Letter on abstinence reform from Goodland Ohio
A reader from Goodland Ohio argues that lectures on drinking fail and recounts how his community reduced saloons from 22 to 5 through practical, moral influence. He describes using fellow workers to mentor drinkers, invite them home, and steer earnings into constructive uses, pairing sympathy with persuasion. He reflects on his rise in business and subscribes to the Denton Journal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
MESSRS
MELVIN BRos
Goodland
Ohio
Caroline county
providence
Melville
DENTON JOURNAL
Caroline
His Pa's Marvelous Escape and the Church Foot Bath
Humorous reminiscence follows a boy on a cold day as he recounts his father’s comic fire escape antics and a music box misadventure in a Milwaukee neighborhood. A later piece recalls a Tennessee Baptist foot washing ritual, detailing a Randolph church scene with noggin buckets, soaking, and communal washing of feet.
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Milwaukee
hell
Joseph Bowen
Tennessee
Randolph
Tenn
Tippon county
Mississipi bluffs
Salem church
Paris Milliner Probes Servant Honesty
A Parisian woman asked a milliner about the character of her servant. The servant’s respectable appearance raised no doubts, but the milliner doubted honesty since the servant had never paid her bill after being sent dozen times.
Miss Malvina Rumley Goes On Walk With Beau
Miss Malvina Rumley leaves for a stroll with her companion when her younger brother Johnny calls from the fence and warns against bringing the beau home for tea saying there are not enough biscuits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
MALVINA RuUMLEY
Johnny
Malviny
A Surgeon’s Narrow Escape From a Mob Trap
A physician recalls early practice and a dangerous trap set by the rival Somers. Bound and threatened in a grim den, he frees himself using chloroform, overpowers Somers on the stairs, escapes with stakes high, and returns home to reveal the night’s tale to his anxious wife.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. D
Angelina
Richard Somers
Wie
Dick Somers
Counter Irritants and the Heat of Feet
A health note explains counter irritants to relieve pain by soaking feet in hot water. Irritated feet draw blood away from the head, easing headaches. Brisk scalp rubbing may likewise draw blood outward, while a rubber bag of hot water at the feet provides a gentle warming application.
Seeing by Electricity Promises Future Communication Advances
The article envisions a near future where nearly all tasks are done by electricity. Transmitting voice and even visual expressions over long distances becomes possible with the electroscope, credited to Dr. Gundrah of Melbourne. An exhibition tested projecting a Flemington race course live on a distant disk, impressing observers with the fidelity of the moving image and signaling vast commercial and artistic potential.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gundrah
Melbourne
Victoria
Flemington
Diamond Wedding Poem Recited On Sixtieth Anniversary
A couple marked sixty years of marriage with a diamond anniversary celebration and received a pretty poem about shared hopes and fears and bound hearts. The verses ask what the total is when years total three score, hinting at continued enduring love.
Sunday Contemplation on Virtue and Vice
A collection of maxims on vanity, restraint, and wisdom. It contrasts vain rulers with wise judgment, notes satire as friendship’s foe, and warns that striking beauty is not always good while true goodness remains beautiful. It discusses anger, imitation, opportunity, and the perils of passion. It ends with the idea that avoiding retaliation is the best revenge.
A Strange Preacher Per City Legend
A riddle describes a minister who never converted, ordained, preached, founded a sect, or used prayer or hymn books. He never earned a salary, wrote a sermon, or took a text, yet the figure identified is Christ.
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Christ
Old Boston Lady Cites Lung Illness as Ammonia
A South Boston resident, described as a genuine Partingtonian, spoke of a friend’s illness saying digestion of the lungs settled into ammonia. The remark highlights local speech and a vivid but nontechnical medical reference.
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Boston
Railroad Official Interview Reveals St Jacobs Oil Cure
E L Loweree cashier of Cincinnati Southern Railway describes a severe rheumatism attack in his right foot. After nine weeks of pain and failed medical care he tried St Jacobs Oil on the urging of M Stacey Hill. The next day he felt relief and the swelling reduced, enabling him to resume duties and walk easily. He praises the remedy as always beating inroad time and sure to win.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. L. Loweree
Cincinnati Southern Railway
Ohio
Loweree
By Hill
Mount Auburn Inclined Plane Railroad Co
St. Jacobs Oil
Cincinnati Enquirer
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R. J. BAKER
Al ton
Hartford county
door
St. Jacobs
I. T A. VOGELER & CO
Baltimore
U. S. fs
Pat
Orange county
BENSON
CAPCINE
Seabury & Johnson, Chemists
New York
J. F. LeCLARE
Rochester
Stone
Van Deusen Bros
Van Deusen
J. L. McNAIR
Kingston, N
SEELEY
N.Y
HOOPES BRO. o THOMAS
Cherry Hill Nurseries
West Cheater
enn
P. O
HOWELL & BROTHERS
West Baltimore Street
BALTIMORE, MD
FRANCIS KELLY & CO
PROPRIETORS OF THE
ORANGE GROVE
Market Street
WILMINGTON
DEL
Adam’s Express Co
JOHN J. BARNES
wil
Dentom
hoste
Tiea
CARPENTERS & BUILDERS
PRESTON
MARYLAND
Wm E. Todd
H. FLUWARTY & TODD
Preston, Md
DOCTOR
Somers
Mr. Somers
Somer
Poughkeepsie Eagle
heaven
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