Plague of Crime Versus Biblical Plague in Sunday Sermon
A preacher equates modern urban crime to the Nile turning to blood, urging reform beyond sermons. He denounces public criminals and corrupt officials, calls for prison reform, and warns against idle, unproductive citizens fueling crime through lax justice and neglect.
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Nile
Egypt
Europe
New York
Jersey City
Brooklyn
Rum
Christ
Calcutta
Yale College
Harvard
Princeton
John Howard
William Blackstone
Elizabeth Fry
United States
England
Isaac T. Hopper
Vines
Mr. Harris
Wall Street
Earth
Heaven
Hell
You
The Stone Corral Bear Ends a Vaquero Chase
Ramon the vaquero mentored by a brave horse tracked and looped a grizzly in Ventura county. In a dramatic pursuit the bear was thrown, dragged, and killed weighing around 600 pounds near the Sespe country, ending a long local saga with the stone corral bear.
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New York Sun
Ramon Ortega
Ramon
Ventura
Stone Corral
Sespe Canon
Ventura County
Sespe
Tar Creek
Alder Creek
Ortega
Bear
Riata
Pear
Corral
Brazil Debt, Trade, and Bank Charters in 1990
New York Times notes Brazil's December 1999 total foreign and domestic debt of about 420 billion with customs revenue around 30.5 million. Coffee exports reached 2.74 million sacks, US imports 1.92 million. In 1990, 24 banks and corporations were chartered with nominal capital near 668 million, many never active.
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Brazil
United States
New York Times
Gilt Edge Butter Sold at Premium Prices
A fragment notes that twenty to thirty pounds of gilt edge butter are sold weekly in Washington at one dollar per pound. It mentions origin at Darlington Pennsylvania and claims top quality. The White House buys Elgin butter at about forty cents per pound and Philadelphia butter sells for fifty to sixty cents, with the richest buyers paying the highest prices.
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Chicago
Chécago Tribune
Washington
Darlington
Penn
White House
Elgin
Lil
Philadelphia
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Rev. DR. Talmage
Pse
Sing Sing
House of Correction
Benn
Benevolent Societies of
Blackwell’s Island
Paul
Mary Magdalen
Lazarus
Caraccas
Potter’s Field
Charnel House
God
Jesus
Bethany
Dorcas Societies
France
Catherine de Medici
Ben Jonson
Italy
Venice
China
Japan
Ramon Orteza
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