Wholesale Divorce Sermon Sparks National Debate
Rev. Dr. Talmage at the New York Academy of Music argued that easy divorce is a national scourge, urging harsher, uniform laws across states. He linked lax marital norms to social decay, urged caution in marriage, and praised character and religious vows as the true basis for lasting unions.
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Talmage
New York Academy of Music
America
Froude
Cooper Institute
New York
Tremont Temple
Boston
Land
Congress of the United
Union Pacific
Ilinois Central
Delaware and Lackawanna
Grand Central Depot
Albany
Anthony Hope Father Sees Son's Literary Rise Through Church Minister
A Boston widow recalls Anthony Hope Hawkins and how the clergyman father of his friend reacted to the young author’s fame. The Rev Hawking, astonished by a plain son becoming a genius, reflects on his boy’s sudden worldwide recognition and the irony of taste.
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Anthony Hope
Boston
England
Anthony Hope Hawkins
Mr. Hawking
Anthony
Co operative Creamering Opposed to Income Tax
Indications show farmers and business men in towns will fight placing cooperative creameries on the income tax list. Revenue collectors push to enforce the law. In Des Moines a coal mine meeting dissolved in a row and no wage or rate schedule agreed, raising expectations of further strikes. Two thirds prefer a flat 80 cents per ton, others push a 75 cent to 1.50 per ton graduated scale for coal rates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John C. Kelley
Des Moines
A Strange Happenning In Moulton Deepening Water Well
Dr M J Sellers of Moulton had a 24 foot well on his lot not yielding enough water. He deepened it with a large auger, three feet down, when the bottom fell out and the auger was removed. Sand samples from the under current were examined and found unusual, but the mystery remains unsolved.
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M. J. Sellers
Moulton
Walter Strange
Woodbury County
26Th
Ilinois Infantry
Clinton
Jason D. Curtis
Des Moines
Wmn. Gardner
Latty
Burlington
Dana
Grand Junction
Ulingis Central
Blackhawk
Jackson
Towa
Iowa
Army of the Tennessee
Ohio
Mississippi
Pittsburg Landing
Tenn
Shiloh
John R. Prime
Joseph B. MacGarraugh
G. L. Godfrey
Hillis
C. H. Robinson
Nebraska
Wright County
Pinnean Stevens
William. Tort
Marshalltown
Sheriff Hazen
Council Bluffs
M. Brennan
Chicago
George Willard
George Henderson
Watson
Mike Evans
Bureau of Identification
Smith
Willard
Ness
Buffalo
Jall
O'Brien
Alva Williamson
Atlanta
Suprema Lodge of
Ancient Order of United Workmen of the
United States
Towa Grand Lodge
Wmutvolife Insurance Company
Spain
Stn
United States Mail Steamship Alliance
Colon
New York
Cuba
Cape Mays
Caribbean Sea
Cape
Maysi
Ell
Uhl
Alabama Claims
Wrenely
Cape Mars
Washington
Great Beitain
Record of the Week Sparks Thieves and Trials Across Iowa
A sweeping Iowa miscellany reports Sneak thieves proliferating in southeast Des Moines, Dubuque lampooning mudded water, and Creston salooners barred from free lunches. It notes Dubuque fires, a $275 bank haul recovered, and a vast estate claim in Germany to 25 million dollars.
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Des Moines
Waterloo
Adel
Creston
W. H. Metzinger
Keokuk
Germany
John Freyermuth
Muscatine
Singer Sewing Machine Company
Ministerial Association of
Council Bluffs
Lake Manawa
Dubuque
Husted
Nat
Fred Blazier
Cound Bluffs
John Wooten
Language Origins and Place Names From Old Texts
The passage discusses historic name origins for regions and peoples. It suggests Bormeo and native land terms, claims Abyssinia as land of the Abys sing, and notes Prussia once called Borussia. It mentions Corsica meaning wooded island and Costa Rica as a Spanish phrase for rich coast, and Nicaragua named in honor of a chief Nicgzo.
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Abyssinia
Prussia
Borussia
Corsica
Costa
Nicaragua
Nicgzo
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Rome
Gibbon
Indiana
Kentucky
Florida
Connecticut
Alta
Jasy
Congress of the United States
Byron
Absalom
Isaac
Rebecca
Abraham
Sarah
Adam
Bve
Murriage
Co-operative Creamering
Castellane-Gould
Col. FP
KL. Haines
St. L. E. & N. W. Railway
New York Elevated
Henry Chews
Lucy Bower
Dustern
Cedar Rapids
Cedar Rapids and Northern and the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy
Henderson
W.S. Raymond
Union Building and Savings Association
Richmond
Norman Foote
Electric Street Railway Company
Damague
W. Joseph Ye
Anchor Insurance Company
Bedford
Sullivan & Sullivan
Joveph
Robin Hag
William Sinter
Ernest Schach
Foley
McGaurland
Dora Phillips
B. EF. Blinn
Irina Kirebram
John Lirtz
Tim Andrews
Stephen Courtney
Jarvis
Roth
Tarding
Uncle Sam
Gresham
Altimca
Madrid
Harrison
Taylor
Blaine
Whallington
Key West
Allianca
Greshnin
Ihe
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