Tragic warning on parental duty in Talmage sermon
Rev Dr Talmage warns that parental neglect and harsh discipline ruin children. He cites Eli and his sons as a caution and urges balanced government, tailored to temperaments, preserving bodily health,developing heart and mind, and early moral culture to forge faithful future leaders.
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Eli
Hoptnian Phinehas
Bell
Adam
Bucephalus
Thomas Aquinas
Brittany
John Wesley
Matthias Jones
Socrates
Herodotus
Bacon
Osa
Pelior
Jupiter
George Washington
Scaliger
Blount
Spinoza
Polingbroke
Seovide Haynes McCollum
Syracuse
Alfred Cookman
Carlile
Pennsylvania
Goi
Isaac Watts
Robert Hall
Jonathan Edwards
Heaven
Brocken
Ninetesa
Mother Perseter
Tess
Making Motto Candies and Their Romantic Allure
The article describes motto candies made from fruit pulp and gum fragacanth dough shaped like cookies then stamped with copper stamps and cochineal dye. It notes the sweetness of sugar lozenges and how schoolboys send them to sweethearts with lines like Your eyes are as bright as diamonds, presenting courtship flattery as a social signal.
Women patent leaders by state in early US reports
The text notes that New York women hold the most patents, more than any other state. Massachusetts, Ohio, Indiana, and Wisconsin follow in that order, highlighting regional innovation by gender in a historical context.
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New York
Machusetts
Ohio
Indiana
Wiscona
News and Notes for Women from Fashion to Professions
Fashion reports highlight cashmere wraps, velvet and plush fabrics, and unusual millinery trends. Parisian and English styles influence tunics, skirts, and trims with polonaises and tournure notes. Georgia claims first woman in state legislature clerical work and a celebratory diploma. Louise Thomas and Elsie Buckingham emerge as prominent women in beekeeping and California fruit farming, urging others to pursue similar ventures.
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Sarah
Denver
Colo
Paris
Brush
Georgia
Lyons
Delft
London
Directoire
England
M. Louise Thomas
Elsie P. Buckingham
California
Intelligent Dogs and Their Quirks Across Homes
A West Point band dog stations daily by the sundown cannon and tracks the ball on the hill. A Louisville pug chews gum only in private and hides it from strangers. A mongrel owned by A. B. Taylor punishes a pup caught with ham. A North Carolina friend and master choose a Newfoundland pup from a litter, and the mother later steals away a doomed pup to save another.
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West Point
Louisville
Dan
Taylor
Longview
Texas
Accomplished Servant Ad Sparks Unusual Demand
The Boston Traveler notes a peculiar advertisement placed by The Gloe. It seeks an American to perform housework for two people and join the family, capable of cooking and playing the piano, with a reply address of Hox 31 Gardiner Mass. The piece reflects social conditions of the era.
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Boston Traveler
Boston
Gloe
Gardiner
Mass
Curiosities From A Far Afield And Near
A miscellany notes a Missouri woman with 17 658 spools and cites various oddities and claims. It lists a China population figure, Dutch harness collections, a Lancaster sweet potato, Transvaal dates, a Lewiston blacksmith making finger rings, a Maine duck hunt, Chili thistle import, Mount Whitney golden trout lore, hashish use among Parisian gourmands, and club rules for dosing and reporting sensations.
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Missouri
China
Holland
Lancaster
Transvaal Republic
South Africa
Patch Peers
Lewiston
W. T. Bryson
Auraria
Chili
Mount Whitney
Whitney Creek
Rue St. Michael
Napoleon heart tale and medical ads in a clipped note
Reader letter questions a Napoleon heart account and recalls an embalming anecdote involving Dr Arnet. The piece also includes medical advertisements for Pierce products, Taylors Hospital Care, and a New York City coupon offer, all in a dense, dated newspaper voice.
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Taylors
City Hall Pharmacy
B'way
New York
Leading Features of Youth's Companion 1588 Announcement
The Youth's Companion announces six illustrated Serial Stories by Trowbridge and Stephens and two hundred Short Stories. Eminent contributors include Gladstone Tyndall Wolsely Ascot Croox and many others. It claims two million weekly readers and offers a subscription for $1.75 free to January 1, 1888, with a full year from that date.
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Trowbridge
Stephens
Wm. H. Gladstone
Professor Tyndall
Lord Wolsely
Louisa M. Ascot
George Croox
CoNmanion
A Prominent Merchant Praises Swamp Root Cure
A letter from Ge o D Macomber of Worravite New York dated Sept 19 1887 describes curing a two year hemorrhage of the bladder after using Dr Kilmer Swamp Root Kidney Liver and Bladder cure. He credits relief to the medicine and urges others to try it. The advertisement notes $1.40 per bottle or six for $6.00 from Dr Kilmer & Co in Binghamton NY.
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Worravite
N. Y
Geo
D. Macomber
Express
Dr. Kilmer & Co
Binghamton, N.Y
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