Prophecy Sermon Warns of Vengeance on United States
Brooklyn pastor Rev James H Humphrey declares a divine forecast of destruction for most states and cites Boston and New York as doomed, predicting 1902 floods and Galveston style ruin between Nisan and Zeth. He calls the Constitution rotten and urges fear of racial terror.
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Boston
Galveston
New York
United States
Brooklyn
Twelfth Baptist Church
Colored
Phillips Street
West End
Humphrey
Post
Massachusetts
Nisan
Zeth
Trumphrey
Irreverent Workman Defaces Bible in New Trinity Church
Louisville readers report an irreverent workman defaced a Bible fresco near the organ dome in Trinity Methodist Church on Third and Guthrie streets. The chalked message was erased after the congregation noticed it while viewing the new sanctuary, and efforts to identify the culprit have failed.
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Louisville
Trinity Methodist Church
Third and Guthrie Streets
Salem Houses Burned Over Water Scarcity in Essex
Mire discovered in the dwelling of Charles H. Storey in Salem Essex early today. An adjoining house owned by Jesse Lowe caught fire due to limited water and both homes and contents were destroyed. Firemen fought to stop the blaze from spreading. The fire likely resulted from an exploding lamp left in Storey's kitchen. Estimated loss 4000 on Storey property and 1000 in furniture. Storey insured, Lowe uninsured.
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Essex
Charles H. Storey
Jesse Lowe
Handel and Haydn Society chorus rehearsal opens with strong Eliajah figures
About 600 members and friends attended the first chorus rehearsal at Copley Hall last evening conducted by Emil Mollenhauer with H G Tucker at the piano. The Elijah selections showed the summer rest benefited the choir with vigorous tone and anew voices. Thirty new singers joined. Mrs Ernestine Fish sang two pleasing contralto numbers.
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Handel and Haydn Society
Copley Hall
Emil Mollenhauer
H. G. Tucker
Elijah
Ernestine Fish
Silver Riches and Flight: Billings Vanishes With 3250 Coins
Edward Billings fled Newton last Wednesday taking about 3250 in silver coin from his latest money order. The Rev. Father Dannerhee, returning from Europe, had sent money via a US money order. Billings weighed the silver at a grocery, boasting he would paint the town, then boarded a car toward Loston. Post office authorities pursue the defaulter as new details emerged.
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Edward Billings
Newton
Father Dannerhee
St. Mary's Church
Europe
United States
Billings
Loston
Post Office
Tufts Night Observed At Tufts College Gym
Tonight Tufts College marks the third annual Tufts night in Goddard Gymnasia. Initiated by the Tower Cross senior class society in 1898, the event replaces the former Bloody Monday festivities.
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Tufts
Goddard
Tufts College
Tower Cross
Ayer s Sarsaparilla Ad Claims Medical Value
An old advertisement argues sarsaparilla and other plant ingredients prove medicinal in Tired or sick people. It urges asking doctors about the formula and promotes multiple Ayer products from J C Ayer Company of Lowell Massachusetts.
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Ayer
Snelbaker and the Soaped Bureau Prank
A Cleveland Plain Dealer anecdote narrates Snelbaker’s notorious bureau, a stubborn piece with a middle drawer hard to pull. After a roommate soaps friction, the drawer snaps loose, sending collars and cuffs flying and prompting Snelbaker to smash the furniture with an axe, then store garments in unconventional places.
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Snelbaker
Snellaker
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Boston Post Photo Contest Seeks Amateur Submissions
The Boston Post announces weekly cash prizes of 10 5 and 3 dollars for photographs of news value and human interest. Contenders mail titled photos with name and address on back plus brief notes about circumstances and subjects.
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Boston Post
Hoston Post
Sunday Post
Post
the Post
Boston
Comic Exchanges On Matrimonial Schemes In Newspapers
A humorous fragment features quotes from Chicago Record and Harpers Bazaar. Catterson jokes about wife management by money, while Hatterson counters his own wife always wanting money. The wry exchange parodies domestic bargaining and financial banter.
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Catterson
Hatterson
Harper’s Bazar
A Clever Turn and Public Benefactor Remarks
A Cleveland Plain Dealer item recalls a witty exchange about a loaded gun and public benefaction. The dialogue reflects humorous courtroom banter and a playful remark about Mrs. Flypp’s tall hat turned front to back. The piece showcases light, satirical local flavor.
Quips and Quirks From Old City Papers
A collage of humorous exchanges from Chicago Post Philadelphia Call Baltimore American Somerville Journal and Washington Star captions and punchlines. Dialogues touch on living on 15 cents a day actors theater golf love and weathered sayings in a breezy, vintage press style.
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William
Timothy
Chicago Post
Nodd Seethes On Early Education In Sunday School Remark
A humorous exchange from Harper's Bazaar shows Nodd dismissing formal schooling for children until age ten and Todd countering with a question about sending his own children to school. Nodd clarifies only Sunday school is acceptable.
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Nodd
Todd
Harper’s Bazar
Exchange Intrigue and Quiet Payoff in Shared Tenants Tale
A tense exchange unfolds between a mistress and a new girl about calls and intrusions. A caller questions Aunt Mary, a policeman is suggested, and a jab at a noisy neighbor leads to a threat of violence as a pistol is waved and a brick hits a man after he playfully pointed a gun.
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Mary
Stage Matters Opens Park Theatre Sales for The Choir In Visible
The Park Theatre opens seating for The Choir In Visible this morning. Mrs. Leslie Carter plans to appear in Ibsen's When We Dead Awaken as Irene. Souvenir silver horseshoes to be given tonight to every lady patron of The County Fair at the Park Theatre. Monday next Burgess and his company at the Academy of Music Chelsea. Museum Calvaston benefit patrons listed. Miay Irwin's new farce The Belle of Bridgeport premiered in New Haven Friday. Central figure Aerial Smith, daughter of department store head John Smith, contends with a theft case involving Malcolm Crane. Aerial aims to marry Malcolm to thwart scandal. Testimonial for Thomas J. McLean at Crescent Gardens tomorrow. Greenbacks and Gold prize offer noted for coffee experience letters in Thursday paper.
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Ibsen
Irene
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Academy of Music
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Andrew Fisk
John Chipman Gray
George L. Peabody
Miay Irwin
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Aerial
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Malcolm
Topping
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