Paying the Price Laodicean Message Urges True Salvation
In a 1903 Chicago sermon the preacher argues that salvation costs the sinner a surrendered will and faith, warning against easy Belief and urging purchase of gold tried in the fire and white raiment. He uses Laodicea as contemporary warning, stressing God’s cash terms and the need for spiritual sight through His eyesalve.
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A. N. Kellogg Newspaper Co
Chicago
Jesus Christ
John
Patmos
Laodicea
Church of Jesus Christ
Christ
Hehm
edGay
Christ Jesus
God
London Bridge
Hell
Satan
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Stricker
Tim
Sodom
Gomorrah
Capernaum
Simon
Samaria
Peter
Jesus
Tears Help Sight Says Medical Journal Authority
A British medical journal argues that tears strengthen vision rather than weaken it. Weeping acts as a tonic keeping the eye soft and bright, with sympathetic tears noted to give certain women more tender, luminous eyes and a gentler cornea than men.
Baby's Bottle Holder Aims To Keep Nip In Place
A New York Herald item describes a baby carriage attachment that holds a nursing bottle in a fixed convenient position. The device prevents bottles from slipping and lets infants drink easily, promising happier babies and relieved parents.
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Little Vic
N. Y
Cleaning Leather with Ochre and Oils Recipe
A historical leather cleaning recipe calls for one pound of French yellow ochre and a dessert spoonful of sweet oil mixed well. Add one pound of pipe clay and a quarter pound of starch, blend with boiling water, apply when cold, then rub and brush after drying.
Widow scatters husband’s ashes over Narrows waters
Mrs. Robert Long of Lindhurst New Jersey fulfills a dying promise by scattering her husband’s cremated ashes from a tugboat deck in the Narrows while repeating his requested line “O’er the blue sea, o’er the blue sea.”
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Robert Long
Lindhurst
N. J
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Narrows
Blue Sea
It Was Up to Him Refusal Sparks Romantic Tension
A Chicago American snippet notes a woman resolved not to let Jack kiss her yet admits he has broken the resolve. The brief exchange frames a developing romance with a playful edge in a city newspaper voice.
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Jack
Chicago
Mrs. Ruble Becomes First-Tier Woman Politician in Colorado
Mrs. Alice M. Ruble, new member of Colorado's lower house, pushes for women’s causes including boys and girls’ industrial school and child labor. Born in Vermont, she blends motherhood with political aims and favors cooperation on measures appealing to women.
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Alice M. Ruble
Colorado
Henry M. Teller
United States
Ruble
Vermont
Topeka
State Suffrage Association
Mrs. Ruble
Marriage Forgiveness Brings Wealth After Tragic Return
In South London a man ill with influenza is visited by his wife who eloped to California twenty years earlier. He forgives her, she nurses him to recovery, then dies of influenza and leaves him an estate valued at $300,000.
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London
California
Chica; Post
Sleep and damp beds linked to illness test tips
Very serious illness may often be traced to sleeping in a damp bed. To test it, lay between the sheets a hand mirror for five minutes. If it is at all blurred or misty take off the sheets and sleep between the blank ets.
Winter Solstice Reflections in Brooklyn Life
The brief exchange notes the short days of the solstice and a quip about a 30 day note due date. Willie Everleigh remarks on ink not drying before payment, reflecting a social column tone from Brooklyn Life.
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al. Manack
Willie Everleigh
Brooklyn Life
Spelling Debate Cited in Brooklyn Exchange
A Brooklyn exchange records Jewett and Hewitt discussing spelling with Jewett refusing to spell aloud and dictating the word to a stenographer. The brief dialogue highlights a humorous miscommunication about spelling.
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Hewitt
Jewett
Brooklyn
Two French Evening Gowns Described With Lace and Silk Details
A description of two Parisian evening gowns features lace Tracy Valenciennes, panne pink fabric, black velvet trim, silk appliques of grapes, and raised embroidery. The first gown has a bolero, blouse front, velvet girdle, lace mitts, and a pink panne skirt with lace flounces. The second gown uses mousseline de soie in straw color with lilac flower sprays, satin ribbon bands, guipure sleeves, lilac velvet straps, and strass buckles.
Record Coal Exports and Maritime Advances Across Nations
The piece highlights Scotland exporting 11,279,422 tons of coal in a record year and notes global maritime progress. It mentions a 99 mile Suez canal cutting sea distance to India by about 4,000 miles, a Dublin shipyard launching a steamer owned in Liverpool and built in Glasgow, a petroleum-based Elmore ore concentrating process in English mines, a Sacramento river dredge with a 155 foot clamshell boom, and Canadian rust prevention using hot oil to seal metal surfaces.
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Suez Canal
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India
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British Columbia
Sacramento River
A Tender Hearted Girl Reveals Her Secret
A playful Q and A from the N Weekly shows a mother asking if the girl will be a good wife. The son answers yes, praising S as the kindest most considerate tender hearted person he has met, and the mother learns the secret by asking for kisses.
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N. Weekly
Insurer Queries Growells Over Life and Property Policy
In a terse exchange, an insurance solicitor visits Growells asking about insuring life, a store, and real estate titles. Growells challenges the demand, noting previous coercion into policies and questioning what remains to insure.
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Old Growells
Insuran
Chica Daily News
Drama Quip Over Diamonds Versus Icicles Sticks
A manager warns about playing a character who squanders diamonds as a beggar. a sharp retort argues the diamonds are staged as icicles. The exchange appears in a Star publication with playful theater banter.
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Weing Diamonds
Champion itn Worry Line reflects domestic concern
A Tit-Bits inspired quip notes that a wife who was cheerful after her baby's birth now worries her husband may marry a girl who won’t like her. The couple discusses fear of future displeasure sparked by the child’s arrival.
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