Second International Epworth League Meet at Chattanooga
The Epworth League meets in Chattanooga June 27 to 30 with the world’s Methodisms represented. The conference explores The Methodism of the Future with bishops and ministers, a 500-voice choir, sunrise prayers, large tent services, and extensive railroad arrangements for attendees.
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Epworth League
Chattanooga
Young People’s Society of Methodism
Cleveland
Young People’s Societies
Methodist Episcopal Church
J. N. Fitzgerald
M. E. Church
M. E. Church South
Canadian Methodist Church
League
Joyce
Vincent
Thoburn
M. E
Hendrix
Fitz
Rowland D
Park Sisters
Boston
Lookout Mountain
Galloway
Chattanooga League
Dld
Mammouth Cave
Chicago payroll frauds and city treasury looting
The article describes extensive payroll frauds in Chicago involving illicit entries that drained the city treasury. A special grand jury will be impaneled to investigate, with rumors of wholesale prosecutions of officials and contractors involved in armed work payments.
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Chicago
New York
Theity
Hindsight Foresight and the Stock Boom of May
The piece notes sharp stock gains, led by Standard Oil with an estimated $30,000,000 rise and a huge overall profit listed by the New York World. It cites widespread buying from brokers and European agents, bond market gains, and advances in staples and silver, suggesting a revival of good times and a push to catch on.
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Reaily Way
Sugar Trust
Standard Oil
New York World
Public parks show hopeful path for urban welfare
The piece argues for expansive public parks and pleasure grounds as vital to health and welfare in cities worldwide. It highlights Boston and Philadelphia as models with large park reserves and numerous new parks, urges Indiana towns to imitate these gains to build momentum for future generations.
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West
Boston
Philadelphia
Fairmount Park
London
Indiana
It Is Time for Parks in Indiana Towns to Flourish
The text urges rapid growth of county seats and argues small towns need parks. It warns against cities chasing only money and calls for inexpensive, well laid out parks as perpetual health and leisure gains. It urges looking ahead, acting promptly, and providing for posterity.
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Indiana
Bonaparte’s Muted Diplomacy and Harsh Resolve Shown
The letters reveal Bonaparte’s gentle, conciliatory side in some notes to officials and harsh, demanding traits in others. A November 19 1796 Verona missive praises dead officers and urges promotion while praising military courage. He comforts a widow and pledges aid for her child, showing a blend of tact and iron will.
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Bonaparte
Directory
General Clarke
Verona
Eliot
Arcole
Murior
Miscellaneous notes from a late 19th century paper
A collection of quirky facts and trivia includes notes on a Spanish Pyrenees paper pausing in heat, imperial population growth estimates for Germany, Gulf Stream transit times, a button sewing machine, 1804 silver dollar value and mintage, a new Edinburgh station cost, war population mobilization figures for France Germany and Russia, Lake Erie fish yield, ancient Chinese deity bronzes, 1893 buckwheat cake production, US headgear expenditure, deer and stag game in Scotland, Berlin streetcar toll, French soap suds gas production, and wool mill wash water yielding gas via soap byproducts.
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Pyrenees
German Empire
Gulf
Florida
Norway
North British Railway Company
Edinburgh
France
Field
Germany
Russia
Lake Erie
New York
United States
Scotland
Berlin
Unter den Linden
Household Hints Reflect Spring Style and Care Tips
The article notes spring fashion with the sailor hat and Parisian trends in skirts and sleeves. It offers household tips from cleaning metals with rotten stone to washing linen, fabric care, and simple earache relief using warmed vaseline. It also covers poaching eggs, testing black silk, and suggests trends in men’s hosiery with blue cotton and white dots.
Marching Through Georgia Author Calhoun Recalls War
Major Calhoun, editor of the Standard and the new Boston Jaily, wrote Marching Through Georgia. A former Sherman army officer, he lost a leg in battle and endured capture and prison hardships in the conflict.
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Major Calhoun
Standard
New Boston Jaily
Georgia
Sherman
Mrs Hearst funds girl’s school at Washington cathedral
Mrs Hearst widow of a California senator donates 175000 dollars to cathedral trustees for a girls school to be built on the cathedral site in the northwestern Washington suburb. Provisions for liberal education of young women are mentioned.
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Hearst
California
Episcopal Cathedral
Washington
Paris Laundresses Showdown At Palais de Beam Arts
Paris plans a protest event organized by the Town Council at the Palais de Beam Arts Champs de Mars to halt Paris linen being sent to London for washing. The piece also notes Baltimore's Quadriga club name meanings and Bishop Potter's educated daughters each excelling in pianism art and office duties.
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Paris
Palais de Beam Arts
Champs de Mars
London
Bishop Potter
General Sommer Uses Dogs for Army Mail in Bosnia
General Sommer commands an Austrian brigade in Bosnia and reports successful experiments with dogs for carrying mail. The text notes a hundred and fifty dogs trained for this task and mentions turmeric's extraction and broad cultivation in India, Cochinchina, Siam, Ceylon, and the Philippine islands.
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Sommer
Bosnia
Army Pororest
India
Cochinchina
Siasa
Ceylon
Philippine Islands
Notable Concord residents recall Daniel Webster era
The piece highlights Daniel Webster’s link to Concord NH through his sister-in-law, now nearly 94, and notes Webster’s boyhood visits to her home to bait worms for his fishing. It also mentions three German painters turning eighty this year Schrader Achenbach and Menzel with quirks in technique. Sir John Pender cites 45 million pounds spent on Atlantic ocean cables and subsidies totaling over 70 million dollars for eleven lines.
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Concord
N. H
Daniel Webster
Calvin C. Webster
Mr. Webster
Daniel
Schrader
Achenbach
Menzel
Sir John Pender
Atlantic
Lotain
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Epworth League Confe
Mulrooney
North Side
Meehan
Julien Lien Gordon
S. V van Rensselaer Cruger
N. Y
Richard Watson Gilder
Abe
Woman's Club
Baltimore
N. Y. Herald
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