Mend the Nets as Fishermen of Men
A Sunday sermon urges Christians to mend their nets in faith and deeds rather than merely study or argue. It compares believers to Galilean fishermen James and John, warns against lax nets and church rivalry, and calls for heart work, unity, and persistent evangelism to land souls for the kingdom.
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James
Zebedee
John
Matthew iv
Simon Peter
Egypt
Lake
Moeris
Walter Scott
Waverley
Kingdom of God
Old Zebedee
Galilee
Heaven
Ebedee
Jesus Christ
Earth
Oll Zebedee
Lake Galilee
Capernaum
Tiberias
Gardlara
Joan
Galiles
Jona
You
God
Talleyrand
Isaak Walton
and Wheatley
Scott
Naples
Massaniello
Massauiellos
Zabedee
Dana
Church of God
Barnum the Advertiser and Advertising as a Science
The article lauds P T Barnum as a supreme advertiser who conducted advertising with discipline and directness, avoiding brokers and valuing newspapers. It argues advertising must be deliberate, medium aware, and profit oriented, crediting Barnum with shaping a disciplined practice that modern merchants should emulate. The piece appears in the St Louis Globe Democrat.
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Barnum
St. Louis Globe-Democrat
The Bible Question That Altered a Life
A young man named WiSEN in a parish Bible class confronted apparent contradictions in scripture. The rector rebuked inquiry and urged faith without questions, prompting the youth to abandon Bible study and belief, a turning point that became widely known.
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Wisen
Anaries Bradlaugh
Queen of Spain Keeps Penny Savings Record
The Queen of Spain is described as hoarding money due to a delusion of future need. She reportedly borrows small coins from palace pages and fails to repay them, recently selling fourteen pairs of old shoes for four cents per pair.
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Spain
Death Valley expedition member nearly perishes in Mojave crossing
Washington received a report on Prof Theodore S Palmer head of the explorations in Death Valley after he walked seventy miles through burning sands with no water. Prof C R Merriam joined the party at Daggett and the group plans topographic and biological studies in the alkali desert. The party includes ornithologists Fischer and Koeberle botanists Coville and others and even a Chinese cook Tin Sin. Death Valley measured seventy five miles long by thirty wide and lies 300 feet below sea level with Mount Whitney in view as the snow melts.
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Washington
Willitts
Theodore S. Palmer
Agricultural Department
Death Valiey
California
Palmer
South Valley
Desert
C. R. Merriam
Daggett
Merriam
Death Valley
Prof. Palmer
Mojave
Claremont
Jeremiah Day
Yale University
Merriam and Palmer
Fischer
Utah
F. W. Coville
Funston
Koeberle
Geological Survey
Tin Sin
Cook
Whitney
Washington Post
Magnanimity of a Queen in Portugal Charity
The Chicago Post notes Queen Amelia’s act of charity toward Captain Leitao’s wife and children and other insurgent families. With the royal couple at risk from the Oporto rising, she supports them from her private fortune, softening public sentiment toward the King as a Salisbury ally.
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Portugal
Amelia
Leitao
Oporto
Lord Salisbury
Chicago Post
How to Treat Accidents in the Home
The article advises mothers on dressing cuts sprains and wounds and when to seek a surgeon. It explains that blood color indicates injury depth with bright crimson jets signaling an arterial bleed and dark purple blood indicating a venous cut and the need to stop bleeding promptly.
Painless Teeth Extractions via Medical Electricity Previewed
London reports reveal a new dental technique using a vibrator and chromatic cells to deliver controlled electric currents during tooth extraction. Four patients showed no pain as the device delivers rapid nerve stimulation, potentially crowding out pain signals.
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London
New York Times
Avenging Mule in Indian Pig Sticking Tale
A New York Press story recalls a British India pig sticking chase where a mule, angered by a boar bite, overpowers the animal. The account ends with the boar slain and the mule triumphant, reshaping local fears of bears and beasts.
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British India
New York Press
Trees of Health and Arbor Day Planting
The piece notes Paris air hosts 3900 bacteria per cubic yard while city parks hold 425. Trees along streets intercept soot and dust. Improvement societies plant trees on streets and school grounds. In seven years State pupils planted over 300000 trees. New York schools planted 51290 trees on Arbor Day.
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Paris
New York State
Philadelphia
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