The Story of a Runaway Slave in Philemon
Philemon at Colosse faced Onesimus a runaway slave who fled to Rome. Paul urges Philemon to accept Onesimus back not as a slave but as a brother in Christ, laying out grace over justice and showing Christianity reshapes social bonds. The letter links to broader themes of kinship, atonement, and transformative faith.
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Philemon
Paul
Colease
Onesimus
Rome
Apphia
Archippus
Christ Jesus
TH. Paul
Qenesimus
Jesus Christ
Christ
God
Philamon
Heredity’s Deadly Work and a Biblical Verse Clash
A Philadelphia Retail Ledger cartoon caption mocks heredity with a quip about a family producing a golden tenor, a prizefighter, a brass pushy press agent, a silver tongue orator, an aluminum canvasser, a steel puddier, and a copper mercurial father. The verse from Malachi frames divine judgment on social wrongs.
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Retail Ledger
Philadelphia
Shakespeare Reputation Holds Despite Baconian Debate
Mr. Stormington Barnes dismisses the Bacon Shakespeare controversy noting that Shakespeare retains the public's interest and that putting another name on the billboards would not engage the audience.
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Stormington Barnes
Love in the Garden and a Distant Return
A man named Whitler revisits a long lost love at Roseland Fifteen years after leaving Dore Trent, now married to life in a garden. He finds her unchanged in appearance but emboldened by youth while recollections of their past and travels haunt their encounter.
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Red Inn
Whittler
Dorel
Roseland
Ehana
Tie
Africa
New York
Dore Trent
Reddy
Ananias and Sapphira Death At Apostles Feet
Ananias with his wife Sapphira sold a possession and kept back part of the price. Peter confronted him saying Satan filled thine heart to lie to the Holy Ghost. Ananias fell dead, giving up the ghost as the apostles questioned his deeds.
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Ananias
Sapphira
Apostle
Peter
Satan
Mystery of Old Egypt Buttons Puzzle
Historians and archaeologists study ancient Egypt buttons found with garments not originally using fasteners. The artifacts, likely from south Europe, appear in Egypt around 2500 to 1500 B C as experts seek links between European prehistory and Egypt’s early records.
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Egypt
Europe
B. C
B.C
Cleveland News-Leader
Unchanged face meets a hopeful love in a garden scene
A man and his young love from years past reunite in a tranquil garden. Dore, his niece Pauls daughter, returns with grace and quiet charm as waves of memory mingle with renewed affection and a dream of future happiness.
Lamps and Candles Through Ancient History
Lamps existed long before candles with evidence from pyramids and ancient temples. Early light sources used porous fibers with oils, while Romans used rush candles coated in fat or wax. Christians and writers relied on firelight, rush flames, and early lamps for illumination.
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Pyramids
Greece
B. C
Remarkable Brookyn Theater Lift and Move
A ninety foot high theater building in Brooklyn was raised from its foundations and rotated a full square to shift 100 feet to a new site. Workers used a centered floor hub, steel rollers, and jackscrews on opposite corners to pivot and settle the structure onto new foundations. It claims to be the largest and heaviest building moved bodily to new foundations.
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Brooklyn
European investigator exposes dragon teeth as fossil remains
An European investigator collected fossil teeth sold in Chinese drug stores as dragon's teeth. Examination shows these teeth belong to extinct animals including ancestral camels saber tooth cats three toed horses and other ancient species. He notes the teeth exist in enormous quantities in parts of China and suggests they once ranged in America and Africa.
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China
America
Africa
Indians to Appeal to King
Delegates from the Six Nations prepare a personal appeal to King George about their ancient rights. The Five Nations, eastern Iroquois confederacy, trace origins before Columbus and gained Tuscaroras in 1712.
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George
Five Nations Confederacy
North Carolina
Utrecht
France
England
America
New Use for Banana Fiber From East Africa Cloth in Australia
Samples of hand woven cloth made in East Africa from banana fiber have arrived in Australia via Captain Hydahl. Northern rivers growers show interest in using banana by products from the industry. Several grades of banana fiber exist and Captain Hydahl believes parts can be used to make artificial silk. Experiments test banana by products for cloth silk rope twine and paper.
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East
Africa
Australia
Captain Hydahl
Captan Hydahl
Prophecy as to Backallder In Later Times
A cryptic note cites a prophetic warning from I Timothy 4 1 about the spirit speaking of later times when some shall depart from the faith with a sense of religious caution and moral warning.
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I Timothy
Thedford's Black-Draught Endorsed for Indigestion
East Nashville Tenn. verifies Thedford's Black-Draught as the genuine liver medicine. Mr W N Parsons, a local grocer, praises its use for sour stomach and indigestion and urges others to keep it in the house. The ad claims the product regulates the liver and purifies the bowels and warns against imitations.
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Nashville
Tenn
Thedford
W. N. Parsons
Parsons
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Malach
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Sunday School Times
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McClure Newspaper Syndicate
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Sound Investme
Eastern Shore Gas and Electric Company
Eastern Shore Gas & Electric Company
Salisbury, Maryland
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Hix Long
Circuit Court
Eeroune County
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Calvert C. Merrien
Maryland
Hopper
Lawrence Beal Taer
Gay Street
Denton
E. G. Cooper
Denton, Md
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Lawrence B. Towers
Awrence B. Toe
Provident State Bank of
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Estella Holland Et al
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Richard T. West
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J. Howard Pastorfield
Register of Wills
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Maryland Trust
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