Daniel and the Lions Den Sermon for Young Men
Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage delivers a Brooklyn tabernacle sermon to youths on self denial as the path to lasting success. He frames Daniel’s faith under pressure, warns against jealousy, urges decisive career choice, and recounts the dangers of leaving home, urging persistence in faith and character amid temptations.
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T. DeWitt Talmage
Brooklyn Tabernacle
Daniel
Darius
Frelinghuysen
Bismarck
Babylon
Dan
Ife
Ile
King
Taxgather
Xldlord
Jerusalem
New York Harbor
Liverpool
New Orleans
Marseilles
Gold
Tonquin
Paul
Stephen
Samson
Gaza
Vanderlyn
Franklin
Columbus
David
Israel
Amos
Daniel Wmnnet
Wall Street
Frederick
Stock Exchange
Joseph
Pharaoh
Jacob
The Lone Fisherman Rights and Democratic Oppression
A political analysis condemns the Democratic Party for ballot suppression and racial manipulation, arguing Republicans must gain and maintain federal power to counter Democratic corruption in the South. It cites Hill and Tammany, predicts losses for Democrats in Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Mississippi, and notes a movement toward Southern Democratic secession from the party.
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United States
Democratic Party
North
South Carolina
Congress
Congressionali
New York
South
Union
House of Representatives
Hill
Tammany
Maynard
Democrats
Louisiana
Vermont
Chicago
Inter Ocean
McKinley
Harrison
Brooklyn Standard Union
St. Louis
Republican Party
Detroit News
National League of Republican Clubs
Clarkson
League
Toledo Blade
People’s Party
Georgia
North Carolina
Mississippi
Minneapolis Journal
Ben Preston Builds a Brighter Morning Through Cold Work
A cold village morning tests Ben Preston who, lacking coat and with bare hands, shovels sidewalks and seeks odd jobs. He earns a dollar and a quarter by noon, buys food for his mother, and returns home to a proud, hopeful reunion. The tale, from Our Dumb Animals, celebrates a boy with a future.
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Ben Preston
Ben
Bean
Len
Dr. Hatchin
Sonny
Balzer
Gracery
Democratic Outrages and Republican Call for Federal Authority
A New York newspaper criticizes Democratic election frauds across the South and urges Republicans to seize federal power. It cites Florida party platform points on suffrage and condemns Democratic control as corrupt, calling for a strong, pure Republican federal stance to curb abuses.
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North
South
Florida
House of Representatives
Rockwell
Hill
Republican Party
N. Y
Henry Watterson, Kentucky, Opposes Cleveland Nomination
The newspaper notes Henry Watterson of Kentucky criticizes the idea of nominating Grover Cleveland, calling it a party death by own action. The piece comments on intra party voices and the implications for the Democratic Party.
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Mis
Democratic Party
Henry Watterson
Kentucky
Cleveland
Ideal Man: A Boy's Vision of Virtue and Duty
A poem praising a boy of sunshine and steadfast virtue. It urges integrity, self discipline, kindness, courage, and service to others, envisioning an ideal character who resists temptation, helps the needy, and acts with honesty. Penned by Jennie H. Reed in Ohio Farmer, it frames the ideal man as a lifelong standard to strive for.
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Rolt
Camly
Jennie H. Reed
Ohio
What Happened to Miss Rogers Dog and Eben the Barber
A small reader’s vignette describes Eben Spratt, a colored boy whose father owns a shaving shop with a colorful large painted stick outside. Eben visits the narrator to play, helps with haircuts, and is deemed a good boy, with the narrator hoping to grow up enough to have Eben cut his whiskers.
Shaving shop or barber shop mischief tale
Isabel L. Goodhue recounts a childhood play scene where two children pretend a shaving shop becomes a barber shop despite a quarrel. They involve a dog with long bangs, trim its hair, and face a moral moment with Miss Rogers and their parents, ending with a plan to apologize and confirm the shop’s name.
A Diet of Tongues and Other Reader Tales
A collage of children’s stories from Harpers Young People and Our Little Ones recounts a fable about Xanthus and his tongue obsessed servant: a twist where words reveal both virtue and vice. The piece also brushes with life in a city street scene and a brief joke about English aristocracy and debt.
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Nanthus
Xanthus
Hob
Grandfather
Hsop
I1arper
Mamma
Ted
Poll
Sonely
Maturina
M. W. Bell Blake
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Chicago Journal
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Biggver
Ann
Ebon
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Fred
Papa
Eban
Isabel L. Goodhue
Comepanion
Flossie
Bob
Mar
Ted and
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England
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