Canst Thou Find the Sweet Influences of the Pleiades
Dr. Talmage’s sermon argues hidden forces shape humanity, using the Pleiades as a symbol of distant moral influence. He urges humility before omnipotence, cites biblical figures, and calls readers to seek sweet influences from home, faith, and Christ, before life’s storms.
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Louis Klopsch
N. Y
Washington
Talmage
Pleiades
God
Job
Belus
Christ
Paul
Demosthenes
Cicero
Catiline
Lord Chatham
Voltaire
Weathen
Abram
Herschel
Gladstone
William McKinley
William Shakes-peare
Coriolanus
Richard III
King Lear
Othello
Macbeth
Hanuet
William Shakespeare
Stratford-on-Avon
Warwick
Jesus Christ
Shakespeare
Yonder Long Bridge
Manassas
Farever
Earth
Ohio
Mississippi
Taurus
You
Wall Street
New York
Lombard Street
Alcyone
Ammianus Marcellinus
Chaldea
England
Habakkuk
St. John
Patmos
Edward Young
Horatius Bonar
Hannah More
Holy Ghost
Mediterranean
Heaven
Orion
Kind Gentleman Questions Boy Over Scolding
A child explains his brother has taken the blame for a misdeed. The kind man asks why the boy cries as the boy says he will be punished for something his little brother did. The Ohio State Journal presents a brief moral vignette.
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Ohio State Journal
White Night Ghost Tale Sparks Mixed Reactions
A Baltimore American excerpt features a narrator beginning with a line about a woman whose hair turned white overnight. A flippant youth criticizes the use of peroxide and muses on provoking the female mind to ponder the hereafter.
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Baltimore American
Growth and oppression of Israel in Exodus era
A biblical lesson summary on Genesis to Exodus growth of Israel in Egypt. It notes Jacob's family numbers, the rise of a new Pharaoh, harsh slavery, and forced labor in Pithom and Raamses. It discusses 70 vs 600000, and the 430 year period with Rameses II as king and the policy to curb Israelites.
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Israel
Egypt
Jacob
Reuben
Simeon
Levi
Judah
Issachar
Zebulun
Benjamin
Dan
Naphtali
God
Asher
Joseph
Goshen
Abraham
Canaan
Isaac
Rameses II
Pharaoh
Solomon
Wisdom on Faith and Charity from Ram's Horn
The Ram's Horn meditation notes that true kingdom come requires selfless will and inner virtue. It emphasizes that great deeds start in the heart and that lifting others eases our own burdens, warning against expecting divine rewards for selfish church donations.
Notes and Facts from a Historic Ledger and Court List
A compact collection notes wood densities for blue gum and white pine, a remark on the old sense of voyage, a portrait cue about Charles I and Vandyck, ancient Egyptian reed pens and colored chalk pencils, population comparisons for New York New Jersey versus Canada and Australia, a list of eight chief justices of the U S Supreme Court, and the six year span among Rutledge Ellsworth and Marshall.
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Charles I
Vandyck
New York
New Jersey
Canada
Australia
Supreme Court
Jay
Rutledge
Ellsworth
Marshall
Taney
Chase
Waite
Fuller
Embroidered Bathroom Portiere That Resists Water
A New York Tribune note explains selecting linen or wool blends for a bathroom portiere, and describes dyeing and stitching methods to create sea green foliage and blue dolphin motifs. It covers darning direction, vein detailing, water lines, and laid stitch options for a sturdy, damp-resistant hanging.
Court Presentations and the Shifting Tides of Royal Etiquette
The piece notes King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra tightening court access. It describes the hush, rigid etiquette, and intensive training for debuts at Buckingham Palace. American society women risk losing access as invitations become more exclusive, making court presentations rarer and more coveted.
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Edward VII
Mabel Percy Haskell
Buckingham Palace
Boston Transcript
Alexandra
London
Strange Food of Americans
An English visitor to America describes her impressions of local fare. She cites green corn oysters crabs Delmonico oysters and a variety of pies and desserts noting pudding types and unfamiliar names. She finds Yankee cuisine generally good but criticizes the excess of food on the table.
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America
Boston
Delmonico’s
England
Forerrapin
Maryland
Refrigerating Egg A New Cold Drink Gadget
A nickel plated copper egg shaped capsule holds water and freezes to cool drinks without dilution. Dropping the solid water capsule into milk coffee or water chills or cools quickly while avoiding germs. The egg is sealable and virtually indestructible, claimed to last forever.
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Saturday Evening Post
Simple Little Beauty Hint for Neck and Chin Toning
The Chicago Daily News advocates daily neck exercises to prevent or lessen fatty deposits under the chin and neck. It suggests backward head motions to stretch neck muscles, then side-to-side and head-rotation moves. If regular exercise is hard, massage twice weekly is advised as an alternative.
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Chicago Daily News
Fruit Breakfast Cure for Complexion Gains Attention
A new fad in gureg prescribes a fruit breakfast before noon comprising grapes apples and oranges with no tea coffee or liquid. Grapes are emphasized and portions are limited only by appetite. Advocates claim monthlong adherence yields a marvelous complexion improvement.
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Gureg
Mme Patti Objects to Sitting on a Table in Opera
Mme Patti would not perform in an opera requiring seating on a table, citing the inn scene in the second act of Carmen as the reason for her lack of success there compared with other operas.
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Mme
Patti
A Few Thousand A Words Grow Fortyfold in 50Years
A lexical rise shows A words expanding from about 7 000 to nearly 60 000 aided by science and invention driving new terms into common use.
Various World Facts and Local News Snapshots
A collage of brief items notes Holland’s windmills draining vast land, a 72 year old newsboy on the Sante Fe line, locusts annihilated in Cyprus, Cairo’s population, kangaroos and deer jump records, Wilmington steamship output, Iowa’s newspaper density, cave bats near Tanga, Bret Harte’s reporter aversion, Baltimore launching liners to London New York, a New York Addison county sheep with two fleeces, the Paul Revere house slated for demolition, Ashel J. Severance’s death, the Greek king’s farming skills, global seafaring populations, Percy Burnet’s college appointment, and a Russian battleship’s speed trial.
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Holland
Lawrence-Ottawa
Kan
Cyprus
Cairo
Africa
Wilmington
Del
Iowa
Tanga
East Africa
Bret Harte
Wall
Baltimore
London
New York
Addison County
N. Y
Paul Revere
Watertown
Ashel J. Severance
Denver
Greece
Percy B. Burnet
Chicago
Butler College
Indianapolis
Edgar W. Abbott
Boston
Cramps
Philadelphia
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Strange
Houmas
Pithom
Raamses
Kaid
Lae
Lei
Dave
N. Y. Tribune
Alexandra, Queen OF England
C. F Wells
Villa Ridge
Ill
Mr. Wells
Taft Bros.’ Medicine CO
Chichester
Mantchester
Chichester Chemical CO
Madison Square
Phila
Omaha
OSCE
USROP
Newline
Rockford
Dubuque
Waterloo
Fort Dodge
Council Bluffs
A. H. Hanson
Myers & Son
Clinton and
Third Streets
Defiance
N. W
Trace Marxs
Baltimore & O10 Railroad
Pullman
Pittsburg
F . Bowlby
BN Austin
D B Mart N. Mgr
Deshler
Fostoria
Lloss
Mansfield
Sore Newark
O- Pittsburg
Cleveland
Washington DC
New York City
Tiffin Twee
Newark
Akron
Washington Delio
Wanes
Deraue Corsten
Aneoaafyo
South Bound
A. M
Sree A Erste
Tiruriad
Ottawa
Ake
Columbus ‘Grove
Trus Lems
Lima
Columbus Grove
Scheens
N- Hawler
Napoleon
Wauseon
Adrian
Tecumseh
Dundee
Detroit
Geo. M. Henry
Micb
NIAMS
Toledo
Lewetan Wate
Columbus
Athens
Jackson
Pomeroy
Wab
Beone
Eastern Mail
Atlantic Express
Mail and Express
Wayne Accom
A. N. Kellogg Newspaper CO
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