Echoes of Mountains in a Moral Sermon
A Sunday sermon compares natural echoes to moral consequences, arguing that parental teaching echoes in children and actions return to the doer as either blessing or calamity. It traces real world examples, then envisions eternity as an amplified echo of our earthly life, urging virtuous living.
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Ezekiel
Coblentz
Milan
Italy
Killarney
Carisbrooke Castle
Isle of Wight
Jungfrau
Sexton
Mr. Webster
Joe
Elder Webster
Mary
Missionary Society
Orphan Asylum
Edward
Calcutta
Terranean
San Francisco
Cape
Poles
Vermont
Thotaly
Germ Twaldsen
Christ
Mount Washington
Lord Raleigh
Fairfax County
Glasgow
Scotland
Mane
John
Henry
Young Men’s Christian Association
Ccap
Weill
Aristotle
Pythagoras
Isaac Newton
la Place
Joseph Henry
Brooklyn Tabernacle
Smithsonian Institution
Washington
Heaven
Voltaire
Paul Will
Hohenlinden
Salamanca
Wagram
Sedan
Marathon
Frances Havergal
The Ladies of Cornwall in Traveler’s View
A Chicago Herald note quotes a traveler on Cornwall girls describing them as quiet in youth and stone like in girlhood until marriage, when they gain strength of character and temper. Raillery asks, How’s the woman as owns ’ee, as half the men are known individually as Jinny’s Jack.
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Cornwall
Jinny
Jack
Chicago Herald
Simple old necklets charm modern fashion
The St. Louis Republic notes a return to delicate necklets with tiny gold chains and hearts or lockets. Enamelled flowers diamond tipped and with a diamond heart are prized, along with four leaf clover motifs for luck. Multi colored enamel flowers and gems appeal to refined young ladies replacing plain diamond necklaces.
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St. Louis Republic
Fashion notes on Russian blouse and New York gowns
The piece surveys winter fashion with a sharp critique of glove styles and a trendy catalog of garments. It highlights the rise of women doctors in New York, Russian blouse silhouettes, fur trimmed outfits, hats, coats, and a spectrum of fabrics, colors, and embellishments shaping the season.
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Paris
Harper’s Bazar
India
Newspapers for Girls Instruction in a Memphis School
Miss Clara Conway principal of the Conway Institute in Memphis uses daily newspapers in reading rooms for half the lessons. She opens papers as they come from the press and makes on the spot selections. Her method teaches contemporary history and is praised as superior to home reading. Other schools use bulletin boards for news items and Mississippi’s large girls schools employ the Weekly Picayune as a class reader.
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Petersons
Blackweill’s
Canada
East River
Clara Conway
Conway Institute
Memphis
New Orleans
Picayune
Legal note on doctors responsibilities misquoted
A Chicago Post fragment notes both doctors share fault for errors and mentions a female doctor developing a specialty in obstetrics praised by women who hire her. The line reflects early opinions on accountability and women in medicine.
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Chicago
Alaska Purchase Yields Profitable Speculation Says Captain
Capt. De Hass, back in Tacoma from a two year mining tour in Alaska, notes profits in exporting Alaskan goods and suggests a canning business at the Yukon River mouth. He cites exports last year exceeding the price paid to Russia, and says wild geese and ducks muster in vast numbers in spring.
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Alaska
Russia
de Hass
Tacoma
Yukon River
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DR. Talmage
Girls OF Cornwall
Buffalo
N. Y
New York
Rubens
Redingote
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