How to Conquer Temptation and Return to Virtue
A sermon by Dr. Talmage outlines honest self inspection, the force of moral gravitation toward sin, and the hard path back to righteousness. It urges surrender to God, cutting ties with bad companions, seeking Christian counsel, and committing wholeheartedly to an enduring, decisive battle against drinking and gambling to achieve spiritual victory.
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Talmage
Solomon
Heaven
Niagara
House of God
Christ
Hannibal
Alps
Antietam
Dieth
Master Street
Philadelphia
Oregon
Massachusetts
Minnesota
New York
Sparta
Lord Jesus Christ
Some Popular Fallacies From American Analyst
A list of common errors in reasoning and health beliefs. It challenges overworking when tired, the idea that more food strengthens, devalues sleep loss, and warns against excessive exercise and immediate relief from stimulants. It critiques children doing adult work, misused remedies, inappropriate clothing, drafts, and patent medicines as universal cures.
Unfair Condemnation Of a Boy By Sex Stereotypes
A Times excerpt argues condemning a child for being male mirrors unfair class blame. It warns that blaming boys for gender traits harms self hope and progress, illustrating with mothers' admonitions about cleanliness and quietness.
Israel Wanted a King Lesson from First Samuel
The July 1889 International Sunday School lesson from First Samuel 8 4 20 discusses Israel seeking a king to imitate other nations and unite the realm. It covers Samuel aging, his sons' misrule, and God's warning that a monarchy would bring burdens, taxes, and loss of freedom, with Samuel warning against self chosen rule.
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Sam
Samuel
Ramah
Jerusalem
Israel
Beersheba
Harp Places
Elders of
God
Desert
Canaan
Rey
A. F. Schaufner
Classic Cookery Ideas From a Historic Kitchen
A collage of home cooking tips and recipes in dated prose. It covers frying ham with cream and oven finishing, cauliflower prepared in netting with lemon butter sauce, dumplings with fruit, and ham mashed potatoes with eggs. Also includes meat toasts with tomato catsup, and veal croquets with beans as a decorative side.
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Romeo David Lower
World wheat outlook hinges on American crop as Europe faces shortages
Bombay cable reports India wheat crop near failure and warns Europe, led by England and France, will rely on U S grain. Russia and Austro-Hungary struggle with drought and warping conditions, pushing eastern hemisphere into scarcity while markets fear a tight 1890s-style squeeze.
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England
France
Stay
Bombay
India
London
Cable
Vienna
Europe
Spain
Italy
Germany
Russiia
Austro-Hungary
Russia
Odessa
Roumania
Australia
United States
Washington
America
Gogebic Iron King John E. Burton Makes Assignment
Milwaukee report says John E. Burton once known as the Gogebic Iron King assigned assets to Gage E. Tarbell of Milwaukee as creditors press with claims totaling about 825,000. Central Trust Company of New York holds 350,000. second claim near 600,000. Estimated assets about 701,000 include 600,000 real estate and 100,000 personal property. Burton cites nearly 100 suits in 18 months crippling his finances and forcing the move.
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John E. Burton
Milwaukee
Elkhorn
Gage E. Tarbell
Supreme Court
Burton
Lake Geneva
Chicago
Hurley
Powderly Defends Secret Ballot Against Reading Boss Corbin
General Master Workman Powderly attacks Austin Corbin for barring union members from Reading works and threatens to expose the corporation's anti union tactics. He urges Knights of Labor to champion secret balloting and reject candidates who won’t back ballot reform.
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Powderly
Austin Corbin
New Yerk
Beranton
Workman Powderly
Knights of Labor
Reading Company
Pennsylvania
Corbin
Reading Iron Works
Mr. Corbin
Iell Liberty Miss Capture by Illinois Cavalrymen
A veteran recalls the November 18 1864 capture of Liberty Mississippi by an Illinois Cavalry brigade. After marching from Baton Rouge on November 17 they seized the town with three hundred rebels, artillery and supplies, enduring a cold rain as they pursued guarded lines, captured prisoners, repaired the Amite River bridge, and learned Lincoln’s reelection from a Richmond telegraph operator before returning to Baton Rouge and moving on to Mobile under General Davidson.
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Liberty
Miss
Baton Rouge
Scott
N. P. Banks
Lee
Jerusalem
Amite River
Union
Richmond
Lincoln
Mobile
Ala
Davidson
J. M. Gardner
E. 12Th Ill
National Tribune
Sixteen lost from Boston schooner Edith Emery
The fishing schooner Edith Emery arrived with only three of her nineteen crew members. Seventeen men were lost in a fog seventy miles off Highland Light Sunday. Captain Sullivan searched with a fog horn until Monday afternoon but found no trace. Most missing men were married with families.
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Boston
Edith Emery
Sullivan
Dories
Highland Light
Murderous double killing shocks Clayton County farm
At Dusvalle Iowa on July 18 John Elkins and his wife were found slain in bed with Elkins shot and the wife battered. Suspected are two of Elkins' sons from a former marriage. The 11 year old son slept in the barn and alerted authorities. A baby in the bed survived.
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Dusvalle
John Elkins
Allen Porter
Clayton County
Edgewood
Elkins
Elkin
Contractor Slavin predicts Panama Canal finish by 4 years
New York reports contractor Slavin, president of American Contracting and Dredging Company, stating his firm backed by large capital will soon finalize arrangements to complete the canal. He sails to Paris for final talks and asserts completion in four years.
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New York
Slavin
Panama Canal Company
American Contracting & Dredging Company
Paris
Missing Heller brothers vanish with iron safe in St Louis
Two brothers named Heller, foreign bankers and steamship agents at 1015 Franklin avenue, disappear leaving only an iron safe. Authorities allege $15 000 to $20 000, mainly from poor Russians and Scandinavians, was sent to Canada and split there. The brothers had operated six months. a letter between them mocked the victims and hinted at a Canada trip.
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St. Louis
Heller
Franklin Avenue
Canada
Tragic Trotting Race Hits Crowd. Boy 12 Dies
At Bridgeton New Jersey during a Tuesday trotting race a horse veered into the crowd stand striking Elmer Heywood twelve in the head with a shaft. The injury shattered his skull and he died almost instantly.
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Bridgeton
N. J
Elmer Heywood
Three Girls Drowned in Poona River Swim
Addie and Kate Gordon and Myrtle Cranby aged 11 to 14 drowned while bathing in the river near Poona Kansas. The current carried them beyond their depth and they could not swim.
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Poona
Kan
Addie
Kate Gordon
Myrtle Cranby
Here
Eight Million Raised for U S Built Steamship Line
Eight million dollars has been raised in New York by President Corbin of the Reading railroad for a new line of steamships to be built in the United States. The ships will be light, carrying saloon and second cabin passengers only.
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Philadelphia
New York
Corbin
Reading Railroad
Woman Convicted as Common Scold in Jersey City
Jersey City July 17 Mrs Mary Brady is convicted of being a common scold the first such county verdict. The ancient punishment was ducking but the course of action for Mrs Brady remains undecided.
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Jersey City
N. J
Mary Brady
Brady
Four Men Die in Peculiar Lincoln Death Scene
Four men perish in Lincoln Nebraska after a watch attracted them to a cess pool. A ladder entry into a muddy water vault released toxic air causing a chain of asphyxiations. Victims include James Crawford Alfred Kunkler John Cleary and Frank Malone with Crawford and Cleary married.
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Lincoln
Neb
Lincolln
Atemcees
James Crawford
Alfred Kunkler
John Cleary
Frank Malone
Crawford
Cleary
Accidents During Milford Show Hurt Spectators
Two mishaps at W. H. Bristol & Co. circus in Milford Massachusetts on July 18 injuries occurred as seats gave way. First fall injured many with several broken limbs. panic erupted when half the reserved seats collapsed in a crowd of about 200.
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Mirrorp
Mass
W. H. Bristol & Co
West Side
Major Warner Back From Encampment Returns to Kansas City
Major Warner Commander-in-Chief of the G R returns to Kansas City. He comments on the national G A R encampment to be held in Milwaukee and expects a large attendance. He notes Eastern railroads offered favorable rates of one cent a mile.
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Warner
Kansas City
Milwaukee
Piltow sues Colonel King for defamation damages
Memphis July 18 Mrs Mary Piltow widow of the Confederate General filed a bill in the circuit court for 100000 damages alleging defamation of character against Colonel Clay King.
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Memphis
Tenn
Mary Piltow
Clay King
Sherman Anecdotes From the Army of the Tennessee
General Sherman shares two tales from his Civil War days. He recalls spotting Confederate money amid a poker game in Selma and tells of a skilled spy who demanded 500 in greenbacks and 3000 in rebel currency. Kilpatrick supplies the latter sum, and Sherman notes he never saw the woman again. The piece ends with a quip from Wallace. The naval gun plant at Washington is expanding and will soon produce spring shoots.
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Army of the Tennessee
Sherman
Lew Wallace
Daniel
Selma
Wallace
Kilpatrick
General Sherman
N. Y. Cor
Cincinnati Enquirer
Naval
Washington
Baltimore American
Burial at Night by a Frontier Bugler in Indian Territory
An account from W. R. Smith of Company F details a burial in a western Indian Territory valley after a stray shot mortally wounds their bugler. The accidental shooter is jailed briefly, then released after a lecture. The body is buried in two hardtack boxes with a torch-lit grave and a final salute as wolves howl in the night.
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Indian Territory
Uncle Sam
Wis
W. R. Smith
Co. F
Kan
Coyyille
National Tribune
A Boy's Great Nerve After White River Battle
Freeman Z. Wray an eighteen year old in charge of cattle forty five miles north of White River agency repelled a band of savages. He fired from a wagon barricade after both legs were wounded two bullets struck him and a severe eye wound ended his life eighteen months later after a long recovery and eventual death.
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White River
Thornburgh
Freeman Z. Wray
White River Agency
Wray
Young Wray
Philadelphia Press
First Battle of the War At Big Bethel Church
Captain Henry Hudnall recounts the June 10 1861 clash at Big Bethel Church the first major engagement of the war. A young woman Maggie Mitchell rode into camp on a mule signaling a Federal advance and inspiring Confederate counterattack securing the Confederates victory.
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Richmond
Henry Hudnall
Republican City Committee
Big Bethel Church
Magruder
Tidewater
Maggie Mitchell
Atlanta Constitution
Veterans and pension news from state and nation
Over 32 000 pensioners receive $2 monthly while 325 230 soldiers lie in 85 national cemeteries with 148 833 marked unknown. Ex Governor Oden Bowri of Maryland gets $8 monthly pension for Mexican War veteran. Twenty first and Thirty second Wisconsin Regiments reunion at Appleton held. next at Neenah and Menasha. Officers named for ensuing year led by President C B Clark Neenah.
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Military Order of the Loyal Legion
Oden Bowir
Maryland
Monterey
Thirty-second
Wisconsin Regiments of Volunteers
Appleton
Wis
Neenah and Menasha
C. B. Clark
Neenah
Charles Ripley
George H. Hatch
Omro
J. H. Woodworth
Waupaca
Dr. Manchester
Burmese Ear Adornment Converts Burmese Girls to Fashion
A Golden Days excerpt describes Burmese girls in Burmah who wear oversized ear plugs. The ear piercing ritual occurs at ages twelve to thirteen with a silver or gold needle and a ceremonial feast. Rich women wear large gold rings with diamonds, while poorer women use amber plugs as healing stretches the lobes.
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America
Tance
Progress of Vegetation and News from The Star
The passage describes lichens as harbingers of soil formation, with their decay creating mold and acids that weather rock to form fertile ground for future plant life. It notes how generations of lichens gradually convert barren surfaces into productive soil and mentions a new editor at The Star of Fort Gaines Georgia and postal clerks preferring oblong envelopes over square.
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the Star of
Fort Gaines
Georgia
Paul
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