Healing and Dorcas in Acts at Lydda Joppa
In this Sunday School lesson from Acts 9, Peter heals Aeneas of eight years of paralysis in Lydda and revives Dorcas in Joppa. The events lead many to believe in the Lord, as the early church grows through miracles, edification, and the Comforter.
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H. GC. Lenington
Peter
Lydda
Aeneas
Jesus Christ
Saran
Joppa
Tabitha
Dorcas
Pater
Simon @ tanner
Jenson Christ
Church of Christ
Jesus
Webster
God
Plan to feed shredded fodder to sheep with a rack
A subscriber describes a feeding rack for sheep that handles grain hay and long fodder. The trough is two feet wide and ten inches deep with no slot cover, elevating the feed to allow air circulation under it to reduce waste.
Design for a Shredded Fodder Rack for Sheep
An Ohio Farmer note describes a long hinged rack for shredded fodder with a bottom trough and a rope fastened cover to lift for feeding and cleaning. Production suggests ten foot lengths as convenient, ten inch slat spacing for medium sheep yielding one foot per animal, with larger breeds needing more space or extra feeding slots.
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Ohio
Managing the Hogs Pasture and Scalding Temperatures
A Farm Stock and Home reader asks how much pasture 30 pigs need and the proper scalding water temperature. Answers note pasture quality matters more than simple acre counts, fencing costs affect profit, and grasses such as red clover, alfalfa, Kentucky bluegrass, and brome provide varying value. For quick pasture, rye oats or oats barley mix works. movable fences boost regrowth and economy. Water must be clean and available. scalding water should be about 180 degrees with ample supplies for wallowing and drinking.
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Kentucky
Fortunes in Inventions and Notable Inventors
The piece surveys fortunes from inventions like Plimpton’s taller skete, a wooden elastic hall returning over 50 200 a year, and a modern baby carriage creator earning 50 000. It notes Harvey Kennedy’s shoe-lace success at 2 500 000, umbrella gains, rubber tip on pencils yielding 100 000 yearly, and the Howard sugar vacuum patent lucrative to financiers. It mentions Sir Josiah Mason’s vast steel pen fortune and a shoe sole plate business selling 12 000 000 plates in 1879 and 143 000 000 in 1887, earning 1 150 000 that year.
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Plimpton
Harvey Kennedy
Howard
Vacuo
Josiah Mason
St Louis Exposition Details Lively Plans and Delays
The article notes the St Louis exposition underway with a completed sewer system and extensive preparations. Turkish papers in Beirut announce the fair, New York firms will build three smokeless factories, France earmarks 600000 for the project, and inventors propose automoboats to display on water. The site features numerous cavities, a robust nightly detective presence, fourteen statuary groups by a sculptor, and Arkansas providing a smoking room for soldiers.
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Beirut
Asia
France
Arkansas
Arkansna
Little Items of Interest Elk Population Note
A brief note mentions there are 50,000 elk in Yellowstone National Park, highlighting wildlife statistics within the region.
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Yellowstone National Nark
Allen's What-Ease syrup cures swollen tired feet
An advertisement extols Act To-Day for Allen's What-Ease to cure swollen aching feet sold by druggists and shops, with a address in Le Roy New York and a testimonial from Wm. O. Endasley of Vanburen Indiana dated February 10 1900. Also mentions Gonta Johnny nanny goat voice joke and various patent medicines like Hale's Honey of Horehound and Tar and Pike's Toothache Drops claimed to act quickly.
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Allen
Lampie
A. S. Olmsted
le Roy
Hale
Pike
Broommakers' Union Moves Million Labels Monthly
The Broommakers' union reports a monthly output of around one million labels for union made brooms. Senator Kearns of Utah owns a Swiss timepiece valued at $600. An Australian plays golf twelve hours daily for six days in Edinburgh. The 1901 cyclopedia cites US gifts and bequests totaling $107,260,000 last year. A papal petition seeks cataloging art treasures in Italian churches and monasteries to curb export.
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Senator Kearns
Utah
Edinburgh
United States
Bright's Disease Cured by Kidney Pills
Mrs Kitty F Seaney of Sullivan Illinois was diagnosed with Brights Disease and given little hope. After using Dodd s Kidney Pills she recovered rapidly as kidneys expelled diseased matter. She completed ten boxes and now has full health without pain or symptoms.
Mark Twain on Autographs and Works
A Chicago Chronicle quotation notes that asking a doctor builder or sculptor for an autograph is polite, but requesting a specimen of their work is improper and likely to be refused, comparing it to asking a doctor for one of his corpses to remember him by.
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Mark Twain
Chicago Chronicle
Local Ribbing court remark cited by judge
A humorous courtroom exchange is quoted with a judge noting the jab about a celebration and questions about using whistles, reflecting light banter over a domestic matter. The fragmentary dialogue mentions Mrs Finnigan and Mrs Hogan Nivir, illustrating colorful local conversation in the proceedings.
Plentiful Hay Offer Amid Farm Trade Note
An Adams County ad promotes 5 to 8 tons of rich hay per acre at $1.90 per 100 pounds with low freights from John A Balzer Seed Co of La Crosse Wisconsin. A separate item notes Putnam Faceless Dyes sold for 10 cents by druggists with a quip about friendship in Indianapolis News.
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Earlieer
John A. Balzer Seed Co
la Crosse
Wis
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Gearon
Peter, Aeneas and
ST. Louis‘ Exposition
New York
St. Louis
Chicago
Kansas City
Waita O
Grebans
Gonta
Johnny
Nanny
Chicago Daily
Atchison Globe
Pito
Wm. O. Endasley
Vanburen, Ind
Puck
Bright
Francis Podmore
Saranac Lake
Lydia E. Pinkham
Mrs. Pinkham
Francis Popmore
America
Indianapolis News
Putnam
California Fig Syrup Co
California
London
Emhy
Uae
Ana Mes
Poteel
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