Domestic service honored as noble vocation in sermon
Chicago crowds hear Dr. Talmage praise domestic work as honorable, financially rewarding, and spiritually elevating for women. He argues long the kitchen and nursery offer stability, moral purity, and social influence, contrasting virtuous servants with unhappy wage labor in factories and urging women to embrace homemaking as a divine calling.
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Chicago
Joshua
Moses
Elisha
Elijah
Eliever
Abraham
Samuel
Eli
Tate
United States Army
Ket
Min
Bel
Watt
Thitchen
America
Santa
Malaby
Hiad
Mr. Light
German railroads push abstinence rule for workers
The general director of the German railroads urges presidents of railroad companies to dismiss all employees who do not abstain from intoxicants. An accident near Berlin killed five people, caused by a drunken switchman’s carelessness.
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Berlin
Druken
Vatican's vast precincts rule pope's sovereign domain
A lengthy overview of the Vatican grounds tracing its origins from Leo IV to modern times, detailing its acres, layout, and the papal residence. The article notes the Vatican’s independence from Italian civil authority, the scale of its 11,000 rooms across twenty courts and seventeen chapels, and mentions key structures like the Sistine Chapel and Paul V Pavilion. It also touches on papal finances, attendance, and life within the papal enclave, including social and historical anecdotes.
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Papal See
New Aly
Eplend
Pius IX
Italy
Vatican
Leo IV
Vatican Hill
Rome
Lateran
Gregory XI
Avignon
Nicholas V
Bracco Nuovo
Pius VI
Chitech
Sixtus TV
Michael Angelo
St. Paul
St. Peter
Delvere
Innocent VIII
Julius
Scala
Ony
Tenly
Ion
Beliefs in Superstitions Expressed by Lord Wolsely
The speaker discusses belief in superstitions and spiritual connections, mentioning ghosts, amulets, and warnings like not walking under ladders. He recalls vivid dreams about Abraham Lincoln and describes a personal stance against adopting superstitions while reflecting on historic images and pasts.
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Wolsely
Dublin
Ireland
Avraham Lincoln
Ivory trade drives surge in American piano keys demand
The consumption of ivory for American made pianos grows rapidly as buyers purchase on American accounts. Prices rise sharply and much of the ivory is reshaped into piano keys. Excess waste ivory from American shipments is sent to Europe where Sheffield and Solingen cutlers use it for penknife scales.
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Jury
Curious theory on height growth from throat gland proposed
A Paris Academy theory suggests the throat gland under the larynx controls human stature. Artificial stimulation of this gland is claimed to make a child grow to maximum height, according to the fragmented report.
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Paris Academy of le Fees
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