Great King Nebuchadnezzar’s fall and a sermon on conviction
Rev. T DeWitt Talmage preaches at Brooklyn tabernacle on Daniel four tracing Nebuchadnezzar’s rise and seven years of madness. The sermon warns conviction is not conversion, urges signs of genuine faith, and contrasts pride with humility while urging readers to embrace Christian faith and its transformative power.
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T. DeWitt Talmage
Brooklyn Tabernacle
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Col. Rawlinson
Babylon
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Agricultural Hints on a Small Hen House for Home Use
This plain, practical hen house sits near the house on a hillside with natural drainage and fresh air. It is roomy and well ventilated, suitable for a few dozen hens and built to blend with rolling ground. The main floor features nesting spaces totaling around three dozen.
Plan of Poultry House Features for Comfort and Vermin Control
J. W. Caughey notes in Ohio Farmer that poultry buildings should have design elements like a door stairs nests windows openings into the yard and that inside boards be lined with felt paper to block cold winds and vermin. He warns rats mice and other vermin disrupt hen life and suggests proper housing sharply reduces their numbers.
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J. W. Caughey
Ohio
Better Than Husking Experience of a Corn Thresher
Dr. Galen Wilson reports from Tompkins County New York that threshing corn with a machine saves about seventy five percent of labor versus hand husking. Eight men can thresh ten acres in ten days and the method uses fodder stored in barns or stacked outside with minimal handling.
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Tompkins County
N. Y
Galen Wilson
New York Tribune
Thomas A. Edison
Andrew Carnegie
Charles Pratt
Judge Daniels
Supreme Court of New York
William RK
Grace
New York
George Jones
New York Times
Devil
Horace Greeley
Jay Gould
John R. Paxton
Philip Armour
Chicago
John Kelly
John D. Rockefeller
Robert Collyer
John Mackay
Comstock Lode
Jesse Seligman
United States
Hill
Henry W. Grady
South
Calhoun
Foster Coates
Ladies’ Home Journal
Facts for Farmers on Pruning Cattle and Seed Potatoes
The article advises pruning apple trees in winter with proper cuts, removing dead wood, and avoiding heavy limbs. It notes cows drink sun-warmed water and warns against ice in troughs. It explains horn wrinkles show age, and improper breeding slows improvement. It stresses seed potato disease risk and buying new seed, plus farmer reading goals.
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Pettit
Grow Strawberries For Joy Of Family And Neighbors
Practical Farmer extols planting strawberries to share with family and friends. He recalls rich visitors enjoying berries, urges setting out multiple square rods per person, selecting fertile land, applying manure, and watching berries ripen for communal happiness and yield.
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Chicago
Ane
Water in Butter: a Century-Old Debate on Composition and Salt
Dr. G C Caldwell explains in the N Y Tribune that butter contains 12 to 18 percent water not as a chemical part but as mechanically mixed water. He argues water is not essential to butter fat quality though it can affect saltiness. The note recalls American students in Germany enjoying fresh unsalted butter.
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Germany
G. C. Caldwell
N. Y
Grindstone frame provides wobble free operation
A simple two post frame raises and anchors a grindstone to prevent wobble. The design places posts three feet deep with level bushings atop, bracing top and bottom, and a possible third post with a water drip bracket. Also notes manure values from Cornell experiments and pig growth timing.
These are the boys that are wanted today
Poem excerpt praising boys who are willing faithful and kind. Calls for youths who work earnestly in duty, kindness, chastity and courage. Quoted from Philip B Strong in Golden Days.
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Avor
Philip B. Strong
May Showed Genius Behind Locked Doors That Shaped Rembrandt
A tale from Elizabeth P. Allen recounts Greta and Paul Gerrett, siblings near Leyden. Paul longs to study painting under Master van Swaneburg, faces paternal opposition, but Greta and Louise support his dream. A portrait of their mother influences Jacques Gerrett, who finally grants Paul's artistic pursuit, leading to Rembrandt’s rise.
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Leydendorp
Mme
Teressa Herman
Greta
Gerrett
Madam Gerretz
Jacques Gerretz
Paul Gerrett
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Mme. Herman
Teressa
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Jacques van Swaneburg
Madam ‘Teressa
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Elizabeth P. Allen
BE BIG POTATOES The Good Advice Given the Chicago School Children
A visiting retired farmer speaks to Chicago public school children about social dynamics. He compares people to a load of potatoes, noting that the big ones rise to the top while the smaller ones end up at the bottom during the market journey.
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Chicago
Chicago Public
The Potato Image Advice For Students
The piece urges students to study hard and excel in lessons to become a "big potato" in life. It contrasts well educated graduates who gain status and pay with those who neglect studies becoming unwanted "little potatoes." It emphasizes effort, perseverance, and the rewards of success.
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Nople
Nion
Their Start Place and Curious Child Tales
A column celebrates self made success from Edison to Rockefeller and notes humble beginnings. It links crafts and trades to later influence, then shifts to world cradle customs of Indian and Lapland children, ending with a light moral about questions and adults.
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Lapland
It Wasn't Lighted Moon Seen At Daytime
A mother points out the moon to her boy in daylight. The child admits the moon is visible but says it isn’t lit, remarking in Babyhood that it is “tain’t lighted anyhow.”
English Muffins Cooked the English Way
A reader favors serving muffins as in England with half inch cut, slow toasting, heating through, buttered and opened to butter before serving hot. The piece cites hotel mispreparation and urges proper method per English practice. Also notes Americans struggle with Mexico's metric system causing confusion for travelers and advises learning metric measures before visiting.
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Tribune
Mexico
Chicago Mail
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