Tell Jesus and ease your griefs in hard times
A sermon recounts the disciples reporting to Jesus after John the Baptist's death, urging believers to bring burdens to Christ. It stresses divine compassion, trials, temptation, and persecution, urging people to tell Jesus their sorrows and seek strength in His sustaining grace.
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Jesus
Herod
John the Baptist
Christ
Raphael
the Evangelist
Italy
Europe
Godfrey
Jerusalem
Jesus Christ
Heaven
Alfred
Tell Jesus: Trust in the Lord to Deliver You
A sermon urges listeners to seek Jesus for rescue and comfort, portraying God's omnipotence and fatherly care. It compares faith in divine help to a child reassured by a father on deck during a storm, and warns that delaying belief risks eternal disaster. Xerxes and a poetic reflection on life’s briefness underscore urgency.
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Earth
Herod
Eve
Jesus
Jesus Christ
Father
Xerxes
The Sea Serpent of Norway and New England
Reports from 1815 to recent years recount sightings of a long snake like creature with a horse sized head seen near Norway and New England seas. Length estimates range from seventy feet to hundreds, with undulating movement and most body on the surface. Naturalists vary on myth versus reality though many conservatively believe such a beast exists.
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Norway
New England
Pontoppidan
Saucy Cuban Beggars and a City of Smoke
Ella Wheeler Wilcox recalls Havana's beggars who sell lottery tickets in hotels and halls. She notes many cripples panhandle with ticket sales amid mild profanities and napkin swirls. She observes Havana’s children in gutters and a culture of pervasive tobacco use among all ages.
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Havana
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
His First Money by Reading for a Rich Man
The future mayor Hewitt earned his first money at sixteen by reading aloud to a wealthy man for three to four hours daily for a year. He won the position by competitive exam, received 15 dollars for the year, spent ten on a student gown, and saved five for his mother. He later taught others while in college and saved about 1,000 dollars before an European tour, leaving only three dollars on return.
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Noman
Hewitt
New York Sun
G. F. Spencer
Crystal
Mich
Printing spreads growth of presses and bookshops in Japan
Scarcely a newspaper existed in Japan twenty years ago and now there are 551 papers. The book trade has also advanced with printing, there being 3,538 book shops serving the empire’s readers.
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Japan
Wisdom in Worn Vessels and Timely Action
A string of maxims on courage, thrift, and life choices. It contrasts appearances with worth, urges kindness before regret, and notes that true motive powers effort. The piece quotes aphorisms about nerves, work, and happiness, citing Good Housekeeping as a source.
Inside a Spanish Cigarette Factory Language waves and color blind to the toil
The narrator describes vast rooms with 1,500 girls rolling cigarettes. Married workers bring babies to work, rocking cradles as mothers manufacture tobacco. Forewoman enforces silence amid chatter while visitors are urged for tips, as long hours and oppressive heat prevail.
An Indian Fakir and a Jogi in Dholpura
The narrator recalls encountering a dirt encrusted fakir near Agra described with grotesque features and trance claims. He questions the mystic’s authenticity while noting the offering of copper coins at the shrine. London Society report conveys a somber, skeptical tone about ecstatic Jogis.
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Dholpura
Agra
London Society
Snow's Resistance to Bullets
A historical Ottawa experiment tested how long bullets travel through snow. Martini bullets stopped within four feet in packed snow, Snider rounds halted after about four feet in dry snow, and a single bullet pierced roughly four feet in hard packed loose drift, with seven feet in loose drifted snow from short range.
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Colonel White
Ottawa
Montreal
Gamut of Theft: ledger of crimes cited by Washington Post
A Washington Post piece catalogs various theft related terms and penalties ranging from 1 to 25,000 dollars. It lists offenses including embezzlement corruption defalcation insolvency and dishonesty. The itemized amounts resemble a satirical or critical inventory of moral and legal failures.
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Washington Post
One Way. The Poets Atlantic and a Jump Overboard
A pale frantic poet hoards verses and takes risky action by leaping into The Atlantic. The fragment hints at a dramatic, graphic moment connected to literary ambition and peril at sea.
Embarrassing For the Schoolmaster and the Pepper Family
A local humor sketch shows a schoolmaster dining with the Peppers while young Johnny Pepper asks if his mother takes snuff. The moment leads to a sharp glare from Mrs Pepper as the joke lands on the master. An advertisement block follows for St Jacobs Oil with testimonials from Ashburn Massachusetts and Baltimore Maryland. It claims relief for rheumatism and sprains and promotes other products from the World's Dispensary Medical Association with prices and contact details.
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Johnny Pepper
Mrs. Pepper
Johnny
Mrs Ashton Dilke Leads Notable English Radical Club
Mrs. Ashton Dilke serves as president of a prominent English radical club, directing its operations with formal organization and businesslike efficiency.
All Men are Liars and the Catarrh Remedy Claim
An excerpt touts Dr Sage's Renedy as a miracle cure for catarrh and mocks reliance on unreliable remedies. It asserts one trial will prove its efficacy and notes a fifty cent price from druggists. The quote contrasts ancient wisdom with modern medicine and hints at life’s dreariness without motive.
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David
Sage
Health and cures from Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery
The life value of health is praised and Dr. R V Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery is claimed to cure diseases such as consumption and blood disorders after other remedies fail. The ad notes a treatise on consumption offered for 10 cents in stamps and provides the Worlds Dispensary Medical Association address at 663 Main Street Buffalo NY.
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World's Dispensary Medical Association
Main Street
Buffalo
N.Y
R. V. Pierce
Dr. Pierce
Address Worlds Dispensary Medical Association
Buffalo N.Y
Pr. Pierce
Nsary Medical Association
Wonderful Machine and Offer Promises Free Self Operating Washers
A promotional note offers 1,000 self operating washing machines with no labor or washboard. Claiming best in the world, readers are told to write The National Co. in New York. The item also advertises a pamphlet on female diseases and includes unrelated notice of a seventeen piece band of Indians at Vancouver.
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Omicera
McCormick & Son
Washington,d
Monarch Machine Co
Columbus
Ohio
Bracch Howse
Magerstown
Maryland
the National Co
Dey St
N.Y
Ohio's Strongest Man Named From Cleveland
George C. Arnold of Cleveland is hailed as Ohio's strongest man after a year of rapid gain from chronic liver trouble and Bright's disease. He credits Dr. Harter's Iron Tonic for his increase in strength and weight, while endorsements praise Scott's Emulsion of Pure Cod Liver Oil with Hypophosphites for aiding delicate children and nursing mothers.
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Ohio
George C. Arnold
Cleveland
Bright
Scott
L. P. Waddell
M. D
Hugh's Mills
8. C
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