Forward Movement aids West Side Chicago poor efforts
Chicago correspondent notes the Forward Movement at West Harrison street promotes social, intellectual, and spiritual uplift in congested districts. Epworth House coordinates clubs, classes, and a kindergarten. Miss Dix leads neighborly visits and basic medical care to foster self sufficiency.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Forward Movement
Association
West Harrison Street
Epworth House
Pearce Street
United States
West Side
M. B. Dix
Forward Movement Hall
Harrison Street
Too Much Sugar at Peninsular War Mess
In a Spanish village during the Peninsular war an English mess, aided by native cooks, enjoyed varied fare despite a major who distrusted the sugar rich dishes. He then tried a shell egg diet, claiming Spanish hens cannot sugar flavor eggs. A hawk, five feet four inches, joined the Zoo collection as a notable self imported specimen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ley
Lion House
Manley
Muanley
Zoo
Philadelphia
Cardinal Ledochowski Deposed From Propaganda Prefecture
Cardinal Miecislas Ledochowski, 75, Polishborn Roman prelate, reportedly deposed from the Propaganda Prefecture by the Pope for leaning toward Germany over France. A prominent church prince in Rome, he received education in Warsaw.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Prussia
Ostrowo
Rome
Pius
Vatican
Ledochowski
Satolli
the Propaganda
Miecisias Ledechowski
Germany
France
Church
Poland
the Lagarista
Warsaw
Aten
Bubonic Plague Fears From Lab Tubes in Brooklyn Lab
The article warns that leakages from glass tubes in Hoagland Laboratory Brooklyn could unleash the bubonic plague, described as the deadliest modern disease with 95 percent mortality once contracted. It discusses its rapid progression, historical ravages in Bombay and Europe, uncertain identity with past plagues, and its persistence in filthy, starving environments across cold and hot regions of Asia and Russia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bombay
Hoagland Laboratory
Brooklyn
Europe
India
Russia
China
United States
Kitasato
Hong Kong
Pacteriologists
Massive Moriarty monument shipped to New Orleans pedestal
The large mortuary base quarried at Barre Vermont and loaded for transport weighs 80,000 pounds and measures fourteen feet square with a 100,000 pound capacity. The base sits on piles 50 feet deep, beneath a concrete bed, ready for granite blocks and a second monolith.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Orleans
Daniel Moriarty
California
Barre
Mrs Mark A Hanna Ancient Tumblera
Mrs Mark A Hanna is noted in this brief item referencing an elderly person and a cultural term Tumblera. The text is fragmentary and lacks a clear event or location to describe further.
Quotations and captions from early humor pages compiled
A collage of light verse and caption snippets from various newspapers and magazines. Jests about courtships trains, theater life, and daily foibles appear alongside punny exchanges and quick quips. The excerpt showcases a cross-section of trivial humor and gag lines typical of periodical humor pages.
Curious cargoes arrive in Liverpool amid strange loads
The entries describe unusual shipments to Liverpool including live turtles, leeches, bones from battlefields, human mummies from Egyptian tombs, and dead cats from cat cemeteries. A school visit prompts a child to respond with a quirky exchange about praying for a teacher and the devil.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Liverpool
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Ledochoweki
Pitts
Madrid
Lisbon
Rio de Janeiro
Santiago de Chili
Thebes
Sweden
Norway
Italy
Forward
Brussels
Gnesen
Posen
All Poland
Congress and
Halsted Streets
BR. G. W- Gray
Cardinal Ledochowski
Dne
Mark A. Hanna
Washington
Star
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Puck
Indianapolis Journal
Brown—‘Jones
Robinson
Brown
Cleveland
Stage News
Henry Irving
Cincinnati Enquirer
Watts
Higgins
Detroit Journal
Flannigan
Casey
Fionigan
Yonkers Statesman
Dryleigh
Switzerland
Oberammergau
New York
Detroit
News
Charlie Bidal
Plain
Braye Saree
Aor Bray
Cal
Woman's
Woman’s Corner
Ehief
York
Maria
Fligater
Tommy
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