What is the Moral Effect of Secret Societies
Reverend Dr. Talmage argues secret societies are moral bets on their object. If they defend rights, aid reform, or support families and charities they may be just. if they plot harm or weaken home life they become dangerous. He warns secrecy can save or ruin souls, households, and communities.
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Solomon
Jerusalem
Patan
Lord
Gideon
Ir Association
England
Manchester
Geome
Sophocles
Hom
Chicago
Buffalo
Lake Shore
Papa
Jay UN Consvins
Rope of memories ties a path to salvation
A preacher in a reflective sermon explains making a stout rope from many small threads. He says memories of joy, light, music, loss, and faith are braided into strands that bind to the cross. The speaker urges listeners to grasp the rope and pull for life and healing.
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Eradie
Sam
Tam
Dres
Christ
Thieves in Paris Shopliftings Tracked by Private Panels
Theodore Child reports five year Paris data showing 150 daily thefts in 30 key dry goods stores. Most thieves escape capture. private shop councils handle inside thefts, often fining suspects from $100 to $2,000, with little police intervention beyond outside arrests.
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Paris
Theodore Child
New York Sun
Council of Administration
Louvre
Bon Marche
M. Mace
Tonto
Eighteen Pacific Horses Transported in Palace Cars Alta and Ben Ali
The shipment from California loaded in two palace coaches, the Alta and the Ben Ali, designed for stock. The Alta carries sixteen horses in padded stalls with rubber floors, dining and sleeping quarters, aisles for turning, and tool storage marked Alta. Dr Coster and two jockeys accompanied the group to Long Branch on the long journey.
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Pacific Slope
Long Branch
Alta
J. R
Haggin
San Francisco
Palace
Byrnes
California
Coster
New Fork Tribune
Delusive Labels in New York City Print Shop Trade
An American Analyst excerpt describes a major New York label shop known for producing large volumes of labels for bottlers grocers druggists and saloon keepers. It highlights 1000 stock labels and 1000 more possible in 48 hours and details four forgery types while praising the vivid designs of European labels from France Italy and Germany and the broad reach to Europe’s wine trade.
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New York City
Rhine
Italy
France
Russia
England
Europe
Chateau la Rose
Chateau Latitte
Bordeaux
Beaune
Clos Vougeot
Burgundy
Josephshoefer
Moselle
Steinwein
Scharlachberger
Szecszardi
Tokaya Massas
Hungary
Lachrymae Christi
Bartolo
California adds 5000 settlers in past year
Immigration Association of California reports about 5000 actual settlers arrived in the state over the last twelve months. Most new arrivals settled in the southern counties.
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California
Household Affairs How to Make Home Attractive
Cleanliness is next to godliness and a bright cheery home reflects inward virtue. Budget friendly decor can inspire children while chores are shared to multiply daily joy. Encourage talents praise efforts and keep temper under control to avoid fretful moments.
Care and Cleaning of Lamp Burners for Bright Light
Instructions advise monthly lamp burner cleaning in cold water with washing soda and soap, then boiling to remove soot. Rinse, dry, and ensure dry wicks before use. replace wicks in spring and consider vinegar for clogged ones. Decorative amp roses help keep dust out.
Home Cookery Teaches Cakes Stews and Sauces
A recipe collection explains how to bake a cake with sugar butter egg milk and baking powder, fry beef patties and fish cakes, stew fish with water parsley thyme and oysters or eggs, prepare two sauces using butter yolks or cream and lemon, and make a light milk pudding with eggs and flour served hot.
The Blue Grotto of Busi Island Described
A newly reported sea cave on the Adriatic Island of Busi, discovered in 1884, draws visitors with a seven by five foot entrance and sixteen feet of water. A sunken twilight reveals shifting blues from dark blue green to azure, with silver like oars and stones glowing beneath a luminous sea.
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Busi
Mule skull causes fatal injury three years after death
A local report describes a nine year old Black boy fatally struck by a mule skull hung in a mulberry tree to deter hawks. The skull, from a large mule that died years earlier, fell during berry season after a tree shake, striking the boy and killing him instantly.
Vast North American avifauna study and natural science notes
The article surveys North American birds totaling 859 species with 82 outsiders, discusses Florida fresh water wells for manufacturing, shad fry counts, and new materials Vulcabeston and Meerschaum. It explains Bellum sound transmission, earthquake theory by Newberry, Charleston quake data, and moon gravity implications for human movement.
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Florida
The
Fish Commission
Crimea
Negropont
Asia Minor
Eski-Sheir
Lebbeke
Bellum
J. S. Newberry
Charleston
Earth
Moon
Jupiter
Saturn
The Future of Farming as Seen by Mr Bolton King
In the British Association a view favors large farms under skilled management with capital and cooperative farming. It argues these farms can gain economies of scale and realize social aims. Evidence supports laborer cooperation and capital availability, but a key hurdle is the shortage of skilled managers to be trained.
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Bolton King
British Association
Popular Science Monthly
Dr. Pierce
Pleasant Purgative Pellets Offer Prize for Mineral Poisons
Five Hundred Dollars is offered for detection of calomel or other mineral poisons in Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Purgative Pellets. The pills are mustard seed sized and cause no griping pain. They promise relief from biliousness sick headache bad taste and jaundice.
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Pierce
All Men Are Not Bad and Dr Harter’s Tonic Endorsed
The text argues against the idea that all men are bad and claims Dr Harter’s Tonic for Dyspepsia rheumatism scrofula jaundice torpid liver and general weakness proves otherwise. It also notes a New York hand-organ men’s union as a grinding monopoly.
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Harter
New York
A Wonderful Machine and User Giveaway Offer
A promotion offers 1,000 self operating washing machines with no labor or washboard needed. The National Co. invites replies to 27 Dey St., NUY. The text also notes a playful line about a girl named Jangiana as a talkative name.
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the National Co
Dey St
Nuy
Scott's Emulsion praised by Dr Waddell for delicate patients
Delicate children nursing mothers and overworked men should use Scott's Emulsion of Pure Cod Liver Oil with Hypophosphites. Dr L P Waddell of Hugh's Mills South Carolina reports it improved a delicate lady threatened with bronchitis, calling it the best emulsion he has used.
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Scott
M. D
Hugh's Mills
8. C
St Jacobs Oil Endorsements and Moral Reflections
Gen l Samuel L Given ex chief of police Philadelphia Va reflects on using St Jacobs Oil and its healing qualities cited by Lt Jacobs. J H Duffus notes rheumatism cure in knee with two applications. A pamphlet on female disenagua is offered. A quip on ages and fools ends the piece.
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Samuel L. Given
Philadelphia
Lt. Jacobs
Plain Dealer
Fort Madison
Towa
J. H. Duffus
St. Jacobs Oil
Profitable Work From Home Offer Attracts Readers In Portland
An awfully bold prospect promises work at home with profits ranging from five to eight hundred twenty five dollars daily. Hallett & Co. of Portland Maine invites inquiry, claiming all ages and both sexes can start free with no capital required.
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Hallett & Co
Portland
Maine
Hood
J. M. Weepen
Lincoln
Mase
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DR. Talmage
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V Palace
Avifauna
North America
Jangiana
J. B. Marchisi
Utica
N.Y
Ilinois
C. J. Hood & CO
Apothecaries
Lowell
Mass
Washington
Maplewood Opium Institute
Loveland
Old
Howard Copying House
Bedford
Jacksom Vrourier Bite
Culth Iin
Ee Life
Ivanhoe
Pos Pen
A. H. Eastman
Colebrook, N
Druggista
Simfl
ASE
Benson’s
TAKE
T. H. Fitman
Washington, D.C
Sarrlawn
Ee Pnet
Rosa
M. W. Dunham, Wayne, DuPage Co
Illinoie
Harter Medicine Company
St. Louis
Atlanta
L. Powrn & Companie Wood
Mapti
Mit Vd Slevertrice, Cilding, Pensions , Vidar
D.C
William
Migs Sei
Rankin & Lamar
Atlanta, Ga
Herbrand
Herbrand CO
Fremont, C
K. H. Gel
Enston & CO
Washington, D. C
Invalids’ Hotel and Surgical Institute
N. Y
World's Dispensary Medical Association
Main St
Fis
Hmeks
A. J
Bray
Cort
Olive Lake
Brewster
Golt & CO
Kinzie St
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