Emphatic Sermon on Religion’s Power to Elevate Souls
In Brooklyn the Rev Dr Talmage preaches on Psalms 83:13 urging that faith lifts believers from the “pots” of sin to the dove like wings of silver and gold. He contrasts worldly success with Christian peace, warns that sin’s looseness ends in ruin, and praises steadfast devotion to Christ as the true adornment and hope for eternal life.
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David
Miss Whately
Egypt
Christ
Jesus
Newton Isaac New
Heaven
God
Nelson
Westminster Abbey
Asham
Prince Imperial
Earth
Hell
Napoleon
Russia
Voltaire
Paul
Town crier still active in Columbia C
Historic note recalls Columbia Ohio as the only U S town still using a town crier. It mentions a bell signaling system for ships with sound transmission differences, rising platinum prices, Spanish warship officers resigning over an engineer’s dining, Britain’s wheat area decline and oats rise, Manchester libraries expansion, Gig Harbor piling treatment, and a reconstruction era convict leasing anecdote with a father leasing his son.
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Columbia
8. C
United States
Great Britain
Manchester
England
Gig Harbor
Puget Sound
Alabama
South
Gems of Thought
A collection of aphorisms on truth, trust, self respect, and morality. It muses that life aims for truth, that self restraint shapes behavior, and that malicious anger unsettles the mind. The text cautions against procrastination and neglecting duties, warning of desolation.
Varied items span prune acreage to New Jersey law origins
Notes on a 3 300 acre prune or chard in California and Croton aqueducts in New York bind with curiosities on a five foot wide New York City mansion, Bellevue Hospital stats, Catharine de Medici’s record train, and Virginia’s drained Dismal Swamp. Also recounts a hawk attack in Oviedo, a centenarian maple sap bucket maker, St Pauls work since 1710, Rocky Mountain timber levels, high altitude pines on Mount McClelland, and the discovery of Philip Carteret’s colonial foundation in Elizabeth New Jersey as a future monument is planned.
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California
New York
Croton Aqueduct
New York City
Bellevue Hospital
Catharine de Medici
Virginia
Oviedo
Florida
C. E. Brown
Ober Thornton
Arcade
N. Y
Thornton
St. Paul's Cathedral
London
Sir Christopher Wren
Rocky Mountains
Mount McClelland
Colorado
Philip Carteret
New Jersey
Elizabeth
Meyer
Compensations And Wage Trends In Early 20th Century England
The archbishop of Canterbury earns about 90000 dollars yearly while top English school headmasters pull 25000 to 35000 dollars. Sir Charles Russell, a renowned barrister, is estimated to earn 75000 to 100000 dollars annually. About 4000 men lose wages due to reductions for bottle blowers previously making 4.50 to 15 dollars per day. A 200-acre Georgia peach orchard yielded 125000 dollars profit in five years despite a bad season. A Long Island, New Jersey woman profits from violet cultivation sold to a New York firm. Transport costs to Eastern markets run 160 dollars per car. California shipments cost 320 dollars per car per nine days. The article notes workers returning from improvements and longer days, amid Providence references and local strikes for ten-hour days.
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Archbishop of
Canterbury
England
Sir Charles Russell
Georgia
Long Island
N. J
New York
California
Providence
R. L
A Cry for Thoip In the Stillness of the Night
A vintage patent medicine notice extols Hobte tter's Stomach Bitters as a prompt self help for the maleficent rheumatic dispeptic bilious and impending kidney complaints. It claims universal physician approval and promises to restore vigor to nervous thin debilitated invalids and the aged through a course of the remedy.
Mamma fretted over art museum visit
Freddy describes a scene at the museum with many women wearing birthday attire, a lively gathering focused on fashion and celebration.
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Mamma
Museum of Art
Aks
Freddy
Birtday
Potatoes Record Yield Reported in Wisconsin
A Rural New Yorker summary notes a remarkable potato yield with figures like 1410 bushels per acre. It cites Abr Hahn of Wisconsin and references higher-than-average results from some spuds, illustrating the era’s farming enthusiasm and record claims.
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Abr. Hahn
Wisconsin
New Yorker
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Wiodorus
Zeuxis
Mazarin
Washington
McIntosh
Hannah More
Louis Philippe
Tuileries
National Guard
House of
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