Weekly Record of World Notes and Local Gleanings
A compact weekly column notes varied items from politics and war to society and weather. Topics include Toilo surrender to American forces, the Spanish Cortes meeting, Indiana Republican clubs, a navy admiral bill, East River burials, Pole balloon find, and American civilizing missions in the Philippines. Also mentions a Tipton shopper, Portuguese minister snow incident, and Havana January death rates.
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Gilbert
Indiana League of Republican Clubs
Ft. Wayne
Fraud and deception noted in Indiana Supreme Court case
The Indiana Supreme Court ruled there may be fraud in marital affection in the Basye v Basye case. Wilson J Basye accused Mary E Basye of feigning kindness to secure an 80 acre deed, then abandoning him and seeking divorce. The court sided with Basye, recognizing deceptive demonstrations of affection.
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Supreme Court of Indiana
Wilson J. Basye
Mary E. Basye
Henry County
Wiley
The Mouth Essay by a Schoolboy
The little essay extols the mouth as a central facial feature and social symbol describing its roles in speech taste and health. It calls the mouth a doorway to expression and a source of both virtue and temptation, noting its impact on manners and attraction.
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Patriotisus
Jal
February Weather Outlook with Storms and Cold Wave
A forecast notes stormy conditions from February across the Mth and 1ath with a blizzard possible in the north and west. A warm spell starts Tuesday the 21st as conditions shift west to east, followed by sleet snow, then cold winds from the northwest. A heavy storm period is likely from the full moon on the 24th to month’s end, ending in a very cold wave.
Murder of the Innocents in Modern Schools
Mrs. Lew Wallace criticizes late nineteenth century schooling in the February Ladies' Home Journal. She contrasts the harsh demands of modern education with childhood play, noting excessive homework, long night study, and a loss of child life. The piece laments a system that aims to punish with medals and grades rather than nurture balanced development.
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Bethlehem
Lew Wallace
Ladies’ Home Journal
Herod
Arrow Heads and bumper sticker musings in verse and prose
A collection of aphorisms and short poems. The lines mix lines from Longfellow with social musings about friendship honesty money and church life. The tone is reflective and anecdotal with quips on aging money manners and human folly.
The White Man's Burden Poem Reproduced in McClure's
Kipling's The White Man's Burden appears in McClure's Magazine February issue with copyright consent. The piece presents the poem's themes of colonial duty and moral instruction amid a colonial policy crisis, noting its reception and public debate.
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McClure
Rudyard Kipling
The Best Laid Plans Reflect a Man’s Shifting Ideals
A benevolent early dreamer recalls youthful idealism turned practical after sudden wealth. A dinner, a fight with a waiter, and a costly lawsuit led to bail, anger, and near ruin. He learns that money tests ideals, then reconciles wealth with care for the poor.
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New York Commercial Advertiser
Brutalities at Sea Chronicled in The Pall Mall Magazine
The Earl of Lindsay’s 1635 maritime instructions urged worship twice daily and punished vice aboard. The account notes brutal punishments including marooning, keel hauling, nailing to mainmast, and tying the living to the dead before throwing them overboard.
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Pall Mall
W. Clark Russell
Earl of Lindsay
Uncomely habits and a barn age dispute on the stand
A London Globe account describes lawyer S. pressing a farmer to state when a barn was built. The farmer dodges with vague timelines until he retorts that the lawyer’s house is nearly as old as his own lies. The courtroom eruptates and the witness is not recalled.
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London Globe
Rat Prognosticators on the Great Lakes Ship Fate
A lakes superstition holds rats desert a vessel that is unseaworthy. The Vernon, a Buffalo built three master from 1850, carried grain to Buffalo and package freight to Chicago. On a rough November night about 15 years ago fifty to seventy five rats fled to the wharf as lines were cast off. the ship then sailed with a new crew and was lost with all hands.
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Great Lakes
Vernon
Buffalo
Chicago
Ark the Herald Angels Sing at December Street Scene
A late December night vignette shows three youths near a residential area railings singing loudly as authorities scold them from a doorway. The narrator wanders from a crowded roadway toward a quiet block where food and shelter await. The scene closes with the muffled chant Ark the Herald angels sing echoing down the street.
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London
Cook
Ark
Erald Angels Sing
Academy
Where Coleridge Was Wanting
E V Lucag discusses Coleridge's lack of voluntary writing power. He writes that Coleridge can spontaneously emit essays in conversation but fails when required to write from premeditated plans. Inspired moods, the author argues, produce oral rather than written contributions, yet when inspired Coleridge surpasses all imagined by others.
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Coleridge
Charles Lamb
The
Lloyds
E. V. Lucag
The Great Bridge of China and Other Curiosities
A historical note describes a vast Chinese bridge near Sangzang by the Yellow Sea dating to the Song era. It spans at least eight and a half miles on 3800 arches with lions carved on each pile and a foundation 21 meters below water. The piece also includes humorous riddles and assorted observations on Spain’s minerals and prehistoric whale origins.
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China
Song
Sangzang
Yellow Sea
Friends' Church Society Directory Schedule
Regular services each Sabbath at 11 a.m. and 7 p.m. Midweek services Thursday at 10 a.m. and 7 p.m. Sabbath school at 9:45 a.m. Intermediate and Junior Endeavors at 3 p.m. Senior Endeavor at 8 p.m. Singing Tuesday 7 p.m. Teachers meeting Wednesday 7 p.m. Monthly meeting Thursday after the first Saturday at 10 a.m. Elwood Scott is pastor.
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Friends’ Church
Churc
Elwood Scott
Big Four timetable for Carthage Indiana printed in 1897
Cleveland Cincinnati Chicago and St Louis line reveals Going North and Going South schedules corrected to July 4 1897. Times shown include No 24 passenger No 64 passenger No 56 passenger and No 23 passenger with a 6 53 p m and 11 32 p m for northbound and southbound services. Agent J E Campbell Carthage Indiana available for further information.
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J. E. Campbell
Carthage
Indiana
Big Four Interchangeable Mileage Tickets Critiqued
The piece argues that the one thousand mile tickets of the Big Four Route are indispensable for business firms and travelers. It notes the lines run through major cities in Ohio Indiana and Illinois and that the ticket can be used to reach these hubs and other connected cities, making it highly valuable.
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Ohio
Indiana
Ilinois
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Ohio Pipe Covering Co
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Dr. Miles Medical Company
Elkhart
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Society Directory
Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. L.r’y
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Benton Harbor
Big Four Ry
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Wabash Ave
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North Water
J. H. Graham, Pres’t
Benton Harbor, Mich
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Bowinkle
Newby & Vestal Block
Knightstown, Mnt
Owen S. Hill Notary PuBlic
Hile’s Drug Stors
Carthuage, Ind
Carthace, Ind
Dr. Caldwes
Cottin’s
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