Sermons of January Ministers at Brooklyn Tabernacle
Extracts from sermons by metropolitan ministers on humility and true greatness. Dr Doolittle discusses Mark nine, noting humility, self mastery and love as core to Christ’s teaching. He contrasts worldly power with Christ’s approach of service and love, citing Napoleon’s vanity.
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Woman's Sphere in the Church Advent Sermon Analysis
The Rev R Heber Newton delivers the first Advent sermon at All Souls Church on Woman in the Church Family Society and the State. He argues the modern era seeks to elevate women beyond traditional bondage, while warning of dangers to worship and ecclesiastic authority from expanding female influence.
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The Capture of Ai and Salvation Foundations
A sermon at New Jerusalem Church on Joshua’s Ai explores cleansing sin before inheriting peace. The Rev. Seward urges removing the accursed things and arming with God’s armor while cautioning against overconfidence. The Rev. Halsey argues salvation is not an afterthought, Christ’s sacrifice predates creation, and God’s plan included sin for a higher good.
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Lord's Power and Inheritance in Faithful Service
A sermon-like passage urges relying on divine strength to overcome the natural mind. It cites biblical scenes where faith, obedience, and consecration enable success in God’s work, stressing surrender to the Lord and trusting His guidance.
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Tadlosim
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Skunk Incident Sparks Doctor’s Comic Retort in Recalled Tale
In a recalled anecdote Susan Beecher writes of a man walking home with a large book when a skunk crosses his path. He throws the book and is later fumigated and clothes burned. Weeks later his son bursts in with a pamphlet about him. The doctor vows to answer, noting a quarto volume about a skunk left him with the worst of it.
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Sayiog
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Eve's Tomb Reputed Location Near Djeddah Described
An account notes a tomb claimed as Eve the world’s mother on the outskirts of Djeddah. A white stone marks the waist with the head about twenty nine feet away, and Mohammedan belief holds it as her tomb, addressing followers’ doubts. Baltimore S
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Health Hints From An Old Newspaper Advice Column
Practical cures and home remedies cover burns with cold flour, mustard plasters with egg white, cider vinegar for diarrhea, sulphur therapies, borax and baking soda baths for skin itch, and convulsions treated by side sleeping. It praises tar smoke for diphtheria as claimed by New York Mail, noting its perceived effectiveness and dangerous room confinement.
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Materia Medica
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A Fish Hawk's Fate
A Pennsylvanian man recalls a hawk diving on a pond and disappearing. Later he hooks a six pound pickerel and finds two hawk talons embedded in the fish back to back. The hawk drowned when the bird could not lift the heavy fish, and the incident is recounted from the New York Sun report.
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The Mikado of Japan and His Progressive Reign
The piece traces Japan's return to the world stage after isolation starting 1853, noting Commodore Perry and the 1854 treaty. It covers Matsui Hito’s birth in Kloto, his succession in 1867, marriage to Haruko in 1568, and describes the Japanese monarchy as absolute with likely move toward a future parliament. The Chicago Tribune attribution is included.
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Chicago Tribune
Prince of Wales Allows Irving Guests at Breakfast
The Prince of Wales informed actor Leary Irving by secretary of a breakfast with him and a guest list. Irving asked to add two guests, but was initially refused. After pleading about American friends who helped him in America, the royal highness relented and allowed the two American guests at Irving's table. This illustrates England's social system and its acceptance or rejection depending on the standards.
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Lowisvile Courier-Journal
Disappearance of Poplar and substitute trials
Poplar supplies wane driving manufacturers to test cottonwood as a substitute in charcoal production. Cottonwood can resemble poplar closely costing less, prompting market competition amid supply limits. The Garfield assassination pistol remains with DC authorities along with items seized from the assassin.
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Wisconsin Cranberry Marshes Growth of Harvest Methods
John Hancock Jr., son of Col. John Hancock, describes Wisconsin's cranberry marshes near Big City Point in the northwest. The 40 mile long region yields up to two hundred bushels per acre. A new system of mowing, scalping, and replanting shortens time to fruit compared with older methods. Harvest uses hand and scoop rake labor with paid crews. Berries are cured and dried before milling and barreling for market.
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Portraits Made With a Hot Poker in Boston Sketches
A Boston banker owns burned wood portraits of Henry Clay and a linked watch chain detail. Samuel Noble of Georgia holds a Daniel Webster likeness and Francis Fontaine, Georgia Emigration Commissioner, owns Shakespeare. The artist was a troubled Boston native who sketched only while drunk and died soon after. Webster’s memory likeness impressed critics.
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Daniel Webster
Samuel Noble
Georgia
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Union League Club
Shakespeare
Francis Fontaine
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Webster
Clay
Statesman
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New York Tribune
Healthfulness of Tea and proper preparation
The article notes tea can be healthful when properly prepared by infusion and not boiled. It contrasts Chinese sip warm with boiled American habit and cites New England favoring Japanes or Oolongs, with regional preferences shaping consumption.
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How the Fuchsia Was Introduced
A charming anecdote tells how a London tourist discovered a fuchsia in a suburban window. The asking price in gold rose, and the owner refused, saying her sea captain husband brought the plant home. Instead she gave slips, from which the fuchsia spread to Britain and America.
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Mediterranean
Fur Seals Learn to Swim From First Wobbling Steps
In this piece from All the Year Noun a one month old fur seal pup begins education by water exposure. It sinks at first and struggles until about six weeks old, then by daily practice along the shore learns to float and master the sea where it will live most of its life.
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Faneles of Children In Curious Thought
A Jufurper's Magazine excerpt notes how young children interpret the world in concrete terms. A four year old questions clouds as solid and angels as falling through, while recalling clipped hen tails proves flight is impossible. A child longs to climb to God's mantelpiece to seek peppermints.
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Jufurper’s
Convicts in Prussia Engaged Across Twenty Industries
The report notes 24,015 male and female convicts in Prussia are employed in about twenty distinct industries, indicating a broad labor program within the prison system and its economic scope.
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Hair and health remedies in old notes warn of color and lung issues
The article notes Hall's Hair Revewer could restore original color to gray hair and mentions Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral as effective for lung troubles. It also records that Sing Sing prison inmates consume twenty one barrels of flour daily among other figures.
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Sing S'ng Prison
Prospects for quick income and patent tonics pushy ads
Newspaper notes wide scale promotions offering free seed money for home-based work, with claims of daily earnings from $5 to $25 and up, plus large fortunes for early start. It also highlights medical ads for Dr Pierce's Favorite Prescription and Sage's Catarrh Remedy, Cure-all claims for consumption, and Piso’s Cure advertisements with testimonials and hygiene guidance.
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Mallet & Co
Poortland
Maine
Sealed With a Cuff Button During Washington Treaty Signing
At the Washington State Department signing of the Washington treaty British and American representatives gathered in a room at the Washington City Orphan Asylum. Lord Tenterden asked E Rockwood Hoar if he would attach a seal to the document. Hoar offered a cuff button as a humorous family emblem, sealing his name with the button amid laughter.
Life of a Hand Organ Man Explored in Brief
The piece frames the life of a hand organ man as a continuous, grand existence, highlighting the rhythm, travel, and enduring routine that define the street performance trade.
Almanac of cures and curiosities from a vintage medic
A miscellany advertises St Jacob s Oil for rheumatism by John Gregg of Watsonville California and Red Star Cough Cure priced at 25c. It warns of historic theatre fires in December and promotes Dr Isaac Thomson Eye Water and Dr Kilmer s Female Remedy for heart trouble with terse product notes.
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John Gregg
Watsonville
California
Price
Isaac Thomson
Pioneering Cure for Consumption Promoted by Dr J C M Owensville
A physician in Owensville claims success with Scout's Env sron of Cod Li er Olwith Hypposplh tes in treating four patients with lung disease. He reports improved breathing and weight gain, noting skin and chest symptoms receded without further medicine. He recommends Fiso's Cure for coughs and rest for those seeking relief.
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Oho
Dentistry for Horses St. Louis Adds Veterinary Practice
The article notes that horse dentistry, once rare in St. Louis, is being introduced by Dr. J. C. Kelly after popularity in the East. It explains past methods of tooth care and praises the success of filling decayed teeth in road animals, easing pain and improving feeding.
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J. C. Kelly
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