Even This Shall Pass Away Ad Teems With Fashion and Sermon
An 19th century advertisement touts large Maryland stores with a new annex on Charles Street and West Baltimore Street offering a full line of men’s and boys’ clothing. It bills low middleman pricing, five dollar suits, fancy hats, and a merchant tailoring department. Interleaved are long moral verses urging contentment and debt caution, concluding with a sermon-like critique of unnecessary spending and living beyond means.
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Merchant ‘Tailoring Department
Vast Array of Fabrics and Embroideries Offered by A New Stock
A local textile listing advertises fabrics including French serge and various worsteds. Yardage from 28 cents to 1 dollar 60 per yard. Notable items include Bed ford cards, white and black embroidered and pavey colored flouncing.
Large assortment of dry goods and related items
A wide stock includes Whiteroods, French Gin ghams, Swandownes, Calicoes, Shirtings, Percales, Cassimeres, Silks, laces, trimmings, shirts, hats, neckwear, shoes, hardware, lapusters, horse collars, whips, groceries, provisions, flour and feed, lime. Call to examine stock before buying.
Tell me what you believe a pastor should preach
The New York Examiner argues pastors face congregations of business people, lawyers, and homemakers. it contends the average sermon too often becomes an elaborate essay on Science and Genesis or Modern Panth eism rather than a direct message of peace and spiritual discipline.
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Goethe
Kingdom of Heaven
Mary
New York Examiner
New York
Linow
New York Times
The Moment of Idealization by Theodore Parker
When devotion grips him he feels man’s greatness and his own smallness. His ideal rises beyond reach, yet he becomes it for a moment. He sees his life truthfully, resolves to be what God made him, and in that instance he is the complete man.
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Axminster
Brussels
Chinchilla
Dr. Talmnage
Christian Terald
Iman
Theodore Parker
Cesars Tynoble
Julius Ciosar
Pompey
Gaul
Britain
Epictetus Quote on Morality and Religion
A reflective quotation urges personal watchfulness to reduce conflict and promote happiness. It asserts true morality and religion aim to give things proper direction, fostering kindness across religions and avoiding enmity and warfare.
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Epictetus
Elephant swallowed by quicksand in India tale told
A field-keeper recounts an elephant sinking in a broad Indian riverbed. Bunds, a raft of boards, and a boat failed to save the creature as the water rose to cover its eyes and trunk. The crowd mourns while the elephants’ intelligence is praised, and the beast perishes amid prayers and grief. Two views on children’s training accompany the tale.
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India
New York Tribune
The Wait Equals Fire And Beauty Amid Blaze
A Detroit Tribune tale follows a stunning woman delaying her gowning as a fire rages below. She remains calm, mocks impatience, and finally exits on a ladder with poise, proving she would not hurry for danger or flames while preserving her elegance.
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Tie Hall
Charley
Detroit Tribune
Pneumide Sole Introduced for Boots and Shoes
A Pneumide Sole, a pneumatic inner sole for boots and shoes, has appeared in London. It is inflated with air or gas under pressure, with an interior protective covering of canvas linen or other portable material that endures the pressure.
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Londo
New York Times
Silver in Irish mine yields silver particles in cleaning
In an Irish lead mine a yearly chimney and connecting tunnel cleaning uncovers hundreds of pounds worth of silver particles. The find is recorded in London Tit-Bits and highlights how routine maintenance reveals valuable ore traces.
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London
Forrest's Supers Faint In Stage Reverie For Idol
An effeminate young man among the supers, an intense admirer of Forrest, fainted after Forrest's powerful speech. The amused leader invited him to his dressing room and gave him a dollar. Six more supers fainted during the next performance, as Forrest watched to see if history would repeat.
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Forrest
Man
San Francisco Post
A Jump Through Early 20th Century Snippets
A collection of brief notes on varied topics from the era. Topics include a peanut factory pricing and distribution, leather belt testing results with center and shoulder samples, Colbert’s equality remark in the Academy, a lamp switch innovation eliminating key sockets, and Gippsland earthworms as the world’s largest. These clippings illustrate industry, science, culture, and curiosities of the period.
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New York World
Gippslant
Victoria
Gippsland
Detruit Free Press
New Umbrella Kid Flips Rainy Evening Sale
A New York Evening Sun report describes a boy at the Sixth Avenue elevated station who charged ladies twenty five cents to take them home during a rain shower. Over an hour and a half he netted 82.75, sparking bold talk of a future umbrella with a sliding handle to thwart “monkey business” by women customers.
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Aa Rey
Sixth Avenue
Sixteenth Street
Themen
Daisy
New York Evening Sun
Notable Figures and Severe Punishments Across Histories
Reader digest spans from a diary of a German schoolmaster who punished disastrously with hundreds of thousands of blows and ritual penances to Caesar’s rise and fall, plus a Belfast man railing against pensions. The fragments mix educational abuse, Roman history, and social quips in a single column.
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Belfast
Bangor
A Clever Collie Helps Save a Dying Cow
The story tells of Dash the collie who, despite becoming blind, continues to guide cows. When Old Brindle gets her head stuck in an apple tree crotch, Dash finally leads his owner to the cow, enabling rescue. The master credits the dog with saving Brindle’s life.
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Dash
Tie
Brindle
Old Brindle
Black Nuck Hunting in Tnilia
Description of the black buck of India detailing its physique weight range of thirty to fifty pounds and the stark color contrast of black back and white belly. Notes the curved black horns averaging eighteen inches, herd behavior, cautious stalking, and hunting methods using a jungle cart drawn by bullocks with a shikaree.
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Tnilia
India
Clarence B. Moore
St. Nicholas
Reading the Signs of Heaven for Life’s Path
A Sunday School Times reflection contrasts living without plans with following beaten tracks. It argues true exploration requires reading heaven’s signs and applying adaptable principles in emergencies. Only those who trust God’s call to act independently may start life without knowing the destination and move forward boldly.
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Sunday School Times
A Shot in Time: Hart Saves Rancher's Child
A mustanger named Joseph Hart, on watch with a wearied herd including colts, saved a rancher's three year old girl when a mare reared to strike the child near a cabin. Hart fired, wounding the mare to prevent tragedy as the colt lagged behind and the child advanced toward danger.
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Joseph Hart
Augusta Chronicle
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Germany
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