Long engagements fail to promise marriage bliss, writer argues
Max O'Rell critiques long engagements and questions their value for preparing couples for matrimony. He likens engagement to a dry rehearsal, notes how real life challenges reveal true compatibility, and argues parents should guard daughters from unsuitable matches while praising strict church dating practices in Quebec. He shifts to labor news, praising the coal strike settlement and Roosevelt's role, with Morgan and Bacon meeting the president to push a tribunal solution and workers returning to coal.
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Robert Bacon
Washington
Mitchell
A Pie Feast for the Holidays and Heaven on Earth
The article extols pie as the essential dessert noting pumpkin and mince pies as the main items with various apple cranberry and Marlborough pies optional. It describes pumpkin pies baked in small shells and mince pies in large plates with lattice tops and warns indulgence depends on the eater’s constitution. Cheese is advised to be passed during the feast.
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Jlerper
Sea Water Bathing Claims Health Benefits
An article extols seawater swallowing during bathing as more beneficial than the swim itself. It claims sea water acts as a sedative, aids sluggish liver and weak kidneys, improves a deranged stomach, and even purifies a yellow complexion thought to signal chronic biliousness.
Crank In Fond Remembrance of Dear Tarry Anderson
In fond remembrance of our dear little treasure Tarry Anderson who life ebbed two months ago on August 30 1902. The verse speaks of faith and mourning with images of divine cultivation and a waxen face, a dew drop in heaven, an angel’s dwelling place, signed Aust Bertie.
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Tarry Anderson
The Fall of Man and the Rise of Moral Self Control
Rev. Dr. Charles A. Rubenstein of Baltimore discusses Genesis, arguing the fall is a metaphor for childhood and maturity. He asserts knowledge of good and evil awakens duties, making man a free moral agent, and that virtuous living leads to true success and higher life.
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Charles A. Rubenstein
Baltimore
Adam
wiley tempter
Paradise
Kentucky remedy for hog and fowl cholera sparks reader interest
A Kentuckian offers a cholera cure for hogs and chickens in Ridgely area. The recipe includes cap sicum, atra fe tida, rhubarb, carbonate of iron, Spanish brown, and sulfur powder to be mixed and stored airtight. Dosing guidance covers meal or bran feedings and using a pea sized pill for stricken birds, with suggestions for prevention and local adoption.
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Ridgely
Railroad Extends Deadlines for New Orleans Excursions
Amid the American Bankers Association meeting in New Orleans November 11 to 13 the Pennsylvania Railroad offers excursion tickets to New Orleans and return, valid November 8 to 10, extendable to November 30 with a 50 cent fee. Deposit tickets with the Joint Agent in New Orleans by November 18 to secure the extension. inquire at local ticket agents for rates and routes.
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American Bankers’ Association
New Orleans
Pennsylvania Railroad Company
Old Man Methuselah Spurns Patent Cure
In the later years of his long life Methuselah endures rheumatism and mocks a neighbor’s patent medicine. The neighbor pushes testimonials, but Methuselah, noting the trouble, calls it foolish and jokes he has endured 800 years of hearing such claims.
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Methuselah
Chicago Tribune
Circular bars postmasters from condemning patron letter boxes
First Assistant Postmaster General Wynne issued a circular to rural free delivery post offices forbidding postmasters and rural carriers to condemn patron letter boxes. The order requires continued service to existing boxes until inspectors can inspect. About 14 000 rural routes will operate July 1 with a further 12 000 requested for next year.
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Wynne
Court of Appeals backs ballot marking rule in Maryland
The Cambridge Chronicle notes a decision of the Court of Appeals upholding a rule that the vote mark must stay entirely within the ballot square. It critiques partisan praise of Mr Jackson and warns voters to comply with the square’s boundaries to ensure valid ballots.
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Cambridge Chronicle
Maryland
Mr. Jackson
Court of Appeals
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