Women as leaders and carers in Christian life
The preacher extols women's superior moral influence and rights within Christian society, urging their vital roles in nursing the sick, aiding the destitute, guiding households, and raising families in faith. He cites biblical and historical examples, stressing home prayer, resilience, and immortal marriage through Christ.
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Ord
Acain
Wolman
Sifk
Deborah
Grace Darling
Marie Antoinette
Joan of Arc
Kingdom of Heaven
Christendom
Christ
Gourlands
Bysband
Hod
Paul
Rebecca
Mary Christ
Elizabeth Pry
Charlotte Elizabeth
Augstine
Countess of
Huntingdon
Remarkable elderly couple on Furlow plantation
Artemus Tucker and Narcissus, aging on Colonel Hawkins's Furlow plantation, are famed figures among local Black residents. Art is 83 and has lived there 53 years. Narcissus weighs about 420 pounds in stockings and milks cows. She rides to town on a flat car when coaches proved too small, attends church weekly, and hopes to be buried on Mars' Sam's land with her husband.
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S. TH. Hawkins
Furlow
Artemus Tucker
Narcissus
Americas
Preston
Lumpkin Road
Queen Victoria
Mars
Sam
Americus
Fairy Cinderella Origins Unearthed as Egyptian Queen
A reader supplies a fanciful tale claiming Cinderella was Rhodope, an ancient Egyptian princess who ruled under King Psammethus around 670 BCE. A tiny sandal supposedly leads the search, the sneaker fit makes Rhodope queen of Memphis.
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Cinderella
Rhodope
Psammethus
Egypt
Memphis
Gessenser
London
Withstanding Cold and Frost Risk Factors
From Popular Science Monthly: healthy individuals endure extreme cold if mentally active and physically fit, with strong pulses. Even modest cold can harm or kill those who are anemic, poorly fed, or emotionally low. The aged, children, and weak-hearted are especially at risk of frost bite and fatal sleep in severe cold.
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Northpole
Sicdava
Popular Science Monthly
Patented method turns waste coal into usable gas fuel
A new patent proposal converts mine culm waste at the mouth of coal mines into a gas like natural gas. Culm is broken in a hopper, blasted, and milled through chambers to a fine dust that forms a dark cloud and is piped as fuel. The device claims no smoke but requires large scale use, notes Safety Vadee.
Microbes and the Sea Air in Epidemics and Plants
A survey of microbial theory by M F Alvarez and notes on pneumonia microbes. It covers air quality, color vision testing with Lerlin worsteds, sea air purifying coastal regions, and iron sulfate as an antidote to fungal plant diseases including potato blight and wheat mildew.
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M. F. Alvarez
French Academy of Sciences
Julius Cesar
Sturtevant
Geneva
New York
Paris
Griffiths
Profitable Mistakes and the Black Jacks Tale
An enterprising London undertaker in Jamaica misordered supplies sending twenty gross of black jacks instead of black and gray cloth and tacks. His friend profited by selling the jacks as decorative pots at 21 percent, then repeated the pranks with warming pans, selling them as sugar ladles to planters. Nothing is lost in a good market, a ready wit can make things fit.
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Jamaica
London
England
Strange Bequest of a House Turtle Replaced by Alligator
A grandmother’s land turtle named Dan lived forty years, roamed the house, answered to the name, and fed from the hand. After Dan’s death, an alligator became the household pet, thriving as a tender replacement. The account appears in American Grocer.
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Dan
Sunday in London a Sunday frolic drives crowds to suburbs
A Chicago Tribune letter complains that London is not quiet Sundays with many leaving the city for leisure. Attitudes note closed amusements and high prices at zoos while liquor saloons stay open after church, creating a drunkard crowd that pushes respectable people to the suburbs.
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London
Europe
Chicago Tribune
Zoological Gardens
Plume Trade Drags Florida Heron Rookeries Dry
An American ornithologist laments the destruction of Florida rookeries by plume hunters. He notes a wagon load of scapular plumes from the Ardee Wari and urges readers to hear the starving birds’ cries as adults are killed for fashion.
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Florida
Ans
New York Commercial
Life in the Paris Sewers and Dr Pierce Referrals
An assortment of health claims and anecdotes cites Dr. Pierce’s remedies and other tonics as cures for liver and systemic disorders. The prose mocks indulgent lifestyles and temperance zeal while recounting testimonials from diverse locations about relief from illness and the perils of vice.
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Paris
Pierce
Mary A. McClure
Columbus
Kans
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