Devilish Porto Rican Cult Excludes Foreigners Says Missionary
Rev. William Maxfield recounts a strange Porto Rican sect named Chiros that bans foreigners and practices flogging the devil on Fridays aboard fishing boats. The ritual includes burning a life size devil figure, mob violence, drowning, and fire dances tied to a sacred fire in the mountains north of San Juan. Some adherents have joined Methodism, but ceremonies persist as mystic rites rather than true religion.
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Porto Rico
William Maxfield
New York Press
Maxfield
Island
Foreign Missionary Society of the Meth
Odist Episcopal Church
Mr. Maxfield
San Juan
South
Sensational Life Leap in Coal Mine Stage Spectacle
A stage dramatic scene shows a heroine leaping from a 20 foot cliff to a moving mine car to reach her sister. The rival aid rescues her after a landslide swallows the cliff edge, with the actress describing the perilous daily stunt and its exact safety measures.
Acton Centre Church Reopens After 4500 Remodel
Acton Centre Congregational church completes a 4500 remodel converting the worn 50 year old structure into a modern edifice. A square west tower replaces the old steeple and a spacious vestibule fronts the building. Interior features include a paneled division with cathedral glass, a chapel, infant room, stained glass windows honoring members, a polished oak auditorium seating 212, a central chandelier, and new dining and kitchen space. Heating uses Tenney's steam for the main rooms and a separate furnace for the chapel and Sunday school. Community gifts supported the project. bills are paid and local supporters aided the effort.
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Acton Centre
Wayne
Skinner
Luther Conant
Augustine Conant
Star of Bethlehem
ODOT
Dea. Hayward
W. W. Davis
Andover
Moses Taylor
Christ
Mary Magdalene
Wilde
W. A. Wilde
Malden
Ladies’ Church ‘Aid Society
Tenney
Acton
Seven Wonders of the World Chronicle
A historical note traces the Seven Wonders from Antipater of Sidon through Varro Diodorus and Strabo, confirming the classical list of Babylon, Zeus at Olympia, Semiramis gardens, Rhodes Colossus, Memphis pyramids, Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, and Artemis/Ephesus temple. It also discusses Philo of Byzantium’s treatise as later attribution, with Wheeler commenting on its authenticity.
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Antipater
Sidon
Babylon
Zeus
Olympia
Semiramis
Colossus
Rhodes
Memphis
Halicarnassus
Diana
Artemis
Ephesus
Varro
Diodorus
Strabo
Rome
Philo
Byzantium
B. C
Christ
Professor Wheeler
Moon and Earth to Lock in 65 Day Cycle
The Atlantic notes Professor George H. Darwin’s claim that tidal friction will slow rotation so a day becomes 5 of present days and the lunar month 55 days. The moon and earth would then rotate as if bound, yielding a 65 day cycle with identical day and month lengths.
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George H. Darwin
Atlantic
Looked Through Telescope and Saw Moon Man Gesturing
A speaker recalls looking through a telescope and sees the moon with a man gesturing and crying Don’t shoot Don’t shoot An amused crowd realizes none truly had the largest telescope.
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Strand Magazine
Grammar games spark petty feuds in Boston Transcript
In a Boston Transcript excerpt Dullerton and Smarte clash over language. Smarte admits using deliberate bad grammar to provoke correction, hoping to drive Dullerton-Piigster to improve. They acknowledge friction yet claim eventual harmony through corrective exchanges.
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Dullerton
Piigster
Cam
Boston Transcript
Fragmentary chatter sparks a baffling quote mystery
An oblique archival line quotes a New York Journal fragment likening Gladys to a schooly heavenly scene and noting arrest by a “lovely man.” The garbled text hints at sensational gossip or wartime slang but yields no clear event, date, or identifiable person.
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New York Journal
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