Obituary of Erastus Thompson in Baraboo roots
Obituary recounts the life of Erastus Thompson born August 1 1858 in Baraboo Wisconsin killed August 27 in a C and N W Railway collision near Millbrig Illinois while at the throttle. He was a longtime fireman and engineer, member of Baraboo Masonic lodge and B of L E, married Sophia McGilvra with four daughters and several siblings. Describes deeply devoted family life, Christian character, service to railroad work, and legacy as a model husband and father.
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Erastus Thompson
Baraboo
Wis
Millbrig
Galena
Thompson
A. F
A. M. Lodge
B. of L. E
Crowder
M. E. Church
Mr. Thompson
Leonard Thompson
Sauk County
Sophia McGilvra
Chas. B. Dirks
Longmont
Colorado
Beulah
Bernice Thompson
Madison
Thayer Thompson
Chicago
J. Thompson
Manston
C. C. Thompson
Chas. Wing
Public Gatherings and the Long Talks of Chairs and Speakers
A Vogue critique laments dull public lectures and endless chairmen speeches. It argues audiences endure lengthy discussions with patience and calls for sharper speech and briefer remarks, proposing civil service discipline for chairmen.
Fortune Delayed Fatal End of Notary Clerk Lemercier
A French provincial tale follows Lemercier a notary clerk who endures a string of reverses and debt before returning home to Breval. Seeking work, he barricades himself and dies by hanging when lawmen arrive to deliver news of a distant relative leaving a $5,000 legacy. A collection notes poets and writers and their drink habits.
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Lemercier
Breval
Mantes
A School Lunch Menu For One Week
A weekly school lunch plan lists Monday cold roast beef sandwiches with gingerbread and apple. Tuesday offers Swiss cheese sandwiches cookies and an orange. Wednesday features baked beans bread and dates. Thursday serves cold lamb sandwiches bread with butter and current jelly and Turkish prunes. Friday provides hard boiled egg Graham bread and butter sandwiches and a banana.
Chance and St Anthony Help Find Golf Ball in Spain
A golfer in Spain lost a ball in a thistle forest and prayed to St Anthony. He removed a bronze cross from his watch chain and tossed it into the thistles. The ball was found within inches of the cross, guiding the search to a fortunate end.
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St. Anthony
Spain
St. Anthony of Padua
Cult of ugliness threatens artistic virtue
The passage decries a current cult of ugliness affecting literature and fashionable portraiture. It warns that beauty sustains art’s power for good while ugliness leads to decadence, shameless taste, and eventual immorality in conduct.
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Mr. Sargent
Love and Money in Stray Stories
A witty exchange frames happiness as a trio of words. She declares the sum lies in love while she jokes her partner mishears as pay to bearer, echoing light verse from Stray Stories.
A Difference in the Family. The Baby Hood Drama
A mother describes the baby as a sweet life drama while the father testifies denying it is drama class. He calls the scene a screaming farce.
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Her Word at a Discount
Mrs Frost and Mrs Brown spar over stinginess as Mrs Snow questions the claim, with sharp exchanges outlining character and temper in a social vignette.
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