Where's Mother in the Window of Life and Faith
A sermon ties the biblical image of Sisera’s mother at the window to modern mothers awaiting news of their sons. It pleads for maternal fidelity shaping children, warns against vanity and neglect, and promises reunion in heaven where mothers watch over us through life and after death.
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Sisera
Jael
Caneral
Palestine
Poe
Kishon
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Heaven
Israel
Josephus
Materia Medica
Garret
Eternal Palace
Ezekiel xvi
George Peabody
Byron
Sam Houston
Agrippina
Nero
Louisville and Nashville
James A. Garfield
The
United States
Supreme Court
Senate of the United States
Charlie
Pliny
Esdraeion
Austerlitz
Christ
Animals Lose Their Wildness in Crowded Menageries
Report notes Galapagos turtles in Central Park raise on forefeet for crackers and interact with rabbits, while lions and tigers glare at crowds but react to dogs. Foxes wolves and deer show reduced wariness. cinnamon and grizzly bears appear happier, suggesting environment alters animal behavior.
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Central Park
New York Tribune
Surprising Tech and Industry Scraps Across the Globe
A collage of inventions and experiments features a female codfish statistic, automatic gas fires in British hotels, eryopelas cancer cures claimed in New York, a Montreal wind wheel powering lights, petroleum locomotives in Britain, a diamond teeth circular saw in France, early American sea-origin patenting, electric ore mining drills in Brazil, an amphibious Canadian steam-tug, Chicago pneumatic tubes for newsrooms, firedamp indicators in mines, and a platinum abestos detector triggering an alarm through guncotton ignition.
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France
Milk Habit Stopped by Grandmother’s Plan on Night Run
A three year old girl named Catherine, fond of night milk, is taken to grandparents while parents travel. Grandmother implements a plan to end the habit, and within ten days Catherine adapts by cleaning a long porch with water. Upon return, she cheerfully reports, Oh mamma We've stripped this milk business and this night business.
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Catherine
New York
Legend of Lacemaking Emerges from Adriatic Tale
A Venetian legend links lacemaking to a fisherman's betrothal and a petrified wrack grass gift. While the lover sails away, the girl twists beads and threads from the net, recreating the sea’s patterns into delicate lace, giving birth to the art’s lore.
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Academy
Venice
Caspaccio
Adriatic
Cause for Thankfulness in Apartment Tale
A playful exchange shows a boy delivering a message from his father amid a quiet conflict with a new tenant. The father asks not to lay worn carpets tonight so he can sleep and to be thankful his carpets are laid and that his son came up instead of the father.
High-Toned Greeks in Athens and Constantinople
A writer in the Queen notes Greeks in Athens and Constantinople do not see themselves as Europeans. Constantinople splits into Pera the European quarter Galata the Greek quarter Staumboul the old Turkish city and Stamboul with the Patriarchate. About a million Greeks live there with Pera boasting best sanitation and lower risk at night.
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Athens
Constantinople
Pera
Galata
Sed
Staumboul
Hidden key note found by husband in porch mat
A Chicago Record item recounts a note from a wife to her husband stating she hid the key under the left lower corner of the door mat on the porch. The husband arrived first and discovered the message in his wife’s handwriting, revealing where the key was concealed.
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Fred
Chicago Record
Philadelphia collector preserves rare Penn and Washington letters
F. J. Creer of Philadelphia owns the most extensive collection of William Penn letters and autographs. His holdings include numerous Washington letters, including one written when he was 12, thirteen pre revolutionary items, and a letter dated the day before his death.
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F. J. Creer
Philadelphia
William Penn
General Washington
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