Tell Jesus in Trouble Pilgrim Sermon at Martha's Vineyard
The sermon by Rev. T De Witt Talmage urges sinners to go and tell Jesus about their griefs and temptations. He frames suffering, temptation, persecution, and mourning as trials that Christ can ease, urging immediate personal appeal to the Savior for pardon, strength, and relief.
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Klyn
Tabernacle
T. de Witt Talmage
Martha’s Vineyard
Mass
Jesus
Herod
John
Raphael
Hand of the
Evangelist
Italy
Europe
Plu
Godfrey
Jerusalem
Jesus Christ
Christ
Holy Mount
Win
Peter
Alfred
Odo
Well I shall call and see you to morrow
Exchange between Jessie Ela and Rover the dog reveals mourning over a dead brother killed by a South Boston car. The owner explains Rover wears a crape bow and that society rules prevent his return. A Boston Courier note follows about Dr George Ileming's medical claim on smallpox and cowpox.
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Jessie
Ela
Fido
Rover
Boston
Boston Courier
Jesse James Story Describes Kansas City Stage Hold Up
A New York Graphic tale recounts Jesse James shooting a boyorator named Knight during a Kansas City jewel theft. Knights manager and bandits pursued jewels from a trunk with a false bottom, and James shot Knight after a confrontation over a photograph album. Knight later learned his assailant was James, who had lived nearby in St Joseph.
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Jesse James
Knight
England
Queen Victoria
St. Louis
Jefferson City
Kansas City
James
St. Joseph
New York Graphic
Dying Man Seeks Publication of Sixty Three Year Old Article
Joan Spork, age 97, writes to a magazine editor offering to refund the original payment if his article written 63 years earlier is published before his death. He has bought the magazine monthly for years hoping to see his work in print and fears his health and finances are exhausted.
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Spork
Joan Spork
Detroit Free Press
Prohibition Talk Provokes Western Lecture Bureau Manager
The Delrveit Free Press notes a Western lecture plan to stress temperance in high license areas and focus on illicit whisky traffic in prohibition states. Eastern readers are urged to heed authorities while critiquing state or municipal governance.
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Delrveit Free Press
Golden Medical Discovery Promises Health for Diseased Livers
A fragment argues that liver ailments cause blood poisons affecting the kidneys lungs and heart and claims Dr Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery can restore liver health, stating it has never failed to do the work it claims and will continue to.
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Pierce
Denver cribbage tale and billiards match ends with Texan’s defeat
Pat Sheedy recalls a Denver anecdote where John McCormick defeats a half drunk Texan playing cribbage for $20 then for billiards and finally wrestling for a hundred. McCormick’s wit keeps Shel Fairchild in as half the stakes, ending with the Texan broke and defeated. The story closes with a pitch for Dr Sage's Catarrh Remedy.
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Pat Sheedy
Denver
John McCormick
Shel Fairchild
Pittsburg
Navy
McCormick
Shel
Mac
America
Lexan
Jack Robinson
Fairchild
New York Sun
Court martial at West Point cadet scandal provokes inquiry
Philadelphia Times notes a Western Point cadet ruse where a disused shed bonfire leads to a court of inquiry led by Gen Thayer and Col Fry. The sheriffs of the case press the youngster to state what he heard, exposing hearsay and bias in the courtroom.
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West Point
Ounce
Gen. Thayer
Col. Fry
Gen
Thayer
Philadelphia Times
Advertisement snippets and consumer tips from a periodical page
A collage of endorsements and tips includes St Jacobs Oil for rheumatism relief, a Noblesville gas well touted as the best outside Pennsylvania, and sleep advice for babies via fresh air. Also featured are a Holstein heifer producing 21 pounds of butter weekly, Dr Harter’s Iron Tonic for vigor, and Dr Isaac Thompson Eye Water. Additional notes promote Piso’s Remedy for Catarrh and mention a Pennsylvania man expanding rabbit stock to seventy.
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Noblesville
Ind
Pennsylvania
Indianapolis
Lockport
N. Y
Pardee Medicine Co
Burt van Horn
An Old Sailor and the Stomach Writings of a Patent Tonic
A garbled 19th century adlyrics praising Hostetter s Stomach Witters as a corrective for sea sailors. It claims indifference to danger at sea but restoration of safety through wineblursful. The text touts Urackish Water remedies and the tonic as preventive for stomach liver and bowel disorders, mental toil, and nervous debility.
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Hostetter
Strange dialogue from Texas Siftings and ads in brief
A fragment from Texas Siftings features a child misidentifying a mother, followed by a quirky note about a medical pamphlet and a sales pitch for a family story paper. It also mentions Mrs Emmons described as the electric wife of Prof Emmons and an offer for sample copies from The Curiaco Lepass in Chicago.
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Emmons
Prof. Emmons
Washington
London
Curiaco Lepass
Chicago
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Nain
Lord’s Vineyard
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Robert Hall
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John Wesley
Shumamn
Lazarus
Xerxes
Sol
George Ileming
Eugenie
Prince Imperial
Johnson
Utah
Miss Brigham
Puck
Bieber
Lassan County
Cal
Thomas P. Ford
Stiffknee’s
T. B. Walles, JR
Iowa City
Harter
Isaac Thompson
Tuhe
Fanny
Terxas Siftings
Woop
Buffalo
Hood
A. Baverton
van Horn Street
Jersey City
Ely
Cataarrh
Hay
USA
ELY Bros
Owego
N.Y
Semple
Aridrons Brewster
Jolly, Mich
Bure Reller Igdder's Pastiller
Sima
A. P. Lacy
Washington, D.C
Fitegerald & Powell
J.a.sherman
Broadway
New York
Pacconmilk
SON
Washington, D. C
Piso
Ke.t. Hazeltine
Werren
The
United
Ian
Chichester
Flichester Chemical
Mmiadivan Saver
Keelish” Peeerearns Patta
Ames
Dr. Harter
DR. Harter Medicine CO
Poe and Tutantemit
Surgical Institute
Fifth Street
Wood Park
Sioux City
Iowa
Wood
Wood, Physician and Operating Suron
Celcera
Grannan Detective Bureau
Arcade
Cincinnati
Druggista
Ets
Wizard Oil Company
Chicas
Corliss
Foundry and Machine Works
Jones
Binghamton
ORD & Thomas
S.C. N. As
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