Hamlin and Old Hamlin Sunday Services and Local News
Church schedules from Hamlin Old Hamlin Lone Star and nearby areas list Sunday School and preaching times along with Wednesday prayer meetings. Local notes report illnesses, hog shipments to Chicago and Omaha, fruit shipments to Des Moines, visitors, barn dance plans, harvest progress, creamery shipping changes, upcoming games, ice cream supper for lamps, recent dances, a ball game loss, and various farm and market updates featuring many residents and farmers including Rattenberg, Jasmun, Peters, and Olsen.
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Nels Rattenborg
Hamlin School
Christian Endeavor Society
Presbyterian Church
Political Economists and Business Success
The piece contrasts fortunes of self-taught and formally trained minds noting that many learned political economists fail in business while practical wealth often belongs to those without academic schooling. It cites Cobden’s business bankruptcy and Ricardo’s stockbroker background.
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Cobden
Ricardo
Pocketing a Fee Tale Among English Physicians
An English doctor, Radcliffe, cared for a friend for a year without charging. At the final visit the patient offered a purse of daily fees as gratitude. Although the physician tried to refuse, the clinking gold proved irresistible and he pocketed the purse, remarking that singly he could resist, but together the money was too strong.
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Dr. Radcliffe
Lydia E. Pinkham
Louisz Nava
E. 166Th St
New York City
Dean
Asxa Kinemorr
100Th St
Nick Doffing Co Will Buy It Back Remedy Ad
An advertisement pledges a no risk purchase of Chamberlain’s Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy by Nick Doffing & Co with refunds if unsatisfied. The copy praises the remedy as universally admitted, safe, pleasant, and reliable for bowel complaints.
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Nick Doffing & Co
Chamberlain
Largest Hanging Bell at Mingun in Mandalay
The Mingun bell on the Irrawaddy’s right bank near Mandalay is possibly the world’s largest hanging bell. It stands 12 feet to the crown and 16 feet 3 inches in diameter, with a metal thickness of 6 to 12 inches, weighing about eighty tons, suspended by three teak beams atop two massive pillars. Cast in the late eighteenth century under the supervision of the refining king.
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Mandalay
Mingun
Irawadi
Lake Uhad Africa A Lake of Many Wonders
Lake Uhad in Africa stretches about 185 miles long and S miles wide, larger in area than Lake Erie yet only twenty five feet deep at the deepest point and five feet on the eastern side. It contains eighty islands varying from barren to pasture land and forested, with a total population near 50,000. Sudden storms and shallow waters create large waves and treacherous gusts among the islands, making navigation hazardous.
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Lake
Uhad
Africa
Lake Erie
Forestalling Fate and a Warwickshire Farmhouse Call
A Warwickshire doctor was summoned to a farmhouse near Birmingham where an old man in bed appeared perfectly healthy. The daughter-in-law explained the tapping bird signified a call from fate and they placed a ruby in the door as a charm, hoping to avert misfortune.
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England
Warwickshire
Birmingham
Lui
Railway Passes Expand Family Definition Across Lines
A debate over the term family on rail passes prompts railway officials to show varying degrees of liberality. An American cites Paris Lyon Mediterranean rules as a lesson, noting a pass good for two and one that covers numerous relatives and servants linked to the family.
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Motcher
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Charley Gil
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Clark Gray
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Old Hamlin
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Peter Rasmussen
August Burr
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Jorgen Spyrup
Fred Nissen
John Reed
Jess Beck
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Otto Laveen
Hans Rattenborg
Geo. Scott
H. G. Rice
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John Shoesmith
L. G. May
Peter Esbeck
R W. Mullinger
H. L.miller
Anton Hansen
A. Myers
Lou Anciaux
Ole Olsen
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S. C. Sorensen
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Lara Larsen
CO. L. Miller
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