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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 05, 1895
Page
7
Fragmentary OCR sentence mentions names and places but lacks clear event or context. Readable pieces suggest a local formal act or title grant involving Topeka or similar. No verifiable actions, dates, or entities to confirm a full news item.
The Talmage sermon New Ground from Romans XV:20 urges avoiding building on another man’s foundation and calls for an open field outreach. He compares church growth to an army’s advance, cites Paul’s mission to new cities, and argues for embracing a worldwide, inclusive evangelical effort beyond existing congregations.
Doctors busy with three critical cases refuse others, urging a shift from technical debates to saving souls. The speaker condemns endless scholasticism and urges reaching sceptics with love, aiding alcohol affected populations, and treating the church as rescue services for shipwrecked lives, especially impoverished children in cities like New York.
A sermon urges Christians to form a mighty force against sin likening them to the ancient thundering legion. It calls for church leaders to rise, imagines a Gospel ship at sea, and invokes Jesus to safeguard believers as they seek safe passage and harbor, ending with the crowd's hopeful escape to land.
A naturalist notes that blue roses would arise only through continuous variation from red through intermediate colors. The Youth's Companion explains plants and animals show a progression toward higher colors, with red seen as higher than yellow and sudden jumps resembling reversions when moving to yellow.
It recounts Patrick O Fin nerty an itinerant cigar vendor who faced Commissioner Shields for selling from a box without a revenue stamp. He argued that the rolls were cabbage leaves not tobacco, while an expert doubted the cabbage theory. The clerk mocked the gift of a small picture with each cigar and suggested corned beef would suit better.
A Brooklyn girl chooses a suitor amid a comic tale of two sultans. One promises wealth and devotion, the other a harsher life in New Jersey with a sly threat. The piece shifts to historic bank notes noting dated values and unusual repaid sums.
The Westminster Gazette reports author popularity from publishers showing Ivanhoe 36 copies and Waverley 280 copies sold, Rob Roy 275, Old Mortality 230, The Antiquary 239, Quentin Durward 205, Woodstock 190, and Count Robert of Paris 160.
Rattlesnake Bill and Clara Melville eloped riding swiftcat horses to escape her father, a wealthy cattleman. The father pursued but arrived too late, forgave the couple, and a grand supper was held at the Two Bar.
A St Louis resident wins damages after a trotter named Mark Twain 2 34 dies when a horse owned by another runs into him. The verdict awards about 1114 63 to the plaintiff with costs exceeding 4000 in total.
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