God’s Strength in Our Daily Struggles and Dawn
A devotional meditation on God’s care and power for Moses and Israel, Paul, and believers in crisis. It emphasizes present strength, provision, and dawn after night, teaching that as thy days so shall thy strength be and urging trust in God’s sustaining grace.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moses
Israel
God
Canaan
Canaaan
Paul
Damascus
Jesus
Peter
James
John
Hold to Spiritual Truth and Science Check
Quotation from William Lyon Phelps urging allegiance to spiritual truth while science verification proceeds. Emphasizes patience until scientific claims are verified to avoid losing divine birthright and receiving "not even a mess of pottage."
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Lyon Phelps
Origin of Dice Gambling Through the Ages
The text traces dice gaming back about 4000 years with the Chinese as earliest record holders. It notes various dice forms and their long history in human gaming practices.
Man Domestication Debate Traced by Gazette
The Arkansas Gazette reports a debate over which species was first domesticated by humans. The piece argues that humans themselves may have been domesticated by their animals, noting a long-standing discussion among scholars about early animal domestication and human-animal relationships.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
bieHeve
Stoman
Arkansas Gazette
A Real Bargain Worth 98 Cents Draws Attention
A fragment notes a man valued at 98 cents, sparking curiosity and drawing others to pursue him. The garbled passage hints at a sensational or humorous item about market value and chase, with limited readable names or places.
Pizarro's search for gold shifts 1928 food costs
The bulletin links Pizarro era tin and silver mines in Peru, Bolivia and Cornwall to modern US prices. It notes tin shortages and price swings impact can goods, with American firms expanding tin production, reducing British control, and boosting household food costs for the American housewife in 1928.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pizarro
Peru
Bolivia
Andes
United States
American Business Research Bureau
Bulletin
Cornwall
England
Malay Straits Settlements
Pizarra
Golden Center Mines, Inc
British Tin Trust
America
Oor
Wales
Mary Peninsula
Golden Center
San Diego
California
Vote For Smith Is Worth $50 An Acre to Farmer
A Kankakee newspaper ad paid by F G Snow, prominent Republican banker farmer, declares “Fifty dollars per acre for your vote” to back Al Smith over Hoover. Snow links land losses to tariff and postwar policies, urges Republicans to repudiate Hoover, and cites widespread farmer ruin and calls for Smith’s election to aid farmers. He notes repeated requests from several states to reprint the ad.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Smith
Kankakee
F. G. Snow
Snow
Hoover
Colldge
Benedict Arnold
al' Smith
Herbert Hoover
Indiana
Iowa
Tennessee
Kansas
South Dakota
Nebraska
Montana
Farmer
Coolidge
United Agriculture
Congress
Most Numerous Mammal in Eastern United States
Nature Magazine says the short-tailed breed is probably the most numerous mammal in the eastern United States. It will be found in wooded areas, cut-over forests, fields and along streams where ground is soft enough for its erratic runs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Nature Magazine
Innis
Old German organ counts as one of the era’s finest
Georg Friedrich Solms Lombach, noted organ builder, devotes evenings to playing a rare 17th century organ. Count Solms boasts having one of Germanys oldest organs, praised by Frankfurt exposition curators for the life of music in nations. The instrument has five stops and a single manual.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Georg Friedrich Solms-Loubach
Uglag
Otto Koennecke
Ploylms
Count Sols
Germany
Frankfurt
Coumt Solms
Brown and white eggs show no uniform food value difference
Scientists find no consistent evidence that brown or white eggs differ in food value when hens receive the same feed. However shells do differ chemically between brown and white eggs.
Fiction in Disguise Biographies Spark Book World Talk
Biographies are selling well as readers seek fiction in disguise. The Washington Star notes that these works rely on the author’s imagination, yet still attract wide interest, suggesting a blurred line between fact and fiction in modern publishing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington Star
Speakers Have Only One Set of Dens and Words
The quoted Swift line suggests crowds drain when a church is mostly empty while a full church draws more. It reflects on audience behavior and rhetoric, noting how novelty and urgency influence attendance and engagement in religious services.
Frank Seward County Treasurer Sale Report Proceedings
The report of sale of real estate assessed to Early Waters Heirs for 1924 1925 and 1926 to pay State and County taxes levied thereon is examined and found regular by the Circuit Court for Caroline County Maryland. Notice by advertisement in Caroline County newspapers is ordered to be published once weekly for three weeks before October 8 1928 and to appear by November 8 1928 to show cause why the sale should not be ratified and confirmed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
T. Frank Seward
Caroline County
Maryland
Early Waters
Circuit Court
Alex Hubbard
Lands Assessed to Alex Trubbard 1920–1926 Sold to Pay State Debt
The land in Caroline County assessed to Alex Hubbard for the years 1920 through 1926 is ordered sold to pay the state and costs. The sale will occur by the 31st day of August 1928, with warning issued to all interested persons to show cause on or before October 1928 why the sale should not be confirmed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Studebaker
Henry
Old Fort
B.R.S. P
Gunsave subscription promotion for The Journal
The Journal promotes a Gunsave deal offering unlimited news access with a subscription. The ad emphasizes constant news coverage and full access to articles, encouraging readers to subscribe for comprehensive reporting.
Information Wanted Benches From Quaker Meeting House
Easton Md resident Wilson M. Tylor offers five dollars for each old bench from the Quaker Meeting House near Denton Bridge. The benches, used before 1910 and likely removed when the property was abandoned, are sought by a private collector who will pay for restoration regardless of condition. Information leading to recovery is greatly valued.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Quaker Meeting House
Denton Bridge
Wilson M. Tylor
Easton
Also Mentioned on This Page
Denton Journal
Melvin & Johnson, Inc. Publishers
W. T. Joyce
Gene Carr
Enya
Ol’ Man
Lifetime Furniture
Windsor Roders
Gov. Winthrop
Spinet
Atwater Kent
M. K. Newnam
B.R.S.P
Broadway
New York
N. Y
DARD
F. S. Royster’s Guano Co
W. G. Wooters
Market St
Denton, Maryland
Fiction
The
W.H. Hollis & Son
Preston, Maryland
Niss
Said
Emily Waters
Thomas J. Keating
T. Clayton Horsey
Said County
Alex Trubbard
J. Keating
Wood and Iron Work
Williston
Daffin
P. O. Denton
Journal
Nisi
Stephen K. Andrews
Mary Loux
William N. Andrews
L. Thurman Phillips
E. S
A. E. Schuh
Parkside Drive
Baltimore
Pictorial Review
J. ED. Nichols
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!