Broken Promises of Marriage and the Jephthah motif
In a sermon titled Broken Promises of Marriage the preacher likens engagements to a sacred vow men and women must not break. He cites Jephthah's daughter and warns against rash betrothals, urging patience before promising lifetime commitment and urging persistent moral responsibility. He urges spouses to endure hardship, seek counsel, and, if needed, pursue divorce as a last resort. He concludes with a call for women and men to devote themselves to do good and help others rather than dwell on personal woes.
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Brooxley
T. de Witt Tal
America
Jephthah
Dore
Handel
Graces
Robert Burne
Ayr
Southampton
England
Petrarch
Laura
Dante
Beatrice
Chaucer
Lucretia
Spenser
Rosalind
Waller
Saccharissa
Queen Elizabeth
Seymour
Philip
Melville
Leicester
Dean Swift
Jane Waring
Stella
Job
Kezia
God
Heaven
Paul
Corithians
Holland
Atlantic
Daughters of
Earth
Elizabeth
James
Scotland
Meade
French
Army of the Potomac
The Soldier and the Robin and Lincoln Assassination Night
A poem lauds Spring Grove Cemetery soldiers as a robin nests on a cartridge box while a theater plot to murder Lincoln unfolds. The scene moves from war memorials to the 1865 assassination plan where Booth awaits the fatal line, amid wartime imagery and a Broadway-like ruse.
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Spring Grove
Cincinnati
The Gas Man at Ford's Theater Revealed in Conspiracy Sketch
In a sketch about Ford's Theater, James Franklin Fitts recounts a rare ticket representation from the Lincoln assassination night. He explains the gas man’s crucial behind the scenes role, the stage lighting system, and a former conspirator’s deathbed confession about the plot’s near-miss and the dramatic darkness scheme that followed Richmond’s fall.
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Ford
Washington
Lincoln
John Wilkes Booth
Peeennes
Llows
Geneses
Ford’s
Booth
Baltimore
Richmond
Charleston
New Orleans
Canada
Petersburg
Lee
Gettysburg Battle Water Rescue and Confederate Fire Incident
An account recalls Union volunteers volunteering to fetch water for Confederate wounded amid a cease in fighting, J N McMunn is mortally wounded by a volley while aiding the wounded, and William W Jeffery saves a Confederate. The report frames the act as despicable. McMunn survives with an artificial roof in his mouth and becomes a Pittsburgh figure.
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Gettysburg
Ninth Regiment
Pennsylvania Reserve Volunteers
William W. Jeffery
Isaac N. McMunn
M. Copeland
J. Porter
J. Rigdon
J. N. McMunn
McMunn
Pittsburg
War era envelopes show curious pictures and clues
A Civil War era envelope displays a donkey fleeing Union forces with a frightened jockey named Price and a note about a low value capture. The caption “Strayed” refers to the 1861 defeat of Gov. Jackson at Boonville Missouri by Gen. Lyon, suggesting a satirical wartime scene.
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Correspon
Boonville
Jack
Gov. Jackson
Hoonville
Gen. Lyon
Bell
Liberty
Mule theft and hijinks at Blandville capture Union camp misadventure
Union soldiers in Kentucky faced mule scarcity as mules wandered and were stolen by horse dealers. Two Illinois privates disguised as farmers lured the herd, got it drunk, and led about forty mules back to camp, prompting a humorous exchange with General Smith. The tale blends frontier wit with wartime supply woes.
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Kentucky
Blandville
Illinois
Smith
Korean Games Then and Now Describe See-Saw Variations
The article observes Korean children playing a see-saw on a raised warped board and rope, noting the heavier jumper propels the lighter one into air resulting in multiple jumps. It praises the activity for building balance, nerve, and muscle while warning of its violence if overdone. It also mentions coin pitching, a whip-top, icy street slides in wooden shoes, and compares dietary curiosities about French eatables.
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America
Korea
New York
Brooklyn
Evening Post
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Jephthahs Daughter
Dr Talmage’s
the Women of America
Robin
Annie
Gove
Erlia
Seere
Draaen
Great Talleyrand
C. Ggl Shek
Ford’s Theater
James Franklin Fitts
J. H
G. Frather A
Philadelphia Times
Mine Run
Fifth Corps
Warren
Third Corps
General French
Lukunga
Alamen
Kanganpaka
Livingstone Inland Mission
N’kissi
Keating
Lower
Congo
Pliny
London News
Fall River
Bolton
Lam Sider
Bill
Krenshaw
Arkansaw Traveler
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