Ark of the American Covenant ballot box sermon
Rev Talmage warns that the ballot box is the ark of the American covenant and urges education and moral revival to safeguard elections. He denounces ignorance bribery defamation and corrupt caucuses while urging Christian civic duty to preserve free republican government.
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Mila Visting
Italy
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Allegheny Mountains
Ohio
United States
Key West
Alaska
England
Regisx
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Fox
Eark
Water Board
Albany
Washington
Sacred Chest
Ark of the American Covenant
New York
Brooklyn
Eart
Scotland
Europe
Mont Blanc
Tours
Curious world notes and curiosities of the era
A roundup of miscellaneous items cites linguistic feats, royal trivia, shipwrecks, odd animals, and unusual events. It mentions Henry VIII, a Columbia professor mastering 12 languages, doges of Venice and Genoa, a 1590 hair powder use, Vera Cruz coral upheaval, Bombay merchants, a blue lobster in Portland, and a pedantic survey of global cities with populations over half a million. It also notes a deceitful bomb incident near Angers, a man driving a nail into his brain, and a petrified fish found in a felled tree near Winchester, Ohio. Ancient trade houses like Hudson Bay are highlighted, plus quirks of handwriting in England and a tame porpoise off St. Augustine named Old Ghoul.
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Henry III
Newcastle Upon Tyne
Columbia College
New York
England
Venice
Anafesta Paululio
Genoa
Simone Boccanegra
Portland
Bordereau
Angers
France
Charles Joseph
Philadelphia
Brooklyn
Chicago
St. Louis
United States
Sioux City
Iowa
Jersey
St. Augustine
Fla
Oldest Ex-Congressman John F. Collis of Hillsdale
John F. Collis of Hillsdale New York born in 182? in Hillsdale is described as probably the oldest living ex member of Congress. He served in the twenty ninth Congress 1845 46 elected from the eleventh district and remains mentally sharp and in good health. Tailholt poem reflects rural pride and small town life with humor and local color.
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John F. Collis
Hillsdale
N. Y
Congress
The Knight Errant of the Treasury Surplus
A collage of humorous lines and quips on money, speech, and daily life. Witty takes include a treasury knight named Surplus, jokes about fences of manners, and light banter from cooks, dentists, and painters. The piece plays on wordplay and social scenes.
Alligator Oil: Hunters Kill 340 Gators In One Week
In Orange Lake near Citra Florida hunters killed 340 alligators for hides and teeth in a single week. Dr Ellis of Citra proposes distilling the carcasses to make whale oil substitute soap for infected trees and considers creating insect soap from the fat to deter mosquitoes gnats flies and fleas.
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Citra
Frs
Orange Lake
Ellis
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