Peary's Polar Dash and First American North Reach
Lieutenant Robert E Peary and his party reached 83 24 degrees north before turning back due to impassable ice. The voyage featured Petty hardships, relief expeditions, and a focus on securing a U S claim to the pole while highlighting Peary and his companions Matt Henson and Hugh J Lee.
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Lieut
Peary
Duke Abruzzi
Jansen
Lockwood
Greely
North Pole
United States
Mystery
Navy Department
Greenland
Arctic
Independence Bay
Robert E. Peary
Lee
Henton
Peaty
The Ritchie Plantation and a War Time Marriage
A Richmond area manor built in 1660s hosts a 19th century tale of Margaret Ritchie, her two daughters Barbara and Elizabeth, an arranged match with a German baron, Barbara’s secret wartime marriage to Lt. Theodore Benton, a mother's scheme, a distant view of Civil War battles, and a late Union note delivered to Mrs Theodore Benton during the Petersburg siege.
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Theodore
Barbara
Benton
James River
Richmond
Margaret Ritchie
Elizabeth
America
Lieut. Benton
Capitol
Washington
Nother
Ritchie Plantation
Malvern Hill
Sieut. Benton
Grant
the James
Petersburg
Theodore Benton
Odd household adornments span country gardens and homes
A London Express note surveys quirky decors across Britain. From gateways of sharks jaws to a Leeds summer house built of buttons and rooms lined with cigar ribbons, pirates and wrecks inspire decorative schemes. Busy homes showcase framed shark teeth and chain lined studies in Cheshire and Birmingham.
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Scilly Islands
Sussex
Tropics
Leeds
Garret
Leeds Mineral Water
London Express
Wakefield
Liscard
Cheshire
Liverpool
Gramdfather
Birmingham
Man Carves Self Tombstone in Indiana Home
Hugh Dewitt, a nonagenarian resident of the State Soldiers' Home in Lafayette Indiana, carved his own tombstone and built a coffin vault to hold his remains. The six by two foot shaft bears a self composed epitaph urging others not to live a bac life and notes he desires space around the coffin with a brick cement wall and a cemented bottom.
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Hugh Dewitt
State Soldiers’ Home
Lafayette
Ind
Dewitt
Hye
Cannot Teach Him More and Early Work For Dinny
A Detroit News Tribune quip notes a borrower’s habit of overspending. The joke centers on a clever boy taught all the teacher knows, with the teacher admitting he cannot hammer more into that head.
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Binks
Dinny
Jinks
Detroit News-Tribune
Christ the Master and His Ultimate Influence
The piece argues Christ’s supremacy as a thinker and doer, noting his dynamic thought, flawless execution, and ability to empower others. It emphasizes mastery as combined thought, action, and servant empowerment, highlighting Jesus’s teaching of self-control, lived example, and suffering as essential to mastery.
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John Brittan Clark
John Sin
Christ
Jesus Christ
Nazareth
Jesus
Paul
Tle
Duties of the Business Man in Wise Home Planning
Rev. Wm. E. Barton argues a business man should own a home, title it in his wife’s name, and use thoughtful life insurance. He favors twenty-payment and twenty-year endowment plans, plus convertible term policies paid annually to support children’s schooling, avoiding lump sums risky to heirs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wm. E. Barton
Three Essentials of the Age by Dr. George F. Hail
A sermon urging clean manhood pure womanhood and good citizenship as the era’s three social needs. It denounces vice alcohol gambling flirtation and divorce calling for moral living voting and primaries guided by the golden rule and faith. It ends with a note on commerce and religion inviting Christ into daily business and life.
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George F. Hail
America
New York
Jie
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Windward
Nansen
Brainard
Arctic Circle
Whale Sound
Sherrard Osborn Fjord
Cient
Matt Henson
Ilis
Paleon
Fleason
Hugh J. Lee
Christ, the
Master
Liberty
F. i. Wm. Presbyterian
Grand Forks
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