The Stolen Grindstones and the Battle For Godly Weapons
Sermon at Brooklyn Tabernacle warns that the church must reclaim its spiritual tools from secular powers. It argues Christians should use science culture and media as weapons for faith, and calls for laypeople and clergy to sharpen and amplify their religious work rather than surrender to modern change.
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Brooklyn Tabernacle
Talmage
Smith
Isras
L. Samuel
Israel
Jonathan
God
Church of God
Church of Jesus Christ
Schenkel
Strauss
Renan
Theodore Christlieb
Bonn
Silliman
Hitchcock
Agassiz
Job
Jeagues
Sisera
Reon
God of Truth
Jesus Christ
Brooklyn
United States
Christ
Paul
Gamaliel
Marshill
Dionysius the
Athens
Heliopolis
Thomas Chalmers
Jonathan Edwards
Northampton
Mass
Christendom
Mexican Empire
Montezuma
Herod
Hildebrand
Robespierre
Tasteful Sitting-Rooms And The Habits They Reflect
Florel Cabinet argues room tidiness mirrors character and cookery skill. A model room shows cleanliness and order, while a chaotic setting hints at an untidy mind and poor systematizing, urging readers to develop orderly habits in all areas of life.
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Florel
The Bush Was Full of Em'
In a Indiana regiment during the Civil War a quirky Irish volunteer named Dan captured a Confederate prisoner on picket. His lazy comrade urged Dan to deliver the prisoner to headquarters but Dan refused saying the bush is full of rebels.
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Indiana Volunteers
Erin Go Bragh
Dan
How to Keep Flowers
How to keep cut flowers longer. Some varieties like camelias and eupatoriums last longer when water is changed morning and night with a few drops of camphor spirits. If faded blooms are placed in scalding water deep over a third of their stems they revive as water cools. Trim stem ends and place in cool water with a pinch of saltpetre. Flowers store better in wet sand than in water.
A Young Man Should Prepare For A Rainy Day
A young man should save and plan for times when he cannot work. Consider future steps and prudent measures to weather uncertain periods. The advice urges foresight, thrift, and self reliance.
Bookworms Prove Useful for Advancing Knowledge
Paul notes that avid readers and learners act like bookworms in streams of knowledge. The remark likens study to pursuing currents of information, highlighting reading as a tool for deeper understanding.
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Paul
Grand Union Hotel Promises Affordable First Class Stay
Visitors to New York city are urged to stay at the Grand Union Hotel opposite Grand Central Depot. The hotel offers 613 rooms fitted for a million dollar cost with daily rates from $1. It cites European law elevating comfort with an elevator and tourant service. Horse cars stages and elevated rail connect air depots. Families can live better for less money at this first class hotel than others in the city.
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New York City
Grand Union Hotel
Grand Central Depot
Real estate values in Philadelphia rise slowly nine years
City tax books show a 7 650 43 percent increase in Philadelphia real estate over nine years at about 1/8 percent per year, far below earlier growth. Building booms since 1877 added thousands of houses and tens of millions in taxable value, while population rose by about 200 000. The Board of Revision of Taxes reports under 8 million in increases.
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Philadelphia
Board of Revision of Taxes
Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery advertised
An advertisement for Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery claims it cleanses the blood of scrofulous impurities and cures tubercular disease of the lungs. It urges sending ten cents for a treatise and testimonials, from the World’s Dispensary Medical Association in Buffalo NY.
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Dr. Pierce
World’s Dispensary Medical Association
Buffalo, N. Y
Prolific Patent Remedies and Household Cures Ad in Paper
Advertisements tout St Jacobs Oil for lumbago and sprains by Mr A FurGrr of St Louis. Mrs F W Incuam of Chicago backs Red Star Cough Cure for a violent cold. Notes on sealing letters with copper oxide solution or water glass. Dr Pierce’s Pleasant Purgative Pellets advertised as vegetable and gentle for headaches constipation and other ailments.
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A. FurGrr
Walnut Street
St. Louis
F. W. Incuam
West
Madison Street
Chicago
Ill
Price
Dr. Pierce
Rough on Trou and Rough on Piles Advertised Cure
A vintage ad touts Rough on Itch for skin eruptions ringworm and related conditions and Rough on Piles claiming immediate relief and complete cure for bleeding piles. It mentions additional claims for catarah odors and garble for diphtheria sore throat and foul breath with mail order availability from druggists.
A Perfect Flood of Sunshine Prescription Claim
A sales pitch touts Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription as a cure for periodical pains irregularities and related disorders promising internal healing at one dollar. It urges readers to contact Hallett & Co. in Portland Maine for a genuine new wonder and claims high earnings from a home business with no capital.
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Wnte
Hallett & Co
Portland
Maine
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the Valuation of Philadelphia
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Buckingham
Burlington Free Press
Sco- Vila
American Rural Home
Rochester
N. Y
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Danielson
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Rural Home CO
N.Y
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Trou
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M. A. Jackson
Portsmouth
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Drugsta
Owego
College OF Business
Buffalo
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Adamson Co., Solicitors
Muncie, Ind
Humane Remedy Co
LaFayette, Ind
A.W. McCormick & Son
Cincinnati
Valentine Bros
Janesville, Wis
Opius
Marsh
Quincy
Kidder’s Pastilles
Trssa'castoes
Harlestown
E. J. Johnson
Mangr
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Business College
Spencerian Business College
Cleveland
Union Publishing Co
Newark, N. J
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Lord & Thomas
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Inventors’ Novelty CO
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Conn
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Jonge Carre
Iran
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R. B. Little Box
Chicago, Il
A. P. Lacey
Washington, D. C
McMullen Woven Wire Fence CO
W. Lake St
London
Russia
Cexeyt Co
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Montgomery Ward & CO
Wabash Avenue
Mason & Hamlin Organ and Piano CO
Boston
Pensions
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Itzgerald & Powell
U.S
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Holly, Mich
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Manton
Centre
Co Bluffs
Capette
Gallatin
Trenton
St. Joseph
Stanon
Kansas City
Leavenworth
Atchison
Kansas
Albert Leneapolis
St. Paul
Minnesota
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Dakota
Missouri
Ullman Palace
St.oseph
Minneapolis
Iowa
Seneca
Kankakee
Lafayette
Council Binds
St. Jo
Rock Tsland
Canada
R. R. Cable
E. ST. John
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