The Call of Moses and Life’s Career Choices
Sunday school lesson explores Moses as an example of preparation and vocation. It traces his forty-year desert schooling after flight from Egypt and his eighty-year call to lead Israel, urging readers to heed divine purpose over drift and to trust God’s enabling presence.
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Moses
Uder
Jokebed
Mores
Pharaoh
Israel
Midian
Asid Court
Gomdiete
Both
Enid
God
Horeb
Elijah
Ahab
John the Baptist
Judea
Matt
Saul of
Tarsus
Gamathiel
Jerusalem
Arabia
Church of God
Man Suffers Leg Break At Wabash Shops
Frederick Ehinger, a worker in the Wabash machine department, had a leg broken above the ankle last Saturday afternoon while helping move an engine frame. The frame slipped from a truck striking him and he was taken by ambulance to the hospital where Dr. M F Porter set the fracture.
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Frederick Ehinger
Wabash
M. F. Porter
Ehinger
Lehigh Valley Railroad Charged With Offense
A fragment notes Pennsylvania Dutch presence in the Keystone State has sparked sentiment. It mentions the Lehigh Valley Railroad company having recently offended a segment of the public.
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Bavaria
Pennsylvania
Middle West
Allentown
Reading
Lehigh Valley Railroad
Keystone State
Lehigh Valley ‘Railroad Company
Expensive Weddings Prompt Reform Call
A youth asks how much extra money is needed for marriage and a clerk replies over $500. The piece notes fashion inflates wedding costs, mocks costly customs, and urges reform in bridal spending as a social issue raised by Pansy in the Christian Endeavor World.
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Kate
Pansy
Vows at the Altar Turn Deadly and Dissolute
The article recounts harsh vows from marriages in Prussia and Poland. A Prussian groom pledged suicide if his bride died within five years, a vow he fulfilled after news of her death. A Warsaw mechanic swore to drink heavily on every anniversary, a drinking habit he kept, with dire consequences implied by his dissolute life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Apolis
San Francisco
Warsaw
British lakes to be mapped in national limnology project
Dr Hugh Robert Mill announced a private enterprise plan to survey all freshwater lakes in Britain. Sir John Murray and Lawrence Pullar will direct work, sound and map lake bottoms, study water chemistry, and publish memoirs for each river basin over five years. Four young scientists are sought for chemistry geology botany and zoology roles with full-time salaries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hugh Robert Mill
England
Joh. Murray
Lawrence Pullar
British Islands
Sir John Murray
Pullar
John
New York Sun
Father Quail Teaches Chucklecheek Chipmunk About Bobwhite
In an orchard scene Chucklecheek Chipmunk learns from Father Quail about Bobwhite through a tale of a gentle, obedient bird who wanders from home. The story contrasts curiosity with wisdom as Chuckle returns home to a quiet evening with farm sounds and a grandmotherly chorus.
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Father Quail
Bobwhite
Chucklecheek Chipmunk
Chuck
Chuckle
Quail
Elizabeth
Venetian Night Celebration Souvenir Issued by G R & I Rail
The Grand Rapids and Indiana Railway issues a pretty souvenir booklet for the Venetian Night at Rome City on August 29. It includes a list of cot tagers who aided the carnival, a newspaper account, and illustrations of illuminations. Judge Baker in federal court declared Christian Schellman of this city bankrupt on his recent voluntary petition.
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Grand Rapids and Indiana Railway Company
Rome City
Baker
Federal Court
Christian Schellman
When Bears Were Watchdogs A Nordic Guardian Tale
A historical note describes bears trained in Scandinavia and Denmark as pets beasts of burden and notably as watchdogs. Bears guarded homes and castles driving away robbers while some were trained to operate water wheels and fetch water. A sun bear in Asia reportedly sat at a nobleman’s table and preferred champagne.
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Scandinavia
Denmark
Brain
Asia
The Foolish Curiosity of a Guanaco Hunter
The passage explains how hunters lure guanacos in South America by lying on their backs with feet in the air to resemble a living trap. Guanacos approach believing the strange object harmless, then are shot or wounded when the hunter fires, illustrating the animal's persistent curiosity and the hunter's trickery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South America
Teru
Patagonia
Minerva asked about a missing cat named Minerva
Mrs Goodsoul answers a child asking for a missing cat named Minerva. Mary explains the cat left yesterday and the children are searching the neighborhood, asking if Minerva has been seen near her house.
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Minerva
The Song They Sang
A brief fragment recalls a child’s Sunday school memory about singing a song praising Greenland’s icy cream mountains, with a mother asking about the hymn.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Greenland
Ica
Cream Mountains
Spoon Faces Poem Teaches Caution to Children
A fragmentary verse warns children about growing up, describing two bright, eerie faces seen in spoons and urging careful behavior to avoid future awkward changes. The old fashioned rhymes blend whimsy with moral caution in a playful warning tone.
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Egypt
Czar
Russia
Abraham
Gesson
Paul
Pharoah
Aaron
Esson
Samuel
Bobwhiter
Chicago Record-Herald
Shadow
Mark Twain
G. C. Clemens
Topeka
Kan
Samuel B. Clemens
Mark
Dr. Miles Medical Co
Clemens
Miles
Norman Waltrip
Bankers’ Fraternal Society
Chicago
Aix
Eadache
Dr. Miles
All. Drvissletee
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