Great Results May Depend on Small Events Sermon
The Grimsby Canada sermon recounts Paul’s rescue from Damascus as a parable of how tiny acts and overlooked helpers shape world history. Talmage extols unseen human labor from rope-makers to caretakers, noting mothers prayers and humble donors hold the church and civilization together across ages.
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Jt, de Witt Talmage
Brooklyn
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Heaven
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Cappadocia
Galatia
Macedonia
Philippi
Mediterranean
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Nile
Sinai
Epworth
England
John Wesley
Pitcairn Island
Bethlehem
Pitcairn
Corinthians
Galatians
Ephesians
Philippians
Colossians
Thessalonians
Timothy
Titus
Philemon
Felix
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Mother
Miscellaneous Local Notes and Oddities
A mix of short items covers: a plan for a Philadelphia infirmary for dumb animals. a petrified watermelon at Cincinnati centennial. an Italian wedding gift necklace of lace diamonds rubies and emeralds. a Tennessee man selling marbles to protect against lightning. Also reports on Ukraine Russia tensions, a tubercular disease council in Paris, western railway skeleton find, Paris air power pipe length, Pittsburg Steel Casting shells, Fall River mare description, a Bloomsbury bread dog claim, and a Bloomsbury bread dog case outcome.
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Lithonia
Ukraine
Paris
Germany
Alabama
Pittsburg Steel Casting Company
England
Fall River
Bloomsbury
No Better Than Before
The saying urges that one cannot improve past life by reliving it and begins anew by starting now. It notes that attempting to restart as a baby is no better path, referencing Christian at Work.
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Christian
Working Under Deep Water
Bridge builder Hopkins recalls caisson work beneath rivers for major structures like the St. Louis bridge. The job is hazardous, with workers facing "hens" asphyxia and limited down time. Fresh air enters, foul air exits through blow pipes, and long exposure harms health, yet caisson workers enable great bridges worldwide.
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St. Louis
Omaha
Hopkins
Globe-Democrat
Laws On Prices Promised From Levi’s Final Writings
H F Halsey notes in Chicago News that Professor Leone Levi's unpublished manuscripts on price curves and the laws of price fluctuations may be issued soon. Levi, longtime Statistical Society of London member, is praised as a conservative authority likely to influence scientific and financial circles.
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Levi
Statistical Society of London
Ricardo
Stock Exchange
Professor de Morgan
Edgeworth
H. F. Halsey
Chicago News
The Czar's Simple Life at Fredericksborg
George Haendel notes the Russian czar's routine at Fredericksborg with early rising and tours of the forest. Ex cursions, hunting, and fishing fill the day while dinners feature a sixty-piece orchestra. The empress, gracious and charitable, avoids political influence and supports family life.
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Fredericksborg
Alexander
Gatchina
Xenia
Russia
Princess of Wales
George Haendel
Lossing's Civil War Autograph Treasures
Benson J. Lossing, famed historian and autograph collector, has long gathered war era letters and documents. He once served with the Federal army at Richmond and acquired many prized papers, including the original of Grant's famous unconditional surrender letter.
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Lossing
Benson J. Lossing
Richmond
Grant
New York World
Thief at a Society Wedding in Liverpool
A well dressed woman moved through a Liverpool church during a society wedding claiming to be a society journal representative. She quietly stole purses from guests after examining dresses and promising proofs of her article to each victim.
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Liverpool
Chicago Herald
Mineral riches spotted on Lake George shores
Mineral hunting on the islands and shores of Lake George yields profitable results for mineralogists. Notable finds include quartz crystals, rice garnets, tourmaline, rose quartz, feldspar, graphite, iron ore, sulphuret of iron, steatite, mica, and other minerals. A London crusade targets the works of Emile Zola.
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Lake George
Home Journal
More or Less Famous Daughters of Eve and Society Notes
Society gossip from California to London highlights Mme Moreau’s fortune, Annie Lippincott’s stage debut, Miss Mary Anderson’s autograph plan, and Vernon Lee Violet Paget’s prolific career. It notes typhoid, empresses, gypsies, and a Louisville biscuit venture, with Queen Victoria’s opposition and Florence residence.
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Modjeska
California
Nelly Grant
P Mme
Moreau
Brazil
Lourdes
Annie Lippincott
Grace Greenwood
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Princess Waldemar
Denmark
Danis
Franz Henningsen
London
Mme. Boulanger
Katy Chase
Washington
Portugal
Paris
Typhena
Saybrook Point
Conn
Bristol
England
Louis Napoleon
Queen Victoria
Anna Dickinson
Fred Douglass
Mary Anderson
Oliver Thorne Miller
Tennessee
Kentucky
Vernon Lee
George Eliot
Miss Brown
Violet Paget
Florence
President Diaz Seen in Chapultepec Forest
A New York correspondent reports Don Porfirio Diaz in Chapultepec astride a fine horse wearing a black cutaway coat and top boots. He rides gracefully and is described as a noble figure, with an aide in Mexican riding attire. the dispatch anticipates four more years of Diaz. The German government is said to have paid 800000 marks to Austrian engineer Mannlicher for a quick loading rifle cylinder stopper.
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Porfirio
Chapultepec
Diaz
New York UN
Mannlicher
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