Amusement and Morality in a Nation's Youth Debate
A sermon argues amusements shape character from youth to death. It warns of corrupt entertainment, urges self restraint, cites Pompeii imagery, warns against debt from leisure, and stresses home life and work as life’s core. It contrasts lively virtue with dangerous indulgence and recounts personal testimonies.
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Opyright
Louis Klopsch
Dr. Talmage
Church of God
Tring
Paul the Apostle
Crod
Naples
Italy
Pompeii
God
Ms House
Cms of
Philadelphia
Lie
Jie
Tie
Watcr
Tod
West
Virginius
Macbeth
Meg Merrilies
Shylock
Ping Pong the Latest Indoor Amusement
An early description of ping pong or gossima as lawn tennis inspired, including equipment, table height, balls, and rising popularity. The article notes prices from 25 cents to 5.85 and mentions a possible epidemic of ping pong among players.
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Bagatelle
Gossima
Gosima
Night Before the Battle Tales and Toe Wounds Then and Now
The Major recalls the night before a battle during the Civil War in which troops bivouacked near Murfreesboro and later near Kennesaw. He recounts soldiers fearing the unknown, close marching, and a brutal clash that left many dead, with vivid anecdotes of soldiers missing a toe or finger and the strange calm before fierce fighting.
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Crittenden
Army of the Cumberland
Murfreesboro
Murfreeshoro
Palmer
Stine River
The Watchmaker's Wager on Dial Numerals
A Broadway watchmaker bets a customer that he cannot correctly write the dial numerals. The tale recounts the IV versus IIII tradition and the scarcity of the number six on dials, noting the second hand's fixed position and a common flaw in inexpensive watches. A second anecdote reflects on hermits in large towns and urban self-talk observed by a Western physician.
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Broadway
Lil
Henry Vick
Charles V
the Wise
Charles
Vick
Ele
New York Commercial Advertiser
Rhodes Idea of Education Opens New Cape Town School
A few days before Cape Town archbishop opened new school buildings Mr GC J Rhodes outlined an idea of education. The event highlighted aims to improve schooling through community effort and religious leadership.
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Rhodes
Cape Town
Ghocesan Achoola
GC J
Colored hailstones fall in Venezuelan hailstorm of 1886
On April 17 1886 a heavy thunderstorm near El Totumo in Cojedes Venezuela produced hailstones weighing up to two ounces. The colorful hailstones appeared whitish blue and rose colored, an unusual lowland tropical occurrence. Schwedoff cites similar Minsk hail colors and suggests cobalt and nickel salts explain the hues, supporting a cosmic origin theory.
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Venezuela
el Totumo
Tmunco
Cojedes
Zamora
Tropics
Schwedoff
Minsk
Brain Strain Taps Professions Across Society
A French investigator concludes military and naval men show mental strain fastest with 199 per 100000 going mad. Among liberal professions artists, lawyers, doctors, clergy, writers, and civil servants follow, while commercial men retain sanity best with 42 per 100000 ending in the madhouse. Domestic workers and laborers trail. Mechanics sit mid-range with 66 per 100000.
Roasted but Steady Political Shipwreck Tale
A Philadelphia Bulletin quips about Stumper the politician who survived a shipwreck and jungle cannibals. The line notes he never flinched under fire, joking that roasting is familiar to him from past ordeals.
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Stumper
Philadelphia Bulletin
Providence and War Split Kentucky Clergy Reflections
During the Civil War era the Presbyterian factions in Kentucky divided between Dr. Breckenridge and Dr. Stewart Robinson. A rebuke of Gen Morgan by Breckenridge is countered by a Southern-leaning woman noting his sons serve as Morgan officers. Breckenridge finally says Providence allows two evils, the lesser.
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L’resbyteriang
Kentucky
Breckenridge
Stewart Robinson
Dr. Breckenridge
Tom Bullitt
Morgan
Widow of Confederacy President Touches Union General’s Widow
A Miss Grant visited Grant's tomb in New York and wished to be alone with the dead. Mrs. Jefferson Davis, widow of the Confederate President, stepped forward after the private moment and embraced Mrs. Grant as the group dispersed.
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Grant
Towb
New York
Jefferson Davis
President
The
Confederacy
Doctor's Wife Receives New Spring Hat Amid Husband's Appendicitis
The Detroit Journal excerpt notes a woman weeping after learning of her husband’s appendicitis. Comfort is offered with hopes he recovers, and a quip about the doctor’s wife receiving a new spring hat frames the scene during the operating costs discussion.
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Gaeley Aay
Bolle Ify
Jvo
Soma
Salmage
Mr. Talmage
Henry
Nat
Oakwood
Samson
Delilah
Dr. Parkhurst
Presbyterian
New York City
Tion
Thodes
Dave
Diocesan College School
Oxford
Chicago
Inter Ocean
Howe
Washington
Pennsylvania
Cold Harbor
Sul
B. I. Buller
the James
Guy
General Henry
Dan McCook
Kenesaw Mountain
Ife
Detroit Journal
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