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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1897
Page
4
The Warren Mail publishes a sermon note by Rev. H Doyle on getting rid of sins based on Luke chapter 13. It emphasizes conviction repentance and faith in Christ as steps to cleanse from sin and prepare for heaven. Bible readings accompany the reflection.
A reflection on Christian baptism by fire as ongoing personal trials. Charles Kingsley argues many good people endure secret chastisements month after month, cleansing faults and refining character. The piece emphasizes unseen suffering, perseverance, and humility before God.
The piece argues that mankind must outgrow partial theories to possess truth guiding personal and social evolution. Freedom of thought becomes a universal duty across all stations, enlarging life for man and giving glory to God through truthful pursuit.
A moral exhortation urging restraint in fault finding and judgment. It advocates silence, avoiding negativity, and choosing praise to improve communal atmosphere. The quote emphasizes grace, virtue, and considerate behavior toward neighbors.
Quotation attributed to Thomas Hughes lauding friendship as a divine gift. It emphasizes outward generosity, selflessness, and recognition of noble and loving qualities in others.
A brief quotation emphasizes bearing reproach for duty to be a good Christian, urging steadfast resolve in following conscience and faith. The remark frames duty as a test of Christian character and moral courage.
In the Indianapolis Journal a remark about a typewritten letter triggers a reminiscence. A young Mr. Fitts boasts of his clever idea while discussing a “typewriter girl” and noting the love passages in the letter as inspired.
A landlady quotes 80 marks for a room and offers it to a student who agrees. The landlady then refuses him saying a man who meekly accepts such an extortionate price does not intend to pay his bill. The remark comes from the satirical lliegende Blatter.
In Philadelphia North American a child quips that a dentist father means endless new teeth, while Mabel remarks she is getting a new tooth. The playful exchange highlights domestic humor about dental care.
A landlord and tenant discuss a bill the tenant left, with the tenant relieved that the money was found and ready to pay. The exchange appears in a New York Journal excerpt.
A Chicago Post quip recalls a groom catching his bride after she leaped playfully. The lighthearted remark frames the moment with humor and affection, highlighting a spontaneous wedding mishap captured in print.
Rev. W J Yates explains that evangelical teaching affirms a Christian may have clear assurance of sins forgiven and the Holy Spirit's witness. The message traces Wesleyan emphasis on salvation and personal assurance, urging self examination to confirm the Spirit's testimony and avoid drifting into sin.
The article argues health and growth reflect spiritual condition, redefining grace as both divine favor and inward virtue. It asserts believers should grow in wisdom and favor with God, and that true grace shows in gentle, refined character grounded in the Holy Spirit, not mere outward polish.
The passage urges Christmas to be a renewed reminder of the Bethlehem story and the Saviour's sacrifice. It calls on churches and chapters to emphasize the meaning of the festival and to conduct offerings for church work, remembering Him who gave Himself for us.
The next Methodist ecumenical conference is scheduled for 1901 at Wesley Chapel City Road London with assembly details indicating a major gathering in the capital.
The article traces Christmas greens back to Roman Saturnalia rituals and quotes Ruskin on tree worship. It notes holly bay and laurel as common decorations, with American holly a good substitute for English holly. It advises minimal color, warns against over decoration, and suggests removing greens by February 2 or Candlemas to avoid goblins and ill fortune.
A poem from the New Haven Register portrays Nogood a fabled valley town by the River Slow. It laments idle lives in a place of wasted schemes and cowardice, urging readers to adopt a steadfast motto I can I will and act daily.
A narrator recalls an Egyptology-loving jeweler Mr Pontifex of Moore Lane and a plan to impersonate a mummy to steal from his shop. With help from Dick Herring and Jack Tovey they prepare a fake coffin and buttercloth wrappings and scheme to deliver the counterfeit mummy to Pontifex after a letter and telegraph hoax.
The narrator recalls a midnight escape from a coffin after a jewel heist. With a blade ring he freed his arms, donned clothes, and slipped downstairs to plunder the precious stones. He and accomplices fled through a lane to Mansion House and into Paris Brussels, where the swag was sold for about £8,000.
The Kansas City to Memphis line adopts a pneumatic paint machine in its shops. Frank Crocker, master painter, reports faster results, painting a freight car in one hour versus two to three hours by hand. The device blasts paint as a fine mist, ensuring uniform thickness and entry into crevices, though not yet used on passenger coaches. The invention by Mack Mastin of the Illinois Central railway aims to cut material and labor costs.
The article notes a range of stamp values from 1 cent up to 5000 dollars for issued stamps. It mentions the highest value among postage stamps is five dollars, new gear stamps reach ten dollars, and revenue stamps may represent five thousand eight pounds.
An appeal stresses that proper care enables healthy wifehood and motherhood and promotes Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription as a leading remedy for female weakness. Testimonials claim relief from pain and improved health, with purchase notices and a free or low-cost copy of The People’s Medical Adviser offered.
A tale recalls a cross roads hamlet blacksmith who shoeing horses and pressing cider built wealth beyond his trade. Farmers crossed the state line for shoes and drink, while jars showed whiskey secrets hidden in cider barrels and a cellar stash.
A San Francisco boy, Kerr, earned a Sunday Bible gift after a fight left him with a black eye. As the Plymouth Congregational pastor announced the reward, the congregation laughed and the boy shouted that he had beaten the rival anyway.
Dr. C B Boynton points to raw egg white as a nutritive antiseptic for fever, with the yolk left inside and the white given as a tasteless dose every hour or two. In typhoid fever this method aids antiseptic treatment and may counteract toxins. Patients often fear raw eggs but take a second dose after the first.
Specifications received by Joseph A. Crawford for the Japanese Government outline needs for about 160 miles of track. The order includes 16 000 tons of sixty pound steel rails 2 000 tons of fish plates bolts and other fittings and thirty locomotives.
Rockefeller faced condemnation for not aiding distress in Virginia Minnesota. Reports say instead of a $1000 gift he sent an agent to investigate, who then recommended opening a mine and hiring many starving men.
Dr. Clarence Dickinson and Miss Josephine Block quietly wed at the Dickinson home in Stockton after a two year romance that began in Kodiak during the Alaska Fur Company field service. Dickinson gained fame post White shipwreck救 and救 surgery amid frostbitten survivors.
In Portland Oregon several locals test evaporated vegetables to supply Alaskan miners. A top onion variety proves best for evaporation though its exact type is kept secret by the grower. A dealer displays a tin of the product that looks like shavings but smells and tastes like onions. The cost is around six cents per pound with sacks yielding limited quantity.
A South swamp hunter describes gator hunting using a long pole with a steel prod and hook to force a kill by shooting the eye. The hides and teeth are sold locally, and young gators are eaten. The piece then shifts to Queen Victoria’s smoking ban and a costly Windsor cigar service for guests. Cigar makers earn thirty cents per cigar, producing up to 300 daily.
The Russian artist Verestchagin endured serious injuries to his right hand including a partial thumb amputation from a leopard bite a battlefield middle finger damage from a gunshot and centre bone fractures from a later fall on the Steppes. Despite these, he remains among Russia’s leading painters and uses his damaged hand with the same dexterity as any European artist.
Secretary Linden of the Zoological station in Naples Italy unveils a boat propelled only by steel fans driven by seawater motion. The craft performs best in rough seas and demonstrates a novel use of ocean energy.
The Maya Indians of Sonora's Sierra Madre are described as fair skinned with blue eyes and light hair. They supposedly descend from a Swedish shipwreck, a tale unsupported by evidence. They govern themselves, resist Mexican interference, and have strong ties with the Yaqui neighbors. They rely on hunting with some cultivation of corn and garden produce.
A fragmented timetable lists the Dunkirk Allegheny Valley and Pittsburgh Railroad routes with stations from Dunkirk through Syracuse and Rochester to Niagara Falls, showing daily sun rise times and multiple arrivals and departures among towns like Fredonia, Falconer, Youngsville, Pittsfield, and Oil City. The data includes station pairs, times, and route segments.
On Sundays train 5 departs Dunkirk at 3 30 p m then Falconer at 4 43 p m Warren 5 35 p m and reaches Titusville at 6 55 p m Train 2 and 4 connect at Falconer Junction for all eastbound points N L E W and Ray D C Moon superintendent Dunkirk H Parry Buffalo Gro Daniels New York City officials listed with station contact details.
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