What Is That in Thine Hand in Modern Life
A sermon adapts Moses rod to daily vocation, urging use of one’s gifts for God. It argues that every person has a tool, whether rough or refined, and must faithfully employ it, lest greater power follow from faithful effort. The piece then reflects on earthly frailty and the Christian promise of heavenly likeness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chas. A. S. Dwight
Moses
Midian
Miian
Pairaoh
Eneik
God
Geo. Shipman Payson
Cristian
Paul
Christ
Earth
Adam
Christ the Apostle
Onward Christian Soldiers and Related Reflections
A quoted sermon note discusses the hymn Onward Christian Soldiers by Sabine Baring-Gould and its composer Sir Arthur Sullivan, praising its martial church tune and universal popularity among soldiers and youth. It also offers brief maxims on pessimism and genuine religious motive.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sabine Baring-Gould
Exeter
England
Wtlare Coleve
Richard G “Shle
Johm Herring
Arthur Sullivan
Cautionary Aphorisms on Character and Charity
A reflective note urges care for others to ease burdens and prevent vanity. It warns against seeking reputation to boost character, treating religion as a cure-all, and confusing self reverence with self adoration.
Faithful-hearted women walk lonely yet glow with virtue
Richard Burton notes on women who walk alone after losing partners. They nurture others and perform good deeds, comforting sorrow with tender deeds. Their faithful hearts shine even as the world misreads their maiden life, guiding toward a hoped-for vision beyond earthly wrongs.
Canoe Proposal Sparks Comical Afternoon
A young man takes a girl out in a canoe to propose, while banter about instinct, summer rules, and weathered flirtation unfolds. The plan hopes to end in a romantic gesture as they drift and joke, but an overturned craft tests their resolve and wits.
Uncertain dangers of anesthetics amid rare fatal cases
The report discusses the death of Hon. T. A. Powys during anesthesia and the broader safety record of chloroform and ether. It notes adenoid enlargements, status lymphaticus, and the balance between the large number of successful operations and rare fatal outcomes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
T. A. Powys
Lord Lilford
Mr. Powys
London Times
Life and Letters of Mrs. Craigie Hobbes to Be Published
A memoir titled The Life and Letters of Mrs. Craigie John Oliver Hobbes will appear, edited by Manchester’s dean. The piece surveys literary taste shifts from novelists to drama, notes Bourget on French literary transitions, and discusses a London Times view of Tennyson and Victorian authors amid generational change.
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Craigie
John Oliver Hobbes
Manchester
Lombroso
M. Paul Bourget
Balzac
Flaubert
Goncourt
Zola
Daudet
Ferdinand Fabre
Tennyson
London Times
Lt. Tennyson
Carlyle
Ruskin
Dickens
Thackeray
Browning
Swinburn
Meredith
Aristophanes
Enuripids
Frivolous Young Woman Draws Suitors in Tit-Bits Tale
A stylish young woman enjoys many beaux while a single man with limited income tries to win her. His mother warns he must work hard. his father adds that even harder after winning her, in a Tit-Bits paragraph of social satire.
Plaring Brooke in Birmingham Age-Herald Quip
The Birmingham Age-Herald quotes a playful jab about an actor named Plaring Brooke asking if he excels in romantic cinema. The item notes a line where he supposedly begs his wife for a dollar in a humorous context.
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Brooke
Birmingham Age-Herald
Sayings on enemies, value, and habits in a reflexive tone
The passage presents wry maxims about enemies and their complicity, the value of a rabbit hide, and a woman with trinkets speaking of jewels. It also notes that a good fellow is often a man with bad habits, reflecting a satirical, observant style.
Expensive Smoke Cloud and Waste of Coal
A San Antonio Light view argues coal smoke cost the United States over 600 million yearly in damaged goods, burned buildings, and polluted air. It cites poor combustion as the cause and praises improved firing and smokeless stoking as remedy, recounting a mayoral attempt to curb smoke blocked by industry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
H. M. Wilson
United States Geological Survey
San Antonio
Pat Gillgan
Pat
Fishd
Global facts and figures from diverse sources
The excerpt surveys religious, economic, and social data. It notes the Bible’s sixty six books with fourteen apocrypha, Venice gondolas owned privately, bananas in import value rankings, Sweden weighing a tobacco monopoly, wild sour orange trees in Florida, Washington forestry reservations at 27 percent, U.S. South’s forest share, Seattle plague model exhibit, U S Army findings on hookworm in Southern recruits, Miss N Edwards England poultry authority, Nuremberg toy trade dominance, female toy workers earning about 3 cents hourly, and German toy export patterns totaling 19 million dollars to Britain and the U S.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Venice
Florida
Washington
Half of Else Be the Plainness Consideration
A terse remark on economy and personal cleanliness and health appears in a fragmented text. The line hints at prioritizing thrift and hygiene as guiding values without elaboration.
Lemons on Bryan's Farm In Rio Grande Valley Dream
The 160 acre Bryan farm in the Rio Grande valley near Mission Texas is being developed into a refined country estate. William J Bryan plans a residence surrounded by citrus orchards and tropical fruit trees with irrigation from canal systems and a curved driveway flanked by date palms. A large vineyard and diverse plantings from remote regions aim to produce marketable fruit.
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Rio Granade
Rio Grande Valley
Williiam J. Bryan
Bryan
United States
E Mission
Texas
Flo
Varieties of Cornflower Across Europe and Germany
The cornflower is a long standing national symbol in Germany with 250 varieties described by botanists. German blooms are noted for wreath like petals and deep blue tint. The flower has been used medicinally and in dyeing, though less so now. America also hosts fine specimens introduced by ships ballast. In the United States it is called Bachelor’s Button, Cornflower, Witches’ Belles, Thinkles, Blue Bonnet or Blue Paggy.
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Germany
Europe
America
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