Jacob the Fugitive Becomes Bethel Flight and Promise
In a 1903 sermon style narrative, Jacob flees Esau after Isaac’s blessing, guided by Rebekah and faith. Esau pursues with wrath, but Jacob rests beside a rock, dreams of a ladder to heaven, and God reaffirms the Abrahamic blessing at Bethel.
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Esau
Jacob
Rebekah
Laban
Haran
Isaac
Padan-aram
Bethuel
Beersheba
Heth
Canaan
Abraham
Judith
God
Bethel
House of God
Crochet Petticoat Directions For A Full Sized Garment
Instructions describe crocheted petticoat construction using any wool, one pound for full size, worked lengthwise to minimize sag. Requires two hooks a long wooden hook and a short bone hook, with a waist to edge chain as the starting length.
Crochet Frill and Top Edge Techniques from Vintage Guide
Instructions describe shaping a Petticoat frill and top edges using tricot stitches, chain stitches, double crochets, trebles, and picots. Details cover row progression, edge joining, placket hole, and finishing with ribbon threaded through double crochets to form ties.
Proper Gifts for Girls in Elegant Desk and Accessory Styles
The article suggests hat pin holders in silver, vanity bags with mirrors, belts with delicate silver chains and daisy motifs, buckles and leather belts, and stylish desk items like inkstands, penholders, candleholders, and leather clocks. A quality writing paper set is recommended to keep a girl’s desk businesslike.
Hair tonic regimen for falling hair treatment instructions
The text prescribes a tonic for hair loss adding tincture of benzoin one dram, jaborandi fluid extract one dram, four ounces of alcohol, two grains of mercuric chloride, and water to ten ounces, plus perfume. Apply twice daily and shampoo weekly. Electric treatments are suggested as beneficial for scalp stimulation and tone restoration.
Princesse Slips For Summer Wear In Ready-made Silk
Ready-made princess slips of soft silk are now available. They are well made and can be altered to fit any figure with little trouble. They offer a boon to wearers who like to pair different colored linings with their summer muslins.
Health and Beauty Advice From A French Doctor
An article promotes health beauty tips noting Dr. Mosse claims potatoes can cure certain diabetes forms. It extols coal tar dyeing as a prime trade and tonic, warns against aging thoughts, advises simple hair care, nightly skin cleansing, and a wax free skin food.
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Mosse
Marcel
For Rough Hands And Delicate Skin Lotion Formula
A home remedy to soften rough hands with a lotion blending two ounces each of listerine and glycerin. It suggests combining with cosmetic jelly and rose water based formula using tragacanth, glycerin, and alcohol with borax and perfume as optional additions.
Skilled Labor Famine Grips Nation Citing Shortage of Skilled Workers
The New York Commercial reports a nationwide famine of skilled labor with an estimated 1.5 million more workers needed daily across industries. It notes shortages in cotton mills and clothing factories, farm help for the West, and even New England farms offering $45 a month with board. The piece links tariff policy to idle capital and urges young men to learn trades to earn higher wages.
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New York
Great West
New England
Free Trad Ers
Republicans praise tariff policy boosting Missouri zinc mines
The piece argues Secretary Shaw's 20 percent tariff on foreign zinc ore benefits Missouri and Kansas mining, lifting ore prices by about 1.50 per ton and spurring development. It contrasts Republican protection with Democratic policy, claiming state wealth and mining jobs will grow under a Republican administration.
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Missouri
Kansas
California
Lifting magnets transform handling of iron masses
An Electrical World note explains electromagnets as ideal substitutes for chains ropes and hooks in lifting iron and scrap. It highlights easy handling of tiny pieces and large balls such as an 11 000 pound skull cracker used to break old ingot molds, improving safety and efficiency by remote crane operation.
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Cleveland
Inside the Hold of a Deep-Sea Net Vessel
A landsman learns how a long sea net is deployed from a fishing vessel. The crew reels out a mile of interconnected nets using cables and blocks, with weighted lower edges and buoyed upper edges. The nets form a wall across fish schools, trapping them as vessels work to haul in the catch.
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St. Ail
North Sea
Lessons of Experience on Tariffs and Parties
The piece argues that the United States should favor a protective tariff and blames past Democratic policy for unemployment and low business mood from 1894 to 1897. It insists only the protectionist party can safely revision tariffs and notes Democrats oppose protection, aligning the party with opposing reform.
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United States
Party of Protection
Democratic Party
St. Louis Globe
When Nature Had a Panama Canal
Study of fishes on both sides of the isthmus supports a Miocene epoch Atlantic Pacific land bridge. Researchers infer the open ocean corridor by comparing species differences and note mammal fossils implying land connection persisted through much of the tertiary era and reestablished near its end.
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Panama Canal
Panama
Atlantic
Pacific
North
South America
Two Men At The Beach Fail To Impress
Ethel asks Maud about the beach. Maud finds it deadly dull with two men present. She reveals she was engaged to both last summer, leaving no new romance to land.
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Ethel
Maud
Courier-Journal
One of the Leisure Class in Kansas Estimate
A Kansas statistician calculates that bees must visit 62 million clover heads to make one pound of honey. The remark notes the man who figures such things understands leisure.
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Kansas
Philadelphia
Ledeer
In Place of the Ax Felling by Steam Saw Shown
A historic illustration contrasts hand axes with a portable steam engine driven felling-saw. The steam powered machine, drawn by a horse, cuts trunks near the ground with less waste and faster throughput, felling six to eight trees up to four feet in diameter per hour.
A Mere Misprint Causes a Hall Confusion
In the Chicago Sun excerpt Mabel questions Grace over a misprint. Maude relates that a young Nuwedd met her in a dark hall, mistook her for his wife, and printed a kiss on her ruby lips. The quarrel centers on a typographical error.
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Mabel
Grace
Maude
Nuwedd
Chicago Sun
One Hair at a Time Haircut Method Debuts
A new trend in hairdressing trims each hair individually, a time consuming technique praised for its precision and improved results. stylists claim the meticulous method yields notably better overall texture and finish.
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OUR
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Hsan
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Jove
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