Baleful Amusements Sermon on Youth and Temptation
A Sunday sermon argues that innocent amusements can become destructive. It urges Christians to avoid costly, indecent, or excessive fare in cities, warns of the dangers of immoral companionship, and stresses working life, home, and duty over reckless entertainment. It recounts vivid examples of ruin and urges moral restraint.
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Gibeon
Church of God
Naples
Italy
Pompeii
New York
Brooklyn
Sodom
Stars of Hope
Shevy
West
Pizenous House Tale Sparks Farce in Alabama Store
In a southern shop a black man tells of dropping a dollar through a cellar grate and fends off a search with a running joke about a bite under his coat. The grocer and an imagined doctor spin a farcical examination as oysters surface and the man exits.
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Alabama
Spinner
Aly
Groceer
Ivory Carvers in Cincinnati Trace Decline of Ivory Craft
A Cincinnati Times-Star visit reveals two ivory carving shops: one cluttered with decades of tools and a German craftsman lamenting the fall of fine ivory work to cheap imitations. He now mainly makes penholders dice and billiard items while aging markets shrink the craft.
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Cincinnati Times-Star
Old Country
Cincinnati
Germany
New York City
Loparatra and the formal family prayers request
A cold voice from the stairway questions whether the young man has gone and instructs to remind him that family prayers are to be held half an hour before breakings. The scene is set in a silent parlor with formal restraint.
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Alonc
Philadelphia
Loparatra
Mr. Jarvis
Chicago Trivune
Diamond Vents Explained by Explosive Gas Theory
Geologists describe South Africa's diamond vents as vertical chimneys formed by pressured interior gases. Paris geologist Daubree proposes that high velocity explosions along fissures bored through rocks creating the 17 vents over about 120 miles, with kopje caps and stripped vent sides as supporting evidence.
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South Africa
M. Daubree
Academie Des Sciences
Paris
Laboratoire Centrale Des Poud
Boston Transcript
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Rev. DR. Talmage
Sterling Discourses
Samuel
God
Watchman’s Club
Mr. Talmage
Henry
House of God
Oakwood Cemetery
Samson
Delilah
Greenwood
Virginius
Shylock
Diamond Mines
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