Great Battles and Heroes Marked on Wallace Tower Grounds
The article recalls historic sites marked by English victories at Recy in 1246 and Wallace’s 1297 triumph at Stirling, plus Marathon’s Greek heroes, Cawnpore’s massacre memorial, Chaeronea’s lion, Joan of Arc’s Rouen stake site, and Waterloo’s field with Napoleon’s abdication notes.
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Recy
France
Edward III
Philip of Valois
Bohemia
Prince of Wales
Wallace
Wallace Tower
Stirling
Scotland
Robert Bruce
William Wallace
Surrey
Cressingham
Edward I
Bannockburn
Marathon
B. C
Cawnpore
India
Nana Sahib
Nana
Chaeronea
Patriote
Mt. Parnassus
Greece
Parable of the Sower Interprets Good and Evil
The sermon compares good seed to God’s children and tares to Satan’s, noting both grow together in soil and society. It rejects purifying the church by removing tares, urging patience until the harvest while acknowledging the reality of evil and the Devil’s presence.
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Devil
Satan
Heaven
Angela
Jordan
New York Woman Aids Mission Work in Philippines
Mrs Lorillard Spencer travels to the Philippines with Deaconess Mise Tracy to establish a dispensary a farm school for boys and an industrial school for girls and to link the effort with the Episcopalian Board of Missions among Moros.
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Philippines
Lorillard Spencer
New York Society
Mise Tracy
Episcopalian Board of Minsions
Time to Speak of Work and Responsibility Fellowship
A quotation from Campbell Morgan on the need to set aside time to discuss work, responsibility, sorrows, joys, defeats, and victories within a fellowship. It emphasizes deliberate, shared reflection as a practice.
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Campbell Morgan
Bridge Comeback Save as Officer Catches Fall
Chicago officer Langlois saved Samuel Birdsell, 58, from a fatal fall when the Jackknife bridge over the Chicago river rose, left Birdsell clinging to a girder, and released him to land on the pavement. Both were bruised but unhurt overall. Birdsell thanked the officer for saving his life.
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Chicago
Kinzle Street
Samuel Birdsell
Langlois
Chicago Avenue
Hirdgell
Strdsell
Birdsell
Snakes Attack Express Messenger in Temple Texas
A northbound Santa Fe train at Temple draws gunfire as a rattlesnake coils and strikes. The messenger shoots and kills the reptile, then kills three more rattlers after they escape from a bar shipped from Wharton for a northern show city. Passengers fear a holdup but no injuries occur.
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Wharton
Woman breaks arm while tearing apart old hen in market
Mrs Evelyn Rudderow of Camden New Jersey bought a fresh young spring chicken in Philadelphia then pulled at the leg so hard she believed the fowl was centuries old. A sudden pain in her arm followed and she was taken to Cooper Hospital where doctors said the arm was broken. The article also notes Fred Lyth who lost $100 in a wedding gamble and later took his own life after failing to recover funds.
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Europe
Miltiades
Marathon
Philadelphia
Evelyn Rudderow
Camden
N. J
Cooper Hospital
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ACK Tower
Stilling, Scot Aml
Philip
Kephisos
Antipater
Alexander
Demosthenes
Joan OF Arc
Place du Vieux Marche
Rouen
England
William of Normandy
Jeanne d’Arc
Orleans
Charles VII
Rheims
Compiegne
Waterloo
Great Britain
Netherlands
Prussia
Wellington
Napoleon
Elba
Parla
Brussels
Story OF
Med, FL
Poeporial AP Cawmpore, India
Bieliu
Parnassus
Satan Upon Earth
Santa Fe
Self
Wakee Liss
Pittsburgh
Fred Lyth
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