The Virtuous Woman and the Church as Bride
A sermon on Proverbs thirty one presents the model wife as virtuous and strong in faith, praising her fear of the Lord, works, care for the poor, and influence on her husband and household. It links the virtuous woman to the church and Christ, urging believers to embody divine guidance and righteousness.
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Lemuel
Christ
Young
Peter
Ezek. xvi
Egypt
Ruth
Israel
Jesus
Adam
Paul
Azad
Lord Jesus Christ
John vi
Wisdom
John the Baptist
God
Hard Times Hit Australia Says Samuels From Melbourne
R D Samuels, kin of the Castle brothers, reports severe unemployment across Australia. Melbourne has about 7,000 jobless, Sydney 6,000, and nationwide hardship with clerks earning two to three pounds weekly. Many seek America, especially California, but funds are scarce.
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Australia
R. D. Samuels
Castle Brothers
Melbourne
Sydney
America
California
The
Alameda
San Francisco Examiner
Gold Diggers at the Fair Reunion Planned
The Chicago Herald reports plans to reunite California gold diggers of 1849 at the World’s Fair next June. Thousands of surviving forty-niners, many now in California, would travel east via the fair, register, and recount battles with hardship for sympathetic onlookers.
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California
Mississippi
Stilt Runners Begin 303 Mile Bordeaux to Biarritz Race
Eighty one entrants on stilts depart Bordeaux for Biarritz and back 303 miles, led by a brass band from Hotel de la Gironde. Arcadian baker Silvain Dornon among competitors, traveling Paris to Moscow on stilts. A second group of 18 women and girls also on stilts starts 15 minutes after the main race.
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Bordeaux
Biarritz
Hotel de la Gironde
Silvain Dornon
Old French chateaux inspire American country palaces
A New York Times note describes a striking American estate near New York that imitates old French chateaux. The design places stables at one end and a banquet hall at the other, with a guest noting the unlikely blend and a possible horse stall influence in the dining room.
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New York
New York Times
Strange Lights and Odd Happenings in Middleton
A Listener reports strange phenomena on a recent Sunday in Middleton, 20 miles from Boston, with grasshoppers seen lively on the ground and a man spotted crossing the Middleton pond on the ice. Mrs Alma Norstrum, a Kansas City Swedish woman, has gone violently insane while singing Ta-ra-ra Boom-de-ay and continues to sing. In Riverside Florida a man produced 18 pounds of orange peel oil at a ratio of 50 pounds to a ton of peel.
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Middleton
Boston
Middleton Pond
Boston Transcript
Alma Norstrum
Kansas City
Riverside, Fla
Theft of Books Returns Never in the Long Vista
A reflective verse laments lost loans and missing books from Murray to Old Mother Goose, noting Euclid and wisdom vanish with no return. The speaker cherishes borrowed works and laments the fate of their volumes never coming back, as in a case of departed curiosity.
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Murray
Union and Advertiser
The Sea Horse An Odd Innocent River Dweller
The sea horse, or sea cow, is misnamed for resembling neither horse nor sea. Found in rivers and lagoons, it strolls muddy bottoms and feeds on land offerings while disturbing local fishermen. Docile in captivity, some predict a pet future. life span may reach sixty to a century with new life-extending elixirs.
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Detroit
Free Press
There Is No Substitute for Leather in Commerce
This excerpt from the Shoe and Leather Reporter extols leather as a unique, unmatched material. It highlights its durability and flexibility, formed by a union of animal hide and tanning agents, arguing leather cannot be replaced by any other substance and remains essential to all consumers across society.
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Mr. Gladstone
Astrologers
Gladstone
Liverpool
Greenwich
Toronto Empire
Middlesex
Abel D. Clark
Concord
Alonzo Tower of
Cambridge
Concord Enterprise
George M. Brooks
H. Folsom
Register
Rapid Bronze Imitation Methods for Copper Goods
The New York Telegram notes quick ways to create antique green bronze on copper or brass. Immersion in iron chloride solution darkens with time. boiling in copper nitrate also works. Another method uses nitrate of iron with hyposulphite, followed by drying and burnishing.
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New York Telegram
Florida Keys Sponge Fishers and Rising Harvest
Native Floridians and Balima Islanders gather sponges along the Florida Keys. Fishermen called conks tear sponges with long forks, while a diver from New York failed at diving with a suit. Sponges regrow quickly, with beds replenished in about six months, and annual product value near half a million dollars.
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Florida Keys
Odoriferous Flowers of Europe
The New York Telegram reports on European floras noting 420 of 4,200 species are odoriferous, with white flowers most common at 1,194 kinds and less than a fifth fragrant. It breaks down fragrance by color groups: yellow 77, red 84, blue 31, violet blue 13, and multi colored 28.
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Europe
New York Telegram
A Dreadful Sight Reported In Lane
Jack bursts in with news of Lily Jones found hanging by a limb near the lane. Bystanders cry for a policeman as Lily appears alive, described as in danger but not yet confirmed dead.
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Jack
Lily Jones
Pluj
Piptsburz
Boston Chairs Row Divides City Officials Over Aged Paupers
Boston officials clash over a $700 private donation to furnish rocking chairs for pauper women on Rainsford Island. The mayor urged acceptance, the common council backed it, but the commissioners refused citing other concerns. The issue was referred to committee on public institutions and shelved, amid accusations of personal grudges against fundraiser Mrs. Alice N. Lincoln.
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Boston
Rainsford Island
Common Council
Committee On Public Institutions
Alice N. Lincoln
Boston Woman’s Journal
Calaveras Cal Man Tries for Office in San Josef Tale
A cormorant from California visits a western correspondent seeking an office and stumbles over San Jose San Joaquin and many California place names as the Washington Post quips. A country schoolmistress tests pupils with a line on credit ending with a boy’s joke about pawning his father’s coat.
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California
San Hosay
Bret Harte
San Joaquin
Cochahuila
Cajon
Calabasas
Escondido
Gualala
Manzanita
Nijoqui
San Mateo
San Miguel
San Luis Obispo
San Pablo
Santa Margarita
Santa Maria
Santa Monica
Santa Paula
Santa Ynez
White House
Thurber
San Aguardiente Vino Dulcedel Sud
Washington Post
John
Johnny
Marm
Young Ladies’ Journal
Pine timber shipments fuel Maine box trade to Chicago fair plans
Portland box maker buys 2 400 000 feet of pine logs from Cumberland county farmers injecting about 25 000 into local livelihoods. Monthly output reaches 150 000 to 200 000 feet of varied boxes. The box stock carries contents and owner name on a printed board. Separately, trains and hotels gear up for Columbian exposition in Chicago with clubs and workers planning economical group trips. Railroads report orders for special cars through summer into fall.
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Maine
Portland
Cumberland County
Lewiston Journal
Chicago
New York
New York Times
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Summer St
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South Acton
DR. F. S. Morton
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E. H. Davis
Concord Junction
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Concord Mass
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