I Wish I Could Be An Orphan Boy
A child laments over strict supervision by his mother in Chicago during the early 20th century. He longs for work downtown with his father and for freedom to play outside without constant calls to come home. He imagines life as a man who can mind himself and enjoy longer evenings in town.
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S. E Kiser
Chicago Record-Herald
Barbara
Yetarbara
Carl
Mr. Morton
Mrs. Ward
Servant Barbara Encounters Church Social Clash
In Marble Square church circles, Barbara Clarke navigates class tensions as Mrs Ward debates servant status with Mrs Wilson and Mrs Rice. Barbara confronts her role choosing service over society while Mr Morton brings gentleness and a hint of romance into the Ward household. Barbara’s reflections pivot on duty and equality, guided by a Bible verse about no respect of persons.
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Mrs. Burns
Mrs. Wilson
Mrs. Rice
Mrs. Ward
Ward
Mra Rice
Vane
Burns
Barbara
Marble Square Church
Cazes
Crawford
Marble Square
Ste
Ward's
Mr. Ward
Mr. Mortdn
Carlton
Mr. Morton
Mr Ward
Dr. Law
Thessalonians
Mrs. Vane
Mrs. ,Ward
Bismarck and Schloezer in Memoir Anecdotes
F Max Muller recounts Karl de Schloezer, once Prussian minister to the United States, who clashed with Bismarck, sought to write memoirs, and later served as envoy to the pope before dying in Italy. Also notes on youths and a Commons lobby anecdote from St James Gazette.
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F. Max Muller
The
Scribners
Karl de Schloezer
Paris
United States
Prof
Muller
Prussia
Germany
Bismarck
Schloezer
St. Petersburg
Washington
Italy
House of Commons
M. R
St. James
Nellie Grant Sartoris Buys Coburg Ontario Estate
Mrs Nellie Grant Sartoris daughter of General U S Grant purchases the Coburg Ontario residence of Miss Allan, a grand Lake Ontario dwelling once owned by Wentworth Tremaine and later by William Weller and George Ley. Coburg is famed as a summer resort with healthful lake breezes and many notable American visitors.
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Nellie Grant Sartoris
U. S. Grant
Miss Allan
Hugh Allan
Allan Line of Steamships
Coburg
Ont
Thei
Wentworth Tremaine
William Weller
Hamilton
Montreal
George Ley
Allan
Lake Ontario
Dominion of Canada
United States
New Dutch Premier Kuyper Seen as Potential Peace Architect
The new Dutch prime minister Dr A Kuyper, a liberal and democratic force under Queen Wilhelmina, is linked to Boers England peace hopes. He has advised with Baron von Linden of The Hague arbitration court and may unveil a peace plan soon. Kuyper helped establish a free university in Amsterdam and earned an LL D from Princeton in 1898.
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Dr. A. Kuyper
Holland
Wilhelmina
England
South Africa
Dr Kuyper
Baron von Linden
Hague
Amsterdam
Abraham Intercedes Over Sodom in Genesis Lesson
August 1901 Sunday School lesson on Genesis 18 16 33 recounts Abraham pleading with the Lord to spare Sodom for the sake of the righteous and the angels visit, with notes on hospitality prayer intercession and Lot's rescue. The piece emphasizes humility boldness and the moral lesson of resisting worldly influence.
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Bobo
Abraham
Forst
Sodom
Lot
Jehovah
God
Shot and Shell in Ram's Horn Reflections
A Ram's Horn meditation on virtue and material worth contrasts shining blessings with gold. It argues that moral goodness outshines wealth yet gold cannot fulfill true virtue and that spectatorship replaces effort in modern life.
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