Tenth Biennial Unitarian Ministers Institute Opens in Concord
The tenth biennial session opened Wednesday at the Old First Parish church in Concord with about 50 ministers from New England and beyond. Devotions led by Rev. Pitt Dillingham started the day, followed by remarks from President John W. Chadwick. Lectures by Dr. C. C. Everett on Kant and Rev. Merle St. Croix Wright on Evolution drew strong attendance and praise. Afternoon papers by Rev. W. W. Fenn discussed mysticism in modern thought, with open discussion among clergy. Evening sessions featured papers on pulpit topics including politics and social questions.
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Unitarian Ministers’ Institute
Old First
Concord
New England
Middle
Western
Pitt Dillingham
John W. Chadwick
C. C. Everett
Harvard Divinity School
Kant
Merle St. Croix Wright
New York
W. W. Fenn
Chicago
Joseph H. Allen
Mr. Tiffany
Charles G. Ames
Theological lecture day draws large crowd in Andover
Attendance on Thursday surpassed Wednesday as scholars gathered for talks on Job and New Testament poetry. Prof G F Morse of Andover argued Job is a free invented epic prologue and epilogue. Rev S J Barrows of Boston discussed mythical elements in the New Testament and its poetic imagination.
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G. F. Morse
Andover
Thomas R. Shcer
Buffalo
Alber Walkeley
Boston
C. H. Toy
Samuel B Stewart
George Batchelor
Francis B. Hornbrooke
W. W. Fenn
Josiah Boyce
Harvard
Job
Cambridge
D. G. Lyon
el Amarna
Egypt
New Bicycle Freight Rates Take Effect on Boston and Albany
Beginning Thursday October 1 a new schedule lowers bicycle transport charges by 33 1 3 percent on the Boston and Albany. The railroad also enforces a rule that bicycles cannot be checked with cyclometers baggage or any breakable items attached to them.
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Boston and Albany Railroad
One Minute Cough Cure Endorsed by Speakers and Clergy
A vintage advertisement claims many political speakers clergymen singers and others who use the voice rely on One Minute Cough Cure to prevent huskiness and laryngitis and to provide instant relief with listed suppliers in several towns.
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B. F. Johnson & Son
Maynard
C. H. Whitney
Concord
H. A. Littlefield
West Acton
District Conference of Sunday School Workers Held at Bedford
The Concord district Sunday school workers from Acton to Stow met in Bedford for a fall conference in the Congregational church. Morning and afternoon sessions covered rally Sunday, teaching methods, Bible helps, and district work with reports, a lunch praise service, and a unanimous motion praising Bedford ladies for the lunch and urging simple meals at future events.
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Acton
Bedford
Boxboro
Carlisle
Concord
Hudson
Lincoln
Lexington
Maynard
Stow
Congregational Church
W. H. Gutteridge
Lyman Mevis
Edwin Smith
Calvin Keyser
J. N. Dummer
Abby F. Rolte
Albert H. Gleason
Bedford Society
The Uncertain Test for Death and Buried Alive Fears
A historical note questions how many people are buried alive yearly and recalls cases of misjudged death. It cites lack of a reliable death test, warns against relying on sight or scent, and describes a burial delay where life signs returned, contradicting physicians’ pronouncements.
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New York Ledger
Monkeys of Africa Face Harsh Life and Daring Forays
The piece notes African baboons as open country dwellers feeding on ground insects and vegetation. They show strength but limited ground agility, retreating from kopjes and cliffs to invade low country. During Napier of Magdala’s Abyssinian expedition they camped near coastal cantonments and stole grain, defending by numbers and discipline against leopards lions and Cape wild dogs.
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Africa
Abyssinia
Nile
Lord Napier
Magdala
South Africa
Cape
London Spectator
A Plea for Plain Food in Millionaire and Laborer Homes
A New York Ledger essay notes that lavish meals ruin children of both rich and working families. It describes a mechanic's children fed on stale bread and fatty meats, with coffee and rich desserts, and reports ill health and two deaths from cholera morbus. It argues simpler, cheaper diets would save health and money.
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New York Ledger
Hawthorne at Brook Farm Works and Dishes Like a Prince
The Cambridge Magazine quotes Hawthorne’s daughter Mrs Lathrop saying he enjoyed garden work and shared house chores with his wife. He hoed vegetables and planted sunflowers, helped with cleaning and cooking, and did so with gentleness and reliability.
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Brook Farm
Hawthorne
The Spirit of Truth in Life Not Speech
The author argues truth must be lived, not merely spoken, and genuine truth shines through in a person’s deeds and thoughts, independent of motives or policy. A person may preach honesty yet lack the spirit that makes truth alive in daily conduct. Exchange.
Quirky Schoolgirl Talk Sparks Witty Exchange
A contemporary recounts a fragment of dialogue between two girls. One remarks she was dying to see it and the other agrees it was perfectly killing once seen, illustrating expressive style among emphatic youths.
Married Woman's Vesting Rights Questioned
In a strained exchange a husband accuses his wife of taking money from his waistcoat pocket. She defiantly admits the theft, arguing that it is one of married women's vested rights. The dialogue reflects domestic tension and gender norms of the period.
Youngest American colonel Harry Mulligan of Louisville
The 13 year old Harry Mulligan, born in Ottawa and raised in Louisville, is commissioned by Governor Bradley to serve on his staff as the youngest colonel in America. The piece recounts his quick rise from hotel politics to official recognition and notes his familiarity with Kentucky figures and issues. It also cites a Chicago Record remark about future global travel by rail and the Transsiberian line.
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America
Louisville
Harry Mulligan
Bradley
Kentucky
Commonwealth
Ottawa
Canada
Tom Mulligan
Blue Grass
Elec
Tion
Harry
Colonel Bradley
New York Herald
Jules Verne
Europe
Pacific
Asia
New York
Atlantic Ocean
France
San Francisco
Chicago Record
Middlesex
Aaron Hunt
Sudbury
Prescott Keyes
Concord
Lowell
Sudbury Enterprise
Charles J. McIntire, Esquire
Indian boy turns poem into prose in quaint rendering
A young Indian boy rendered Mrs Hemans's poem about pilgrims into prose. He translated the line about a band of exiles mooring their bark on the wild New England shore as banished musicians tying their dog on the coast of New England.
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Ministers’ Institute At
Massachusetts Sunday School Association
Bertha F. Vella
Park
Main Street
Tuttle, Jones & Wetherbee's
J. English
Lancaster Ginghams
Silicias
Cabot
Lonsdale Cambrie
Turkey
Amory Brown
Whitefield Brown
Princess Brown
Tuttle, Jones & Wetherbee
South Acton
Mass
A. H. Haynes
Riverside Block
Magna
James Devane
West Acton, Mass
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
H. Folsom
T.F. Sheehan
Barrett’ S Mill Road
Concord Junction
Hapgood
Anterprise
Horace Tuttle
W. A.cunningham
H. P. N. Dahl
Maynard, Mass
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