Bible for any race finds new Testament in many tongues worldwide
American Bible Society reports broad reach with 162 languages for full Bible and 480 plus for New Testament and portions. The blind edition weighs 100 pounds in 16 volumes, sold at one third cost, with eight dollar price. society operates globally with translations, grants, and immigrant language provisions.
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American Society
New York
American Bible Society
Nauru
Caroline Islands
San Francisco
The
Bible Society
America
Oxford Company
Final Stand of Old Mormon Sect in Connecticut Church
In Silvermine Fairfield county Connecticut the last orthodox Mormons who stayed away from Brigham Young gather in a small meeting house for a final stand The 44 members are scattered from Norwalk to Danbury and some from New York state The preacher resembles Horace Greeley and delivers a Nephite laden sermon about lost Mormon texts and Nephthali prophecy without embellishment
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Hartford
Conn
Brigham Young
Utah
Silvermine
Fairfield County
Connecticut
Church of Christ of the Latter Day Saints
Norwalk
Danbury
York State
Little Church
Horace Greeley
Jonathan Edek
Strife Over Silvermine Church Shapes Local Tale
Villagers recount a long dispute over the little Silvermine church. Mormons sought the old Methodist chapel in Wilton, were driven out, and years of no meeting house followed. Swedes at a nearby mill struck, then donated their church building to the Mormons, allowing 44 members to establish a chapel.
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Silvermine
Wilton
Slivermine
Burmahs smallest king met by traveler in Shan states
J Mackenzie reports from Burmah that he met the Sawbwa of Chentung, four feet nine inches tall, in a thatched stilt palace near the Salween river. The tiny monarch welcomed him with a cordial smile and offered a coconut, while his retinue of 24 men displayed old guns. Mackenzie presented a corkscrew knife, which delighted the king and court as they inspected its blades.
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London
J. Mackenzie
Burmah
India
Sawbwa
Myo Sa
Chentung
Salween River
Calcutta
Three Weeks Brought About a Remarkable Change
Mrs. A J Davis of Murray Kentucky credits Dean's Kidney Pills with curing her kidney disease in three weeks. She suffered dizziness knifelike back pains and crippling ache but reports all symptoms gone after using the product. Sold by all dealers 60 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
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A. J. Davis
Murray, Ky
Dean
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
N. Y
Youngster Prefers Spanking to Bed as Punishment
A Cleveland Plain Dealer anecdote records Wallace Knight noting children’s philosophy. A daughter, sent to bed, asks for a spanking to end the punishment, arguing lying there worsens her temper and sleep.
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Wallace Knight
Cleveland Plain Dealer
CURE AT CITY MISSION A Testimony Of Recovery
A city mission recounts a severely ill young woman treated for scabies and incipient paresis with Cuticura products. After seven weeks of care she improved, slept better after Resolvent treatment, and within five weeks could seek work. Laura June Bates, 85 Fifth Ave New York, dated Mar 11 1907.
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Laura June Bates
Fifth Ave
New York
N. Y
Mar. 11
The Square Deal
A generous suburban resident funded the annual Sunday picnic and was invited to speak to 150 children. The philanthropist, a skilled poker player, warned the youngsters that “it pays to be good,” adding a joke about a man who deals from the bottom of the pack being buried at public expense.
A Discomfiting Witness and a Noted Colloquy
A humorous transcript from the Argonaut recalls Councilor Sealingwax grilling a witness who admits employing dis honest people after their confessions. The exchange turns on motives and the joke of extracting almanaclike advantage from law offices.
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Sealingwax
Argonaut
Deafness Cure Claim Promises $100 Reward
An advertisement claims deafness stems from inflamed mucous lining of the Eustachian tube and offers $100 for any case cured by Halle Catarrh Cure. It asserts constitutional remedies work, warns local applications fail, and endorses J J Cheney & Co of Toledo Ohio with Betty Drummitt sales.
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Cassith
Halle
PF. J, Cheney & CO
Toledo
Drummiata
Jill
U. S. Leads as Coal Producer in 1907
The United States produced 60 percent more coal than Great Britain and over 100 percent more than Germany in 1907. A Geological Survey report estimates world coal production at 1,209,184,109 short tons, with the U.S. supplying nearly 40 percent. North of the equator accounts for over 93 percent of output.
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Washington
United States
Great Britain
Germany
Geological Survey
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Elder Buttry
Chen-tung
City Mission
Sorea
Cutiura
Charley
Yonkers
Lippincott's
Atchison Globe
Cinder Ella
Rie Ble Thal
Ore Tency As
Ot Stber Poe
Seaside Silhouette
Craggs
Sero
Henry
Nellie
Allen
U. S
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Wash
Fred EB. Kemfer
Washington Street
Cataldo Avenue
Kemfer
Traction Company
Kermit
Dodds
Guar
Putnam
Fic
Carters
W.l.douglas
A.N. Kellogg Newspaper CO
W. Adama
S. Naserans
Saeus
W. N. U. Denver
Sloan
Earl S
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