Perfect Harmony in a World of Discord Sermon
Rev. T DeWitt Talmage argues music shapes humanity, citing the 1869 Boston peace jubilee and Job's corner stone as symbols. He links sin to musical discord across nations in a call for harmony through Christ, envisioning a future attuned world of virtue and justice.
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T. DeWitt Talmage
Washington
Asylum
Barytone
Poet of Oz
God
Inis
Great Britain
Russia
Mars
Paul
Tartini
Satan
Diabolus
John Sebastian Bach
Bach
Dusseldorf
New York
Boston
Providence
Mozart
Schumann
Cremona
Christ
Heaven
Hand of Christ
Fairbanks
Vermont
England
United States
Handel
Spohr
Beethoven
Haydn
Mendelssohn
Meyerbeer
Parepa Rosa
Earth
Christianity rests on a tried foundation and Christ
A note quotes Rev. J. A. Smith on Christianity as a divine personal reality inseparable from its founder, Christ, contrasting it with human philosophy. Montaigne is cited on self-accusations and praise.
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Christ
J. A. Smith
Lemars
General or Sheridan in Youths Companion Poem
A quoted verse recalls a child’s wish to be called general as a joke about Washington and Sheridan. The speaker, Kate W. Hamilton, notes a father’s playful rebuke about distance from home while at play. The piece reflects humorous family banter in a juvenile periodical.
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Kate W. Hamilton
Fire ball playing described in cotton fields
The Chicago Record describes a yearly fire ball game among boys using cotton pods saturated with kerosene. Players form a circle tossing a burning ball, risking burns and forfeit penalties, a danger noted for both southern and northern boys who use cat tails or cotton as fuel. torches are praised as cheap parade attractions.
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Texas
Alrendyl
Chicago
Trained chameleons impress Philadelphia owner with schooling
Miss Henrietta Keene of Philadelphia educated two Florida chameleons named Brinton and Baby. By kindness she prompted them to stand upright and perform a sequence of actions including prayer posture, pretend death, and joyful rises. A separate anecdote tells of Bishop Whipple being pranked by a boy who tricked him into ringing a doorbell and fleeing, then the bishop recalling the moment.
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Henrietta Keene
Philadelphia
Brinton
Baby
Washington Star
Bishop Whipple
St. Paul
Slallowe
Swallow’s Swift Flight From Shropshire to London
An untamed swallow from a farm near Chetwynd in Shropshire was captured and caged in London where it was released. The bird returned to its nest in 80 minutes covering 145 miles at about two miles per minute.
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Chetwynd
Shropshire
London
Kind Hearted Bear Lifts Child From Ravine Narrows Escape
A translated 1847 tale from Vera Zhelikhovsky tells how a large Russian named bear nicknamed Mishka saved a seven or eight year old girl on a cliff path in Elizabeththal near Tiflis. The creature lifted the child to safety, then moved on, leaving bystanders in awe of the animal’s gentleness. Also notes a Kokomo boy building a pedal powered toy train with a circular acre track and a Sydney company forming to promote silk culture for women combined with flower growing and bee farming.
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Isabel F. Napgood
St. Nicholas
Vera P. Zhelikhovsky
Elizabeththal
Tiflis
Mikhail Ivan‘iteh
Toptygin
Mikhail Ivan'iteh
Ile
Mishenka
Mishka
Jnodiana
Robbie Murden
Kokomo
Ind
Jobbie
Sydney
Negus Lord and Government Survey in Iowa Dispatch
A Des Moines telegram reports Aaron Parks the young farmer missing near Ottumwa, last seen October 13. He resurfaced in Ottumwa October 16 with a companion named Tulle, implying he may have gone to the Van Dyke and Hnton show and returned home. Neighbors fear for his safety as authorities investigate his disappearance.
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Dos Moines
Aaron Parks
Irving
Ottumwa
Parks
Kirkville
Calhoun House
Tulle
van Dyke & Hnton
A. Vogus Lord
Lar Fitzgerald
Cornell Bluffs
Young Sackett
Stekness
Onaha
Cornell Blufts
Chicago
Iowa
Vita
George ‘I. Hawkins
United States Geological Survey
Dubuque
McKinney
McKinney Io
A. Giy Decolver
Q. Bowman
Marshalltown
Omaha
Hug
Bowman
Bowman No. 2
Mason City
Darian
Warlan
Sarlan
Iowa State Must Pay Damages in Promissory Breach Case
In Knox district court a jury verdict favored plaintiff Martha Schroeder, widow of 75, against Jacob. The case concerns a breach of promise and alleged notoriety after Schroeder allegedly earned coffee as a profitable crop in Iowa. Just before the sal t court notes Bruce remarried and transferred his property to another woman, with an effort to set aside the transfer.
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Knox
Martha I. Schroeder
Jacob
Schroeder
Bruce
Ten-Year Hard Labors In Iowa City Assault Case
Judge P B Wolfe sentences William McDonough John McQuan John Sale Harry Goody James McDonough to ten years hard labor at Anamosa for criminal assault on Emma Gromns a feeble minded 16 year old girl. Deputies led the arrest in August with a posse of officers in Town City Inds.
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Iowa City
P. B. Wolfe
Clinton
Anamosa
William McDonough
John MecQuan
John Sale
Harry Goody
James McDonough
Clark
Emma Gromns
Odd Fellows install officers at Mason City session
At the forty ninth annual Mason City session of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows officers were installed including GP J B Spare Council Bluffs GA P Chris Rataman Stewart G S W T Temple Davenport GJ W W T Shorts Burlington G 8 William Mussen Des Moines J Norwood Clark Iowa City M Trarvey Anamosa WG Romer Lyons A D Steel Knoxville J Norwood Clark of Iowa City received a gold medal as the state’s oldest Odd Fellow. The report also notes a liquor sale indictment against D J McAvoy, a Newell fatal train crossing death of J I Morne, burglary convictions at Oskaloosa, a Sioux City elevator accident, and other local incidents.
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J. I. Morne
Newell
James Dinmitt
Itd Thaeris
Oxkaloosa
WI Hecker
Sioux City
Red Muehse
Sheffield
P. OA. Bassett
Atlantic
Joel Iggina
Dubuque County
Washington Township
Beenert Keown
Pottawattamle
William McKeown
Brooklyn
C. J. Sutton
Dubuque
William Andrew
San Vraneiseo
American Christian Missionary, Society
Springfield
Til
F. M. Drake
David Albertson
William
Dorsey
Northwest
Cresco
Alonzo Arnold
Marshalltown
New Lutheran
Rockford
Young Women's Christian Associations of Iowa
Grinwell
Waterloo
Baptist State Convention
Milton Remley
Iowa City
M. Lloyd Kennedy
Lowa Woman's Suffrage Association
Independence
Patrick Creedy
Burlington
The
Visitation Academy
Rock’ Rapids
Porter
Titusville
Des Moines
Holmes
William Slurris
George Frank
Duke Slaven
la Porte City
C. W. Ravlin
W. H. Holmes
Davenport
Henry Nesidagskon
Warsaw
Poland
Mary McClure
Haney & Campbell
First Methodist Episcopal
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Trust
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Nlancock County
D. J. McAvoy
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