Boston's New Church Opens With World Cast Of Worshippers
Thousands from around the globe attended the dedication of Boston's new Mother Church, a 5012-seat Italian Renaissance building costing just under 2 million dollars. The structure stands taller than the Bunker Hill monument and features a 224 foot lantern, a 82 foot diameter terra cotta domed dome, mahogany pews, Concord granite and Bedford stone, and a world class organ. The adjoining original Mother Church now serves 1,200 with three Sunday services.
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Christian Science
Boston
Eddy
United States
Bunker Hill Monument
Boy Rescued From River Receives a Lesson at Home
A Naples mother, Signora Genaro, saved her seven year old Antonio after he fell into the river near a New York City pier. She pulled him from the water and, in a swift disciplinary display, laid the boy across her knee and gave him a mother’s correction.
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New York City
Signora Genaro
Naples
Antonio
Nespolitan
Renaming the Sioux to secure rightful inheritance
President Roosevelt backed a plan led by Dr. Charles Eastman to rechristen 25,000 Sioux tribe members with new family names to ensure correct descent and land allotments. Eastman, a Sioux full-blood, personally assigned names, often preserving earlier monikers, and consulted chiefs to win acceptance among the wary tribes. The work aims to untangle lineage for government land rights, already yielding parcels like 610 acres to a young squaw wrongly hindered by tribal separation.
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Bob-tailed Coyote
Robert T. Wolf
Dnele
Sam
Roosevelt
Hamiin Garland
George Bird Grinnell
Forest
Washington
Charles Alexander Eastman
Elane Goodale
New England
Eastman
Dr. Eastman
Tigh Eagie
Mr. Tigheagie
Bob-taked
Coyote
Rotten Pumpkin
Robert Pumplan
Eastrman
The Black Seal Purse Theft and Rescue in New York
A pickpocket duo awakens a moral turn when Jimmy the Swift refuses to steal a purse after discovering an obituary clipping and the wish of a grieving mother. The pair's misdeeds draw to a close as Jimmy vows to quit crime after a haunting reminder. A black seal purse is left at a newspaper office with a note asking to find its rightful owner.
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Jim
Bin
Red
Ike
New York
Reddy
Jimmy
Los Angeles Times
Earthquake Recorders and Their Sensitive Instruments
Earthquake recording instruments are viewed by scientists as the most delicate machines for tracing crust movements. They detect even minute vibrations such as footsteps. Three classes of instruments exist, each with a specific automatic recording function. The first is the seismo-
Master Was a Centreman and a Houseguest
A Boston couple met an old Negro woman near Augusta and invited her to visit. She accepted with expenses paid, arrived in Boston, and ate at their table. When asked if she had eaten with her master, she answered that he never invited a slave to sit at his table, but her master was a gentleman.
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Boston
Augusta
Robert Howell
Marster
Eschew Teeth Examinations in Gift Horse Adage
An odd, compressed quip about the saying never look a gift horse in the mouth. It warns that if the horse is spavined or knock-kneed, there is nothing to hinder taking note of those achievements.
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Milady
Percale
Madras
African remark sparks Alabama quarrel after Spanish American War
A Cuban immigrant in Alabama, described as a Cuban negro, quarreled with a native colored citizen. In flawed English, the Cuban called the Alabamian an African, who retorted that he is American and not a Spaniel or a black Philistine, asserting he can speak United States.
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Alabama
Fred Grant
Darky
United States
Their Compass Points to the South
A clipped cultural sketch contrasts Chinese customs with Western views. It notes directions, gender roles, dress, and language as described from a Caucasian perspective, claiming both spoken and written forms invert expectations and books are read backwards.
One touch of nature and humor shape the world
The Kansas City Times reflects on unity through nature and humor, contrasting with grafters and adulteration that thin the world. The quatrain ties moral tone to social critique, hinting at public concern over integrity and quality.
Same Old Game by the Brooklet Shore
A whimsical verse notes an angler’s routine as he sallies forth to fish by a brook and returns home to fritter away time. The text also cites a statistic: about one million inhabited houses in Greater London.
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Greater London
In Extremis Child Cries To See Minister
A four-year-old daughter of a clergyman grows ill. after being put to bed her mother refuses to disturb the father. The little girl then declares she is a sick woman and wishes to see her minister, prompting a poignant moment in the household.
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Cit Y
Church of Christ, Scientist
Canada
Great Britain
Australia
Sweden
Denmark
France
Germany
Switzerland
Hawaiian Islands
South America
NEW Christian Science Temple
Pal
Jimmy the Swift
Switty
Neddy
Tle
EAGLE
Kansas City Times
Palisade
Bertina Browning
Palisade Pattern CO
Battery Place
City and
Jewspaperi
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