Weighed in the balances and found wanting
A Sunday sermon recounts Nebuchadnezzar’s palace and Belus temple, then shifts to a moral reckoning. The preacher warns that people, churches, nations, and worlds will be weighed by God’s balances, with salvation through Christ as the ultimate saving weight.
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Euphrates
Nebuchadnezzar
Babylon
Lebanon
Belus
Belshazzar
Aleas
Earth
Angel
Hoo
Lena
Pyrenees
Himave
Mount Washington
Napoleon
Champs Elsees
Tuileries
Opera House
Boulevards
Champs Elysees
Sedan
Adirondacks
Temple
Perdition
Ceeteer
Chri
Christ
Ome
Payson
Doddridge
Baxter
Latimers
Wickliffes
Toolight
Jesus
Son of
God
Heaven
Christ Jesus
Winged Ant Invasion Closes Keuka Lake Fishing Day
On a sunny Keuka Lake afternoon swarms of winged ants black and brown filled the air, covering the water and driving fishermen ashore. A New York Sun reporter and Maj. Gardner of Sunny Slope and Inglehook vineyards watched a five and a half pound bass take an ant-laden minnow, a rare luck amid the mass arrival. The insects disappeared by morning, leaving no trace.
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Lake
Keuka
Keuka Lake
Hammondsport
Ma Or Gardner
Inglehook
New York Sun
Twomile Point
Bath
Corean Dominoes Cards and Chess Explain Traditions
The Corean use ivory dominoes with numbered dots, wooden chess pieces with engraved characters, and long pile paper cards of eighty one parts. Cards show suits on one side and bamboo blade images on the other, including gambling varieties prohibited by law with penalties of fine and beating.
Five Dollar Trick in Philadelphia Bar
A group in a Philadelphia bar watches a man counterfeit a dollar using a nicked coin and a sound cue. He spins the coin claiming it tells heads or tails by speed and sound, then leaves after being paid for drinks. One man later exposes the prank as the coin’s sound reveals a dull counterfeit tone.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tecante
Saul
Vlivade
Phis
Short Names in a French Village
A man registers his newborn as the single letter B, with no other letters, claiming the family name BH has always stood as B. In Northern France a village Y in Somme with 200 inhabitants bears an exceedingly short name, avoiding longer city names for local letters.
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Dee
Bey
Ust
France
Somme
Constantinople
Copenhagen
Kalamazoo
Indianapolis
Heat Lightning Debunked by Telegrapher Claim
A Detroit Free Press note reports a telegrapher debunking heat lightning. He argues the shimmer is distant storm reflections and cites experiments in Gallatin, Memphis, and elsewhere showing a storm always nearby, though out of hearing.
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Gallatin
Mias
Memphis
Detroit Free Press
Extermination Debate Over English Sparrows Spreads
The country debates how to deal with sparrows as newspapers discuss methods to destroy them. Forest and Stream argues extermination requires a coordinated nationwide attack targeting the birds in all regions.
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Acarn
Forest and Stream
United
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DR. Talmage
Ali
Omaha, Neb
Brrrato
Savings and Loan
England
Cnante
Carleton Coffix
War Department
L Dgar £. Lincoln
Topeka
Kan
Corean
Philadelphia
Phiadelphia
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