Press a Civilizer Declares Newspapers Key to Progress
Dr. Albert Shaw told the Buffalo conference that newspapers are the most important agent in modern civilization and should accompany churches, clubs, and other groups to advance social progress. He argued press reach, world view, and public opinion shaping power can aid reforms and curb reckless publicity, urging careful, responsible use.
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Albert Shaw
Conference of Charities and Correction
Buffalo
Shaw
Woman’s Clubs
Central Labor Federations
Chamber of Commerce
Accident Ends Life of Vermilion Man in Accidental Shooting
Fred Stevers of Vermilion county Illinois died Thursday morning after accidentally shooting himself in the head with a 32 caliber revolver. He and his brother Charles were returning from Danville when the weapon discharged while Stevers demonstrated its mechanism. The coroner's jury ruled death an accident.
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Fred Stevers
Vermilion County
Ill
Charles
Jenkins
Cravens Nome
Stevens
Wes
Dre Hickman and
Taylor
Westville
Charley Stevens
Fred
Danville
Bible School and services at First Church on July Fourth 1909
On Sunday July 4 1909 the church schedules Bible School at 9 30 a m preaching at 1 30 p m communion after sermon Junior Endeavor at 2 20 p m preaching at 7 45 p m all welcome and made to feel at home Official board meeting Monday evening July 5 at 7 30 p m prayer meeting Thursday evening July 8 at 7 30 p m D H Palmer minister 321 Fifth street China Proverb The more seats the more they will be developed
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Bible
Junior Endeavor
D. H. Palmer
Fifth Street
The Easiness of Death Mostly Natural and Quiet
A Harper's essayist argues death is as natural and easy as living noting distress is often the body’s dissolution fight. He recalls a serene last moment of a Swedenborgian woman and says most deaths lack conscious awareness, with rare cases of calm or terror and occasional postmortem signs like hair growth. He ends with an abrupt product ad for Rainier's paint store.
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Harper's
Hillsboro News Notes Local People and Developments
Perry Hart stays home due to his son Russel's appendicitis while Hillsboro Hardware's three story brick building progresses toward Sept. completion. Many locals visit, travel, or relocate for work, study, or family, including Dan Simms of Lafayette, Fritz Holmes in Idaho, and Claude Boggs joining the county surveyor. The item ends with a note on a union Christian basket meeting.
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Hillsboro Hardware Co
Dan Simms
Lafayette
Perry Hart
Dan
Hillsboro
Attica and Covington Visitors Report Local News
Mrs. George Hickman visited Attica on Thursday. Elbert McKey, contractor for the Bear creek road, attended to business here. Mrs. Charles Lithrop shopped in Covington Wednesday morning. Mrs. James Foreman and son Clint were in Attica Thursday afternoon. Mrs. George Helms, recently ill, is recovering. Steve Brown and John Brewer were in Covington Thursday. Cliff Bassett and son Carl left for Butler Indiana to join his wife and child. Mrs. Frank Frenzl visited Covington Wednesday. Miss Clara Bell of Hedrick passed through Wednesday afternoon. George Galloway and wife visited Friday. J M Hopkins returned from Michigan City and reports D E Kinney recovering from injuries. Mrs. John Hannon visited Covington Thursday. Mrs. Alice Bush spent Friday and Saturday in Warren county visiting her son Wesley. Those in Covington from here Saturday were Lewis Reed and wife, Wm Shafer and wife, Miss Jennie Hopkins, Mrs. Mary Cox and daughter Edna, Lewis Brooks and W Douglas.
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Cliff Bassett
Carl
Butler, Ind
Covington
Lewis Reed
Wm. Shafer
Jennie Hopkins
Mary Cox
Edna
Lewis Brooks
W. S. Douglas
Real Estate Transfers in Fountain County Week
Weekly real estate transfers list multiple deeds filed for record by O S Douglass. Transactions include parcels in Covington Veedersburg Attica Hillsboro and Wabash with amounts from 1 to 15000 dollars. Also noted is the death of Mrs Arthur Carpenter near Mellot with funeral at 10 a m today.
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Fountain County
O. S. Douglass
Local Race Scheduled at Williams Grove Mile
A community event will take place Sunday June 27 at the Williams Grove Mile east of Hillsboro. Organizers invite nearby residents to attend and participate in the planned activities.
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Williams Grove
Hillsboro
Matrimonial Quips From The New York Press
A wry remark on marriage from the New York Press jokes that spouses act as if admitting the other is right is forbidden, highlighting domestic tension with a sharp, ironic line.
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New York Press
Modern Troglo dytes of Matmata Tunisia Cave City
Article surveys Matmata spoken of as one of Africa’s strangest capitals the troglodytes or Matiui tas cave dwellers of Tunisia. It describes about 3000 Tobauit anis and architecture that caves into earth to form Moorish style homes with circular pits and arched roofs.
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Tunisia
Africa
Chicago News
Opinions Divided On Healthiest Sleep Position In France
A Matin de Paris survey gathers views of eminent French doctors on sleep posture. Delorme, De Bone, and Daventere favor the back or right side to avoid arm pressure and indigestion, while Lotoule and Landoury urge habit and comfort, and Huchard endorses left side sleeping, denying universal heart risk.
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Paris
Delorme
Army
Debone
Daventere
School of Hygiene
To, Landoury
Mrs Brown Hosts Literary Gentlemen at Mixed Party
In a party scene Mrs Brown, described as extremely handsome and coquettish, gathers four men around her while her husband Brown pretends to study books. The conv ersation reveals their varied professions, including a coffee broker, a doctor, a machinery salesman, and a reader of literature. The coffee broker then prompts Mrs Brown to introduce the newcomer, who is revealed as her husband.
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Brown
Mia
Mr. Brown
Mrs. Brown
Exchnape
Extinct Bessie Names A Curious Bird Interaction
A teacher and student discuss extinct birds and a fictional creature named Dick. Bessie states the bird is no longer existent and identifies it as an enemy of cats, hinting at its extinction and a predator prey joke within a playful classroom scene.
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Bessie
Marquis Title and Its Borderland Meaning
The destination marquis is the second of five orders of English nobility. It originally referred to a performer who cared for the marches of a country. The term marches means boundary lands on borders with Scotland and Wales.
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England
Scotland
Wales
Early Calcio Game in Florence 1739
Florence held calcio matches from January to March with locals and nobles gathering on the Piazza Santa Grace to watch the national game. The tradition notes 1739 as the year the set game was played.
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Florence
Piazza Santa Grace
Calcio
Corrected quarrel over idle office work
An angry employer scolds a young man for idle seating while office talk reveals the speaker intended to waste others time. The office boy asserts he was not wasting time, saying it was some of yours.
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Chicago News
Indigo's blue varieties signal a color push worldwide
A survey of diverse 19th and early 20th century notes lists Indigo plans for fifty blue varieties, trade and science items from Trafalgar era manpower to whale policy, telegraphing global curiosity. It covers languages, circuses, London plays, whaling policy, Tasmanian apple exports, Swiss travel, and rail mining depth.
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Press A Civilizer
First Church At Christ
Moore
Rainier
The
Kentucky Lumber Co
Russel
Elizabeth Bonnell
Waynetown
E. G. Bonnell
OuJie Hesler
Terre Haute
State Normal School
Sam Lough
Loran Holland
Central Business College At
Indianapolis
James Frazier
Seattle
Wash
Harry Barton
Charley Lough
French Lick
Frank Frazier
Buck
Frank
Fritz Holmes
Ashtown
Idaho
Fritz
West
George W. Gayler
Princetown, Inl
Robertson Fruit Farm
Press Cooper
Cooper
Press
Claude Boggs
Veedersburg
Bruce Short
Fred Sumter
Mary
Danville, Ill
A.D. Sumar
Bruce Grimes
Wallace
Charlie Berry
Christian Churches of the
George Hickman
Attica
Elbert McKey
Bear Creek School House
Charles Lithrop
James Foreman
Clint
George Helms
Steve Brown
John Brewer
Frank Frenzl
Clara Bell
Hedrick
George Galloway
Wife
J. M. Hopkins
Michigan City
D. E. Kinney
John Hannon
Alice Bush
Warren County
Son Wesley
Samuel Simms
O. M. Cotting
Varce’s
Charles A. Purnell
Pailip Hays
O. H
Wm. Clawson
Mary Clawson
Adda Simmons
Ira M. Simmons
Rice
F. B. Colvin
Alice H. Green
Mary E Clements
B.S. Thompson
Attica Land & Imp. Co
Anton DeHeus
Ravine Park
J. B
O. P. Lewis
Vance
G. M. Miller
Freeman Galloway
James E. Elwell
Samuel E Snoddy
Wabash Tp
Arthur Carpenter
Mello't
Eminem
Marquis
Antonius
Trafalgar
China
Berlin
Pew
London
Tasmania
Germany
Switzerland
United States
Russia
Great Britain
Trier
Andernach
Japan
Syria
Albert Johnsen
Liege
Belgium
Turkestan
Transcaspian
Canton
Washington
Uncle Sam
Miliou
House of Lords
Austria
Westwell
Ashfon
National Military Park
Vicksburg
Henry Hudson Kitson
Quincy
Boston
Stephen Dill Lee
Woolwich
War Office
Ordnance College
France
Bonchamp
Haute Suaone
Bayer
Thousand Islands
Kingston
Canada
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