Samson
Nimrod
Babel
Esau
R. V
Jacob
Rebekah
Philippi
Reuben
Joseph
Kaan
Israel
Personal Gossip From The Royal Household And Notable Society
Queen Victoria’s household numbers nearly 1000 officials including lord steward. Archduke Franz Ferdinand shot 2000 game in India, with 6 elephants and 20 tigers reported. Baroness Burdett-Coutts owns a rare folio Hamlet bought for 4000 dollars. Miss Sallie Matthews led a 100-man Ohio river steamboat crew before dying in Louisville. Agnes Melby first Norwegian-American college graduate to complete full course at St Olaf. Wedding notes include John Smith and Ella P Stover in Portsmouth with Mrs. Elizabeth Marden as bridesmaid, a role she also held at the grandmother’s wedding.
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India
Franz Ferdinand
Baroness Burdett-Coutts
London
Hamilet
Senator Voorhees
Hoyt
Saxe-Coburg
Gotha
Ludwig von Embder
Hamburg
Heinrich Heine
Sallie Matthews
Louisville
Agnes Melby
New Richland
Minn
St. Olaf’s College
Northfield
John Smith
Ella P. Stover
Portsmouth
N. H
Elizabeth Marden
Balfour Calls for Scientific Study of Spiritualism
London report notes Arthur Balfour urging scientists to recognize well attested psychic facts and to press for investigations of spiritualistic phenomena. He champions examining abnormal faculties and exceptional individuals to reveal laws governing strange experiences beyond conventional science.
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Balfour
London
Society of Psychical Research
Heaven
Earth
Renters of Flowers for Funerals Draw Fire in NYC
A Fifth Avenue florist denounces loans of flowers for funerals as preposterous while an artificial flower firm defends offering potted blooms and foliage for hire. The firm notes many poor people use rentals for church services and saves only 10 percent, urging consideration of long-term costs.
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Fifth Avenue
New York Herald
Remarkable Black Walnut Discovered in Ohio
A new black walnut variety has been found in Ohio with a half-developed shell and a single meat, pear shaped and peanut sized. Unlike ordinary walnuts, this freak, when cracked, yields the whole meat, eliminating the common shell-wall issue. It is to be cultivated and may reach markets when today’s children reach adulthood.
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Ohio
Movement to Abolish Fast Day Grows at Statehouse
The Boston Herald notes the abolition movement is stronger at the statehouse than last year yet not enough to win now. Regardless, it is certain to keep growing and will triumph in the end.
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Statehouse
Boston Herald
Forgeries of Rare British Coins Raise Authenticity Doubts
Longman’s Magazine notes a rise in forged rare coins sold in London auctions and private sales. Experts fear new methods using plaster casts and electrotype dies may dupe collectors while genuine defaced coins are restruck and misrepresented. Some coins show Jewish issues surmounted on Roman denarii, but distinguishing the image and inscription on Elizabethan crowns from William III helps verify authenticity.
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British Museum
London
Midland
William III
Elizabeth
Longman’s Magazine
The Law of the Jungle by Kipling
A Kipling excerpt from St Nicholas discusses the jungle code where beasts forbid attacking humans until hunting to teach, then hunters must avoid their pack’s grounds. It argues man’s killing draws white hunters with guns and torches, harming the jungle and its creatures.
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Rudyard Kipling
St. Nicholas
Logs Preserved In Water Offer Timber Treasure
Magnificent spruce and yellow pine logs drift down the Delaware sources to Kensington mills and now float in the Aramingo canal below Girard avenue bridge. The timber includes masts flagpoles and beams over 70 feet long and 2 feet square. Submerged timber lasts best, and the canal holds valuable lumber misread as refuse for economy. Some logs lie waterlogged on the canal bottom.
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Delaware
Kensington Mills
Aramingo Canal
Girard Avenue Bridge
Philadelphia
Farmers Seek Tariff Justice in Nation’s Circular
The national grange circular to Congress criticizes the Wilson tariff bill as unjust to farmers. It argues the McKinley law and Chicago platform favor industry, warns New England and New York markets are harmed by proximity to Canada, and calls for tariff and currency reforms to protect American producers and markets. The group advocates free cloth with free wool as reciprocity and supports bimetalism with treasury notes to raise per capita money.
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National Grange
Congress
Chicago
Committee of Ways and Means
New England
New York
Canada
United States
Seaboard
United States Treasury
Advertising wisdom from a Philadelphia merchant
Isaac Cooper and family tourists discuss advertising ethics in a Seattle Post-Intelligencer reprint. He recalls Coopers & Conard in Philadelphia, stresses truth over hype, and notes supervising each ad to avoid misleading readers. He favors plain truth, understatements, and faith with the public to drive store traffic.
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Isaac Cooper
F. A. Hazard
Pauline Cooper
Philadelphia
Rainier
Alaska
Victoria
California
Cooper
Brotherly Love
Cooper & Conard
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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Oliver Otis Howard
United States Army
O. O. Howard
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Maine
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Psychical Research
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Fred’keeles & CO
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Boston
Assabet
Maynard, Mass
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Rockbottom
Whitman's Crossing
Whitman’s Crossing
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Troy
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Mansfield
Kr. G. Allen
A.C. Kendall
Vose Farm
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Maynard,Mass
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