The Wisdom of God on the human ear sermon
Rev. T DeWitt Talmage extols the ear as architecture divine, detailing external, middle and inner ear parts, their mechanisms and sacred significance. He links historic composers and events to the ear, cites biblical touches, and concludes with miracles of hearing and divine purpose.
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T. DeWitt Talmage
Lincoln
York
St. Paul’s
St. Peter's
Arch of Titus
Alhambra
Parthenon
Helmholtz
Conte
de Dlainville
Rank and Buck
Temple of Jerusalem
Hera
God
Grand Central Depot
Sound
Venice
Wagner
Europe
America
Mozart
Gluck
Weber
Beethoven
Meyerbeer
Rossini
Royal Theater
Academy of Music
England
Egypt
Suez Canal
Haydyn
Handel
Eisther
Deborah
Sampson
Jephthah
Judas Maccabeus
Israel
Schubert
Jubal
Luzerene
Westminster Abbey
Freyburg
Berlin
Christendom
Christ
Galilee
Peter
Malchus
The Ear and God in a World of Sound
A sermon extols the ear as a divine gift planted by God and capable of hearing all prayers and suffering. The speaker contrasts scientific instruments with God’s intimate listening, urges sanctifying the ear, and imagines everlasting praise as the heavenly chorus.
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Earth
Heaven
God
Jupiter
Saturn
Mars
France
St. Cloud
Versailles
Tuileries
Great Britain
Windsor
Balmoral
Osborne
Wild
Gruber
Toynbee
Jupiter of
Hle
Isaiah
Dusseldorf
Waterloo
Bellevue Hospital
Tectureh
Philharmonic
Rousseau
Heavenly Temple
Servant Girl Verse Salutes Hard Lives of Servants
A graveyard tribute by Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage honors American servant girls. He laments years of hard drudgery and ignorance of origins or final resting places, praising their quiet endurance.
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America
Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage
Iowa dairy report cites creameries boom amid price drop
Des Moines April 18 The annual report by dairy commissioner W K Boardman notes creamery property value fell by 500000 in the year to June 30 1897 despite an 8 percent rise in creameries. It details milk and butter production across 773 creameries and 118 skim stations, notes shifting farmer patterns and efficiency gains, and discusses war preparations and state fair prospects.
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Des Moines
W. K. Boardman
Boardman
Towa
Maine
State Agricultural Society
Des Moines Exchange Forms Panel on Interstate Commerce Law
The Des Moines commercial exchange formed a committee to study how the interstate commerce law affects local jobbing houses. About 150 jobbing firms claim the rule capping multiple carloads as one shipment harms them. Brb Erb won a $6500 district court judgment against German Insurance Co of Freeport WL for alleged arson, later suing for libel and prevailing. William Singleman, a Wellman farmer, died after a windmill tower fall rupturing a brain vessel.
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Des Moines Commercial Exchange
Des Moines
Brb
Coon Rapids
William Singleman
Wellman
Town Field Trial Association Formed At Des Moines Shoot
Leading Iowa sportsmen sign to form the Town Field Trial Association during Charley Budd’s Des Moines event in May. The group aims to foster fellowship enforce game laws improve shooting dogs and hold field trials for chickens or quail with a two fifty member fee and five to ten dollar starting fees for nonmembers. The first trial is set for the last week of August in the northern state.
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Town
Des Moines
Iowa
Fraud Case Highlights Major Iowa Estate Dispute
In Des Moines federal court a case named Minnie L Moore and George K Moore versus Janden L Goodrich and Lanna A Goodrich centers on a dispute over the estate of William J Smith who died intestate at State Center on November 15 1807. The Moores allege they were defrauded of a portion of an estate valued near 800000 with prior settlement giving Mrs Moore half of 27500 and seek recourse against the Goodrichs claiming misrepresented wealth and tax fraud.
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Witeh
Towa
Des Moines
Lisa Cone
William J. Smith
State Center
Minnie l. Moore
George EK. Moore
Janden
Goodrich
Lanna A. Goodrich
Smith
Elatis
Chemist Tests Money Linked to Sheridan Bank Robbery
Prof Lloyd Davis of Des Moines returns from Missouri after examining money found on Charles Martin, accused of blowing the Farmers bank safe with nitroglycerin. Davis finds wear from explosives on the bills, suggesting they came from the safe. The test aims to guide future prosecutions and chemist testimony. Marelin offers to plead guilty if the prosecution accepts a two year minimum penalty.
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Lloyd Davis
Des Moines
Missouri
Charles Martin
Farmers' Bank
Sheridan
Bankers’ Casualty Conpoly
Davis
Marelin
Insane Man to Stay in Des Moines Penitentiary
J. Ow. Stone the man who killed Mrank Kahler at the Kabler shoe store in Des Moines on January 5 will remain in confinement at the Amiosa state penitentiary for the remainder of his life. If he becomes sane the remedies over him would be considered and he would be sent behind stone walls again. Relatives efforts to secure his release failed and the supreme court affirmed the district court’s decision to commit him.
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Des Moines
Chant Club
Grant
Savery House
Col
Charles A. Clarke
Cedar Rapids
Horace KE. Deemer
Red Oak
A. 2B
Cumilins
Alaub
China
Jedwin J. Conger
Brazil
United States
Puyls
San Francisco
Wale Holthday
Supreme Court
Shipley
Executive Council
Iowa Central
Rock Island
Minneapolis & St. Louis
Secretary of State
W. Nicknnielyt
J. OW. Stone
Mrank Kahler
Kabler
Amiosa
Hin Fe
On Suite Hospital
Districte Court
Royal Arcanum Holds Seventh Annual Grand Council Session
The seventh annual session of the Royal Arcanum grand council convened in Council Bluffs with 60 delegates. Officers elected for the year include Grand Regent T. R. Dolsa Mineral City and Grand Secretary TL A Snyder Waterloo.
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Grand Council of Laws
Royal Arcanum
G Council Bluffs
T. R. Dolsa
Mineral City
George Conway
Sioux Ciy
Jackson
Goundll Bhuffs
J. W. Campbell
Fort Madison
TL A. Snyder
Waterloo
Waller Irish
Des Moines
Ww. W. Pps
Ottumwa
Is. C
Aumeh
Bardington
Treaen
G. W. Robebins
Murlington
J. M. Majors
Charting
Supreme Counci
W. Wilson
J. M.treylor
Council Bluffs
Mayes Coal Mining Company Organizes at Muscatine Area
The Mayes Coal Mining company is organized at Jayes ranch north of Muscatine on the Illinois side. No rich coal veins underlie the area near the water, yet 40 men are employed and houses are being built, creating a small village.
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Mayes Coal Mining Company
Jayes
Aires
Muscatine
Ilinois
Searle Embezzlement Trial Ends With Overruled Motion
Judge Dewey in Oskaloosa overruled the motion for a new trial in Capt. C. Z. Searle embezzlement case and sentenced him to two years in the penitentiary. Searle had lived in Oskaloosa for five years and was highly respected. his brief courtroom remarks moved the audience to tears.
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C. Z. Searle
Dewey
Oskaloosa
Searle
Capt. Searle Haus
Memorial Day Observance Order From Iowa G A R
Commander I Evans of the Iowa Grand Army of the Republic issues a Memorial Day observance directive from Des Moines. May 30 is set aside to honor comrades and silent dead with graves strewn with flowers, urging youth participation and reverence, forbidding sports on the day.
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I Evans
Department of Iowa
Grand Army of the Republic
Des Moines
Avery Commude
ASW& Post Organization
Iowa Crop Bulletin Reports Mixed Spring Conditions
The first weekly Iowa crop review notes an early favorable start for farming and seeding, but cool dry winds and freezing nights slow seed germination and vegetative growth. Oats and barley seeding nears completion except in far north and east. some early oats show frost damage requiring reseeding. Grass seeding booms, central and northern regions lead in progress. corn ground prep continues awaiting warmer weather and rain.
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Towa
Towa Weather and Crop Service
Ite
Choe
Morahan
Eorn
Seud
Supreme Court Ends Recess with Key Land Case Ruling
The Supreme Court released a major decision in American Mailgrang Company v Tsabella My Long from Calhoun County. It reverses a lower court and aligns with a prior U S Supreme Court ruling that Rogers Locomotive Company held priority to the lands, under a deed by the secretary of the interior.
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Supreme Court
Auling
American Mailgrang Company
Tsabella My. Long
Calhoun County
Supreme Court of the United States
Rogers Locomotive Company
Manigravitigypany
Inderion
Supreme Court of Town
Northern Iowa Oratorical Contest Held In Webster City
The third annual northern Iowa oratorical contest took place in Webster City with students from West Waterloo Cherokee and Trenton competing in oratorical dramatic and humorous classes. Judges announced results with Othe Perris first in oratorical class and Nancy G Ladd second in dramathe, amid floral decorations.
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Webster City
Northern Iowa
Bara Lniter
Waverly
Stral
Jefe Webb
Trampton
Darius Green
Arrest in Council Bluffs Robberies Reveals Woodmansee Link
In Council Bluffs two stores were robbed and a large property stolen. A youth named Frank Woodmansee, son of the wealthy Macedonia resident Woodmanser, was arrested in South Omaha with stolen goods. He was identified upon return and bound over to the district grand jury.
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Council Blairs
Mrantk Wrrd
South Omaha
Council
Ife
Drake students unite behind war resolutions in Des Moines
Drake University students and Chancellor Craig back war resolutions condemning the Spaniards and pledging government support if intervention occurs. The Maine reference praises a patient just president. Meanwhile Cedar Rapids hosts the Iowa Association of Letter Carriers with officers: James P. Bretton president and others in view, secretary W. S. Stewart, treasurer Mr. McLain.
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Drake University
Des Moines
Craig
Maine
Iowa Association of Letter Carriers
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
James IF. Bretton
Keokuk
William J. Clarke
W. S. Stewart
Marshalltown
Mr. McLain
Dubuque
Colfax Hosts Third Southern Iowa Assoc Declamatory Contest
The third annual high school declamatory contest of the Southern Iowa association was held at Colfax with twelve schools represented. In the oratorical class Henry W. Conner of Fairfield and Homer Speidel of Iowa City placed first. Jannie Leighton of Stuart and Maggie Westman of Greenfield won in the dramatic class. Pauline Payne of Bloomsfield and Vera Turner of Colfax topped the humorous class.
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Debarte
Southern Iowa Association
Colfax
Henry W. Conner
Fairfield
Homer Speidel
Iowa City
Jannie Leighton
Stuart
Maggie Westman
Greenfield
Pauline Payne
Bloomsfield
Vera Turner
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Department
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Crop Bulletin
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