Forward Movement Aims to Aid Chicago Poor Districts
The Forward Movement in Chicago pursues social, physical, and spiritual betterment of congested districts through statistics, radiating centers, and cooperative principles. Epworth House serves as its social settlement with regular temperance meetings, exhibitions, and citizen discussions each week.
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Chicago
Secka
Squalor
Forward Movement
Association
West Harrison Street
Humanity
Epworth House
Pearce Street
Fwd Movement hall activities and scientific notes featured
A lengthy survey of religious and social events at a hall and Epworth House includes a Sunday school, a Dr Gray preach er, and cadet drill among boys. The page also reports on science topics from aviation to mosasaurs, coastal electric safety, Niagara era river tracks, and Alaska mirages with vivid descriptions.
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Gray
Epworth House
Forward Movement
United States
Forward Movement at Hall on Halsted Streets
Winter relief beds have sheltered 50,000 homeless on the West Side as the Association promotes neighborly visitation under Miss M. BE. Dix. Representatives from many nations mingle, languages vary from Swedish and Norwegian to Italian and Russian, while English remains limited.
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Congress and
Halsted Streets
West Side
M. BE. Dix
Epworth House aids poor with outreach and programs
The Epworth House in the city conducts visiting work among the sick and needy with a corps of physicians ready to assist. Miss Krause heads a kindergarten for 3 to 6 year olds at Forward Movement Hall, aided by clothing donations for families unable to provide. The hall hosts classes in cooking and various meetings, while Poland’s monthly Friday night gathering reflects the association’s social outreach.
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Epworth House
Forward Movement Hall
Harrison Street
Miss Krause
Cardinal Ledochowski Deposed From Propaganda Prefecture
Cardinal Miecislas Ledochowski, aged 75, is reported deposed from the Prefecture of the Propaganda by the Pope. He earned Vatican displeasure by leaning toward Germany and away from France, a stance noted among Rome’s leading princes of the church.
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the Propaganda
Miecislas Ledochowski
Vatican
Germany
France
Princes of the Church
Rome
Curious Cargoes Arrive at Ames From Liverpool
Curious shipments reach Ames including turtles and other dead animals, leech casks, bones from battlefields, human mummies from Egyptian tombs, and dead cats from local cat cemeteries. A royal octavo volume measures 10 by 6 inches.
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Liverpool
Ames
Batttefields
Liquid Crystals Show Temperature Driven Phase Changes
Dr Lehman’s liquid crystals intrigue with azoxyphenol crystals that melt at 134 degrees but keep crystal shape and double refract. At 165 degrees they lose double refraction, revealing successive phase transitions while remaining tactically crystalline.
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Lehman
Miera
Royal Society
Ancient cave alphabet found in Le Mas-d'Azil cave
In a southern French cave near the Pyrenees, archaeologist Monsieur Piette reports discoveries by Neolithic cave dwellers. Pebbles painted with peroxide of iron show dots stripes and devices that may be numerical or alphabetic symbols possibly phonetic in nature.
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Monsieur Piette
le Mas-d’Azil
France
Pyrenees
Monsieur Perte
The Children’s Sleep And Buffalo Slaughter Report
A physician urges steady bed times for children, cautioning against cutting sleep to save money. He advises a quiet bedtime routine and a cool dark room with fresh air. Also reported is Gen A W Greeley’s account of a 60 year buffalo slaughter across the plains and vast buffalo herds seen in 1875 76 with 164 000 skins imported to Texas Grima.
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Abiaka
Louia
Falanda
Eea
Ale
A. W. Greeley
War Department
Arkansas
Grima
Tex
Chinese Labor Bid Wins New Zealand Road Contract
In Otago a road mending contract was awarded to the lowest bidder named MacPherson who claimed to be Chinese. Officials rejected the spelling and questioned the bidder’s identity while the contract was signed amid tense exchange and mispronounced names.
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New Zealand
Otago
Mage Pherson
Blu
MacPherson
Mac
Move To Will You Mind the Baby Jack for a Title White
Mrs. Elsmore asks Move To to mind the baby as a witty consent scene unfolds with Elsmore quipping the child will not Pipd me. The fragment hints at a humorous domestic moment from a bygone era.
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Jack
Mrs. Elsmore
Elsmore
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Arrat Travel
Sou Lartgles
Will Paner
Cardinal Ledochowski
Satell
Manley
Nature
America
New Jersey
Gulf of Mexico
Misassaippi River
St. Clair
Detroit Rivera
Great Lakes
Dati
Ifk
Weg Egy
Egos Ply
Mirage
Alaska
City
Hera
Sweden
Norway
Italy
Russia
G. W. Gray
Poland
Warsaw
Pius IX
Ledochowski
Pius
Madrid
Lisbon
Rio de Janeiro
Santiago de Chill
Thebes
Brussels
Zoo
Philadelphia
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