No Short Cut to the Promised Land and Wise Living
The talk warns against quick routes to success, using the Exodus as a lesson. It contrasts rapid shortcuts with patient training, discipline, and faith, urging steadfastness, cooperative service, and integrity. It cites Liberty Tubes, wartime gunner training, Burke, Jesus, and biblical hardship to argue that true achievement comes through preparation, character, and devotion to God.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Israel
Egypt
Canaan
Land of
Mt. Sinai
Beersheba
Kadesh-Barnea
Hebron
Indiana
Pittsburgh
God
Warrington Avenue
Banksville Road
Rocky Hill
Monongahela River
South Hilla
Florida
United States Post Office
George Bernard Shaw
Jesus
Mongolia
Edmund Burke
Richard
Ned
Migthy
Jesus Christ
Riae
Joshua
Caleb
Nigeria's vast lands and people in vivid detail
A National Geographic bulletin surveys Nigeria's size, climate, and diversity. It notes towering umbrellas for Oba Akenzun I, immense rainfall yielding 200-foot trees and oversized yams, the Niger River, and a population near 20 million with numerous tribes. Lagos port, palm oil trade, and Kano's mud-walled streets illustrate commerce and daily life amid tropical conditions.
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Washington
England
Akenzun I
Oba
Benin
Nigeria
National Geographic Society
Niger
Africa
India
Finch
Sokoto
Bornu
Lagos
Niger Delta
Thos
Europe
Kano
Local Social Notes From Blacklick and Nearby Areas
Blacklick residents Ann Stewart and her father Alex i Stewart, employed in Pittsburgh, spent Sunday at home. Mrs. Louis Hammond of Bolivar visited sister Mrs. Annie Bell for several days. Marguerite Dick, a State Teachers College attendee in Indiana, spent the weekend with her parents Mr. and Mrs. Alex Dick. Mrs. C O Smith shopped in Indiana Saturday. E F Schuman and Miss Emily Stoneback called in Indiana Friday evening. Mrs. J R Geary shopped in Alghville Friday. W A Ward and family visited Pittsburgh Sunday to see Ward's mother, Mrs. Florence Ward, in Allegheny General Hospital. Mrs. J J Palmey and Mary Widdowson shopped in Pittsburgh Friday. Sara Porter entertained her Sunday school class at home Saturday afternoon.
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Marguerite Dick
State Teachers College
Indiana
Alex Dick
C. O. Smith
E. F. Schuman
Emily Stoneback
J. R. Geary
Alghaville
W. A. Ward
John
Billy
Kenneth Smith
Pittsburgh
Ward
City Father Dr Moorer’s Four Terms Highlight Roseburg Leader
The Roseburg physician Dr F V Moorer is celebrated as a core city father, having served as mayor four times. Beyond politics, his eight years in practice saw him deliver nearly half of Roseburg’s population, marking a lasting civic impact.
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Gethsemane
Trig
Roseburg
Ore
F. V. Moorer
Hen Lays Fresh Eggs in View of Patrons
In Lindale Georgia a Rhode Island Red hen named Biddle lays an egg inside the Brain tet's store as customers are served. Grocer GW Branlett boasts of the world’s freshest egg and the hen completes her display by clucking nearby before leaving the crate area.
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Lindale
Biddle
Rhode Island
Branlett
Dally
Braintet
Bera
Local social notes reveal visits and neighbors in Washington TWP
Mrs. Mary Johnston and Mable Stuchell visited the James Stuchell home while Irene Peterman called on Mrs. J E Park. Many relatives and friends from Willet to Vandergrift and Punxsutawney saw calls and visits across the week. A stork’s arrival at the Robert Prugh home and other social notes appear alongside community commerce and a wedding serenade at the John Orr home. The Progress and Pittsburgh Post Gazette subscription details and health notes on beet consumption and whooping cough close the item.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington Twp
Mary Johnston
Mable Stuchell
James Stuchell
Luther Peterman
Irene
J. E. Park
Stork
Robert Prugh
Glenn Orr
Reid Blystone
Matthew Orr
Maurice
Glenn Jewart
Ethel Harman
Willard Frick
Atwood Telephone Co
J. B. Park
Bert Fairman
Frank Downey
Carl Downey
D. B. Carnahan
George Cribbs
Glenn, Jewart
Bert Kessler
Morrow Anderson
Near Creekside
Bert Orr
Indiana
John Orr
Bernard Orr
Walter Harman
George Harman
Carl Miller
Raymond
Elizabeth
Vandergrift
Fred Jewart
Grace
Willat
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John J. McIlvaine
The
First United Presbyterian Church of Indiana
Penna
Ella T. Ool
Phila. St
the Doctor
Bell Telephone Company OF
Pennstlvania
Blacklick Ann Stewart
Alexi Stewart
Louis Hammond
Bolivar
Annie Bell
the Savings
Trustco
Indiana, Pennsylvania
Frank Lobr
Clyde Miller
Willet
Clymer
James Stuchel
Josiah Fisher
Alexander Bailey
Frank Clowes
Creekside
Cribbs
Karl Blystone
Betty Ann
Punxsulawney
J. EB
Mlystone
John Kough
George
Martha
Betty
Mt. Union
Mae
M. J. Boyer
Olive Wilhelm
Near St. Paul
Ter
Kenneth Marshall
Near Atwood
the Progress and
Pittsburgh Post-- Gazette
R. D
Utea
Geo. D.leydic
Parnell, Cowher & Co
Citizens Bank Building
Indiana Progress
Indiana Progress Indiana, Penna
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