Sao Paulo and Brazil's growing industrial boom detailed
A detailed account highlights Sao Paulo state shifting from coffee dominance to a diversified economy. It notes 1.716 billion pounds of coffee produced last year, Santos port trade of five and a half million tons, and 300 factories worth over 40 million dollars employing 50,000 workers. The piece credits state leadership and historian praise for Sao Paulo shaping Brazil's history.
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Washington
United States
Brasil
St. Louis
Sao Paulo
Santos
Europe
Rio de Janeiro
Buenos Ayres
Brazil
Honor Rested With Author O Henry Story of a Wager
A friend recalls O. Henry as generous with money yet shrewd in business. A magazine paid him fifteen hundred for a three part story. after advances totaling a thousand dollars the editor balked at the final installment. The author refused to finish, but predicted he would win a readers contest prize.
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O. Henry
Justice of the Peace Declines Home Wedding Request
A young man seeks a marriage at the office of a justice of the peace. The official questions the license and location. The couple insists, but the judge compares his office to a department store and refuses to perform the ceremony at the home.
Slightly Confused Mermaid Makes Beach Debut
A young Merle visits the beach and bravely enjoys the water despite a strong undertow that terrifies other bathers. She recounts a phrase she overheard to describe the scene, reflecting her fearless, curious start at the seaside.
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Merle
Marie
His Real Calling
A New York writer, long on worldly goods but short on success, persists in publishing books he touts by word of mouth and publisher purchases. He chats with Simeon Ford, a bon vivant and his sole reader, who quips that the author is a born chemist because each book becomes a drug on the market.
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New York
Simeon Ford
Boniface
Ford
Sim
Mr. Ford
Simeon
Putting It Up to Uncle
Henry G. Brooks recounts a domestic servant tale at the Waldorf Astoria. A good house girl asked to leave for a funeral, and after a week the family grew nervous. Her reply said she would return when possible because her uncle was weakening and her mother insisted she must not lose her job.
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Henry G. Brooks
New York
Waldorf-Astoria
Adornment and the human urge for beauty in life
A reflective excerpt on beauty as a universal drive to decorate and enhance nature and existence. It suggests adornment shapes flowers, wings, shells, and the song of birds, urging women to seek love and admiration through beauty.
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Robert G. Ingersoll
Vanity of Life Reflections on Youth and Age
Fragmentary meditation on life’s short span. youth seeks future joys while age recalls the past. The prose hints at contemporary ruminations on time, memory, and self. The readable phrases point to a philosophical mood rather than a reportable event.
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Waatly
Northern Indiana Gas merges with Plymouth and South Bend lines
Northern Indiana Gas & Electric completes a 2.6 million merger uniting the South Bend & Mishawaka Gas company, Plymouth Lighting, and Northern Indiana Gas & Electric. Geist will lead the merged group with operations in Hammond Whiting East Chicago Indiana Harbor Chesterton Porter and Michigan City. South Bend headquarters. Burglars plague Muncie as yeggs target offices, stores, and homes. several entries in Johnson building and a safe blown at M. Hene store. police patrol in plain clothes.
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South Bend
Indiana
Charles H. Geist
Philadelphia
Geist
South Bend & Mishawaka Gas Company
Plymouth Light Company
Plymouth
Northern Indiana Gas & Electric Company
Hammond
Whiting
East Chicago
Indiana Harbor
Chesterton
Porter
Michigan City
I A
Benjamin S. Walters
South Bend Company
C. H. Geist
Plymouth Lighting Company
Brudebaker
Muncie-Muncie
Johnson Building
M. Hene
C. M. Kimbrough
Indiana Bridge Company
Franklin Names Hanley New College President
The Franklin college board formalizes a call to Dr. Elijah A. Hanley of Providence Rhode Island for the presidency. The board also approves a $500000 endowment increase. Hanley, a prominent Baptist pastor and Franklin alumnus class of 1895, currently leads the Providence Baptist Church.
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Franklin
Franklin College Board of Directors
Elijah A. Hanley
Providence
R. I
Doctor Hanley
Providence Baptist Church
Blind Tiger Operators Fined by Circuit Court
Marion Wiley was found guilty on a blind tiger charge in Muncie and fined $60 with 30 days in jail. Fred Kubach, another of 20 arrested, pleaded guilty and received 30 days in jail and a 50 cent fine.
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Muncie
Marion Wiley
Fred Kubach
One Day's Indiana News Highlights Across Cities
Goshen reports Mrs. Rebecca Ebersole dies after falling through a haymow opening while egg hunting. Galveston residents gain night fire protection via a mandate requiring new water works machinery and stable reservoir supply. Marion plans state charity conference September 10 to 13 with Jane Addams and Ernest Bicknell. expected attendance more than 1,500. Bloomington a Plymouth Rock hen lays an egg on Monroe County Courthouse steps. officials corral the bird. Newcastle welcomes federal building funds of 70,000 dollars as Washington announces the national appropriation. Komomo
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Goshen
Rebecca Ebersole
Logansport
Galveston
Cass County
John S.larry
William H. Sprinkle
Marion
State Conference of Charities and Correction
Jane Addams
Hull House Fame
Ernest Bicknell
Red Cross Society
New Theology Critics Warn of Crisis in Faith
The United Presbyterian warns that the so called new theology erodes core Christian truths. It argues the movement lessen divine sovereignty and the atonement, elevates culture over piety, and distances God from believers. It calls churches to reaffirm evangelical doctrine and the gospel through a full, powerful proclamation of Scripture.
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E Hearaid
United Presbyterian
God
Herald and Presbyter
Following the Higher Plan: Life as a Teaching and Test
The passage frames life as a divinely set plan where trials, sacrifices, and humble duties shape character. It cites Job to claim that adversity, surrender, and endurance lead toward a noble end, stressing purpose, inspiration, and the wisdom of God in guiding each person through a personal school of experience.
Faith Paralyzed by Familiarity in Jesus’s Day
A reflection on how locals doubt Jesus’s divinity because they know him as the carpenter’s son and are familiar with his family. The author notes that after 19 centuries, readers view Jesus as a distant, unreal figure, separate from his humble home life.
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Jesus
A Protection Against the Heat and Coca-Cola Offer
An advertisement urges cooling Coca-Cola as relief from fatigue and thirst. It promotes bottles and fountains, offers a 2 cent stamp for a booklet The Truth About Coca-Cola and the Coca-Cola Baseball Record Book for 1910, and mentions Casey At The Bat and baseball records compiled by authorities.
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Coca-Cola
Coca-Cola Baseball
Casey
Coca-Cola Co
Atlanta
The Ruling Spirit in Modern Society Fire Scene
A husband bursts in with urgency as a house blazes, commanding his wife to flee. She delays, insisting she must tidy the rooms to present a decent appearance for arriving firemen.
Thomas Hood and the Washtub Song in The Times
The piece recalls Thomas Hood's influence on literature with Song of the Shirt and suggests a newer, practical tribute by Easy Task laundry soap. It notes the product's recent emergence in the last quarter century and claims it relieves backaches and bruised hands by taking dirt out of or off of anything, promising it does most of the work.
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Thomas Hood
Dialogue on pressed flowers and memories of a kiss
Eva says Jack dislikes pressed flowers. Jack notes they remind him of a kiss through a telephone. Eva asks why. Jack explains the flowers have lost their sweetness.
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Eva
Jack
Bloomdale Woman Praises Pinkham Medicine for Backache Relief
Bloomdale Ohio resident Mrs EB M Frederick reports chronic headaches back and side pain and fatigue eased by Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. She urges other women to use the remedy claiming it restores health and strength. The ad notes backache as female weakness and promises safe root-cause relief and free confidential advice from Pinkham at Lynn Massachusetts.
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Bloomdale
Ohio
E. Egota- Tene iPinkham
EB. M. Frederick
Lydia E. Pinkham
Pinkham
Lynn
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