Our Great High Priest and D R G Adventure Mosaics
A devotional poem praises the Great High Priest and faith through hardship while a long travelogue recounts a Denver and Rio Grande excursion from Denver to Durango. The narrative details steep grades, tunnels, and awe inspiring landscapes, with weather, mines, and a tragic lynching noted along the route. Also shared is a Chicago Home of the Friendless reunion tale of a mother and long lost daughter named Louise.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Denver & Rio Grande Railroad
Union
Denver
Durango
la Plata Co
Colorado
Colorado Springs Pueblo
Pueblo
Sangre de Christo
Dump Mountain
Toltie
Niagara
New Mexico
Rio Chama
Denver and
Rio Grande
Amargo
Sus
L. S. Hamilton
Paris
Early Days of Printing and the Faust Legend
An old tale links Faust to Gutenberg's printing birth. Faust sells Bibles in Paris to the King and Archbishop for high crowns, while others pay less. The archbishop reveals the King’s copy. both texts match exactly. Faust is jailed for sorcery, reveals printing secret, dies of plague before returning home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Faust
Guttenburg
Paris
Useful Knowledge: Measurements and Natural Facts
A compilation of everyday measures and natural constants: speeds for man horse steamboat sailboat and river flow. storm and hurricane speeds. rifle ball and light and electricity speeds. various barrel and tub weights. seed and grain weights by bushel. salt and liquid measures. cooking spoons and cups. area and distance conversions. language count and lifespan. Includes a note on pulse rate and life expectancy.
Value of Sleep and the Mother’s Role in Education
The piece argues sleep repairs both brain function and vitality, notes excess harms, and praises rest in illness. It stresses mothers as primary educators, detailing how a mother’s delicate perception shapes boyhood and character, with fathers aiding by example but not replacing maternal influence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hippocrates
Artzug
Poor Man’s Son Proposes Abroad Honeymoon
In a Brooklyn Eagle tale a poor man’s son vows to wed the rich man’s daughter and plan a lavish honeymoon abroad. She learns of her father’s fortune delay and the couple weighs marrying before or after the funeral of her father.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lucy
Rialto
John
Brooklyn Eagle
Misprint Confuses Marrying Mr Smith With Martyred
A reader complains of a misprint in a local newspaper notice alleging Mr Smith had been married. The editor jokes that the error slightly changes the meaning but does not alter the broader report, and the visitor leaves.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gan
Smith
Steubenville
Growing Evil of Flirtation Warned by Exchange
An editorial note warns against innocent flirtation among young women, arguing it leads to ruin. It cautions that public attention marks a slippery slope toward vice and crime, urging strict decorum and chastity to protect virtue and social standing.
Dared not Tell Him A New York Citizen Dies
A New York resident, noted for few virtues, dies and leaves a widow grieving. A condoling visitor finds her with their youngest child, who asks where the father is. The seven year old, playing nearby, says you can tell the mother but not him, a child’s hesitation in the face of sorrow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Evening Express
Louise
Grandma H
New York
Papa
Also Mentioned on This Page
Sullivan
Death
R. B. Torns
Veta Pass
Or & Railroad
Derangio
Tle
San Luis Park
Sierra Blanca Mountains
Alamosa
Antonito
O'Connor
Los Pinos
Lot
Toltic
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