Progress Versus Poverty in an Evolving World
A jumble of 19th century items notes vast topics from U S Treasury conscience funds to immigration in Ireland, rubber gathering in the Amazon, and cannery investment near farms. It comments on Irish population decline, early Webster expenditures, French thrift and vice, and advocates trade schools for workers, ending with a Boston Transcript reflection on staples and banana imagination.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amazon Valley
New York Post
Webster
Fryeburg
The Present Hour and the Duty of Now
The verse urges living in the present without regret and waste. It calls to abandon past failures and pursue a diviner call, using time wisely to fulfill duties and develop human grace through bold, present action.
Making a Show A bachelor recounts a misadventure with a romance
In New York a young man narrates how his attempt to impress Miss Clorinda Swan led to a rain swept opera night, a costly carriage ride, a tense restaurant scene, a scuffle with a startled clerk, a police arrest, and a finally odd reconciliation as he remains a bachelor. The tale closes with a warning to beware of sailing under false colors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Clorinda Swan
Clorinda
Academy of Music
Carrige
Academy
Martha
Madame Pareja-Roca
Iack
Wasston
New York Weekly
Curious Scientific Snippets From An Early American Notebook
A collage of notes discusses Cherra Poongee's rainfall in Assam, dairy diets extending Bright's disease, Spanish brick dust as cement substitute, a deep Wheeling bore, and profitable winter tomato forcing near cities. It covers coal coloring yields, ice exports from Boston, novel San Diego fishing by lighted nets, and definitions of precious stones. It recounts irrigation schemes in Egypt, Philae island debates, Russian quicksand studies, and phosphorus production. A Meade Balche note hints electricity purifying water, and a personal reminiscence describes dogs catching crabs on a Chesapeake Bay farm with playful aggression.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Saya
Chesapeake Bay
Nevertheless the Lord is greater than all burdens
A devotional piece traces faith through trials with the repeated refrain "Nevertheless" and notes from Henry Hull and Paul. It links scriptural promises to personal courage, urging readers to rely on divine aid, seek humility, and stay the course along the path of covenant grace.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jehovah
Henry Hull
Paul
Crizer
Goshea
C. H. Spurzeon
All Leads Up to Christ in Faith Across Ages
Dr. Maclaren urges that scripture’s central aim remains Christ and the cross, with Old and New Testaments united to prepare the way for the Lord. Faith in God is the unfailing spring of youth, steadying age amid change and keeping hope amid life’s transforming seas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maclaren
God
Jeaus Christ
Jesus
Sinai
Zion
Christ
Abraham
Paul
Faith
Toind
Ita Steff
Torrow
Rev
F. W. Gunaan
Temperance and Home Moral Study in Society
The piece argues the home as a moral lever for society and urges study of its constitution and influence. It contrasts private virtue with social reform, warning about women’s current focus on self-improvement and championing the scientific study of the family within ethics and education. It then notes crime linked to drink and recounts a fatal house fire caused by drinking, urging caution for youth about alcohol’s harm. It emphasizes personal responsibility and the home as the core of reform.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ulm
Powers
Biinz
Temperance Notes and Global Drinking Trends
A compilation notes a long history of drinking fountains in London and global liquor data. It cites Hranes vineyards profits, Indiana Odd Fellows liquor stance, French suicide figures, and broader intoxication statistics. It mentions a road to hell sign by a liquor dealer, youth risks from cigars, and Victorian irrigation progress. No public houses licensed after prosperity. district police testify to drunken arrests.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Temperance News
London
Hranes
Indiana Grant Loigs of Oldfellows
Order of Oddfellows
France
Fron
Daata
Owa
Hell
Orariy
San
German Syrup Endorsed by Minnesota Reader
J F Arnold of Montevideo Minnesota praises German Syrup for lung cold relief saying he has never found an equal. GG Green of Sele Man'fr Woodbury Minnesota agrees with the endorsement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. F. Arnold
Montevideo
Minn
GG Green
Sele Man
Woodbury
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Jarze
Builder
Piccadilly
Humboldt
D. J. Findlay
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Forbes
L Mois State University
Europe
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Cherra Poongee
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Wheeling
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Frederick Tudor
Boston
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Cal
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Philae
Africa
trans-Caspian
American Philosophical Society
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Mr. Balche
Mary Sanders
Lord Bacon
Bacon
Temperance
Thompson
Sacred Hert Review
Brooklyn
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Goa
Utah
Lydia F. Pinkham
Henry Johnson
Chicago
Lydia E. Pinkham
Charlotte
Michigan
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Wiss
S. C
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Eunze Boerwick
Penton Aia
East Cony
Kucre
Jeane Thomson
Hood
Fall River
PRUS
S.S.S
Blood
J. C. Davis
St. James Episcopal Church
Eufaula
Ala
Bo- An Episcopalschee
Sapolio
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