Paul the Apostle on love and missionary duty
A Rev discusses Paul the greatest missionary, urging Christians to love all people as brethren. He argues salvation concerns heart desire, prayer, and deeds, urging home missionary meetings, prayer for Israel and all nations, and study of un evangelized groups. He cites Romans and Acts to stress the universal gospel.
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Paul
Israel
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God
Bess Paul
Jesus Christ
South
It Does Matter in a Church Clock Tale
A preacher notes that appearances deceive no matter how rigid the heart seems. From a window a church tower clock with a broken hand misleads people, causing lateness and missed trains, though the clock face does not reflect the true state inside.
Friendship and Love The Boundaries of Kindred Ties
A fragment from Presbyterian Journal exploring how love grows from friendship and how definitions shift as time changes. It notes the invisible tie between friends, and the mystery of why two people become friends, with a reflective voice on longing and returning home intertwined with dialect in a Sunday evening vignette.
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Presbyterian Journal
Woman’s nerves and a cure by vegetable compound
A Chicago woman describes nervous prostration and related symptoms from indigestion to backache. She credits Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound with curing her, urging other women to seek relief and trust the remedy’s efficacy.
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Hartley
Congress St
Chicago
Lydia E. Pinkham
Mutual Benefit Column Its Motto Helpful and Hopeful.
A fragmented 19th century advice column explains aims of mutual benefit columns, invites reader contributions, and includes household recipes and farming notes. Letters from Aunt Madge circle discuss community sharing, calf rearing, corn, and dairy topics amid a tone of editorial oversight and publication approval.
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Kdeas
Saliette Communications
Tyan
Wayport
Permiasion
Aunt Madge Receives Feather Cleaning and Cooking Tips
Readers are addressed by Aunt Madge offering practical household guidance. The note covers cleaning feather beds with washing and airing steps, plus a family recipe for Aunt Man’s Buons and a request to save a query for the Mutual Honesty column. The writer thanks Aunt Madge for helpful recipes and suggests many housekeepers benefit from them.
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Madge
MTE
War veteran recalls Murphy pardon mercy tale from Civil War era
An old soldier at a Christian Endeavor meeting recounts a Civil War episode. Private Murphy nearly faced execution for sleeping on guard after a drinking lapse he was urged into. The sergeant sought a pardon, and a last minute presidential clemency arrived, saving Murphy and reforming the speaker. The tale intertwines faith, remorse, and redemption.
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Christian Endeavor
Flying Artillery
Regular Army
Murphy
Ald
Sam
Gen. Karney
Lincoln
Temperance Talk Urges Mercy and Humane Treatment
A long opinion piece argues for kindness to animals and humans, denouncing cruelty by boys and adults, urging humane acts toward horses and birds, and condemning harmful practical jokes. It notes a March 3 4 temperance union meeting at South Deer Island with Rev. Hill speaking on reformers and the need to curb liquor traffic, plus discussions on prohibition and Willard.
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South Deer
Fund For National Work
Neal Dow
The Wife's Pocket-book and the Modern Wife
A fragment from a period piece discusses Edward Bok and the Ladies' Home Journal view on married finances. It contrasts a wife's independence with a husband's financial control, arguing a wife should be supported yet retain some financial autonomy. The text critiques the era's view of women and money within marriage.
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Edward Bok
Ladies’ Home Journal
Avery
Housewife Tips for Cooking and Sauce Making
Practical household hints cover oven fish dressing with vegetables like potato cucumber celery and fettuce. How to dip with whole egg or white, yolk optional, and croquettes with yolk inside white outside. Aged egg dilution with warm water. Cleaning gold or liver ornaments with ammonia. To avoid lumps, stir flour paste in warm butter then add liquid gently and whisk. Melt butter but do not cook before adding liquid. Saucier guidance ends with never needing straining.
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Madge
Aunt Madge
Lophie
Fauwen
Benson's Plaster Advertises Quick Cures and Leading Quality
Benson's Plaster claims rapid relief for coughs colds and chest and abdominal illnesses through external treatment. It touts superiority over competitors, cites 55000 awards and widespread physician and public endorsement, and offers mail order from Seabury Johnson NY.
War era labor woes and a London spelling joke
amid wartime unemployment reports, workers seek good help and a storehouse of shortages. a London country quip about spelling tests follows a tale of daily hardships and social strain in the era.
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