The Prophesies of the World's Fair Sermons on Rest
Rev Thomas Dixon Jr continues a new sermon series arguing the Sabbath rest is a primal human need not tied to Mosaic law. He cites Chicago World’s Fair events, condemns Sunday opening, defends Christ’s reforming spirit, and urges one day’s rest in seven as essential to humanity.
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Thomas Dixon, Jr
Jesus Christ
America
Chicago
Directorate of the Fair
Washington
Congress
New York
Julia
France
Old World
West
Montague
Williams
London
Christ
Jesus
Jonathan Trunball
Jona
Susan Smith
Tiny
Tsnall Boy
Waterville College
Waterville
Benjamin F. Butler
St. James Gazette
Beethoven
Rossini
Wagner
Rubinstein
Pine Ridge
Echoes in Statuary Hall Spark Interest
Washington Post reports new echoes discovered in Statuary Hall. Guides note echoes multiply weekly, claiming the roof shape causes them and an acoustics expert could solve the pattern. Every point has a corresponding echo due to equal angles of incidence and deflection.
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Statuary Hall
Washington Post
Career of a Fiend and a Lighthouse Hero
A long St Louis Globe Democrat summary recounts General Gabilondo, a feared Mexican figure, his crimes from Caborica to Casabe, and his death in Mexico City, along with Captain Crabb's fatal encounter and Crabb’s wife’s murder. It also details John William Thomas’s icebound rescue at Wolf Trap Light station and his survival after signaling a steamer.
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Nogales
A. T
Mexico
General Carber
Captain Crabb
Caborica
Pesqueira
Sonora
California
Crabb
Libertad
Gulf of California
Gulf Coast
Guayamas
Casabe
Imaris
St. Louis Globe Democrat
John Thomas
John William Thomas
Wolf Trap
Mr. Thomas
Washingrton Post
Gounod Faust Remains Centerpiece of His Fame
A historical note on Gounod and Faust highlights the opera as the peak of his career with Romeo et Juliette as a distant rival. It details the work’s extraordinary run at Paris venues, the gossip denying authorship, and the enduring place of Faust in lyric history. Also mentions a Philadelphia notice about remains exhibited at funerals.
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Gounod
Faust
Lyric Stage
Grand Opera
Paris
Theatre Lyrique
Romeo Et Falielie
Philemon
Baucis
Sappo
Mireille
Harper’s
Sunflower Paper Made From Sunflower Stalks At Local Mill
The local paper mill produced several tons of paper from sunflower stalks and sent it to experts in the east. The paper is considered superior to straw paper and the mill is now purchasing sunflowers. Last evening The Daily Republican ran its entire edition on the sunflower paper.
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Daily Republican
Salt Eve to Africa: Salt Assal Concession Sold by France
The French government sold to Mr. Chefneux the exclusive right to refine and export salt from Lake Assal in East Africa for 50 years. He will pay the colonial office 19000 dollars annually, with a 20 cent tax per ton if production exceeds 50000 tons yearly. A native salt access area will be designated tax free. The lake sits in Obock district with a 16 square mile area and a thick salt bed at the bottom.
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Chefneux
Lake Assal
Obock
East Africa
Bay of Tadjoorah
Colonial Office
English Note on Phillips Brooks in London Purposes
Those in England accustomed to Brooks will sympathize with American Christians who suffer bereavement. They will recall Cowley Fathers withdrawing a member over latitudinarianism. They will remember his strength purity and noble teaching and his eloquence that elevates subjects to a higher realm of conscience and divine voice.
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Phillips Brooks
England
Philips Brooks
London
Cowsey
God
London Spectator
Remarkable 50,000 Mile Letter Returns To Sender
A Rockville man received a letter that had circulated from Bombay to the east and England in search of his brother. The enclosed $5 gold piece wore loose inside two cardboard pieces and vanished in the dead letter office, leaving the envelope heavily marked from countless stops. The sender values the letter more than the coin.
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Rockville
Pombay
India
United States
Bombay
England
Randall
Norwich Bulletin
New Waterproof Composition Marketed for Coatings
A colorless liquid waterproof composition is marketed to coat leather, strapping machinery parts, polished steel, brass and copper. It resists damp, heat, cold and acids and does not rub or peel off, being removable only with paraffin or turpentine.
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New York Telegram
Wealth for Future Generations Forest Timber Value Claim
In southern Oregon a forest 16 000 miles long contains an estimated 400 000 000 000 feet of merchantable timber. At ten dollars per thousand feet the proceeds would pay our national debt twice over.
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Oregon
Boston Globe
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