Ambitious Collegiates and Distant Views on Life
A miscellany of items critiques college athletics bans and slow games, laments languishing student sports, and mocks poetry, with commentary on a Connecticut suit over damaged dresses, a New York police incident, and remarks on electricity duties. It notes 1894 potato imports from Germany, a Potsdam onion game, Kipling family mentions, and a London math box conceit about world population.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kiplings
Kipiing
Bondon
The Palmage Sermon Have Ye Received the Holy Ghost
A veteran preacher extols the Holy Ghost as a divine, omnipotent force. He invokes biblical scenes from Genesis to Pentecost, recounts personal calls to regeneration, and cites Finney and other conversions to urge believers to seek the Holy Ghost’s power for spiritual renewal and salvation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Acts xii
Srotch
Jerusalem
Peter
John Easton
Holy
Holy Ghost
God the Father
God the Son
God
Jesus Christ
Whitefield
Hedley
Hedley Vicars
Vicars
Rheumatic Cure Ad Promises Relief Across States
An advertisement touts Schragel’s Rheumatic Cure with Michigan references and endorsements. It claims cures where others fail, praise from Mrs. John A. Logan, and charges $1.50 per bottle. The Swanson Rheumatic Cure Co. offers free investigation at 167 Dearborn Street, Chicago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Michigan
Schragel
George H. Higgs
Washington Ave
Lansing
T. A. Auberlin
Catherine Street
Detroit
F. F. W. Hoggner
Gratiot Avenue
W. R. Cutter
Sonia
D. E. Pratt & Co
Saginaw
J. H. Passage
Greenville
Henry Kremers
M. D
Holland
John A. Logan
Union General
Swanson Rheumatic Cure Co
Dearborn Street
Chicago
Various 19th Century Local Notes and Oddities
A collage of brief items: English steel pens since 1803, Trilby name for a Louisiana hamlet, a plea for spare change to a chestnut man, Deadwood’s naming from burned timber, a Portland flower dealer shipping to St Augustine, Paris arts journal doubts Napoleon portrait, a tiny eighty page French book about Penault Little Hop o My Thumb, a Swanville coal stove boast after 42 years, Neptune and Mercury planetary temps, Taunton barber peddling a rural shaving tour, Woo Jan the Ashland penniless donor, a Danube bridge at Munderkingen, Portland cement production, Sante Fe’s vast fire policy, and a noted Te taw Payland premium.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
England
Louisiana
Trilby
Deadwood
Dakota
Portland
Maine
St. Augustine
Florida
Gazette Des Beaux Arts
Paris
Napoleon
Penault
Swanville
Neptune
Taunton
Mass
Barber
Woo Jan
Ashland
Danube
Munderkingen
Austria
Existance
Sante Fe Railway
Tewaa Payland
Also Mentioned on This Page
Connecticut
New York
Germany
United States
Atlanta
Oliver Cromwell
Cromwell
Cuba
Nebraska
Ajax
Canada
Dominion
Ottawa
Niagara Falls
God of Lightning
Potsdam
Novoe Vremya
St. Petersburg
Allts
Philadelphia
Dead Sea
Damascus
Palestine
Christ
Paul
Joshua
Elijah
Solomon
Earl of Chatham
Cereil
Inkermann
Nicodemus
Disciples of Christ
Ostia
Gunrise
Vermont
Jaynes’ Hall
Fulton Street
Albany
Charles G. Finney
Philippian
Saul
Tarsus
Lydia
Thyatira
John Bunyan
John Newton
de Witt Talmage
Blanenburgh
N. J
Grace
Schrage
Matism
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