The Evils of Liquor Drink ing Sermon
A Sunday sermon condemns alcohol as a national scourge. It frames Noah’s drunkenness as a historic incept, contrasts old beverages with modern spirits, and portrays whisky as a destructive arch fiend. The preacher urges churches and laypeople to unite in a teetotalist crusade to save families and the nation.
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Shem
Japhet
Abigail
Nabal
Uriah
David
Isaiah
Noah
Paradise
Newfoundland
Skerries
Goodwins
House of Peers
Draunkard
Desert Forts and Apache Wars Tale from Arizona Frontier
A New York Times recounts Fort McDowell on the Verde River with adobe quarters and harsh summer heat. It describes frontier life, Indian warfare tactics, and General Crook’s Arizona campaigns plus the fate of Chiricahua Apache bands and the idea of moving tribes to Indian Territory.
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Arizona
Fort McDowell
Verde River
Phoenix
McDowell
Cuba
Atlantic
Valley of the Verde
Crook
Verde
Tonto
Rook
San Carlos Reservation
Sierra Ancha
Tonto Creek
Cibicu
Washington Territory
Oregon
War Department
Hewitt and
Bartlett
Hank
Yank
Tageon
Garnet Wolsely
Indian Territory
San Simon Valley
Apache Pass
Tucson
Sulphur Spring Valley
Cochise Canon
Southern Pacific Railroad
Fort Bowie
St. Augustine
Alabama
Sitting Bull
Cutthreats
Victoria
Geronimo
N. Y
Giant Human Heights Folklore From Ancient Reports
A recount of extraordinary heights from historical sources includes Maximin at eight feet, a 13 year old girl at ten feet four, Orestes belly at eleven feet, Galbara over ten feet, the keepers Secon dilla and Pasio at nine feet six, Furman eleven feet six, a Teneriffe skull four feet in circumference with eighty teeth, Ferragus eighteen feet, and a Lucerne giant fifteen feet four.
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Maximin
Rouen
Goropius
Orestes
Galbara
Rome
Claudius Casar
Secondilla
Pasio
Ferragus
Orlando
Charlemagne
Platerus
Lucerne
Ricon de Vallemot
St. Louis Republic
Punishment by Hand Chopping Reported in North Africa
Captain Binzer recalls witnessing three robbers punished in a North African tribe. Each man placed a hand on a log and had it severed in a single stroke. The hands were nailed to a tree, stumps sewn, then the executioner and guards dispersed the tribe with kicks and curses as bystanders watched.
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Captain Binzer
Africa
New York Journal
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Rev. DR. Talmage
Sterling Discourses
Hell
America
Heaven
New England
Grean Mountains
Maine
Georgia
State of
Drunenness
Rim
New York
Chicago
United States
Solomon
Absalom
Phoenicia
Thebes
Babylon
Church of God
Church of Ephesus
Thyatira
Sardis
Protagoras
Salt Lake City
Lord Jesus Christ
Christendom
Churches of God
Brooklyn
Coney Island
Joe
Brighton
John
Blucber
Waterloo
Ponsonby
Pickton
Napoleon
Paris
Austerlus
Europe
Earth
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