Would We Like to Live Our Lives Over Again
A Los Angeles sermon on the last Sunday of 1904 reflects on whether one would choose to relive the past. The speaker cites Franklin and Hannibal Hamlin, recalls near misses and hairline turns of fate, and urges embracing Christ to merge past present and future into one eternal life.
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Benjamin Franklin
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United States Senate
Hamlin
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Lazarus
Hell
Earth
Abraham
Moses
Ufe
Hfe
Far East
Amherst
Mass
Far West
God
Moses and
the Lamb
Louis Klopsch
Why His Wife Frowned at His English Sermon
Principal Hoffman of the Hiawatha academy tells a self mock story about his wife frowning during a sermon in a German church. She appeared distracted by his appearance until a closer look revealed no fault, only the surprise of him preaching in English.
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Hoffman
Hiawatha Academy
Mie
Kansas City Journal
Parisians sell potatoes with odd cleaning method
The article describes how cheap small potatoes are bought by rafistoleurs who wash them by stomping in tubs and scraping skins with bare feet, then dry and wrap them for 5 francs each. It notes the ancient Church of St. Laurent at Rouen has been repurposed, with chapels rented as shops and walls leased to advertisers.
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Paris
Rafistoleurs de Pommes de Terra
Seine
St. Laurent
Rouen
Norwegian explorer completes polar circumnavigation voyage
Captain Roa Amuinigen of the Norwegian sloop Gjon becomes the first navigator to sail a northwest passage from Christiania on fetc 17 1908 to Greenland and Iceland, guiding his eight man crew through tortuous routes. He relocates the magnetic pole and anchors the Gjon in Herschel Bay awaiting spring to finish the circumnavigation.
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Gjon
Christopher Columbus
Herschel Gand
Arctic Ocean
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Globe
Hoffman Loses Run For Fulton Town Clerk
Dave Hoffman, on the Republican ticket, was defeated for town clerk not Fulton. In the next Fulton Leader issue, he writes that serving the office tired him, claims he saved Fulton taxpayers 50 to 75 in rent, light, fuel, and other costs, and vows to focus on the Leader while Fulton’s corporation handles itself.
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Dave Hoffman
Fulton
Fulton Leader
Corporation of
Attica (Ind
Gilbert in a Den of Daniels and a Bishop Potter Wit
A joke from Harper's Weekly features W. S. Gilbert among clergymen at a country club chat. When asked how he felt among grave company he quips Like a lion in a den of Daniels. Bishop Potter is praised for his witty remark about a button for African missions and asks Where are the pants.
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Joseph H. Choate
W. S. Gilbert
Potter
Osler debunks deathbed visions and poet mythos
Dr William Osler attacks the belief in deathbed visions as pure nonsense, citing 500 of his own observations to prove their falsity. He argues poets are a “winged mad holy thing” whose inspiration is rooted in madness, challenging romantic notions of genius and divine talent.
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William Osler
Osler
Plato
Kennedy's Laxative Honey and Tar Cold Cure
An old advertisement touts Kennedy's Laxative Honey and Tar as a liquid cold cure. It claims thorough bowel evacuation drives all cold from the system and lists uses for coughs and croup, noting sales by all druggists.
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Kennedy
Piano exhibition at Albertson Steuun's music store
The Mason and Hamlin Concert Grand piano, favored by Paderewski’s pupil Rudolph Gans, will be showcased at Albertson & Steuun's music store located at 78 Gelena Street opposite the New York hotel. The event is tied to a Grand Opera house appearance in January.
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Rudolph Gans
Paderewski
Grand Opera House
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Albertson & Steuun
Gelena St
New York Hotel
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