Missionary Awakening Calls Churches to Global Outreach
A Christian Endeavor talk urges revival of missionary zeal through personal awakening and greater prayer. It links Christ’s Great Commission to daily life, contrasts heavenly vision with world darkness, and warns that envy corrodes faith while urging readers to apply the Golden Rule to missions and prepare for God's judgment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. Dorte
Dorn
Memon
Chris
Christ
Africa
India
Cary
Besthendom
Revival of Piety Urges Leadership and Action
A historical piece urges church members to stop blaming others for declining piety and to take meaningful action. It calls leaders to inspire hope, avoid fear, and trust in divine strength, warning against reproach and idle talk while stressing tangible revival efforts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gree
Purpose to Bloom in Winter Echoes of a Lettered Page
A reflective montage blends poems and prose from a local publication with social notes and household tips. It praises steadfast purpose and hopeful duty, includes a discussion of springtime not as season but personal fulfillment, and closes with kitchen hints and a niece’s sermon-like reading about self-worth, patience, and courtesy.
When He Preys
A Chicago Post excerpt recalls a Blue girl asking prayers and a boy explaining how he prays at bedtime when Bob and he make noise and fear someone named pop will disturb them at the door.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago Post
Publisher rebukes subpar serial work in Washington Star
The publisher warns the author that indifferent pew serials tarnish reputation while the self assured writer claims the public will assume quality even when the work is unusually poor. The Washington Star excerpt highlights tension between editorial standards and author ego.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Conadence
Srenied
Washington Star
Female Health Tonic Claims Universal Cure for Womb ills
A vintage remedy advertisement touts a vegetable compound as a universal cure for female weakness, uterine disorders, and related pains. It pledges effectiveness for backache, leucorrhea, irregular menses, and nervous debility, claiming widespread endorsements and urging use by all women.
Willard Memorial Plans Move Forward In Coastal Unions
W C T U column reports from South Deer Isle and Southwest Harbor outline Willard memorial efforts and county convention plans. Mrs Joanna Stinton joined as honorary member. unions note two veterans totaling 185 years. Frances E Willard union discusses Feb 17 commemorative meeting, medal contest, petitions, and upcoming meetings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South Deer Isle
Joanna Stinton
Southwest Harbor
Frances
Never Loses a Servant Practical Wisdom on Tipping
A New York Press opinion notes a wealthy practitioner of hospitality who keeps staff loyal through fair wages and open tipping. He advises guests to tip up to a dollar for servants if pleased, with no hidden tips, to prevent surplus returns to the host and promote honesty.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Willionaire
Fifth Avenue Highlands
Armand
Uberty
New York Press
Valley Forge as a Valley Setting in a 19th Century View
Clifton Johnson describes Valley Forge as nearer Philadelphia than a lofty cold wilderness, noting milder winters and easier access via the Schuylkill river railroad. The excerpt contrasts common myths with observed climate and geography, while an advertising line promotes a cough remedy and laxative tablets at a price.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Valley Forge
Glen
Philadelpia
Schuylkill River
Clifton Johnson
Woman's Home Companion
Household hints and a secret scrapbook incident
A column offers home care tips such as window cleaning with kerosene and vinegar mixtures and reviving wood and fabrics with simple household recipes. It includes an anecdote: a husband returns to finds his wife in tears over an old scrapbook of poems and past loves, which she then decorates with photos before inviting former beaux to dinner.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary
Beaux
St. Louis
Calling Up Fish and Other Oddities in Print
A quip-filled item features brokers calling Mr. Fish, an aquarium joke, a poke at a legless race, and light literary quips from Cleveland Plain Dealer and Ladies' Home Journal, weaving satire and snippets of misunderstood dialogue. The piece sedately clusters vintage humor around stock chatter and social sound bites.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fish
New York
Mr. Fish
Colonel Jones
Thunder
Aquarium
Allaworth Markets and Conversation Humour
Fragmentary reading discusses two parties to every conversation and who listens, with a quote about prosperity from writers and a remark on life and literature. The piece also nods to courtroom longevity and references Wood's Norway Mine Syrup as a cure.
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Hristian Endeavor
Voltaire
Efort
Dryden
Otway
Leibaltz
Locke
Sodiercely
Newton
Schell
Mlannal Beneht Column
Aust Madge
Heine
Eemasion
Shomac
Esther
Janet
Emily
Business College
Ader
Posie
Lydia E. Pinkham
Tavier
Loral Unitone
W.ctu
Hancock County
White Ribtovers
Homf
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Ladies’ Home Journal
Adam
Eve
Allaworth Markets
Xdeeedat, Jaseaary
Liverpool
Wen. W
Iz Is
Amb
Heten Sollons
Dr. Wood
Norway Mine
Ells
Dosa
Etteworth
Jobe Chapman
Spring St
Birch Ave
Beck
Dollar
Dean
Bangor
Wiggin's
Milburn Co
Buffalo, N. Y
U. S
Elworth Law
Big
ST Psieear
Basak A. W. Kino
D. HL Greely
Philadephia Dental College
Rornice
Giles" Bloce, Elliswext
Burnham
Axp
John E. Bunker, JR
Bar Harbor
Bluehill
Larbor
Acca
H.W
Werdmensay
Page's
New England
Page
Carroll S. Page
Hyde Park, Vermont
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