Godliness Profitable in Life and Business Sermon
A Sunday sermon argues that godliness benefits health, intellect, disposition, and worldly business, urging believers to apply faith to daily work. It cites examples of converted merchants, moral conduct in trade, and the need to embrace religion now, not after life’s end.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Huck Miller
Heaven
Ashley
Ulysses
New York
Martin Luther
Robert Newton
Richard Baxter
Dr. Hans
Hts
Lord Jesus Christ
New York City
Gonder
California
Jesus Christ
Opal Prospect on a Misty Mountain Summit
A party led by a guide searches porphyry deposits for visible opal fragments in fogbound terrain. They uncover stones of mixed quality, but an expert verdict deems them unfit for sale as jewels though pleasing as specimens. The guide notes locals sometimes find valuables with ease.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Johanneson
Fire by Friction Myth In Lumber Camp Tale
In Burrard Inlet British Columbia Lev a seasoned logging camp boss and hunter is stranded overnight after a deer hunt. With no matches he contemplates whether fire by rubbing sticks is possible and jokes that he would be eaten alive if anyone ever did it in one night.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Burrard Inlet
Columbia
Lev
Leo
Gratiot Avenue
The Petersburg Mine and the Brave Fifty‑First
General Horatio Ching recounts the Petersburg siege and a dramatic mine blast ahead of the fort. Two officers of the Forty eighth Pennsylvania risked death entering the tunnel to fix the fuse. The explosion shook the earth and the Ninth Corps surged forward into a brutal hand to hand clash where Captain Samuel H. Sims of the Fifty first New York Volunteers fell leading his men.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Petersburg
Horatio Ching
Uroside
Richmond
Pennsylvania
Virginia
Ninth Corps
Samuel H. Sims
Fifty-first
New York Volunteers
Biting The Finger Nails Finds Hidden Throat Mass
A Philadelphia physician recalls a case where a nervous young woman suffered throat irritation after biting a nail. A kernel sized fleshy mass attached behind the left tonsil was removed with forceps and proved to be fingernail material embedded in a cheesy deposit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
Cruel Ox Driver’s Boomerang Incident at Lima
In Lima Ohio Lemuel Poorman enraged by a load he was unable to move began beating his oxen. He tied a knot in his whip and threatened to blind the animals. A high swing struck his own head instead, the knot lodging in his right eye.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lemuel Poorman
Lima
Ohio
Poorman
European Public Libraries by Country and Volume Counts
The article ranks European nations by public library systems and volumes. Austria claims many libraries with 5 775 volumes and 12 provinces. France lists 4 595 080 volumes across 26 volumes of manuscripts. Italy reports 499 libraries with 440 000 volumes and 220 000 manuscripts. Germany shows 3 5 libraries with 2 64 rou volumes. Russia reportedly has 25 000 worn items and a fraction of the population. The passage cites fragmented figures and questionable OCR of historical library data.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sava
Germany
Also Mentioned on This Page
DR Talmage
Starling
Timothy
Calline
Jesus
School of Christ
Christ
Helicon
Charles Weesine
Ion
Ana Ip Gal
Vatican
Tan
Raphael
Rebens
Lande
Haydn
Messiah
Mozart
Weis
Legion of Honor
Virginie Chesquiere
Twenty-seventh Regiment of
Marie Schelling
Jemappes
Austerlitz
Jena
Napoleon
Charity
Sour Marthe
Perrot
Rosa Bonheur
Lady Piquet
Sisters of Charity
Mme. Dieulafoy
North
Africa
God Women
Hartford
Land OF
Opals
Foroe
Petersel
European Libraries
Great Hunt
Russia
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!