Warned by specters the spirit aided a brother in law case
A first person narrative recalls three spectral apparitions guiding a brother in a legal decision. From childhood Brooklyn to Greenfield Hill and Dedham, visions spurred warnings and prescience, culminating in a Boston office vision that influenced a key legal disclosure. The essay questions science’s limits on unseen vibrations and the possibility of the afterlife.
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Brooklyn
Greenfield Hill
Conn
Annie
Maggie
Dedham
Mass
Verilly
Charlie
Boston
New York Herald
Folklore Origin Behind Swallows Forked Tail
In Palestine legends from Folklore in the Holy Land by Rev. J. E. Hanauer a tale explains the mosquito’s quest for the tastiest flesh. The swallow, shadowing the insect, plucks its tongue at court, causing frogs to be judged the serpent’s food and leaving the swallow with a forked tail.
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Palestine
Holy Land
J. E. Hanauer
Adam
Mecca
Doc
Pather
Ava
Easy Physical Culture for Daily Health Habits
The article extols short daily routines to improve breathing, vigor, and complexion. It suggests washing with a routine rub and brief cold-water dips, plus multiple deep breaths at moments like crossings, doors, and before interviews, aiming to form a lasting rhythmical inhalation habit.
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Susface Miles
Magazitus
The Flash of Genius Behind the Steel Age
The article recounts William Kelly's early idea to purify iron by air blast, leading to Bessemer’s commercial success and a global steel rise. It notes Robert Mushet’s推动 role, and Captain William R. Jones’s scrap-heap policy and leadership at Carnegie Steel, ending with Carnegie’s sobered reaction to Jones’s death.
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William Kelly
Pittsburg
Kelly
Bessemer
United States
Robert F. Mushet
Munset
Cordate Te Tees
Kelly and
Carnegie
Wilam R. Jones
Bhi Jones
England
Jones
Herbert N. Casson
Hobo Keeps Diamond Ring Habit From Aryon Days
A Marta burg woman shared a meal with a melancholy hobo at the back door. He explains he sticks out the left middle finger while eating from a habit formed in Aryon days when he wore a diamond ring, though not broken now.
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Martaburg
Harper’s Weekly
The Candidate's Course in Public Duty
A Cleveland Plain Dealer quotation urges that a candidate should resist personal bias and accept that a majority may be right. It argues true greatness lies in casting aside beliefs when constituents differ and respecting the will of the voters.
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Cleveland Plain Dealer
Deacon Questions Citizen as Town Panel Reaches Unanimous
A terse dialogue shows a deacon prompting a dying citizen and the judge noting unanimous support. A German proverb about loving neighbors and not pulling down the fence closes the exchange.
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Deacon
Senator urged to speak after punctured tire crowd
The senator pressed into a crowd around an automobile and asked what the trouble was. A man with a dinner pail answered that a tire was punctured. An amused onlooker urged the senator to make a speech into the tire, while a quote about inquisitive people rounds out the item.
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New York Press
Local Fraternal Lodges Meet on Various Weekday Schedules
Local fraternal groups list meeting times and officers at Odd Fellows hall with details for F Circle Seda 377 Crown Encampment 41 Starlight Rebekah Lodge 231 Masons Tem scal Lodge 314 Modern Woodmen of America Foresters Circle City 831 Fraternal Aid Queen Council 00 with officers and meeting days noted. social hall venues include Odd Fellows hall and Masonic hall.
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Modern
Woodmen OF America
Odd Fellows Hall
J. Smith
H. G
J. E. Lewis
D. K. Wilson
H. N. Sweet
Po Claes te bidaas ol deolia Sapp
Strouser dr. Sau and 5 fH. Dawson named Chief of Records in a brief local notice.
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Deolia
Strouser
Sau
Dawson
Fraternal group meetings announced in local halls
Fraternal Brotherhood meets the first and third Monday of each month in LO hall with officers Slaten as President Axel Nittingsokn Vice President Vivian Beach Secretary G E Bortz Exalted. Eagles hold Friday night meetings in Odd Fellows hall with W R Feldman Vice Warden and Dawson as secretary. Royal Neighbors of America meet first and third Tuesdays in Odd Fellows hall with Hattie Dinnam Oracle Mary V Nowels Recorder Maud Reed Treasurer.
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LO. O. Hall
We Slaten
Axel Nittingsokn
V. P
Vivian Beach
See’y
G. E. Bortz
Treas
Eagles
Odd Fellows Hall
W.R . Feldman
V. B
Thomas Car
Dawson
Carlton Pont
Department of California
Masonic Hall
W. J. Pentelow
Royal Neighbors OF America
Odd Fellows’hall
Hattie Dinnam
Mary V.nowels
Maud Reed
Board of Trade Meeting Schedule Updated
The Board of Trade meets on the first and third Tuesdays of every month in City Hall at 8 oclock. Officers listed include WJ Pentelow president, W C Barth first vice president, CLA Kinney second vice president, HL A Priver secretary, BP Kidder treasurer.
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Board OF Trade
City Hall
WJ. Pentelow
W. C. Barth
Cla. Kinney
V.pl
HL A. Priver
Lees
Kidder Treas
A Practical Sixteen by Sixteen Hen House Described
Farm and Fireside outlines a sixteen by sixteen foot hen house with two south windows. It describes centered fourteen inch high perches, removable for cleaning, and a dirt floor six inches above ground covered with straw in winter. Fowls access via two inch pieces with four inch cross strips and removable perches.
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Avith
Hhe
New Life Pills Proclaimed Best Remedy in Harrisville Ad
Mar A Felton of Harrisville New York says New Life Pills are just right after years of use. The advertisement claims relief from discomforts and malaria with a 25 cent price at R Billings drug store.
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Up Town
Harding & Misenheimer’s
Feldman’s Barbershop
Chicken Feec
Newton Bros
Sixth Street
Main
Moinatek
W. L. Gray
Real Estate and Loans
Axstone
William G. Randall
Insurance and Loans
J. E. Russell Watch Maker
Corona, Cal
Specters
Ieune
Jean CE
Robert Mashet
Captain Bildones
Andrew Carnegie
Steela
Circle Seda
Odd Fellows’ Hall O. P. Hall
N. G
Virgil Blair
V. Gi
Malcolm Sapp
Crown
Odd Fellows’ Hall
Blair
C.ip
L. H. Dawson
Starlight
Independent Order Foresters Forester
Fraternal Aid Association
Queen Council
H. A. Wood
Miey On
Ntoney
Joel Kloss
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