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Newspaper
Indiana Democrat
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 25, 1908
Page
7
A headline notes a brilliant Sunday sermon delivered by Reverend Robert Collyer. The record highlights the oratory, spiritual themes, and potential impact on parishioners, reflecting the local church scene and religious leadership.
The venerable Dr. Robert Colyer preached on Looking Toward Sunset to a large congregation at Brooklyn's First Unitarian. He spoke of life, death, and immortality, urging acceptance of aging, loyalty to one's self, and faith in a future life while clinging to shared human experiences and memories.
The piece extols a soul in constant communion with God through prayer. It cites Thomas Adam claiming happiness lies in seeking and finding God, noting the praying person as blessed, content, and capable of receiving divine blessings.
The text urges that personal outreach must be permeated with love and sympathy. It emphasizes that mere invitations without genuine compassion fail to be effective and that preparation by prayer is essential before attempting to reach others. Being in communion with God aids in connecting with fellow people.
Poetic excerpt urging inner discipline and focus on the living God. A devotional invitation to enter a yielded inner temple, shutting out earthly cares and passions while listening for divine presence. Attributed to Edgar K Sellew.
A collection of quotes from Lady's Realm the Indianapolis News and the New York Press discussing motherhood teaching and the charm and flaws in a depicted scene. It highlights a view of women as aspirational yet pragmatic and a bachelor girl’s humorous critique of a painted kiss.
Women students earn money by caring for faculty babies at UW. They describe the work as not too much trouble, allowing some studying between watching amused children. The piece notes broader women’s athletics via the male trainer and mentions few rivals in rowing.
Mrs. Winifred Witt Linn County's oldest resident at ninety eight uses a stout club to dispatch a deer fleeing a baying pack. She hid behind a tree on a Grand River ford and struck at the antler base as the animal neared, the hounds quickly subduing the prey.
A breezy New York Press excerpt recalls Lydia Languish as a symbol of the debutante era revived today. It notes fashion shifts yet preserves the character’s core charm, with men still drawn to the languid Lydia even as athletic trends grow.
A well known illustrator’s latest picture decorates the bachelor girl’s wall. It shows an athletic young man engaging a fluffy-ruffled young lady and pressing a kiss on her upturned lips. Friends admire it while men call it lifelike and the ladies gush.
Grace Margaret Gould, back from Paris, notes striped fabrics remain chic for gowns. She advises a practical choice with short waist lines and a high Empire girdle to achieve current silhouettes. Skirts stay long and tight, with velvet bottoms, and veiled effects appear in many ensembles.
A Scrigner's Magazine note describes Volendam and Marken women's dress, detailing white lace caps, flat narrow chests, dark waistlines with bright banded overskirts, coral bead collars, and many petticoats. It contrasts Sunday and Monday headwear, and notes younger girls wear smaller, livelier versions of their mothers' attire.
A collage of early 20th century items notes women adopting grandmothers looks in 1908, rumors of a socialist Duchess, suffragette kite flights over Parliament, and opinions from Mrs. Hetty Grean. It also mentions Kilbourne of Winsted claiming to be first to work a sewing machine, Wetherbee’s daughter’s marriage in Paris, and a pledge by federation women against bird plumage. Other items include Elizabeth Custer’s memorial project, UC’s clash over women in the student association, Co education in Chihuahua, and a blind woman regaining sight in Wiesbaden. Roosevelt praised for life-saving service support, and ongoing search for the Gallen Gate treasure off Manzanillo.
The text notes that many causes have been named for the fall of ancient empires like Greece and Rome. Among the latest, observed by a Christian scholar Regiater, is that blonde people cannot survive long in the bright light and heat of southern climates.
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