Israel’s Exalted Position and Mission in Scripture
A compact study outlining Israel’s elevation to a holy nation and royal priesthood at Sinai, thecall to obedience, and their role as witnesses to the world. It explains God’s promises, Israel’s failures, and the eventual missionary mission to invite all nations to look to the Savior.
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Good
Israel
Abraham
Mount Sinai
Ulm
God
God the Savior
Christ
God's Promise as Quotation From St Anselm
A compact quoted maxim attributed to St Anselm states that God promises pardon to those who repent but does not promise repentance to those who sin, reflecting a theological emphasis on repentance as the condition for forgiveness.
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St. Anselm
Friendship and Love Across Faiths
A concise reflection linking friendship to religious ideals, invoking harmony among beliefs. The quote emphasizes that human connection, akin to divine love, unites diverse faiths beyond doctrinal lines.
A Fool's Coat Quote from Bull Rivarol
A brief quotation notes that a fool may wear a coat embroidered with gold but remains a fool. The line attributes vanity to appearance over substance and reflects satirical wit.
Left Composer Pondering and the Wind Instruments Joke
A composer arrives during practice and complains the piece is heard only by violins, not wind instruments. The orchestra leader quips wind instruments cannot blow and yawn at once. The phrase Old Man Eloquent traces to Isocrates and is cited as a sobriquet for John Quincy Adams, with a partial note on Frewene.
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Milton
Isocrates
Chaeronea
John Quincy Adams
United States
Frewene
Mary Sees Jesus After Resurrection in Garden
Rev Lew W notes John 20 10 21 as Mary contends with the empty tomb after the disciples depart Peter and John inspect linen cloths and the napkin then Mary weeps until Jesus calls her by name Rabboni Master She learns to trust the risen Christ and looks forward to future fellowship as brethren.
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Mary
John
Jesus
Peter
Joseph's Garden
Christ
Earth
Rabboni
Gold Used on Pottery and Glazes in Historic Techniques
Historical note from the Washington Star describes gilding and coloring with gold in pottery. It covers methods using mercurous oxide and borax blends, greenish tint from silver carbonate, polishing requirements, and cheaper glazes with glunzold Meissen gold. It explains purple to violet hues from gold in glazes and factors like ammonia alum and tin hydroxide, flux choice, and color variation.
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Cassars
Washington Star
Are Elements Really Elementary Or Are They Compounded
The article discusses whether the seventy elements are primitive or built from simpler substances. Citing radium and nebulae, it argues elements may evolve from less complex origins, paralleling how heavenly bodies develop from simple to complex. It notes nebulae are simple while stars and planets show greater chemical variety, and links radioactivity to both creation and decay.
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Earth
Washington a Fast Wooer
Washington at twenty five wins Martha Custis’s favor after a dinner visit. He accepts tea invitation, proposes soon, and the pair wed in silk attire. They depart for Mount Vernon in a coach and six while he wears blue and silver with scarlet trim.
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Washington
Martha Custis
Detroit News
Martha
George
Mount Vernon
Age-Old Fashions In Hairdressing
The article traces hair parting from ancient times to modern practice. It notes hair grows outward, earliest parting likely by a man brushing aside fringe, references plaiting in biblical records, Babylonian and Egyptian curls, Greek and Roman styles, and the rise of wigs 120 years ago before natural parting became common.
Mummy Dinosaur Unearthed In German Museum Display
In Frankfurt’s Senskenberg museum a dinosaur skeleton is shown with a largely intact back epidermis, a rare mummified fossil revealing preserved skin. The specimen is mounted in a flying pose, offering an impressive view of this remarkable preservation.
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Siberia
Senskenberg Museum
Frankfort-am-Main
Why Pop The Question In Marriage Customs
The term pop arrives from Middle Ages roots meaning suddenness. A proposal is likened to a sudden impulse, as if pent up emotions explode. The expression mirrors notions of abrupt action, much like a cork popping or a robber leaping from behind a hedge.
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Jackson
Perfect Days In Life’s Necklace Of Sight And Sound
A poetical meditation on finding beauty in every day. The piece compares days to gems, noting clouds and gray skies enrich perception beyond burning sun. It urges the eye to see nature’s quiet grace in earth and city, crediting Dodd, Mead & Company as the publisher.
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Earth and Ciy
Dodd, Sead & Company
Barrow inquest recalls fatal lockjaw from wrist injury
The house surgeon testified at the Barrow hospital inquest into an eight year old boy who died from lockjaw after a fall and wrist cut on a tin. He said the boy stopped breathing three times and died on the third stoppage, after earlier resuscitations.
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Barrow
Eng
Pearly Button’s Brave Flight Ends in Return
A plump button named Pearly Button escapes from a white apron via a wind gust and rolls away. After a perilous journey it is swallowed by a rooster and later rescued, then sewn back onto the apron where it stays secure. The tale concludes with Pearly Button content to remain fixed in place.
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Button
Pearly Button
Madam Len
Fat Rooster
Pearly
Pearly Sutton
McClure Newspaper Syndicate
Spontaneous Worship Inspiring Natural Faith
A quotation from Goethe extols spontaneous worship that needs no image, arising when nature speaks to the soul and the soul answers nature in a direct, intimate dialogue.
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God
Goethe
James Gillespie Endorses Tanlac After Indigestion Relief
James I Gillespie a Baltimore bookkeeper at 4801 York Rd testifies that Tanlac relieved his long standing indigestion after pastries and fried foods caused lumps gas and breathlessness. He credits Tanlac with restoring his appetite and general well being. Tanlac is sold by druggists with over 7 million bottles sold.
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James I
Gillespie
York Round
Baltimore
Tanlue
Mr. Gillespie
Sam
Taniue
Tanlac
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Denton Joue
Melvin Benj
Joanbon
Melvin & Johnson
Pusilanzas
Fitzwater
Moody Bible Institute of Chicago
Western Newspaper Union
Henry Drummond
Lew W
Gosnell
Moody Bible Institute
Chicago
Yoqxdoqoqoo
Luella
James Gillespie
Nature
Atlantic
The
Merk
Atlantic City
Delaware River
Pennsylvania Railroad System
the Standard Railroad OF the World
C. A. Whisler
Denton, Md
the Peoples Bank
Henry T. Nuttle, Preat
T. F. Johnson
Star Cars
Caroline County
A. P. Whitby, W. P. Carroll
Denton
Maryland
Just
Flint
Michigan
Fisher & Roe
Goodyear
Denton Auto Co
Wesley Collegiate Institut
Henry G. Budd
D. D
Daver, Deliwape
Algren Manufacturing Company
Greensboro
Harry Crouse
Ridgely, Md
J. Virgil Moore
Ceme
Tery
Cooper, Wright & Cooper
Denton, Nd
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