Love and War Change a Heart in Paris Hospital
In 1916, Lotta Van Suydam, once famed for fashion, falls for minister Philip Benton as she serves with American ambulance volunteers in Paris. A wounded French peasant boy’s plea for his mother alters her view of life, love, and what marriage should be. Lotta and Philip marry the day after confession and revelation.
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Brooklyn
Lotta van Suydam
Philip Benton
Benton
Brook Street
Lotta
Lotten
Stock Exchange
Jess
Jim Stevens
Philip
Lott
Lotita
France
Shouch
Jim
Godfather
Paris
Maman
Wargnoi
New York
Ink in 1880 Baca land grant hinges on German ink
John Waldron of the Santa Fe railroad hints the Baca grant may be forged after discovering aniline ink facts. A chemist tests the grant’s ink and a German chemist is consulted, prompting a reopened trial and new evidence in the protracted dispute over vast New Mexico lands.
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New Mexico
Bartolome Baca
John Waldron
Santa Fe Railroad Company
Germany
Europe
Case
Bucharest a hotbed of wartime espionage and publicity
A Philadelphia Ledger correspondent depicts Bucharest as a restless, publicity savvy city where German espionage networks centered in a quiet backwater near Calea Victoria coordinate a vast, varied spy system. The cafe scene hums with agents, journalists, officials, and foreign diplomats in a perpetual flow of intelligence.
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Ucharest
Roumania
Philadelphia Ledger
Bucharest
Calea Victoria
Mufti
Minerva Universal
Entente
Germany
Balkans
Teutonic
Strada Cosma
Danube Port of Bucharest Giurgevo and Border Trade
The Danube port Giurgevo near Smarda serves as a trade center between Roumania and Bulgaria and marks the southern end of Roumanian rail to Bucharest. Historic Theo doropolis site, Genoese merchants built the 14th century town named for San Giorgio, with Michael the Brave’s 1595 stand nearby.
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Giurgevo
Rutschuk
Danube
Roumania
Bucharest
Smarda
National Geographic Society
Theodoropolis
Justinian
Constantinople
Giurgegno
Genoa
San Giorgio
Glurgeve
Michael the Brave
Revelation lesson shows Jesus Christ’s pre-eminence in John
The study outlines John’s visions on Patmos and the seven churches of Asia as symbols of church epochs. It notes Jesus as the author, the living Christ unveiled, and the messenger’s duty to record the visions and messages to the churches.
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Jesson
Paul
Jesus Christ
Scofield
John
Patmos
Aegean Sea
Ephesus
Son of
God
Jesus
Asia
Asia Minor
Christ
Isle of
Damascus
Distress Story of a Feared Possession and Healing
A sensi woman sick with fever is described as believing the devil possessed her. She refused food, drank only water for twenty days, and muttered blasphemies while tearing at cloth. Wesley prayed with her, and days later she was relieved as God turned heaviness into joy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Piec Wesley
Ghost stories urged out of Philadelphia classrooms
Robert L Burns district superintendent told Philadelphia teachers ghost stories should be eliminated from schoolrooms. He opposed tales where ghosts and hobgoblins are main characters citing harm to children and fear that imagination runs to morbid lines.
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Robert L. Burns
Phildelphia
Philadelphia
P le Ledger
Recipe for Happiness by E Barker of Washington
A fragmentary excerpt presents a philosophical note on happiness urging daily small deeds and a learned attitude of trust. It contrasts wealth with happiness as not purchasable and implies happiness arises from personal discipline and practice.
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E. Barker
Washington
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George Munson
W. G. Chapman
Admiralty
War Office
Cafe Royal
Thuatary Review IN
Jesus Christ the First and
Rev
C. Sellers
Moody Ible Institute
of Chicago
Union
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