Ten Strings of Gratitude in a Reverend's Psalm
A sermon urges rehearsing all blessings and praising God with a ten string harp. It extols David’s psalms and explores gratitude for food sight sleep friends reason night and heavenly hope, ending with a vision of future praise and eternal joy in heaven.
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Louis Klopsch
Washington
Talmage
David
Jubal
Adam
Absalom
Ahithophel
Palestine
Christ
Saul of
Tarsus
Felix
Mars Hill
Alexandria
Miletus
Saul
Evangelist Paul
Heaven
Earth
Moses
Sinai
God
Joshua
Jericho
Ruth
Boaz
Naomi
Vashti
Ahasuerus
Daniel
Belshazzar
Solomon
Paul
Telix
Marshill
Brotherhood of Man
Ephesus
Syracuse
Philippi
Rome
Mamertine
Ostia
Chrysostom
Bourdalone
Whitefield
Wesleys
John Knox
Milton
Dante
Watts
Mrs. Hemans
Frances Havergal
Herodic
Heterodoxical Mrs Chatterton at the opera
A clipped stage exchange captures Mrs Chatterton whispering at the opera with Henry and a weary Judge commenting on boredom. The dialogue hints at social satire and theatrical irony within a refined circle.
The Black Sheep and Lazy Jim Folktale
A short tale about Lazy Jim the slow farmer boy who could never keep up with chores and peers. As he grows his pace slows further and misfortune follows, with objects and fate closing in as he lugs along.
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Lazy Jim
Jim
Despair Ends the Lively Farmer Lazy Jim
In a Farm Journal verse, Lazy Jim is joined by poverty trouble cert and discontent and finally despair who clutches him and ends his day, as described by Frank H. Sweet.
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Lazy Jim
Frank H. Sweet
Farm Journal
Bear Trapping Tactics on the New Brunswick North Pole Branch
The article describes bear trapping along the North Pole branch in New Brunswick. It details setting bear traps with moss and brush, lures like cheese and honey, and the behavior of bears as they approach, stand on hind legs, and tug at traps. It notes moose presence, delayed bear activity, and the grim end for trapped bears as described by the Cincinnati Enquirer.
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New Brunswick
North Pole
Lient
Brain
Cincinnati Enquirer
Hairy Woodpecker Brings Winter Life to Woods and Homes
A Washington Star feature extols the hair y woodpecker as a year round helper. It notes the bird’s winter foraging in dead timber, proximity to cedar yards, and its crucial role in pest control alongside nuthatches and warblers. The piece explains nest chiseling, round entrances, and the bird’s hairlike plumage aiding passage through tight holes.
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Crary Littl
Tie
Washington Star
Brooklyn Man Brags of Nation’s Best Mouser a White Rat
A Brooklyn man touts a big white pet rat as the country’s best mouser. Kept in an unused stable, the rodent and others bred mice that overran the home. When the children freed the rats to escape, the grandfather rat hunted hard, killing ten mice by morning. The tale, attributed to the New York Times.
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Brooklyn
Iberty
N. Y
Tommy Traddies Dyes His Father’s Whiskers
In a Sunday School classroom a boy named Tommy explains why his father’s hair color changes. The teacher reacts with astonishment as Tommy reveals his father dyes his whiskers.
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Tommy
To Whom It Referred Willie Green Questions Bible Eyes See Not
In a Philadelphia Record item a reader asks about the phrase in the Bible about people who see with eyes yet understand not. The question is attributed to Willie Green and framed as a Sunday school teacher's remark.
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Willie Green
Philadelphia Record
The Woman at Home and Domestic Harmony
An essay from Lestle's Weekly extols the wife and mother as the center of family harmony. It argues daily patience gentleness and forbearance sustain happiness and national strength, warns against outside reforms that threaten home life, and asserts mothers hold the levers of the world’s tomorrow.
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Republic
Lestle
Simple Fancy Work for Travel and Small Ornaments
Instructions describe a compact handkerchief press two four inch squares of stiff cardboard with decorative coverings, an elastic band ribbon, a double bag for opera glasses and handkerchief, cork needle protector with crochet, and hexagonal bottom piece with multiple small bags. Gerald Judd Farmer refers to the craft patterns and colors.
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Orange Judd Farmer
New American Singer Besie Abbott Debuts in Paris Opera
Pickens family of South Carolina member Miss Abbott, once a vaudeville trio star, debuts as a grand opera Juliet in Paris. Critics hail her as the era’s finest Juliette with exceptional range and a masterful high D, surpassing most rivals. Paris verdict: her success is assured, though dramatic acting remains to be perfected.
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Beasie Abbott
Deande Reszke
Paris
der Judiette
Patti
Miss Abbott
Pickens
South Carolina
Sand
Amerten
Manouery
Amertcun
Juliette
Riverside
New York
Benson
Canterbury
Abbotts
Abbottsford
Indigo Hue Test for Purity and Color Change
The procedure describes mixing indigo dye with water and soda to test for impurities. A reddish result indicates prussian blue formation, which is avoided since it forms iron compounds that decompose with soup and soda and create iron molds.
Bathing the Face in Winter
Read guidance on winter face care advising against daytime hot water washing to avoid cracking and drying skin even indoors.
Full Blood Indian Babies Face Anachronism In Assimilation
The Cosmopolitan notes few full blooded Indian babies will be born as intermarriage with whites or mixed-blood Indians rises. Some 3,000 pure blood children remain among 20 southwest tribes while over 20,000 have white blood. They inherit reservation wealth and knowledge of traditional arts, yet face dwindling birth groups and shifting identities.
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Penelope
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Dr. Talmage
New Zealand
Australia
Sydney Harbor
Roman Empire
Nero
Hairy Woodpecker
Haimy
Aretielen
Drenner
Wrench Cridion
Beasie
Bess Abbott Pickens
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