Two Brothers of Same Home Take Contrasting Paths in City
A father drives two youths Edward and Nicholas to the city. Edward descends into temptation, squanders wages, loses his job, and dies after a life of vice. Nicholas stays virtuous, rises in business, strengthens faith, and becomes a model of reform, ending in a hopeful family reunion. The tale contrasts choices, religion, and destinies.
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Ning
Edward
Nicholas
Nichoas
Bey
Bowling Green
Canal Street
Atlantic Avenue
Fulton
Egwerd
Greenhorn
Ever
Anon
Althou
Privat
Ofice
Grand Trunk
Perdition
Jerusalem
Jerusath
Romano
Coes
Agar
Rey
Fen
Gibraltar
Earth
Hell
Camellias
Himelf
Anlar
Smething
Christendom
Abdication of opportunity and the danger of surrender
A sermon contrasts noble and disgraceful surrender, condemns surrender to sin and societal temptations, and warns that cities grind away youth through vice. It recalls Sedan, Alexander, and Caesar to urge repentance and embrace of divine grace for transformation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Perdition
Belial
Beevebub
Apayee
Abaddon
Ariel
Sedan
Alexander
Bulgaria
Persia
New York
Brooklyn
New Orleans
Chicago
St. Louis
Long Island
Westchester
Ulster
Herculaneum
Edward
Nichoas
Plutarch
Cesar
Christ
Altered bill at Neuchatel hotel causes breakfast dispute
A traveler disputes a hotel bill at the Hotel des Alps near Neuchatel railway station over a breakfast charge. The landlord, after tasting a mix up, adjusts the bill to reflect a full breakfast and serves a beef fillet, chicken rifle, omelet, and Chablis before the next train.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Neuchatel
Hotel Des Alps
Monsieur
Monseiur
American silk mills boost domestic trade, cut imports
Article notes strong activity in U S silk production and large raw silk imports, with American ribbons and handkerchiefs replacing foreign fabrics. It argues buyers prefer buying direct from principals to avoid errors, and predicts woolen fabrics may remain dominant in street wear.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Europe
The Bottom of the Sea and Its Diving Dangers
Describes deep sea diving to recover cargo from sunken ships. Details perils of currents, entangled air-tubes, and heavy chests. Paints vivid underwater scenes of wrecks, marine life, and treasure, with a second section on puma behavior and hunter encounters in Patagonia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bouys
Vesel
The Trichina History and Key Discoveries
The article traces the discovery of Trichina parasites from 1835 when Paget and Owen named it, through Leidy's 1846 ham specimen, to Zenner's 1560s muscle findings in typhoid-like disease, and Leuckart, Zenker, and Freidreich's life diagnosis in 1962, noting migration from intestines to muscle and parasite detection in muscle tissue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paget
Owen
Leidy
Zenner d
Improvised Paper Impression Technique Described
A historical note explains making a waxy flat impression by wetting paper with tengu and smoking it over a tame pot. The article is pressed on the smoked patch to reveal a clear imprint. Preceding steps include milk treatment for permanence and drying the paper afterward.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dickens
Pie
Charles Dickens
Little Nell
Tiny Tim
Dolly Varden
Fat Boy Joe
Dot
Smike
Dame Darden
Sissy Jupe
Little Paul
Keeller
Oliver
Jew Fagin
Florence Dombey
Joe
Express
Hans Anderson
Cory
Cheietma
Book Publishing House
Leonard St
N. Y. City
Majagua River exploration and trade prospects noted
Consul Dawson of Barranquilla describes the Magdalena River as Colombia’s main commercial waterway rising high in the south and running north to the Caribbean. The river supports twenty tributaries, six steamboat companies, twenty seven vessels, and Barranquilla as its thriving port with 25 000 residents. The back country offers vast resources awaiting development.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Consul Dawson
Barranquilla
Magdalena River
United States
Colombia
Carrbbean Sea
Cauca
Hartford Courant
Merchant recovers after pneumonia aided by Dr. Williams Hall's Balsam
The merchant, once near death from pneumonia, has fully recovered using Dr. Williams Hall's Balsam for the Lungs. He thanks the remedy and hopes others may benefit as well. Slight earthquake shocks continue to be felt in Charleston at intervals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
WM. Hall
Charleston
Rich promises lure readers with home work schemes
The ad copy touts mail offers from Hallett & Co in Portland Maine promising $5 to $25 daily work from home with no capital, appealing to any age or sex and urging immediate start. It also notes reduced Third Avenue Elevated fare, eye remedy promotion, Kilmer's Female Remedy, and Germany's carthaende shocks, ending with a pitch to B F Johnson & Co for financial avenues and rapid fortune recovery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
California
Hallett & Co
Portland
Maine
Andret Kicmer
Sine Ton
N.Y
Kil
Kilmer
W. Y
Cattle Plunge From Bridge Near Gilead Maine
A herd of about 200 cattle crossed a suspension bridge near Gilead Maine when the bridge collapsed. Seventy five cattle fell into the water, five drowned and several were injured. The rest swam to the shore.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gilead
We Appeal to Experience on Testimonials for Piso’s Cure
A long note defends publishing unsolicited testimonials for Piso’s Cure for Consumption and Piso’s Remedy for Catarrh. It claims authenticity of letters, invites doubt, and includes a dated testimonial from Dayton Ohio January 12 1886 about relief from a severe cold and lung ulceration after using Piso’s Cure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. T. Hazeltine
Piso
Dayton
Ohio
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Patagonia
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James Halan
Lousville
Mar Akron, O
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Mana Cr Stuckett’'s Livery
5Th Street
Filledelphia
Buckingham
Ayer
Montreal
Third Avenue
Isaac Ly Andson
Marquette, Mich
Germany
Ford
Browe
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Fort Washington
Crowns Chemical CO
Baltimore, MD
FE. C. Boughton
Bond St
W. M. Scott & CO
Philadelphia
Soldiers & Heirs
ENCE
Ge Connanianes Nce
Milo B. Stevens & CO
Washington, D. C
Cleve Land, Ohtlo
Chicago, Ill
Detroit
Mich
F. Johnson & Co
Main St
Richmond
Holiday Books
Ise, Sen
Washington, D.C
Mason & Hamlin Organ and Piano CO
Boston
THE
Century Magazine
OF Lincoln
John. G. Nicolay
Col
John Hay
Lincoln
Robt. T. Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln
Frank R. Stockton
George W. Cable
Mary Hallock Foote
Uncle Remus
Edward Eggleston
Russia
Siberia
George Kennan
Siberian
Eggleston
Queen Anne
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Century
Century CO
A. J
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