Being a Christian at Home Overview of Martha and Mary
The lesson contrasts Martha and Mary in Luke 10 38 42 as models for a home life with Jesus highlighting listening to his teaching over busy service. It notes Jesus rebukes Martha while praising Mary and ties this to Timothy and family duties teaching that home instruction outlives public sermon. It stresses the Christian idea of family life and the role of parents and elders in guiding children.
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Martha
Mary
Jesus
Martha’s
Earth
Elis
Joseph
Timothy
Christlan
Christ
Those Without Fault on Mount Zion Revelation Verse
A religious quotation describes a Lamb with one hundred forty four thousand followers marked with the Father’s name on their foreheads and free of guile before the throne of God. It echoes Revelation 14:1 5 in solemn prophetic tone.
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Mount Zion
Paths In the Snow and the Open Road Charm
The piece cites Dan Beard in Boys' Life on the joy of beaten paths in snow and the lure of the open road. It contrasts a bare footed boy at a white picket gate with roads that seem to converge in distant views, cloaked by woods and overhanging branches. The text echoes Stevenson on irresistible wanderlust and the mystery beyond.
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Stevenson
Dan Beard
The Young Man in the Little Red Room
A nursemaid Molly cares for Ronald Harvey, a blinded factory worker, in a dreary boarding house. She tends him, shares meals, reads to him, and a quiet romance develops as he hints at marriage and a future home with Molly while his aunt supports their bond.
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Israel
Jesus
Christ
Molt
Blur
Rogin
Mrs. Hayes
Mally
Ukeya Swallow
Harvey
Ronald Harvey
Molly
Mrs. Linges
Mrs. Fhapes
Molly Hayes
Pim Galing
Question on Unbelief and Faith's Power
A biblical inquiry from Romans 3 asks whether people’s unbelief nullifies God’s faithfulness. The verse challenges the idea that human doubt alters divine truth, affirming God’s integrity regardless of belief.
Panama Springs Geographic Joke Revived by Isthmus Oddity
National Geographic Society Bulletin notes Panama’s geographic quirk as ships travel from the Atlantic to the Pacific not north to south but west to east or northwest to southeast. The isthmus runs largely east and west, prompting observers to remark that there is something crooked about this arrangement.
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Panama
Panama City
Pacific
Canal
Atlantic
National Geographic Society Bulletin
Peaceful Mind Trusts in Thee for Perfect Peace
A brief religious verse reference notes Isaiah 26 3 praising God for keeping those who fix their thoughts on Him in perfect peace. The quotation underscores faith and reliance on divine steadiness.
End of the age of mammals foreseen by Osborn
Henry Fairfield Osborn warned that mankind’s rise marks the closing of the era of mammals. He argued that extinction began in early human evolution, accelerated by glacial periods, then by shearing, guns, and steel traps. He predicted by mid century humans may dominate numerically, followed by potential population-driven decline.
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Henry Fairfield Osborn
Journal of the American Museum of
Plausibility offhand quip on high prices at New York dinner
Colonel George Harvey cited a Floridian hotel guest upset by dinner prices and bad food as a joke. He recounted a manager explaining hairs in ice cream and honey were from shaving ice and a comb, but the hair in the apple sauce puzzled him because the apples were Baldwin variety, all bald.
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George Harvey
New York
Finishing Touchy Fenn Creates Hash at Club
A colored cook at a country club gains fame for a unique hash recipe. When asked how she makes it, Jenn explains that her secret is the passion she puts into the hash, surpassing ordinary beef, potatoes, peppers, and onions.
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Jenn
Jean
Fossil Raindrops Reinterpreted as Mud Pittings
Readings from Triassic rock slabs show depressions once labeled fossil raindrops. New observations from the Dorn valley flood plain suggest these impressions may form by bubbles in muddy films at low water. After drying, they resemble fossil raindrops.
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Dorn
North Carolina’s capitals shift to Raleigh in 1791
North Carolina hosted at least ten capitals including Bath Edenton Brunswick Wilmington Newberry Hasboro Smithfield Fayette and Raleigh due to a pre 1791 custom of moving government seats to the governor’s residence or assembly meeting places. In 1791 a one square mile tract was bought for Raleigh’s permanent seat. The city now spans four square miles.
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North Carolina
Bath
Edenton
Brunswick
Wilmington
Newberry
Hasboro
Smithfield
Fayette
Raleigh
Modernity and Old Masters in a Savage House
A brisk note from the Boston Transcript mocks the old masters and proclaims modern taste in art and home culture. The fragment hints at a clash between traditional English and contemporary urban taste, with phrases about being up to date and fashionable in a domestic setting.
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CaNer
Boston
Strikes and Lockout Lift Costs in Catalina Industry
Spanish industries in Catalina face higher production costs due to constant strikes and a shorter working day. The resulting price pressure may open imports that could not compete before, including hostsers shipped in from the United States in large quantities.
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Catalina
Spain
United States
More Valuable Than Gold
A terse aphorism on value, stating a good disposition outweighs gold as a natural gift of character rather than fortune, attributed to Adison.
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Denton Journal
Howared Melvin Benj. H. Joinson
Melvin & Johansuon, Publishe A
P. OB. Fitzwater
Moody Bible Institute of Chicago
Western Newspaper Union
George E. Guille
Moody Bible Institute
Chicago
Anes
McClure Newspaper Syndicate
Eastern Shore Gas and Electric Company
Eastern Shore Gas and
Salisbury
Cambridge, Denton, and
Federalsburg
Maryland
Georgetown and
Laurel, Delaware
Eastern Shore Gas & Electric CO
Denton, Maryland
Tunity
Nelson-Shoe CO
W. Lexington St
Walter J. Satterfield
Caroline
Charles A. Reininger
Ridgely Stewart
Dharmacy
Hillsboro
Frank Cooper
Greensboro
H. M. Robinson
Marydel
J. W. Shewbrooks
Goldsboro
Hiram Short
Queen Anne
H. W. Hopkins
Cordova
Forason
Detroit
Henry Ford
Denton Auto Company
W. P. Cannot
B. R. Kaen
P. R. Fisher
Dorchester Fertilizer and Lime Company of
Cambridge
Denton Wharf
James Temple
Denton Bridge
C. C. Wilson
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