The Open Door of Jesus the Door and Shepherd
A 1902 sermon explains Jesus as the Door to salvation, contrasting open and shut doors, and detailing how faith through Christ leads to safety, peace, and enlarged life. It warns against false doors of self will and urges joining Christ’s fold for eternal life.
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Eoxyright
A. N. Kellogg Newspaper Co
Chicago
Eazarus
Dives
Christ the Boor
Beegar
Jesus
Sercape
Christ
Strangeresus
Earth
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Heaven
Gome
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Beto
Mary
God
Satan
Paul
Christian of Bunyan
Hell
Philadelphia
Jerry McAuley
E¢ Church
Mr. McAuley
Leader Among Women Lady Frances Balfour Shaping Suffrage Outlook
Detroit Free Press profiles Lady Frances Balfour wife of Eustace Balfour and sister-in-law to Prime Minister Arthur Balfour. Emphasizes her role as Central Society for Women’s Suffrage president, a driving force uniting English suffrage groups, and notes her wit, leadership, and hospital philanthropy.
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Frances Balfour
England
Mr. Balfour
Alice Balfour
Downing Street
Betty” Balfour
Gerald Balfour
Eustace
Duke of Argyll
Duchess of Argyll
Edward
Princess Louise
Marquis of
Lorne
Lady Frances
Central Society For Women’s Suffrage
Frances
Lady Frances Balfour
Primrose League
Travelers’ Aid Society
Detroit Free Press
Cradles Around the World Through Histories
The piece surveys cradle varieties across cultures and eras, from Anglo-Saxon roots to Brittany bansels and French tortoise shells, noting forms like log cradles in Virginia, Victoria Regia leaves in India, Seminole hammocks, New Guinea netted bags, Alaskan rope-pulley cradles, Siberian sieve-like designs, Swedish long rockers, Dutch rolling chairs, and more, with a short unrelated courtroom quip about a heated heir debate.
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Brittany
England
Chicago Tribune
Canterbury
Mercury
Kingley
France
Pacific
Julian Ralph
Virginia
Christ
India
New Guinea
Sweden
Holland
The Way in Japan Travel Tale of a Birdcage Parcel
A traveler in Tokyo describes nearly missing the last train to Yokohama due to a six inch birdcage containing a canary. A Japanese girl rewrites his parcel into a package with paper, and he is invited to his mother's home for tea before catching a belated steamer.
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Japan
Tokyo
Yokohama
Cleveland Leader
Apoplexy Misunderstood by Long-Distance Swimmer
The Chicago Chronicle notes a swimmer facts point out that most swimmer fatalities stem from apoplexy due to sudden cooling rather than cramp. It cites the author saving 65 lives and describes a method to resuscitate drowning victims by pressing under the ears and ducking the head from behind.
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Chicago Chronicle
Enterprising. Town Top Ten Gossip Mock Interlude
Getthair greets Shyleigh with high spirits about an engagement. Shyleigh confirms the match but reveals the prior evening she learned someone else enjoys kissing. The brief exchange sits within a light urban vignette labeled Town Top ten.
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Getthair
Old Man
Shyleigh
Frozen fruit pudding recipe from What to Eat
A recipe for frozen fruit pudding uses four eggs half cup sugar corn starch a quart milk a cup preserves raisins and English walnuts with vanilla. Beat yolks with sugar add cornstarch mix milk heat thicken then cool fold in preserves raisins nuts flavor. Freeze like ice cream add meringue stir in sugar syrup cook garnish with whipped cream and extra preserves and nuts.
Boiled Potato Cleans Fabrics in Paris Laundry
A Paris laundryman cleans fine linen and fragile textures without soap or chemicals. He rubs boiled potatoes into the goods and rinses them, claiming the method yields whiter and purer linen silk or cotton than ordinary washing.
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Paris
Unsteady. Dinkelslasher-Mike Not Steady Yet
Report notes Dinkelslasher-Mike remains unsure in work. O'Brien-Shure confirms reliability. Three days he works nights and three days he works days, per Times note.
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Mike
O’brien
Teachers urged to train for physical development at night schools
Chicago's board of education will not require height or weight limits for teachers but promotes mild athletics. A bulletin from Superintendent Cooley notes evening physical training at Englewood and Medill high schools with gym gear. Teachers eager to participate should contact principals and choose a preferred evening.
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Chicago Board of Education
Cooley
Board of Education
Englewood
Medill
Golf satire at country club dues dispute
Tom-Jacky returns home from the country club amid a jokey exchange about unpaid dues. Dick questions nervous trouble as the treasurer reminds Tom his payments are overdue.
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Tom
Jacky
Puck
Talking Over Old Times Gabby reputations in town
A Chicago Record-Herald feature recalls Kittie Blanker once quiet who after leaving town earned a reputation as the gabbiest girl in town.
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Kittie Blanker
Chicago Record-Herald
A Question of Taste and a Witty Exchange
A brief humor exchange likens a man closing his store and returning home to his wife with a counterpoint about a man shutting up his wife in the morning and going to his store, reflecting playful social satire in a Yonkers Statesman snippet.
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Yonkers Statesman
Dentist Avoids Imaginary Tooth Extraction
A comic exchange from Tit-Bits features a sufferer insisting on pulling a tooth at once while a scientist dismisses the ache as imagination. The sufferer retorts that he'll pull out his imagination instead, delivering a light humor moment about perception vs. reality.
Going Back to Adam Fruit Advice Sparks Debate
A Yonkers Statesman note quotes a doctor advocating fruit at breakfast while a witty reply from a smart interlocutor riffs on original sin and dietary habits. The exchange highlights health talk and humor in daily life.
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Yonkers Statesman
Mourning Quip Cited From N Y Weekly
A witty exchange between Mr. and Mrs. Gumpps appears in the New York Weekly. he says he would not wear mourning, she counters she might wear half mourning to signal he is only half a husband.
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New-York Weekly Tribune
How They Do It
A witty gibe from the New York Herald on cunning men and romance. The verse contrasts bold highwaymen and gamblers with the idea that true union comes from hands joined through love.
Advice Gratis and The New Maid in Ally Sloper Panel
A satirical dialogue from Ally Sloper features the Patient seeking Dr Twinge for gout expertise while The New Maid jokes about the doctor’s own illness. The exchange blends humor and social commentary from the period.
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Twinge
Ally Sloper
Engagement Called Off Sparks Imitation Diamond Gift
Detroit Free Press notes a dramatic shift as a fiancée urges economy and a suitor replies with an imitation diamond gift signaling the engagement ending.
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Detroit Free Press
Rural Real Estate Listings with Hundreds of Acres for Sale
A long catalog of farms and lands across multiple states includes 100 to 1,680 acre properties in Ohio Michigan and Missouri. Prices range from a few hundred to several thousand dollars with details on soil type, improvements, buildings, tiling, and exchange options. Listings note proximity to towns, counties, and rail lines, plus farm equipment and timber assets where listed.
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Paulding County
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City
Mich
Oregon County
Missouri
Nebraska
Ohio
Ney
Kentucky
Michigan
Midland
Gladwin
Newaygo County
Kalkaska
Antrim
Defiance County
Williams County
Highland Township
Paved Street
New-York Tribune
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Ariers
the Express
Defiance
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