The Birth of Christ Sermon Sunday Reflections
In a Christmas sermon the speaker recounts Mary and Joseph fleeing Herod to Egypt, the star over Bethlehem, and the wise men. He extols Christ’s humility and universal mercy, and contrasts a December Christ with a winter Christ, urging worship and charitable acts.
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America
Christ
Daniel Webster
Bethlehem
Washington
Valley Forte
Pilgrim Fathers
Plymouth Rock
Omaha
New York
George Peabodys
Abbott Lawrences
James Lenoxes
Bank of England
Bourse
France
United States Treasury
Joseph
Mary
Egypt
Australia
Nevada
Golconda
Abyssinia
Joseph's
New York Beauty Clara Goodwin Bloodgood
Mrs John Bloodgood Jr former Mrs Havemeyer noted as one of New Yorks most beautiful women. She is granddaughter of author Mrs Anne Stephens and niece of several New York socialites. Former wife of William Havemeyer speaks of early marriage in Orange New Jersey. Her father Edwin Stephens married Anna Sutton and later Mrs Stephens married Mr Goodwin. Clara Goodwin later married wealthy Mr John Bloodgood Jr.
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New York
John Bloodgood, Jr
Havemeyer
Anne S. Ste
Phens
Lloyd Aspinwall
Walter Crosby
Ely Goddard
William M. Havemeyer
Orange, N. J
Havemevyer
Edwin Stephens
Anna Sutton
Cornelius Sutton
Stephens
Goodwin
Clara Goodwin
John Bloodgood
Little girl asks father to buy a pictured gift
Ethel asks Papa to buy a Christmas present she has seen. She promises he will recognize it if he asks Mr. Kent to show a picture of two little children with dadoes round their heads.
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Papa
Ethel
Coal Miners Rise in Scranton Area Widows Count
An unsigned pleading to the New York Tribune details Scranton and Lackawanna Wyoming coal regions where about 1,012 widows and over 3,000 fatherless children exist. Many husbands died in mines and furnaces. several hundred rely on Poor Board aid in winter. Benevolent women aid widows. miners support families despite danger in Industry.
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Pennsclvacia
Scranton
New York Tribune
Lackawanna
Wyoming
Poor Department
Scranton Poor Board
Benevolent Women
The Missouri Legislator Who Aimed At The Speaker
A member from Missouri once drew a rifle in the state House to threaten Speaker Stilson Hutchins. He cocked the weapon and waited until routine business finished, then aimed before lowering the gun and proceeding with his bill. The scene produced a deathlike hush before the Speaker granted the floor.
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Stilson Hutchins
Washington
Missouri
Hutchins
Speaker Hutchins
Speaker
Yankee Blade
Burgoo Across Kentucky Dishes and Origins
Colonel James Orr explains burgoo as a long standing Kentucky outdoor dish, likely created before Henry Clay’s era. It is a nourishing cross between stew and soup, simmered over open sunlit fires at major political gatherings, with no clear origin or name.
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James Orr
Covington
Kentucky
Henry Clay
Weil
Clever Pickpockets In A Chicago Gang Round Up
An Indianapolis Journal item describes an observed pickpocket crew working in a four man formation. The group signals with round up and uses front and rear stalls to lift wallets while a fourth member pockets the loot. They carry large sums, evade fines, gamble, and often end jailed when caught.
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Dave
Sam
Uliness
Washington Streets
Garrity
Chicago
Dayton Sam
Indianapolis Journal
Portrait of Parnell by Kate Fie
Kate Fie d describes Mr. Parnell with a vivid portrait noting his six foot frame, fair hair, dark eyes and marble complexion. She praises his prison prowess, magnetic voice, and direct storytelling style while highlighting his restraint and sharp intellect.
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Kate Fie
Mr. Parnell
Gladstame
Lord Palmierston
Parnell
Japanese Lacquer History From Imported Trees
The lacquer comes from a tree similar to maple and yields varnish after about forty years. The trees are cut down for lacquer, with young replacements, providing a polish that resists boiling water and alcohol and many agents. The article notes its desirability in travs and ornaments.
Two Bottle Hour Glass Used by Sangir Islanders
People on Sangir, in the Malay Archipelago, measure time with an hour glass made from two bottles joined neck to neck. Sand lasts half an hour before the bottles are reversed. A line of twelve notched sticks marks the hours, with a hooked stick placed between the last hour and the next. An appointed keeper oversees the timing for each day.
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Sangir
Malay Archipelago
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Rev. DR. Talmage
Seterling
Bethle- Luke
Jesus
Africa
Ure
Herod
Ali Bayn
Cairo
Athens
Alexandria
Lansing
Brynt
Hebron
Gaza
Nile
Bumbie
House of Chim Ham
Roy
Sisera
Gleemer
Venus
Oersity of
Iowa
Bri Museum
East
Smith
Casper
Balthazar
Melchior
Manger
Jonathan Edwards
Herschel
John Milton
Blackstone
Tasy
Clara Goodwin Bloodgood
Colonel Orr
Cincinnati Commercial Gazette
Fenrottan
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