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Newspaper
Pickens Sentinel
Location
Pickens, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1912
Page
4
Three Things to Remember urges lost humanity toward salvation through Christ and personal cooperation. It stresses the need for Christ, the lit of believers as light, and God supplied equipment. It urges goal setting for soul winning, prayer, and persistent effort as keys to conversion.
The sermon explains how the Holy Spirit transforms a believer's legal standing into lived holiness. It covers how the Spirit frees from sin's law, develops a spiritual mind, endows power to obey, offers encouragement, and enables prayer. It cites Romans 8 and notes the example of Chester A. Arthur's personal change.
A compact reflection on identity based on what a man cherishes. The quote suggests character is revealed through affection, priorities, and devotion, inviting readers to consider personal values and what they pursue.
As Christmas nears, Bob asks his mother to handle a special wish noting Santa is busy and often forgets. He recounts last year asking for a toy goat and receiving four dogs, urging direct action this time.
The Rothschild firm, famed for prudence, ignored a pig omen and avoided dealing with a loan after meeting the omen. Yet one day the head reportedly chose to act after omen sighting, arranging a large loan that led to losses of over a million pounds.
A reflection on the virtue of happiness, noting that a truly happy person enhances a room like a lit candle and embodies the livableness of life rather than proving abstract theorems. The passage credits Robert Louis Stevenson with the idea while praising practical goodness over intellectual feats.
A writer advises correcting the habit of twisting the mouth while talking through self discipline and practice. He suggests practicing before a mirror and using a small piece of court plaster on each side of the mouth as a constant reminder to stop the habit.
Many Oxford and Cambridge men joined the Royal Northwest Mounted Police of Canada to pursue romance and duty. Dukes, earls and barons also look back with pride on the days they chased Indians and cattle thieves over the Canadian plains. The force preserved law and order in Canada's wild frontiers for years.
The text notes various species building nests from readily available items. It mentions wild pigeons and blue rocks using whatever lies at hand, citing a London Crystal Palace roof nest found years ago mainly from hairpins and wire fragments gathered in the grounds.
A family heading to Egypt for six months offers a dolls house fully furnished with four dolls for rent to a careful child. Terms described as reasonable.
Victoria Falls on the Zambezi River in Africa stands tallest in the world. The cascade drops about four hundred feet and spans a thousand feet across the river. Named for Queen Victoria after David Livingstone’s 1855 discovery.
Ipecac is a trailing plant that thrives in clay soil along river banks. It needs ample moisture but cannot live submerged, so in Colombia it develops best where rivers do not overflow.
A meditation on wealth as easily gathered and the illusion of riches. The speaker notes surprise at divine capacity to enrich through simple acts and humble, sunlit straw, a brief spoken word, or a long silent word from a book.
A note from the Kansas market scene states wild oat prices remain high but sellers refuse to part with stock, signaling a stubborn hold by growers as buyers push for bargains.
A Boston Herald note says a man forced his own funeral to be interrupted by a telephone call, a stunt described as an astonishing choice between life and death, highlighting dramatic insurance or payout talk behind the event.
Quote from Ex change praising true patriotism as compassion for neglected children and moral duty.
Unknown context offers a maxim about thoroughness driving success. The quote emphasizes minimizing chance through careful work, attributed to Puck.
An inventive German baker uses a windmill to mix and knead dough and to grind grain into flour, creating a new multi use method for his bakery operations.
A stark statement identifies ignorance as the sole real national danger, framing it as a top threat requiring vigilance and action. The quote emphasizes the primacy of knowledge and informed public discourse to safeguard the nation.
The piece weighs size against a short, lively life versus dull longevity. It argues rapid pleasure and activity extend the shining hour, while a toroise like creature may endure dynastic cycles with little aging. The tone is reflective and speculative about vitality.
Obesity is the body's response to imbalanced intake and expenditure. It concentrates fat around underused muscles especially the abdominal region, according to Alexander Bryce in Life and Health.
Readers note that cookery books condemned for a phrase about "perfect freedom" have resumed sale while a long and varied list of books remains suppressed. The story highlights ongoing censorship in Russian households and publishing.
The captain of an Italian steamer carrying bones from Buenos Aires to New York claims the bones serve as a weather indicator. He said the bones creaked and moaned in storms and stayed quiet in fair weather, offering a quirky barometer based on cargo from South America.
In Plougas tel Brittany twenty six couples wed at once following a local custom. The village has about eight or nine family names and couples rarely marry outside. Last year saw forty two marriages in the same community.
A Londoner jokes about women smoking to avoid suffragette parades. He argues smoking makes women calm or ill at ease, suggesting both outcomes reduce risk of participation in protests. The quip plays on social norms and gender expectations of the era.
A quotation from Theodore Parker extols noble character as loving the unlovely, sympathizing with the contrary-minded, forgiving the unpitying, and remaining just to those who make iniquity a law, demanding ceaseless love over hate.
A maid reads a note from the master saying he’s off on a holiday and asks her to send his drawing materials. She wonders whether to send his paint brushes or a cornscrew, highlighting the comedic misunderstanding.
A fragment from a periodical features a mock confession about a fake villain in a stage show and a German wordplay conundrum on matrimony. It also notes the value of knowledge while reflecting on citizenship duties amid social concern.
A brief quotation notes that irresolution marks a weak mind in matters of great concern, attributed to Tilleston and described as a necessary action revealing uncertain judgment.
A short aphorism notes that while the world promises income to all, it does not distribute checks, reflecting on economic inequality and the gap between ideals and reality.
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