Finding Our Sphere In Gods Plan From Hagar’s Desert
A preacher lectures on the Genesis scene of Hagar and Ishmael as a parable. He urges finding and staying in the divine sphere for each person, arguing many wander when discontent with their place. The lecture extols humility, service, and faith, noting every wilderness hides a well of water.
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Sarah
Abram
Abraham
Hagar
Ishmael
Desert
Beer-sheba
Hager
Sextus V
Ferguson
God
Heaven
Hogarth
Broomfield
London
Hawley
England
Oman
Cunard
Mary Magdelene
Paradise Lost
Mary
Bertha
Agnes
Egypt
Assyria
Gaulus
Alexander
Sutton Pool
Plymouth
John Kitto
New York
Canton
Madras
Tabernacle
Christ
Cross
Magar
Jesus
Paracelsus
A Mariner's Rule. Downing Punishes a Savage Island Tribe
Captain Downing commanded the Vandalia in the South Pacific. After a French vessel with two Americans was wrecked on Chatham Island, he hunted the wreckage and then hoodwinked the islanders with the Yankee whaleboat Rodney Farwell. He landed his crew, faced a war party, and after a brutal skirmish captured the chief and imprisoned prisoners before returning to the Bay of Islands.
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Downing
South Pacific Ocean
New Zealand
Chatham Island
Bay of Islands
Rodney Farwell
New Bedford
Chatham Savages
N. Y. Ledger
A Story for Wives Moral That Hidden Love Reveals
A wife, weary and suspicious, snoops while her husband works late and finds a kiss carved in a picture of herself from their early days. Mortified, she resolves to be a better wife. Morning light and a kiss from her husband renew their bond as the children note her renewed charm.
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Christian Advocate
The Amusing Gift Paradox in Human Nature
A Times essay explores how people can simultaneously want and resist a gift. The mind’s push and pull reveal a sincere inner conflict where strong desire clashes with opposing will, not deceit, in everyday moments.
Veteran merchants and the pull of continuing work
A New York Ledger meditation argues that seasoned merchants stay in business to fulfill their need for activity and purpose. Wealth alone cannot grant contentment through idleness, the piece asserts, as purpose and pressure tempt a veteran to keep laboring.
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N. Y. Ledger
Sambo as a Dialectician on a Sleeping Car
A colored porter is scolded for delaying a stop and replies with a clipped dialect claim that his pay dwarfs a white man’s salary. The observer notes the porter’s supposed inexperience as a dialectician and ends with a curt interior reflection.
Kind words brighten the home and ease daily strife
A piece from the Evangelical Messenger notes that a single bitter word unsettles a whole family, while a surly glance or a warm smile can alter moods. It argues that kind acts and gentle dispositions make a humble home dear and peaceful despite world troubles.
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Evangelical Messenger
Johnstown Flood Death Toll Rises As Debris Burned
The Registration Bureau reports 12 020 unaccounted survivors, 1 240 bodies recovered with 15 678 survivors identified or remaining. Charred debris litters valleys while relief efforts organize districts and pay out labor.
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Pittsburgh
South Fork Fishing Club
Jonxstown
Hastings
H. T. Douglass
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Engineering Corps
Cambria City
Morrellsville
Ridge
James McKnight
Douglas
Bureau of Registration
Scott
Fourth Ward
Millvale
Morrellville
Presbyterian Church
Prospect
Pennsylvania Railroad Station
Saint Columbia Church
Kernville
Grandview Chapel
Pennsylvania Railroad
Nineveh
Indiana County
New Florence
Greensburg
Johnstown
Fourteeth Regiment
Altoona
South Fork
Juniatta Valley
Jonunstown
Sears
United States Army Engineer Corps
Alice Jones
Layton
Cambria Iron Company
Cambria
General Hastings
Lochesteer
N. Y
Clara Barton
Jane Marsh Parker
Harrisburg
Beaver
Philadelphia
Johnstons
Indians County
W. B. Hess
O'Connell
Mary Holleran
Rodgers
Resurrection Lesson From John 20 In Jerusalem
A religious study outlines the Easter narrative on April 9 AD 30. It details Mary Magdalene at the tomb, the angelic message, and Jesus appearing to Mary and the disciples, proving the resurrection through eyewitness testimony and transformed lives.
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U. S
Calvary
Jerusalem
Joseph of
Arimathea
Nicodemus
Jesus
Emmaus
Mary
Peter
John
Lord
Mary Magdalene
Sea of Galilee
Galilee
James
Israel
God
Jacob
A. F. Schauffler
Extracts of science and natural philosophy notes
A compendium of scientific points on oceanic cable sizes required for undersea use, explosive benzine dangers, car pitch discrimination limits, deafness causes, and therapeutic air pressures below sea level with locations such as Coachilla valley Los Angeles Dead Sea East Africa Lake Asal Libya Siwah and Caspian borders cited.
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Coachilla
Los Angeles
California
Dead Sea District
Lake
Asal
East Africa
Oasis
Araj
Desert
Lybia
Arroyo de Muerto
Siwah
The Africo-American column on Black progress and rights
A Philadelphia Press commentary reflects on the black man’s gradual gain of rights since emancipation. It notes threats at polls and in churches, yet emphasizes perseverance through toil and suffering toward a future defined by self effort and victory.
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South
South Carolina
Virginia
Omaha
Philadelphia Press
Wyoming Statehood Drive Urged by Republican Journal
The Chicago Journal urges Wyoming to pursue statehood now, outlining citizen and official steps like districting and a constitutional convention. It emphasizes Wyoming as a Republican stronghold and projects rapid population and voter growth, asserting swift, orderly entry once Congress allows.
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Wyoming
Congress
Dakota
Territorial Court
Union
Vermont
South Dakota
Chicago Journal
Pension surplus not to stand in pensions' way
Washington correspondent reports Pension Commissioner Tanner plans to grant all just pensions promptly without regard to Treasury surplus. He says the next pension bill may rise from eighty to ninety million or to one hundred sixty million. The piece contrasts this with past administrations valuing surplus, and argues the surplus should be used to fund legitimate pensions, not as a constraint.
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Johnstown
Jennie Given
Jennie
Main Street
Mr. Baer
Jouestown
Booth & Flynn
Wylie
State Board of Health
Red Cross Society
Kernville
Pennsylvania Railroad
Singer
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
National Guard
Bean
Burnett
Regular Army
Spangler
William Flynn
General Hastings
Ryan & McDonald
McDonald
Mr. Flynn
Flynn
Hastings
Bellefonte
Wilmer L. Malin
Bell Telephone and Supply Company
Pennsylvania
Williamsport
Susquehanna Valley
Lock Haven
Pittsburgh Relief Committee
Baltimore & Ohio
Fourteenth Regiment
Stone Bridge
Pittsburgh
New Orleans
Tanner
Treasury
Washington
Commissioner Tanner
Corporal Tanner
Cleveland
Black
Harrison
Indianapolis Journal
Western farm mortgages and the fate of debt amid markets
A Louisville Courier Journal excerpt argues Western farmers are tied to mortgages by credit, but will liquidate as markets improve. It contrasts Western finance with Eastern states, noting protected industries and nearby cities aid profits. It foresees Southern land demand if immigration shifts markets.
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Louisville Courier-Journal
Northwestern
Middle States
Chicago
Inter Ocean
Political commentary on 1892 nominations and party stances
Extracted excerpts discuss Grover Cleveland as a Democratic nominee favorite, Republican and Democratic press reactions, and opinions on tariff and regional political shifts. References include the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, New York Tribune, New York World, Philadelphia Press, New York Mail and Express, New York Tribune, and Boston Journal.
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Bey
Grover Cleveland
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
Cleveland
Tribune
Young Men’s
Democratic Club
N. Y. World
Vem
Brewers of
New York
Governor Hill
Philadelphia
Democratic
United States
N. Y. Mail
Express
Blaime
Macnanimous
Maine
State Department
Bayard
N. Y. Tribume
South
Benjamin Harrison
Boston Journal
Bayle
Omaha
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Rev. T. de Witt Talmage
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Jesus Risen
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Western Farm Mortgages
Leavenworth Times
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