Lesson on Humility and Service in John 13
A devotional study on Jesus washing the disciples feet in the upper room, warning against selfish motives and highlighting humble service as evidence of divine humility. Peter’s rebuke and John’s later writings illustrate the call to be servants, not seeking honor, with emphasis on obedience and sanctification.
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Jesus
Judas
Christ
Satan
Peter
Thomas a’Kempis
John
Purdue student allowed to graduate despite leaving to farm
A Purdue senior received a telegram from his brother ordering him to return home to help farm as the brothers take over the operation. President Stone ruled the student would not lose credits and would graduate on time, with policy to apply to others who leave to work on crops if verified.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Purdue University
W. E. Stone
Thorntown
Purdue
Stone
Indianapolis News
Unusual American Bark John Palmer Afloat After Torpedoing
The American four mast bark John Palmer, sailing from Galveston to Genoa, was torpedoed 200 miles west of Genoa but remained afloat with cargo. A patrol boat towed her to port, she was beached for repairs in Genoa, and expected to sail again soon with an Italian cargo to New York. Built in San Francisco in 1901.
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Atlantic
John Palmer
Pacific
Lyman W. Law
Galveston
Gmoa
Palmer
Genoa
New York
San Francisco
Days to Come with War and Hope in the Countryside
Collier's reflects on wartime contrasts between peaceful American landscapes and trenches in Europe. It notes September vineyards near Lake Erie and arid orchards in California and Virginia while front lines mar Ardennes woods, asserting the war’s fever will pass and nature and steadfast workers will endure.
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United States
Lake Erie
California
Virginia
Czar
Kaiser
Cheyenne Canyon
Ardennes
Collier’s
Mechanical Horse Steers Recruiting Drive in Chicago
A mechanical horse driven through Chicago’s loop district drew crowds to army recruiting stations. A field gun and caisson rode behind the tractor, controlled by two reins. The device, though not new, proved striking and helped recruit volunteers during a two week daily campaign.
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Chicago
Loop
Popular Mechanics Magazine
Wealthy Beatty Wife Opens English Estate for Wounded Sailors
The wife of Sir David Beatty, commander of the high fleet, formerly Miss Ethel Field of Chicago, has opened her large English estate for exclusive use by wounded British sailors. Sir David ranks among the richest in the navy and has spent substantial personal funds aiding sailors' families from the Jutland battle.
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David Beatty
High Fleet
Ethel Field
Chicago
England
Sir David
John Jellico
Jutland
Condensed milk for French diet prompts medical notes
Doctors Loir and Legagneux report condensed milk is acceptable for adults in France while Professor Marian warns it should not be a baby’s steady diet. He allows skimmed and sweetened condensed milk for dyspeptic babies and advises labeling brands as skimmed and sweetened or unskimmed.
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Loir and
Legagneux
le Havre
Marian
Academy of Medicine
Houdon Statue La Frileuse Sells for 170000 in Sale
An American collector bought Houdon’s bronze The Shivering Girl dated 1787 for 170000. The piece, signed by the sculptor and first shown at Paris Salon 1787, later passed through royal German collections and to Jacques Seligman in New York before a total art collection sale.
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Richard Wallace
Sir Murray Scott
Lady Sackville West
Jacques Seligman
New York
Houden
Musee de Montpellier
France
Infants Food to Shells in War Production Shift
The World's Work notes diverse British wartime conversion as firms repurpose to shell production. A glazier stamps cartridge clips while music roll makers gauge shells, an infant food maker delivers shell plugs, an ad agency crafts adapters, and other industries from watchmakers to jewelry houses pivot to fuzes, shell casings, primers, and related parts.
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Lloyd George
England
Ministry of Munitions
French Colonial Possessions Size and Population
The Manchester Guardian notes the vast scale of French colonies. Indo China covers over 250000 square miles with 17 million people, including about 25000 Europeans. Improvements in trade, cotton growth, and rubber industry in Annam and Cochin China are highlighted. Overall French possessions total about 4,000,000 square miles and over 40 million people.
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Manchester Guardian
Annam
Cochin-China
Algeria
Tunis
Human Leopard Trials in Sierra Leone
The 1912 Sierra Leone trials describe a brutal cult where men were believed to turn into leopards to kill and devour others. Widespread fear allowed murders to go undetected as communities feared the supposed shapeshifters.
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K. J. Beattie
Sierra Leone
Africa
Baltimore Man Treats Puppy's Broken Toe at Johns Hopkins
A Baltimore man took his Airedale puppy to the Hunterian laboratory at Johns Hopkins Hospital after the pup sustained a broken toe. Surgeons realigned the fracture and corrected a crooked leg. After a month the casts were removed and the animal was declared cured.
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Baltimore
Hunterian Laboratory
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Highest Peaks Not Scaled by Some Mountaineers
At a Royal Geographical Society meeting Dr. A. M. Kellas discussed whether trained climbers can reach the 25,000 plus foot Himalaya summits, noting Everest at 29,141 feet and stating acclimation limits, oxygen, and government restrictions affect ascent feasibility.
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Royal Geographical Society
A. M. Kellas
Himalaya
Duke of the
Abruzzi
Karakorum
Himalayas
Kellas
Mount
Everest
Government of
India
Silent music system aids hospital patients in Ottawa Ill
A Chicago firm installs a silent music system in Ottawa Illinois hospital. A spring motor cabinet drives a turntable with a tone-arm transmitter sending electrical vibrations via wires to bedside outlet jacks. Patients use head receivers to hear music only when placed against the ear, allowing adjacent beds to remain undisturbed.
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Chicago
Ottawa
Ill
Far Too Rich to Be Safe
Mme Lebaudy rich beyond belief in prewar fortune of eight million pounds, lost securities worth one hundred sixty five thousand after Prins Henrik captured by Germans. She remains elusive, living quietly in Versailles with one servant, giving away nearly all income to charity anonymously.
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Madame Lebaudy
Prins Henrik
France
Frau Krupp von Bohlen
Europe
Mme. Lebaudy
Versailles
One Miracle Led to Another in Buffalo
A man, described with huge smoked goggles and a pitiful stoop, claimed to be a Mexican war veteran and begged two soldiers in uniform. They dismissed him, but Patrolman McNamara touched him and, by laying on of hands, restored the blind man’s sight, illustrating an extraordinary sidewalk encounter in Buffalo.
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Buffalo
McNamara
Buffalo Express
Vicar Becomes Farm Labourer in Parish Magazine
Rev Reginald James, vicar of St John’s Watford, writes he will work as an agricultural laborer for the week to aid a neighboring farmer. He notes his upbringing in manual labor, expectation of doing well, and jokes about wearing a smock and aligning with his high church views.
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Reginald James
St. John’s Church
Watford
England
What Crusoe Forgot
A child recalls Robinson Crusoe and muses on what he would do in similar circumstances. He concludes there is one thing they forgot, namely a can opener. The moment blends curiosity with practical humor.
Sheriff Sale in Greene County Indiana of 240 acres
By decree from Greene County Court Aetna Insurance Company sues Peter T Peterson et al to recover 9006.20 plus interest costs. Public sale set for May 19 1917 at the Greene County Courthouse Bloomfield Indiana to cover rents and profits of 240 acres in sections 5 and 8 township 7N range 6W with possible sale of fee simple if rents insufficient. JEPTHA MOSS Sheriff. Also notices of administration for Johey Carpenter and Levi Gambill appointing SEAT ALDRIDGE and MRS CLARA GAMBILL Administrators with attorney J M Hudson and Slinkard Vosloh respectively. 427-1917.
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Greene Circuit Court
Aetna Insurance Company
Peter T. Peterson
Bloomfield
Greene County
Indiana
Jeptha Moss
Notice to Non-Residents in Greene County Court
Greene Circuit Court May Term 1917 issues notice for Mamie Bostic non resident to appear June 30 1917 or be defaulted in a sale of real estate, in the matter Leat Aldridge Administrator vs Mary A Aldridge et al. Clerk E Kirbs Ashcraft signs the notice at Bloomfield May 1 1917.
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Indiana
Greene County
Greene Circuit Court
Leat
Court House
Bloomfield
A. D
E. Kirb
Ashcraft
Long Island man sentenced to weekly church service
After four decades of marriage a Long Island man abused his wife and was convicted by a magistrate. He was ordered to attend at least one church service every Sunday for a year. The piece questions if the punishment is punitive or reformative.
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Long Island
Hall's Catarrh Cure a Constitutional Remedy
There is more catarrh in this region than all other diseases combined and long regarded incurable. The remedy Hall's Catarrh Cure from F. J. Cheney & Co. Toledo Ohio is taken internally and acts through the blood on mucous surfaces. A $100 reward is offered for any case it fails to cure.
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Hall
F. J. Cheney & Co
Toledo
Ohio
Guy H. Humphreys Attorney at Law Directory Listing
Attorney at law Guy H. Humphreys operates from Bloomfield Indiana with office phone 18 and residential number 179.
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Guy H. Humphreys
Bloomfield
Indiana
Notice to William and Benjamin Brown in Brown estate sale
Samuel E. Bruner as administrator of Adam R. Brown seeks court authorization to sell real estate to satisfy debts. Brown nonresidents and necessary parties must answer by May 28, 1917, at Bloomfield Court House. appearance day set May 23, 1917. Clerk E. Kirby Ashcraft signs. Public notice appeared in The Bloomfield Democrat and Terre Haute Tribune offer.
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Indiana
Greene County
Greene Circuit Court
Samuel E. Bruner
Admr
Adam R. Brown
Sarah R. Brown
William Brown
Benjamin Brown
Bloomfield
E. Kirby Ashcraft
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Western Newspaper Union
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Servant OF All
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Prussia
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State of
Johey Carpenter
Aldridge
J. M. Hudson
Levi Gambill
Clara Gambill
Slinkard & Vosloh
Slinekard & Vosloh
Law
Democrat
W. R. Cravens
North Side Public Square
Tito
T. Roy Cook
Westside Square
Richland Block
James M. Hudson
Square Bloomfield
Frank A. VanSandt
Richland Township
A. B. Titus
Allen Williams
Joan W. Jackson
Taylor Township
Scotland
W. E. Dosss
Jackson Township
Owensburg
Wirtztiam
Rapcuirr
Lex V. Deckard
Lyons
R. F. D. Bloomfield
W. L. Slinkard
E. & I. Railroad
Elliston
O. F. Musselman
Newberry
Hart Bros. Sandborn
Bloomfield Democrat
Terre Haute Tribune
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