The Gospel Booth and the Olive Branch Sermon
Dr. Talmage preaches on The Bower of Tree Branches urging believers to build a Gospel arbor with olive peace branches, pine for health, palm for usefulness and victory, and stout timber to endure life’s storms, inviting all to come into the booth.
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Dr. Talmage
Mount Olivet
Jerusalem
Tabernacle
Booths
Land
Canaan
Heaven
Bowling Green
New York
God
God of
Lord Jesus Christ
Jesus Christ
Christ
Zion
Heavenly Fields
Earth
Ledyard
Geographical Society of Great Britain
Africa
Satan
Summerville
Faults And Follies In Our Own Shortcomings
A meditation on self deception in faulting others and excusing our own vices. It advocates recognizing the opposite faults in ourselves and in others, urging balance between extremes and choosing a median path between two evils.
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Scyla
Charybdis
PIANO FORTЕ STUDY OF NOTES AND MOVEMENTS
A well known lady pianist performs Mendelssohn presto while a bystander analyzes the physics of her playing. He counts 5 59 notes in four minutes three seconds and outlines three distinct movements per note totaling seventy two movements per second. He estimates two hundred nerve transmissions per second with conscious judgments on tone and touch.
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Mendelssohn
Samuel the Reformer Sunday School Lesson
The lesson presents Samuel as Israel's judge leading a revival after the Ark’s return. Israel confesses sin and renounces idolatry, and God delivers the Philistines through Samuel’s intercessory prayer as the people turn to the Lord. It emphasizes repentance, God’s mercy, and the need for lasting faithfulness.
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S. S
I Sam
Trutnh
Kirjath-jearim
David
Mount Zion
Kirjath
Jearim
Jerusalem
God
Saul
Samuel
Israel
Bethear
Ebenezer
Enenezer
Moses
Peter
Judas
A. F. Schauffler
Nerve-centered portrait of the hardhearted woman
The London Standard argues that a "nervous" woman is profoundly selfish and egotistical. She judges actions by their impact on her nerves, demands constant forbearance, claims devotion, resents resistance, and drifts toward passive cruelty while avoiding active malice.
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London Standard
Words Without Thought Sayings From Somerville Journal
A remark from the Somerville Journal notes that some scientists doubt thinking without words, while observing people can use words without thinking, illustrating a paradox about language and cognition.
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Somerville Journal
God as Comfort in Grief Echoed by Evangelical Churchman
A line from Evangelical Churchman likens God to a shower for a grieving heart and a sun for a face wetted by tears, conveying solace through faith during sorrow.
A Chinese Collection on Customs and Society
A detailed look at Chinese social norms and practices from marriage customs to filial debt, servant wages, and ranking symbols. It covers who pays debts, love and marriage timing, greetings, daily life, honesty incentives, and the visual markers of rank such as red silk umbrellas for mandarins and the Governor-General.
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China
Drowned in a deluge and storms lash several states
A Maryland water spout burst two dams flooding Herring run and Moore's run near Baltimore. Drownings reported include Powell Scheillner Lingenfelder and family. Nebraskan floods followed by cloudburst at Soldier Creek valley. Heavy storms hit Virginia North Carolina New York Indiana Iowa with property damage and crop losses.
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Baltimore
Herring Run
Moore's Run
Reed
George Lingenfelder
Seifert
Moore’s Run
Lingenfelder
Bobb's
Hall’s Springs
Hartford Road
Maryland Central Railroad
Guilford’s
John McCormick
Frederick Road
John Colburn
Creek Neck
Fort Robinson
Neb
Soldier Creek Valley
Marsh Duncan
Telford
Eighth Infantry
Petersouna
Dinwiddie
Darvill
Sussex County
Waverly Station
Norfolk & Western Railroad
Pualispurne
N. Y
Plattsburg
Burlington
Lake Champlain
Evansville
Ind
Ohio
Cairo
Smithland
Davenport
Ronpoint
Hudson Valley
Catskill
Amsterdam
Saratoga
Amstredam
Aiken
Johnstown
New York Central
Johnstown, Fonda & Gloversville
Vesna
Rudelph Falk
Buying Up the Mills in Minneapolis by British Capitalists
English syndicate moves to take control of major Minneapolis flouring mills including Pillsbury interests and Washburn, Western Flouring, East and West Side Water Power firms. An option expires July 5 with A Pillsbury potentially running the entire operation if completed. combined capacity would reach 22 000 barrels daily.
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Minneapolis
Minn
H. W. Holmes
Minneapolis Union Elevator Company
C. A. Pillsbury & Co
Washburn Mill Company
Western Flouring Mill Company
East and West Side Water Power Companies
Pillsbury System of Elevators
A. Pillsbury
Cincinnati Enforces Sunday Closing Law Hard
Cincinnati reports strict enforcement of the Sunday-Closing and Common Labor law for the first time in 25 years. Saloons partner shops cigar stores groceries meat markets and candy stores closed. About 40,000 people left the city seeking entertainment while arrests dropped to roughly one tenth of three months ago.
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Cincinnati
General Warner Urges G A R Posts to Attend Encampment
General Warner issues a circular urging G A R posts to attend the National encampment at Milwaukee on July 15 despite railroads declining a one cent a mile rate. Headquarters expect attendance to be as large as if the rail dispute had not occurred.
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General Warner
Milwaukee
Kansas City
Warner
G. A. KR
Ohioan Alphonso Hart Named Solicitor of Internal Revenue
Alphonso Hart of Ohio is appointed by the President as Solicitor of the Internal Revenue Bureau. The action was announced in Luck, Washington, on July 15. Hart will oversee legal affairs for the bureau and represent it in matters before courts.
Crossing tragedy claims Fulton and Miss Ault in Ohio
Thomas Fulton and Miss Ault of Glencoe Ohio were instantly killed at a Baltimore and Ohio railroad crossing when a fast freight struck their dog cart Saturday night. Fulton's brother, nearby, was badly injured by flying debris while attempting to aid them.
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Bevin Arre
Thomas Fulton
Miss Ault
Glencoe
Here
Baltimore & Ohio
Fulton
Eleven Sailors Drowned On Rapel Steamer Loss
Panama advices report the Rapel, a Valparaiso line steamer, lost with eleven crew members dead. The New York alert dated July 15 notes the disaster.
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New York
Panama
Valparaiso
Woman Dies After Refusing Arm Amputation
Lena Franz, 42, of New York, fell and fractured her wrist three weeks ago. Doctors advised amputation to save her life after gangrene set in. She refused the operation and died on Saturday afternoon at Presbyterian Hospital from lockjaw.
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New York
Lena Franz
Presbyterian Hospital
Roscoe Conkling Monument Completed in Utica
The monument at Roscoe Conkling’s grave in Forest Hill Cemetery Utica was completed Saturday. Erected on the family plot north of Horatio Seymour’s monument, it is made of Quincy granite and takes the form of a sarcophagus.
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Roscoe Conkling
Utica
N. Y
Forest Hill Cemetery
Horatio Seymour
Quincy
Princeton Wind Storm Wrecks Town and Crops
A severe wind storm struck Princeton Ohio near Hamilton causing extensive damage. Thirty buildings were wrecked with one large schoolhouse felled and crops ruined. No deaths confirmed though reports claimed up to fifty fatalities in Cincinnati dispatches.
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Princeton
Hamilton
Joseph Stinson
Finley Whitehead
Gus Kinnear
John Len
Cincinnati
Liberty
Freeman
Tragic Somerville murder ends in double death
A woman Mrs Catherine Smith and her son Thomas aged 14 were shot by Augustus Rosenberg in a Somerville grocery front at Dane street and Dane court. Five shots wounded five people. Rosenberg died fleeing after the crime, likely due to a fall on railroad sleepers as he tried to escape.
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Somerset
Mass
Boston
Somerville
Catherine Smith
Thomas
Augustus Rosenberg
Augustus
Charles
Mabel
Rosenberg
Fitchburg
Seattle Citizens Thankful As City Rebuilds
Citizens of Seattle express gratitude through J. R. Lewis relief committee chair for sympathy and aid after the recent disaster. The address notes the city is being rebuilt as fast as funds and workers permit.
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SeaTrie
W. T
Seattle
J. R. Lewis
Relief Committee
Great Michigan pine felled near Hobart marks lumber record
The largest pine cut in Michigan fell near Hobart with a six foot butt diameter and 10 381 feet of mercantile lumber. The top broke in fall destroying about 300 feet of fine timber and the event stands as a notable local forestry milestone.
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Michigan
Hobart
Brooklyn
New York
Harrison
William Candy
Melbourne
Australia
Garfield
Candy
Jackson
Mich
Sturgis
Washington
England
Bombay
Floods and Dams Fail Near Johnstown New York
Reports from Johnstown and surrounding towns in New York describe two collapsing dams, washed away bridges, and extensive flooding. Rescue work is hampered by downed telegraph lines as towns suffer power loss, with multiple factories and mills destroyed and unconfirmed death tolls suspected.
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New York
Johnstown
Troy
N. Y
Gloversville
Fonda
Rochester
New York Central
West Shore
Athens Junction
Tribes Hill
Fonda, Johnstown
Amsterdam
Fulton County
Albany
Schenectady
Central Railroad
Aiken
Johns town flood wrecks mill and bridges. several dead
Severe flooding from July storms hits Johns town and Gloversville with wrecked Schriever mill, destroyed bridges, and multiple deaths. Four bodies recovered, ten missing, with property losses across Albany area including much of Gloversville and Amster dam. Other towns report extensive damage to farms, roads, and rail lines.
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Johnstown
Albany
N. Y
Union
Cayadetta
Schriever
Ferry Street Bridge
McDonald
Northrup
Anderson
Johnstown, Fonda & Gloversville
Burt Speedwell
Albert Cokely
Oon
Treadwell
Charles Frear
Evans’ Mills
Peter Evin
Ferry-street
Purdy Case
Nellis
Vosburel
Ferry Street
Main
Bleecker
Gloversville
Bleecker Street
North Main Street
Amsterdam
Johnsown
John Pettingn
Putnam’s Creek
New York Central Railroad
Tribes Hill
Central
Central Railroad Company
Utica
Hoffmans
Putnam
Crab Tree
Saltsberg
Salem
Royal Hanna Creek
Crab Tree Railroad
Pennsylvania Road
A Southern Man Dies After Immoderate Laughter
City Janitor Jacob Morris was found dead in his room Tuesday morning. The coroner cites palpitation of the heart caused by immoderate laughter after a Masonic lodge gathering. Morris left $24,000 life insurance to his two daughters.
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Amantha
City
Jacob Morris
Morris
Masonic Lodge
Otto Spohr
Double tragedy at Blackmar as son shoots mother
In Blackmar Michigan a drunken Charles Blackmar shot his mother, aged years, prompting a nephew to fire a gun into Charles in turn. Both mother and son were dying. The husband A T Blackmar, once a Buffalo maltster, founded multiple local places.
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Blackmar
Mich
East Saainan
This County
Charles Blackmar
Charles
A. T. Blackmar
Buffalo
Postmasters Appointed by the President
The President named thirty three postmasters on Tuesday. In Ohio Canal Dover Alfred C G Navagon in Michigan Escanaba C C Stephenson in Minnesota Faribault B N Leavens Iowa Toledo S Co Leland Hampton L B Raymond Spirit Lake A S Bergman Nebraska Geneva W H Stewart Tecumseh W E Campbell Plattsmouth H J Straight.
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Washington
Ohio—Canal
Dover
Alfred CG. Navagon
Michigan
Escanaba
C. C. Stephenson
Minnesota
Faribault, &. N. Leavens
Iowa
Toledo
S. Co. Leland
Hampton
L. B. Raymond
Spirit Lake
A. S. Bergman
Nebraska
Geneva
W.H. Stewart
Tecumseh
W. E. Campbell
Plattsmouth
H. J. Straight
Flood Strikes London as Indes River Overflows
The Indes river bursts its banks flooding wide areas of London and surrounding countryside. Ten feet of water covers vast regions with reports of many drownings and extensive property damage.
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London
Chippewa Falls Horse Dealer Disappears With Large Sum
L. J. Newald, a well known horse dealer from Chippewa Falls Wis, vanishes after taking a substantial amount of money from business associates. A dispatch from Minnawuke dated July 11 states the sum is estimated up to seventy thousand dollars and that he left around July 4, with details emerging only now.
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L. J. Newald
Chippewa Falls, Wis
Minnawukee
The
Sentinel
Chippewa Falls
Purdue Professor Tracks Green Midge Impact in Indiana Fields
Professor F M Webster of Purdue University has surveyed fields in Goshen Indiana for the green midge. He reports small black bugs following and destroying the midge, and says the work of the pest will soon be halted by the new arrival.
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Gosheenn
Ind
F. MM. Webster
Purdue University
Mine Disaster at St Etienne Mortality Rises
Paris July 11 The inquiry into the St Etienne mine disaster finds the explosion caused by a man’s negligence for not noticing damp conditions. Altogether 108 bodies have been recovered from the mine.
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Paris
St. Etienne
Death of the Bishop of Colorado
Rev. J. H. Machebeuf, Bishop of Colorado, died Wednesday at age 73. Born in France, ordained at 24, labored in Ohio then New Mexico, aided Bishop Lamie for nine years before coming to Colorado in 186? He was created bishop in 1886.
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Denver
Col
J. H. Machebeuf
Colorado
France
Ohio
Lamie
New Mexico
Quarry Blast Leaves Two Men Seriously Hurt in Indiana
In North Vernon Indiana a quarry blast Tuesday evening injured two men. Stephen Litzy was horribly injured with both eyes blown out and died later. George Schaeffer was blown over a precipice and seriously hurt.
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North Vernon
Ind
Here
Stephen Litzy
George Schaeffer
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