The Opium Habit and Narcotics in Religion Debates
A sermon by Rev. W De Witt Talmage condemns tobacco narcotics, opium and hasheesh, exposing clergy indulgence and urging reform. He recounts personal struggle with tobacco, cites medical authorities on cancer risks, and urges temperance, self denial, and public stance against vice. He traces narcotics from ancient use to modern abuse and warns of moral and social costs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Methodist Church of the
United States
W. de Witt Talmage
Dr. Talmage
Yucatan
Atlantic Ocean
Spain
Portugal
Paris
Walace Raleigh
England
New York
Philadelphia
London
Edinburgh
Berlin
A Cause for Lamentation About the Hat
A satirical tale from a town tale concerns a minister named Pitchfield and a loss of hat leading to misinterpretations of drunkenness. The piece notes gossip, church committee reactions, and a newspaper mockery, ending with lament over bareheaded shame in a community.
Bilious Pneumonia Seen This Season in Boston Doctors Say
A Boston physician notes an unusually high seasonal wave of pneumonia with new features like biliousness and delirium. He attributes the bilious aspect to preexisting constitutional issues and weather swings, with pleuro-pneumonia common and coastal New England as the hardest hit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
New England
Middle States
Boston Globe
The Laws of Descent. How Property is Disposed of When One Dies
The article explains intestate succession and how estates pass to kin under varied laws, noting English origins, primogeniture limits, per stirpes concepts, and differences for aliens illegitimate heirs and treason. It urges timely probate, appointment of executors or administrators, and legal counsel to prevent title disputes and unintended forfeitures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
England
United States
Freedom
Dudd
Prairie Farmer
Miscellaneous items from old papers about wheels and rocks
A compilation of short notes from various papers: an iron wheel travels about 40000 miles while a steel tire lasts about 200000 miles and costs 2.5 times as much. a 1000 ton boulder loosened by frost at Shelter Hill Rock near Bethel Connecticut rolled down the slope, destroying trees and felt twenty miles away. grapevine growth in Pike County is described. warnings against chewing tobacco. meteoric stones and rare deaths noted. a Washington Territory office blown up. imitation versus genuine amethyst tests. tiger eye petrified wood description. Steubenville Ohio landmark torn down with history of its buys. Virginia Nevada movement and soil slides near Goldfield and Virginia Oil area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
Iroke
de Quincy
Paradise
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
de Quincey
Coleridge
Germany
Baron Lisbig
Morphis
Brooklyn
United States of America
New York
United States
Great Britain
John C. Warren
Boston
Northampton
Maye
Ssue
Benjamin Franklin
Thomas Jefferson
Horday
Daniel Welster
Cavendish
Chicago Times
Shelter Hill Rock
Bethel
Conn
Hartford Courant
Madden
Pike County
Ira
Southern Trade Journal
Texas
Africa
Ap}ated
Washington Territory
Old Yakima
North Rakin
Old Roe
Remov
Herald
George Swords
Steubenville
Ohio
Pittsburgh Dispatch
Virginia
Nev
Maynard
Golden Hill
Goldip
San Francisco Chronicle
A Prayer for Sweetness and Courage in Adversity
A religious column urges Christians to keep a sweet temper amidst envy and disappointment. It counsels prayer, patience, and trust in divine providence, noting fretful, manly, and unchristian tendencies in envy. The piece stresses that God reigns, trials refine faith, and steadfastness yields spiritual growth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Christ
N. W. Cleria
Pttian
Wise Sayings From Fragments of Seema Life
Fragmented lines present scattered maxims about faith and duty attributed to multiple names. The text juxtaposes religious reflection with practical exhortations to self improvement and work, but readability is limited by garbled OCR leading to missing phrases and unclear attributions.
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Berman
Kev
Christian Brother
Governor Briggs
Massachusetts
Hasheesh
Pitchie
Feltow
Pitchfield
Eeerehenan Amonim
Toni
Clerk
Brother Pitchfield
Mr. Pitchfield
Opie P. Read
N. ¥. Mercury
San Francisco Alta
Mr. Willard
Mr. Josselyn
Mr. Ziegler
Mr. Green
Lancelito
Charley
Green
Charles Sumner
United States Senate
Senate
House of Representatives
United States of Americas
Congress
Army
Suzaner
Boutwell
Sumner
Edmund Alton
St. Nicholas
Goethe
Johann Wolfgang Goethe
Walter Wolfgang von Goethe
Weimar
Byron
Wordsworth
Keats
Walter von Goethe
Leo
Hospital Cochin
Cholera
N. ¥. Tribune
Religious Department
Goa
Theo Pox
Ana Nothi
the Divine Government
Omr
Iosyer
David
God
Gabriel
John Inglesant
Johnson
R. U
Jonathan
Seeman
Gates
Uncle the
Shivnewer
Cates Shay AN
Ann Brewster
Rome
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