The Healing Art of Christ the Surgeon of Souls
Rev T DeWitt Talmage extols Jesus as the supreme physician for body and soul. He reviews ancient surgical lore from Genesis to Hippocrates, contrasts human doctors with Christ, and recounts miracles healing blindness, deafness, paralysis, and chronic sin, urging faith and eternal worship.
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Archagathus
Ahaziah
Ekron
Esculapius
Pergamos
Epidaurus
Pondelirius
Damacedes
Darius
Hippocrates
Praxagoras
Herophilus
Erasistratus
Celsus
Hieriodorus
Alexander
Tralles
Rhazas
Percival Pott
Roux
Laray
France
Astley Cooper
Aberneithy
Great Britain
Valentine Mott
Willard Parker
Samuel D. Gross
America
Job
Hezekiah
Shunem
Asa
Egypt
Nebunezzar
Jericho
Samaritan
Jesus Christ
Christ
Stop Fretting and Worry, A Lesson From Good Housekeeping
A meditation on fret and worry shows men and women both prone to anxiety. The piece argues fretting harms others and oneself, noting inherited tendencies and urging a determined effort to conquer the habit. It concludes with a concise motto to stop.
A Life of Suffering Enriches Human Experience
The New York Independent notes that ease breeds stagnation while hardship tests and enriches character. Paul serves as a striking illustration of this idea.
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Paul
N. Y
The Ruler's Daughter May 4 1890 Sunday Lesson
International Sunday School lesson outlines Jairus faith and Jesus raising the ruler’s daughter in Capernaum. It notes parallels with other gospel accounts, emphasizes faith as the condition for earthly and spiritual blessings, and offers practical conclusions on confronting death and spiritual life.
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S. S
Jesus
Capernaum
Matthew
Jairus
Sea of Galilee
Gadara
Church of the
Nain
Jerusalem
Peter
James
John
Mark
Rome
Lazarus
Christ Jesus
Adam
Egypt
Ezekiel
A. F. Schauffler
Christ
mysterious professional finder Dominick Burdell in New York
A long profile of Dominick Burdell known as the sugar fiend a professional finder who lives on rewards from locating lost articles. He surveys streets and graveyards at dawn searches lost and found ads and rewards for valuables and has earned trust from police and the public.
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New York
Madison Square
Dominick Burdell
Finder
Printing House Square
Broadway
Burdell
Trinity Church
Nick Burdell
Fifth Avenue
Odd Bets and Big Promises Across the Nation
A New Jersey town voted a fifteen cent bounty for ground-hog tails and faced a bankrupt treasury. A Mequon farmer’s stepson forced a land deed promise. A Chanute beef sale left a two dollar debt. A Denver wife sues for 100000 cash and divorce from a husband in Omaha. Fluvanna dances and billiards raise funds for a Free Church. A New York man sued his would‑be mother‑in‑law for 85, pawned a ring for it, and warned of a breach of promise suit with no ring.
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Independence Township
Warren County
N. J
Chanute
Kan
Denver
Omaha
Wyandotte County
Fluvanna
N. Y
Free Church
New York
Unsavory city corners and shifting fortunes told in ink
The piece describes derelicts and petty thieves haunting Sixth Avenue and gilded vice districts while pawn shops and fence houses quietly absorb wealth. It notes streetcar laborers and drivers stripping the rails as their own land and remarks how theaters, ballrooms, and the L trains are policed, shrinking the finder’s niche.
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Sixth Avenue
Ingenious Device Aids Short People To Grow Taller
Miss Santalini writes in the Pall Mall Budget about a device for hollow cheeks and wrinkles. An Islington man provides face pads attached to teeth by gold springs to improve appearance. Pads cost about £5 and are worn by both men and women.
Elevator Cork Footwear Promises Height Increase
An inventor named Cremer proposes cork powered footwear to add up to four inches of height. False feet tucked inside shoes raise the wearer while preserving the outer line, allowing concealment under stockings and clothing.
What Wis Mother Would Do If She Were Short of Money
A country schoolmistress tests pupils with a reading line on credit. Johnny suggests his mother would cope by using dad's Sunday coat if money runs short, provoking the lesson's abrupt end. A separate note recaps a duel challenge: a man invites a foe to meet at the graveyard at eight with pistols. if late, proceed without him.
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Christ
Peter
Malchus
Lake Galilee
Galilee
Jerusalem
Lake Tiberias
Heavenly Country
Earth
Elysian Fields
Jericho
Heaven
John
Marm
Johnny
Young Lades Journal
The Pursuit of Pleasure in a Coasting Tale
A playful exchange shows Mamma scolding Bobby for a blue nose and chattering teeth after big fun coasting with the boys. Bobby explains the mischief with his stammer as he admits the chilly amusement.
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Bobby
Sunday School Card Scene From Arcola Record
A Sunday School item recalls a teacher asking about Goliah and a boy describing the sling as chestnuts, told by a little girl. The exchange appears in the Arcola Record as a light local vignette.
Exploded Notion Warns Of Rheumatism Cure
A comic exchange cites claims from Mrs Gotham about muc baths curing rheumatism. Mr Gotham derides the idea, recounting slipping on Broadway as evidence it fails, reflecting a New York Weekly quip on quack cures.
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Gotham
Broadway
N. Y
Excellent tariff bill praised by House committee
The article lauds Major McKinley and the House Ways and Means Committee for a new tariff bill, praising its balance between protection and reform. It highlights wool protection, pig iron, sugar bounty, free art imports, and silk industry support, arguing the bill serves American homes, industries, and revenues while addressing local interests.
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McKinley
House Committee of Ways and Means
Major McKinley
Massachusetts
United States
Rusk
Department of Agriculture
Union
Th Ithern
Potomac
Ohio
South
Senate
N. Y. Mail and Express
Glass tariff sparks debate over prices and industry impact
A Chicago Journal piece cites James Campbell arguing tariffs on plate and window glass lowered prices from earlier free import levels. It notes 1857 free duties, 1889 tariffs, price drops and wage increases, asserting tariffs boosted American production and reduced prices overall.
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James Campbell
Free-Trade
Ccce
Oads
Ccee-Cserss
Wamionig
Cs Cassalec
Sess
Chicago Journal
Cleveland Letter Echoes Tariff Reform and Tammany Aid
A postscript quotes Mr. Cleveland reinforcing last July his belief that Tammany Hall aids in maintaining the true spirit of American institutions. The Chicago Tribune attribution cites the idea as part of a broader tariff reform discussion.
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Cleveland
Tammany Hall
Chicago Tribune
Home market shield for farms and industry
The Toledo Blade argues the home market absorbs 95 to 98 percent of agricultural and manufactured goods and warns against sacrificing domestic production for foreign trade. It endorses expanding merchant marine aid used by Britain and France to boost trade while preserving the home market.
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Great Britain
England
France
Toledo
Courtesies Between Two Democratic Messiahs
Cleveland replies to Dana calling him a senile liar and thief and accuses Dana of lies about his wife. Dana defends himself calling Cleveland a cowardly liar and a pundit of William Street while accusing Cleveland of personal insults and public misdeeds.
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Dana
Cleveland
William Street
United States
Political notes on territorial admission and party lines
A Democrat Blodget of New Jersey voted against Sherman antitrust in the Senate. Democratic objections to Idaho and Wyoming admission are partisan, as territories lean Republican and mugwump papers doubt their populations. A Raleigh mob incident involved a labor agent seeking to move African Americans north, with Southern whites shown as opposing Black political rights while preferring labor mobility out of the region.
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Senate
Sherman
Blodget
New Jersey
Toledo Blade
Idaho
Wyoming
Territories
Dakota
St. Louis Globe- Democrat
St. Louis Globe- Democrat. 12"Mugwump
Cincinnati Commercial Gazette
Raleigh
N. C
South
Chicago Inter Ocean
Settlement of Montana contest gives Republicans ten Senate majority
The Montana contest settlement grants Republicans a ten vote Senate majority, the strongest since the Forty-fourth Congress of 1875 77. The Forty-fifth to Fiftieth Congresses show varied GOP majorities ranging from two to thirteen, with the Forty-sixth led by Democrats and the next Senate tied.
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Montana
Senate
St. Louis Globe- Democrat
Vision of Tissue Reform Ticket Amid Reform Platform
The New York Sun promotes a satirical reform ticket naming Ernst Schweninger of Wissnichtwo as Vice-President and Grover Cleveland as President. It imagines a united ticket to reduce the surplus and advance reform through mutual consecration, noting Schweninger is not a U.S. citizen.
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Schweninger
United States
Prince Bismarck
Grover Cleveland
New York
Ernst Schweninger
Wissnichtwo
N. Y
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