From Dungeon to Palace in Pauls Cheerful Departure
A sermon imagines the martyrdom of Paul as a glorious transition to Heaven. The aged apostle endures prison and scourges yet faces departure with cheerful faith, inviting elders to share the joy of eternal reunion and the bright beyond. The preacher extols curiosity about Heaven, the healing climate, and the presence of Jesus as the center of heavenly glory.
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Hamptons
Brooklyn Tabernacle Bet
T. de Witt Talmage
D. D
Egypt
Heaven
Paul
Mamertine
Tullismun
Earth
Trons
P Paul
Mediterranean Sea
Vaul
Rome
God
Christ
Nero
Sean
Charles I
Mid Life
Isuae
Columbus
John Franklin
Switzerland
Matterhorn
Alpenstock
Eternal Hills
Alps
Montague Street
Jonathan Edwards
St. Paul
Weill
Jesus
Gate of Heaven
Stairway to Heaven Sermon on Revelation and the Crucifixion
A speaker contemplates what he would ask Paul and Jesus in Heaven describing storms at sea and the crucifixion. He envisions the living Christ recounting the passion with Paul beside, the mob, the cross, and the wedding bells of Heaven as the Messiah is praised.
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Paul
Heaven
Jesus Christ
Luke
Mark
John
Christ
Jesus
A Queer Mexican Street Through San Francisco Calle
A description of Mexico City’s Calle de San Francisco with its seventeen blocks each bearing unique names and numbering chaos. The piece notes the need to know street, square name, and block to locate a specific number such as 500 San Francisco. Prominent translated street names include Sacred Heart, Love of God, Blood of Christ, Crown of Thorns, Holy Ghost, and Fifth of May.
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San Francisco
San Francisco Street
Grand Plaza
Carlos V
Crown of Thorns
Guadalajara
Cor
Troy Times
Surprising Effects of Liquor in Mexico
A Mexico City letter warns that high altitude tropical climate makes liquor more harmful. It recalls Americans humiliated by practical jokes and ignorance, noting social drinking here can quickly lead to extreme intoxication and days of stupor.
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Mexico
Tropics
North
Ten Commandments Sermon Sparks Light Conversation
A minister preaching on the Ten Commandments during a negro revival faced an accusation of “throwin’ a chill on de meetin’.” An exchange jokes about belief in spiritualism and returns, noting debates over the dead returning and a debtor joke about a ten-dollar bill. The piece then discusses fashion and bathing-suit styles.
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Sam
Uranus Observed as Elliptical Disc by Carlsruhe Observatory
Two astronomers from the Grand Ducal observatory at Carlsruhe report Uranus displays an distinctly elliptical disc rather than a perfect circle, marking a notable astronomical observation.
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Grand Ducal Observatory
Carlsruhe
Hints on Home Gardening Seed Saving Tips
Practical guidance on managing cornstalks for manure and saving seeds. Advice covers tailing cornstalks for easier handling, using short stalk pieces as manure absorbent, and selecting best plants for seed. Recommends planting seed plots for corn oats sorghum and potatoes to avoid deterioration and reduce seed costs.
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Indiana
Profitable Oats Use and Feeding Strategies for Farmers
Farmers debate oats profitability while some find them profitable through feed programs. Early cutting increases straw value, improves feeding efficiency, and reduces lodging risk. Proper curing and storage, feeding grain with straw, and moistening after cutting maximize returns even when grain prices lag.
The Stock Breeder and Cheviot Sheep Insight
Soil for sheep favors lime-rich ground for wool quality in Europe. Pigs thrive in movable pens within orchards, spreading fertilization as they move. Cheviot sheep, long-wool natives of Scotland, are hardy, prolific with twin births common, weigh up to 300 pounds rams and 250 ewes, and yield six to nine pounds of white wool.
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Europe
Country Gentleman
Cheviot Hills
Scotland
America
Merino Lambs Marketed From Four Months Old
Farmers plan to turn merino sheep or grades into lambs that reach four months old and weigh about 10 to 120 pounds on average under common keeping.
Orchard culture tips from neglected trees to grape rot remedy
The article urges mulching young trees to conserve moisture, warns against improper watering, and discusses girdling as a contested practice. It notes copperas as a grape rot preventive, raspberry hedgerows, and methods to deter plum curculio. It advises pruning after leaf-out and sectioning limbs for better sun and growth, with expert notes on grape pruning by A M Purdy.
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Illinois
M. Crawford
Ohio
A. M. Purdy
Reasons Why a Baby Cries and Household Hints
A column explains baby cries as distress signals with sections on infant illness by the Mother’s Manual of Children’s Diseases. It also offers home tips: nightly salt water gargle, egg shell cleaning, ants repellent with cloves, flax seed under the lid, lime-on-stain paste, washing hands with corn meal and glycerine, mildew removal, lamp wick care, paint stain removal, deodorizers, carpet dusting, broom hanging, and homemade court plaster recipe.
Poulterer Advice on Fowl Diet and Feeding
The article outlines feeding standards for different fowls. Larger birds need less fattening food than smaller ones. prefer wheat oats and buckwheat over corn for flesh and eggs. Laying hens should have a mix of wheat oats buckwheat with some corn, avoid overfeeding to prevent death. Growing fowls need bone forming substances. bone meal or shells advised. Eggs and bone meal noted as key egg-food ingredients. Fattening favors corn meal but avoid confinement. provide variety for moulting birds. Ducks thrive with live prey and green feed near ponds. John son, Poultry for Profit.
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G. M. 7. Johnson
Graham Cookies and Corny Dishes From a Historic Kitchen
A vintage collection lists Graham Cookies with sugar and sour cream, Dressed Eggs served cold in a deep dish, Corn Muffins with corn meal and sweet milk, Baked Indian Mush with molasses and ginger, Corn Meal Pancakes fried like griddle cakes, Hollandaise Sauce with lemon and cayenne, and Fried Liver prepared with salt pork so even liver skeptics enjoy it.
Traditional Mutton Stew and Strawberry Short Cake Recipe
Recipe notes describe making a gravy for mutton with boiled trimmings and vegetables, then a strawberry short cake with sour cream and a soda solution. Also includes a diabetic friendly oat and apple pie variation promising a safe dish for the sick or well.
Teacake recipe and kitchen tips clash with odd commentary
Readable ingredients for teacakes and pickled eggs show a domestic kitchen piece. The text shifts to brief items about throat remedies, chestnut nuisances in schools, a fashion note on collars, stock prices, and wages of sin, all wrapped as brief, scattered commentary.
Two Titles in County County Electoral Count and Sir Plus
A collection of humorous scraps and quips from the era, including light putdowns about matrimony, manners, and honesty, plus a tale of a Dakota young man marrying after traveling in snow shoes. The piece blends jokes, rhymes, and a frontier voice with brief regional anecdotes.
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Bridget
Notion of Tales Touched by Primitive Belief and Adaptation
H. E. Warner argues in Stribner's Magazine that tales may originate independently or adapt primitive beliefs to modern life. He contends stories reflect universal human fears and escapades rather than borrowed plots, noting diverse endings, common heroic problems, and the timeless appeal of universal storytelling.
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Lang
H. E. Warner
Stribner’s Magazine
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