Tempted and Tested Faithful God in Temptation Sermon
In a 1903 Chicago sermon, the speaker urges that God is faithful and will not allow temptations beyond a believer’s strength. He illustrates with biblical examples from Jesus and Paul, explains the door of escape at every trial, and urges honest facing of temptations to find courage, growth, and eventual reward.
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J. MM. Edson
Chicago
Columbus
Stanley
Africa
Jesus Christ
Satan
Paul
God
Christ Jesus
Temptation
Eden
Esol
Jesus
Holy
Devil
Peter
James
Christ
Job
Home made theater project for kids and families
Brooklyn Eagle describes a do it yourself toy theater built from a soap box with a crosscut saw floor, curtain from a shade roller, and simple stage props. It provides step by step assembly guidance, lighting, scenery, and tableau ideas like A Storm at Sea and The Holdup in the Woods to entertain children indoors on long winter evenings.
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Fim
Brooklyn Eagle
Boy's land yacht sails the shore on a simple box carriage
A French boy built a land yacht by attaching a mast and a double triangular sail to an old soap box on wheels. With wind, he rode the makeshift carriage along the beach, proving a four wheeled cart and canvas can sail on land. The report notes any boy could make such a craft with a soap box, wheels, canvas, and a sturdy mast.
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France
N. Y
The Spider's Way Out Adventure in a Home Sail
A child builds a soap bubble island in a washbowl to study a spider named Crusoe. The spider tests escapes by casting a silken line to reach a table, walking ashore, and showing awareness of wind and buoyancy before being returned to the woodshed.
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Crusoe
Mr. Robinson
Desert Island
California Dog Hero rescues child from forest fire
A Great Dane named Bruna dragged 1-year-old Florence Rogers from a kitchen floor amid a forest fire along the Yuba Butte border in California. The parents, away helping neighbors, returned to a blazing barn and burning house. The dog entered through a kitchen window with the child in his jaws, landed safely, and Florence later recovered from burns on her face and hands.
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California
Yuba
Butte
Bruna
Florence Rogers
Little Florence
Rogers
Bruno
Impressions of a Woman Settler in Alberta
A Alberta woman settler writes to advocate Western Canada, praising light winters, good crops, and cheap coal. She touts 70 percent government education funding, thriving farms, schools, churches, and climate as reasons to relocate from Michigan. She predicts rapid population growth and many eastern settlers moving west.
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Western Canada
M. V. McTones
Detroit
Mich
Hilldown
Alberta
Poplar Bluffs
East
Michigan
John McLechlas
What Labor Unions Mean
The rise of labor unions shifts wage setting from individual workers to collective bargaining. About 5,000 strikes in twenty years aimed at forcing employers to negotiate with unions. Centralization grows within unions, mirroring politics and strong central government battles. Atlantic Monthly.
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United States
Atlantic Monthly
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Noah
David
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Formiahee Anden
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