Religion and business united in a sermon on integrity
The speaker argues that religion accelerates industry and demands honest trade. He warns that temptation tests character, cites a Maine treasurer scandal, lauds traders as martyrs of commerce, and urges reliance on God to sustain integrity through hardship and loss.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louis Klopsch
Prince Imperial
France
Jesus Christ
State of
Maine
Hell
Liverpool
Bank of England
Algiers
John Dean
Carlisle
Plato
Aristotle
You
Alps
Himalaya
Piedmont Valley
Scotch Highlands
Oxford
Wall Street
State Street
Fulton Street
Broadway
Atlantic Street
Chestnut Street
Goa
Boards of Trade
Churches of Christ
Preventing Electrolysis in Water Pipes With Wood Plugs
The Engineering News suggests using pine plugs to seal joints in water mains as a safeguard against electric currents from trolley lines. Historical trials in St. John New Brunswick showed successful closure of joints. wooden insulation could block current entry and prevent electrolysis and corrosion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Engineering News
St. John
N. B
Fisherman's Paradise on Lapland Expedition
A two-rod fishing party plus followers spent eleven days in Lapland securing 282 salmon and 115 grilse weighing nearly 5000 pounds. The best day yielded 33 salmon and 22 grilse totaling 533 pounds despite a frozen river and initial thaw flooding the waters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lapland
London Globe
Fraudster named Hope targets unemployed with fake job offers
A Chicago man calling himself Hope lured unemployed poor people by promising $1 to $10 shares or positions later, then absconded with both Hope and money. Authorities report the scam as a classic pretense to extract small sums and delay action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Hope
Marketing of Ducks Awakens Maryland Profits Along Chesapeake Inlets
Maryland officials report a duck farming boom along Chesapeake Bay inlets with incentives to invest 5000 to 6000 dollars. Suffolk County farms in New York ship 230 240 thousand ducks yearly to market, with prices around 20 cents a pound on average. Ducks mature to eight to ten weeks weighing four and a half to five pounds, with labor costs and feed totaling a tenth of a dollar per pound.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. D. Wade
State Bureau of Industrial Statistics
Chesapeake Bay
Long Island Sound
New York
Long Island
Suffolk County
Soldiers Interrupt Carmen at Moscow Opera House
The incident in Moscow involves the Court Opera House where private soldiers recruited by the garrison commander interrupted Carmen in Act II. The general, seated in the front row, caused confusion and halted the scene until he signaled to proceed. The soldiers then rejoined the performance, but the production suffered slight disruption.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Russia
Court Opera House
Moscow
Don Jose
Carmen Sylva Recounts Serendipitous Meeting with Prince Charles
The queen of Roumania known as Carmen Sylva recalls meeting her future husband Prince Charles of Hohenzollern in a casual moment as she was running down stairs. The anecdote is cited by Rev. Dr. Moreland noting no spiritualist claims are supported by Holy Scriptures.
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Carmen Sylva
Roumania
Prince Charles of
Moreland
Origin of the term caddie explained by Frank Boyd
Frank Boyd offers an ingenious tale from Monifieth history for the origin of caddie. He cites Culdee monks and the Keledes carrying clubs, then notes local speech shortening the word to caydee and cad die. Modern authorities differ, with Jamieson and Murray linking to cadet but giving no definitive answer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Boyd
Monifieth
Arbroath
Mr. Boyd
Balgray
Balgrie
Murray
Rings Through the Ages Reflect Timeless Signet Traditions
The piece traces rings from biblical times through ancient civilizations, noting signet use in Egypt Genesis and Exodus, Babylonian and Roman examples, Solomon's legendary talisman, and the enduring idea of rings as symbols of authority and eternity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moses
Israel
Egypt
Herodotus
Asia
Greece
Solomon
Dangerous Desert Quicksands Called Sumideros
Curious but deadly desert pits in Arizona are named Sumideros. They appear as flat crusted patches disguising deadly quicksand that swallows men and animals with no warning. These pits vary from small pockets to fifteen twenty feet across and have depths unseen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arizona
Goslington Reconsiders The Vast Illimitable
In the New York Sun, Mr. Goslington reflects on a shift from viewing life as a fleeting, tiny event to embracing the idea that every moment of human life is part of the illimitable and grandest of things, beyond the reach of ordinary understanding.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Goslington
New York Sun
Mr. Goslington
Neighborly Charity Joke in Chicago Columns
In a light Chicago exchange Mrs Dix explains her quarrels with husband are kept from the children by sending them outside to wait. Mrs Hix admits she now understands why the kids are seen on the street so often.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago News
New Airdrie Whipping Machine Prompts School Debate
London Star reports on a new whipping apparatus at Airdrie sc hool that subjects boys to leather strapped lashes with a birch rod. Onlookers and a mother express mixed views as youngsters receive first honors and four stripes amid discomfort and criticism of the machinery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Scotth
Airdrie
London Star
Tollerosa
Carmyle
Allen
Scotch Board
Surprising rises in Great Lakes fisheries reported
The 1900 census hints at large gains in fisheries across Lakes Superior Michigan Huron Erie and Ontario with fishermen numbers capital invested and catches all rising since 1880. Ontario shows a loss and western shift reduces Saxony influence as telegraph speed advances and Buddhist famine fears emerge in Ceylon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Great Lakes
Superior
Michigan
Huron
Erie
Ontario
Lake Ontario
Buffalo
Saxentario
Man with Two Hearts King of New Bedford Lived 80 Years
A colored man named William King of New Bedford Massachusetts is described as having two hearts one on each side of the chest with distinct beats. Dr Munroe B Long Muhlenberg Hospital notes the hearts move with muscular action and a missing diaphragm as per a letter from Prof Samuel Gross. King has lived over eight decades despite the condition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William
King
New Bedford
Mass
Munroe B. Long
Muhlenberg Hospital
Iliac
Samuel Gross
Pennsylvania University
Lord Rosebery at Eton
Lord Rosebery, at Eton, was noted for neatness and propriety, walking erect with a constant smile. He read history and enjoyed newspapers and parliamentary reports but did not distinguish himself in sports or scholarship.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lord Rosebery
Eton
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Sea of Glass
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Vienna
Pollak
Herr Pollak
Ceylon
Anuradhapura
Tam O’ Shanter
Souter Johnny
Kirkoswald
John Davidson
David Grahame
Helen McTaggart
Tam
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