Wings of God Comfort Ruth Under His Broad Swift Wings
Rev. Talmage preaches from Ruth to illustrate God as swift broad and strong wings under which a weary soul finds shelter. He cites Ruth’s trust in Boaz and Christ’s care, urges immediate divine aid, and extols the Almighty’s gentleness and protection for all who seek refuge under His wings.
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T. DeWitt Talmage
Lyn Academy of Music
Israel
Ruth
Joaz
Jesus Christ
Boaz
Christ
David
God
Anthony
Jerusalem
Rouen
Ghent
Georgia
Hell
Solomon
Jesus
Peter
Duke of
Argyle
Carlisle
Antietam
Harrisburg
Battle Field
Ptarmigan
Flamingo
Agle
Rocky Mountains
Eyrie
Moab
Mahlon
Job
Absalom
Martin
Abraham
Sarah
Machpelah
Seaman's Friend Society
Tract Society
The
Missionary Society
Red Sea
Babylon
Herculaneum
Heaven
Earth
The Bull Dog’s Pet
A New York sportsman keeps a fierce bull dog confined in a stable. The four year old daughter of the coachman visits daily and teases the animal with an iron bolt while the dog shows calm, loyal behavior. The coachman notes the dog would not hurt children.
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New York
N. Y. Sun
The New Kingdom Review And Mission Study
A doctrinal study summary covering Jesus life from December 29 to April 30 with parables miracles and incidents. It outlines seven lesson topics on entering the kingdomhindrances invitations and welcomes and applying gospel truths to missions.
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New Kingdom
Perea
Jordan
Jericho
Jerusalem
Samaria
Galilee
Jesus
Les
Zaccheus
Lazarus
Cathedral Car Brings Bishop Walker to Remote Missions
The Epoch notes Right Rev William D Walker of North Dakota innovates a cathedral on wheels built by the Pullman Palace Car Co. in Chicago. The sixty foot vehicle serves as a mobile church with vestry, oak finish, and a cabinet organ, enabling rites for about eighty worshipers across a largely unbuilt territory.
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William D. Walker
North Dakota
Pullman Palace Car Company
Chicago
Walker
Global university counts by country
The data from the Chicage Herald lists universities, professors, and student totals for nations across Europe and beyond. Notable figures include the United States with 360 universities and 69 400 students and Germany with 21 universities and 25 064 students.
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Norway
France
Belgium
Holland
Portugal
Italy
Sweden
Switzerland
Russia
Denmark
Austria
Spain
Germany
United States of America
Great Britain
Chicace Herald
History of the hearse and funeral candles
The text traces the hearse from a candle bearing frame used at church funerals to the portable coffin carriage. It notes grey ceremonial hearses over distinguished bodies, candles as a key distinction, and how the frame name spread to describe the whole funeral ceremony and cenotaph.
Hidden Force of Kindness Inspires Global Balance
A reflection on how every kind act worldwide helps restore balance between right and wrong. The text argues kindness converts more sinners than zeal or learning, and notes zeal and learning only work when paired with kindness.
Character Revealed by Small Details in Writing
A remark on how character shows in minor habits like the paper a person uses for notes, suggesting such everyday choices influence how others judge him. The idea links modest, overlooked actions to broader impressions and integrity.
Destruction of In Temperance at Belshazzar’s Feast
Lesson explores Dan 5 with Belshazzar’s drunken defiance at Babylon, the writing Mene Mene Tekel Upharsin, and Cyrus’s siege. It weighs strong drink against soul value, national prosperity, social virtue, and heavenly hope, highlighting pride and neglect of warnings.
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Babylon
Euphrates
Nabonidus
Borsippa
Belshazzar
Cyrus
Daniel
Nebuchadnezzar
Alexander the Great
WELL-KNOWN LITERATI AND THEIR LIVES
A sketch of figures from literature and publishing including General Longstreet’s Civil War history project Mrs Rose Terry Cooke’s decline into invalid life at Pittsfield Mass novelist George Merimepl age sixty two London reader for publishers Lord Tennyson’s clay pipe habit and aging appearance Oliver Wendell Holmes eighty first birthday gift Mrs Alexander née Hector returning to writing after widowhood and her London residence expressed literary confidence
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General Longstreet
Rose Terry Cooke
Pittsfield
Mass
George Mreneplin
London
Lord Tennyson
Carlyle
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Salem
Alexander
Hector
Burchell on Trial in Ontario Murder Case
Reginald Burchell stands accused of murdering Fred C. Benwell near Mud Lake Oxford County in February. The defense reportedly will present an alibi with witnesses claiming Benwell survived past February 17, while prosecutors argue Burchell lured and killed him during a farm project ruse.
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Young Burchell
Benwell
Woopstock
Reginald Burchell
Fred C. Benwell
Bluett
Burchell
Brantford
Mud Lake
Oxford County
F. C. Benwell
Colonel Benwell
Her Majesty’s Army
Canada
Liverpool
Niagara Falls
Eastwood Station
Woodstock
Lord Somerset
Burehell
Honors to Greeley Statue Unveiled by Tribune
The New York Tribune unveils its founder Horace Greeley statue in simple ceremonies on Saturday. Miss Gabrielle Greeley, daughter of Horace, unveils. C M Depew speaks. Bishop Potter gives benediction. The bronze statue stands nearly eleven feet high on dark granite base. Weight about 3000 pounds. Total cost around $20,000. Sculptor J Q A Ward spent eighteen months on the work.
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New York
Tribune
Horace Greeley
Cololonel John Hay
The
Gabrielle Greeley
C. M. Depew
Potter
Greeley
the Tribune
New York Tribune
J. Q. A. Ward
Death of Lawyer Frederick B. Swift in New York
In New York on September 22, lawyer Frederick B. Swift, long troubled by intemperance, sought lodging at the Church Street police station Friday night and was found dead Saturday morning. A morphine bottle and legal papers were found on his person. Swift was Yale educated with Chauncey M. Depew and once served as general counsel for Adams Express, earning about $20,000 annually.
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Frederick B. Swift
New York
Church Street
Swift
Yale College
Chauncey M. Depew
Adams Express Company
Reading
Schuylkill River
MippLetown
N. Y
Wells-Fargo
Here
Charles Leppert
William H. Duffy
Engineers Union Endorses Chief Arthur After New York Strike
At a nationwide convention in New York City delegates from Maine to California and Canada to Panama unanimously adopted a resolution backing Chief Arthur and praising his integrity following the recent strike on the New York Central railroad.
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New York
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
Maine
California
Canada
Panama
Arthur
New York Central Road
Fire destroys Menominee River Shingle plant
The entire plant of the Menominee River Shingle Company burned in Menominee Michigan with estimated losses pegged at fifty thousand dollars. No injuries reported. Fire departments from the city and nearby districts battled the blaze.
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Menominee
Menominee, Mich
King Humbert Unveils Victor Emmanuel Statue in Florence
Rome reports on September 22 that King Humbert unveiled an equestrian statue of his father Victor Emmanuel in Florence. An immense crowd attended the ceremony with bands playing national airs and Florence lit up at night.
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Rome
Humbert
Victor Emmanuel
Florence
Meteor Found Near Kohlsaar Statue Site in Illinois
A 100 pound oval meteor, seen by Captain D. Harris over thirty years ago, was unearthed by workers excavating for the Kohlsaar statue of General Grant in GALESBURG Illinois. The discovery occurred Saturday and the meteor is described as having a peculiar color.
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Galesburg
D. Harris
Kohlsaar
General Grant
Awful Mine Disaster Strikes Wilkesbarre Coal Shaft
An explosion of gas in the Murray shaft of the Lehigh and Wilkesbarre Coal Company's mine at noon Saturday started a fire. Edward Batson died from burns and four other men were recovered dead, with their bodies found.
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Wilkesbarre
Murray
Lehigh and Wilkesbarre Coal Company
Edward Batson
State health official clears Bergholz cholera concerns
Columbus Sept 22 Secretary Probst of the State Board of Health who went to Bergholz Jefferson County to investigate suspected cholera reports telegraphs that the disease is not cholera.
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Columbus
Probst
State Board of Health
Bergholz
Jefferson County
DANGERS OF TRAVEL More Fatal Railway Wrecks Reported
A Chicago excursion train collided with a Belleville express near Kedzie Avenue. Five people died instantly, with a dozen injured. The crash occurred during the fourteenth annual Evangelical Lutheran Orphan Asylum outing. Several victims were residents of Chicago, including Lily Diener and Margaret Diener. Police arrested several train staff and continued investigations. Three men died in Iowa in a separate wreck on the Wabash line near Council Bluffs. The Reading and other accidents in Pennsylvania and New York followed, with dozens injured and several killed. Authorities investigated arrests of Irish leaders Dillon and O Brien and related warrants in Britain and Ireland.
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Chicago
Shoemakersville
Cnicaco
Downer’s Grove
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy
Illinois Central
Addison Park
Dickson
McAvoy
W. H. Seavers
Illinois
Carrington
Taylor
Douglas Station
Iowa
Counciil Burrs
Wabash Railway
St Louis
Martin Eskridge
Joseph Burke
Robert Williamson
Happy Over Hennepin Canal Endorsement Parade
Rock Island Illinois September 22 citizens turnout to celebrate the President’s endorsement of river and harbor improvements including a $500000 Hennepin canal section. An illuminated street parade marked the long bottled up enthusiasm finally released.
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Hennepin
Rock Island
Harbor Hill
Death sentence by electricity for Cal Wood at Dannemora
Cal Wood convicted of murder is sentenced to death by electricity in Dannemora prison New York during the week of November 3.
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Glen Fallus
N. Y
Cal Wood
Dannemora
New York
Drowned in a Mountain Torrent in Arkansas
In Fort Surry Arkansas on September 22 a group of ten Turkish travelers with dancing bears sought shelter in a creek bottom. A fierce storm caused a torrent washing away seven men and all the bears, leaving no survivors.
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Fort Surry
Ark
Boston Mountains
Death of Nevada Governor Stevenson
Carson Nev Sept 22 Charles Clark Stevenson Governor of Nevada died of typhoid fever at his residence in Carson City He was 64 born in Ontario County New York and served as chief executive of the state for several years The obituary notes his death occurred Sunday in his home city
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Stevenson
Carson, Nev
Charles Clark Stevenson
Nevada
Ontario County
News
Oldest Kentucky Mason Samuel Murrell Dies at 98
A Bowling Creek Kentucky dispatch reports Samuel Murrell aged 98 died Friday afternoon at his grandson Samuel Young's residence. He was born in Lincoln County Kentucky in 1792.
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Nashville
Tenn
Bowling Creek
Samuel Murrell
Kentucky
Samuel Young
Mr. Murrell
Lincoln County
Bank of the Cape of Good Hope Fails in Cape Town
The Bank of the Cape of Good Hope collapsed with liabilities of £3,000,000, capital £700,000, and deposits £2,500,000. Located in Cape Town, it stood as a key center for South African trade.
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New York
Bank of the Cape of Good Hope
Cape Town
Fiendish Neigh bor Kills Wife. Self-Destructs in Minnesota
In Lone Prairie Minnesota on September 19 Fred Paul shot Mrs Louis Buelow eight miles from town as she worked in a potato patch. He then severed her ears before returning home and shooting himself. Coroner found hogs had eaten part of the face. Witness was the couple's young daughter. Authorities consider the man likely insane.
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Lone Prramir
Minn
Fred Paul
Louis Buelow
Bear Head
Paul
Cotes
Tragedy in Portsmouth Hein Kills Family Then Himself
Fred H. J. Hein, a 41 year old cooper, fatally shoots his three daughters Carrie 16 Bertha 13 then wounds Charles W. Taylor a hardware merchant before turning the pistol on himself. Carrie and Bertha die at once, Maud dies later, Taylor survives but is gravely wounded.
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Min
Portsmouth
N. H
Fred H. J. Hein
Elredge Brewing Company
Carrie
Hein
State Street
Charles W. Taylor
Market Street
State
Union Streets
Taylor
Taylor Hein
Maud
Bertha
Miners Set for Large Illinois Indiana Strike
Patrick McBryde of the United Mine Workers travels from Pittsburgh to Springfield Illinois to order a strike of about 40 000 miners in the Indiana and Illinois fields beginning November 1. Northern districts seek seven and one half cents raise, southern districts ten cents. funds and union sanction aid the effort.
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Ilinois
Pittsburgh
Patrick McBryde
United Mine Workers
Springfield
Indiana
Illinois
McBryde
Pennsylvania
Ohio
Utah Commission Seeks Tougher Polygamy Laws
The Utah commission sends its annual report to the Secretary of the Interior urging stronger enforcement and new amendments to combat polygamy. It notes the practice is increasing and taught in Mormon churches, calling for no backward steps in government action.
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Salt Lake City
U. T
Utah Commission
Secretary of the Interior
Congress
Spokane carpenters walk out slow build of Exposition
In Spokane Washington 250 carpenters quit work delaying the Northwestern Industrial Exposition building. To meet a October 1 opening, prominent citizens joined in overalls and carried saws while 300 others hammered nails. The mayor and aldermen joined in the carpentry effort.
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Spokane Frallis
Wash
Spokane
Rush of Goods to New York From Manchester
The rush to move goods to New York to dodge the McKinley tariff has tied up liner space, with every available tonnage fully engaged and sailing slots scarce.
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New York
Manchester
Mississippi Valley Loan & Trust Co Organizes in St Louis
The Mississippi Valley Loan and Trust Company of St Louis with a capital of 2,000,000 is the latest financial institution organized in the city. It is intended to transact regular loan and trust company business.
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St. Louis
Mississippi Valley Loan & Trust Company of
European reprisals eyed amid American product clash
In Vienna on September 19 the Fremdenblatt denounces American egotism for seeking to bar European goods while protecting European markets. Rumor says Chancellor von Caprivi and Count Kalnoky discuss joint reprisals.
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Vienna
The
Fremdenblatt
von Caprivi
Count Kalnoky
Burglary Reported at Clinton Falls Store
The G. W. Knapp store in Clinton Falls was burglarized Wednesday night. Thieves took 3000 dollars in notes and 240 dollars in money. suspects remain at large.
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Minneapolis, Minn
The
Journal
Clinton Falls
Minn
G. W. Knapp
End of Russell Murder Case at Monticello Ill
The Russell murder case closed with a guilty verdict at 3 a.m. Wednesday. Calvin Holden and Albert Dunham were sentenced to death. Ann Eliza Holden received twenty five years and Edwin Holden fifteen years in the state penitentiary.
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Montreeto
Ill
Russell
Calvin Holden
Albert Dunham
Ann Eliza Holden
Edwin Holden
Couple Found Dead in Normal Home From Gas Leak
Mr and Mrs Gee were found dead at their Normal residence after breakfast on a gasoline stove. Authorities believe a gasoline reservoir change led to fatal gas filling the room. Some suggest a breakfast poisoning. The couple came from El Paso Woodford County a year ago to educate their daughter at the State Normal University.
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Broommaton
Gee
Normal
Elpaso
Woodford County
State Normal University
Governor Commutes Nannie Woods Sentence in Mount Franklin Case
In Ricamono Virginia on September 18, Governor Lee commuted the sentence of Nannie Woods a Black woman who had been sentenced to death by hanging for the arson fatality at Mount Franklin County last October. Woods will serve life in prison instead of capital punishment.
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Chas
Warran Kanes
Duauty
John Dillon
William O’brien
Thurgyday
Ballybrack
Glengariff
Ar Sheedy
Condon
House of Commons
Patrick O
Irwin
Ronan
O’brien
O'Brien
Inspector Raffer
America
Raffer
Canon Cahill
National League
Dillon
Sheehy
Tipperary
London
Messrs
County Cork
Schull
Ireland
Lincoln
Neb
Fitzgerald
Irish National League
John Fitzgerald
Ricamono
Ma Vern Lee
Nannie Woods
Ae Mount
Franklinounty
Tober
Ene
Man Slightly Burned After Alcohol Sponge Bath
Wi H. Williams, a mute resident of St. Joseph Missouri, suffered severe burns Wednesday when the alcohol used for a sponge bath ignited. He stood near his eye to dry, causing burns described as badly.
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St. Josrpu
Wi H. Willier
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