Heroes of Common Life in Talmagi v Speech
A 1900 sermon extols everyday champions over battlefield heroes. It honors sickroom patients, sewing workers, domestic laborers, and overlooked spouses as true heroes whose patience and faith endure hardship. The preacher invokes Job, John Brown, and biblical reward for endurance.
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Louis Klopseh
Cromwells
Washingtons
Napoleons
Wellingtons
Seraph
Archangel
Satan
Job
God
Photographic test to detect counterfeit butter in dairy products
State Chemist J A Hummel proposes a photographic method using nickel prisms microscopes and a lensless camera to distinguish pure butter from oleomargarine. The process relies on crystal formation in heated fats. absence of crystals yields dull light while crystals produce bright and dark spots in the resulting image.
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J. A. Hummel
Hummel
St Paul Pioneer Press
Mind cure fad sparks domestic misadventure
A Detroit bar member recalls his wife's belief in mind over matter as she tries to stop a water leak with thoughts. A hairpin worsens the spill, a plumber is summoned, and the cartoonish scene ends with doubts about the fad's reach. The piece notes the postal card craze has not yet gripped the United States.
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Latimer
Ridley
Fursa
Ningwir
Christ
Heaven
Melrose Abbey
Walter Scott
God
Church
John Brown
Claverhouse
Richard Cameron
Isabel
Lord Claverhouses
Herods
Earth
Detroit
John Henry
John
Detroit Free Press
Europe
Niagara Falls
Memmoth Cave
New York Sun
Copeland
United States
Chicago
Dr. Copeland
Congress Debates Trust Amendment And Expos On A Busy Session
The House approved 190 private pension bills and debated a constitutional amendment to regulate trusts amid heated exchanges. The Senate considered Cuba extradition, naval appropriations, and defense bills while the House passed the Louisiana Purchase Exposition funding and River Mississippi matters. A riotous House session ended with non concurrence on Senate promotions for Generals Miles and Corbin.
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Sunaita
Washington
St. Louis
Judiciary Committee
Congress
Senate
Perkins
California
India
Hale
Maine
Great Britain
South Africa
maTn Ey Academy
HOUSE
Cuba
United States
Illinois
Pettigrew
Lent
Ohio
Hull
Iowa
Corbin
Lentz
Miles
Boxer movement and Chinese troop actions reported in China Gazette
The China Gazette claims the dowager empress ordered the T'sung Li Yamen to confront Europe rather than intervene in the Boxer movement while viceroy troops resist foreign landing near Pekin. A AP visit to Huang Tsun finds a burned station, damaged bridges, and heavy Chinese troop desertions with casualties among bolting units. Bands of Boxers patrol nearby as railway workers flee and guards abandon posts amid rising violence.
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Tang Tai
Lu Kon Chiao
Huang Tsung
No Safety in China Boxers Turmoil Reported by Conger
Cable from Minister Conger in Peking warns of rising Boxers violence outside Beijing. Rail lines halted and foreigners flee as Chinese government struggles to curb unrest. In St Louis a transit strike riot on May 30 causes injuries and property damage across four southern wards.
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Conger
Taerensbug
Wasuinerons
State Department
Peking
Hang Kow
St. Louis
Grain-O new beverage offers coffee alternative
Try Grain-O the grain based drink that substitutes for coffee. It promises coffee like color and digestibility for all ages at a quarter the price. Sold by all grocers. Also Maple City Soap promises whiter clothes when used as directed. Dandruff cure offers money back and notes hair grays with age.
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Java
Oll
Maple City
Belf
T. M. Roberts’ Supply House
Minneapolis
Minn
Popular Resorts Promised by Minneapolis & St. Louis R R
Advertises Waterville Lake Tetonka and Lake Minnetonka getaways with pike crappie and bass fishing and boating. Mentions Maple Point Hotel Tetonka Park Hotel Coney Island Hotels and hotels along Lake Minnetonka with frequent trains and reduced-rate tickets. Also promotes goods like Maple City Belf Washing Soap and Allen's Foot-Ease and various ads.
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Minneapolis & St. Louis RR
Waterville
Minn
Lake Tetonka
Maple Point Hotel
Tetonka Park
Waconia
Clear Lake
Coney Island
Lake Minnetonka
Minneapolis & St. Louis
R. R
Deephaven
Cottagewood
Excelsior
Lake Park
A. B. Cutts
G. P
Minneapolis
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South Mountain
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K. Washington
China
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LeRoy, N
Oregon
St. Paul
Third and
Rosalie Streets
R. E. Werkman
Standard
Manila
Stans, BorBuce & Co
Binder Twine Department
Ihe
Walter Baker & Co. Ltd
Dorchester
Mass
Lane
Ireland
W. V. Sullivan
Frond
Mississippi
Hartman Trong Oxford
Miss
Peruna
Peruni
Peruna Medicine Co
Columbus, O
Hall
Price
Tia
Mia
Winston
Adams
Pakken
W.H. Copeland
Catarah
J Thompsons Sons
de Eri
Stony V Wise
W.N. U
Des Moines
Brussels
C. Br
Jane Ig Roberts
Thompson
Nsionwe
Burtoe Jyve
Elmom
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