Bishop Esher Climbs Train Roof for 50 Mile Ride
Bishop John J. Esher aged 72 head of the Evangelical association of Illinois Ohio and Pennsylvania clung to a moving sleeper on a fast train traveling 50 miles an hour. Heavy sleet and rain cut his flesh as he rode the lower step from Reddick Illinois to Englewood then Dearborn. A porter pulled him inside and stimulants revived him. The bishop said it was the roughest trip of his life.
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John J. Esher
Evangelical Association of
Illinois
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Atlantic
Bishop Esher
Reddick
Ilis
St. Louis
Chicago
Jacob Schwartz
Englewood
Cincinnati Enquirer
A Moving Mountain in Gard France Advances Toward River
The walking mountain near Gard France progresses toward the Gard river at about 15 feet daily. It has destroyed mine machinery and a mile of railway, forcing 600 families to evacuate Grand Combe. The lower strata of the rammed mountain threaten new river channels as rain filtration loosens grit and green marl.
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Gard
France
Grand Combe
Alais
Garde
Nimes
New York Journal
From Hamilton to Buffalo to a new life
A long note of plural stories blends a Hamilton Michigan tale of Frank Thornleigh who left home twelve years ago after his father wed a widow and later inherited fifty thousand dollars from a Canadian horse dealer. He returned to save his father's home from mortgage seizure and marries his stepsister. In other items a rumored Jack Dempsey statue at Calvary cemetery on Long Island is discussed with mentions of Fitzsimmons donations and a Portland Oregon trip.
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Frank Thornleigh
Hamilton
Mich
Buffalo
Frank
Thornleigh
Jack Dempsey
Dempsey
Calvary Cemetery
Long Island
Calvary
Portland
Notch
Fitz‘simmons
Fitzsimmons
New York World
Beautiful convert Eleanor Winslow joins Christian Science
The New York World reports Miss Eleanor Winslow, Boston society beauty, has become a notable convert to Christian science. She is described as a tall, fair, vivacious figure with a glamorous life between London and the United States, visiting Mrs Mary Baker Eddy in Concord, New Hampshire, and drawing Social attention to the movement.
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Eleanor Winslow
Miss Winslow
Boston
New York
Burdens
Newport
London
Upper Ruadley Street
England
America
Ocean
Mary B. G. Eddy
Christian Science
Souis
New York World
Harrison Inevitable Career Shift Toward Writing
Ex President Harrison’s friends expect a coming summer shift from law to perhaps magazine writing. He has attracted European and American attention with his journalism and has received high offers. the choice rests with him.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harrison
Europe
Cincinnati Enquirer
Indiana Univesity Federation Formed By Independent Colleges
Representatives from Butler College Medical College of Indiana Indiana Dental College and Indiana Law School organized a unified university plan aiming for broader results. Legislation will be sought to authorize closer union with more departments to follow. The federation currently serves about 1000 students under autonomous deans.
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University of Indianapolis
Butler (Literary) College
Medical College of Indiana
Indiana Dental College
Indiana Law School
Odds on presidential nominations stir political betting
Chicago prospectus lists Whitney and Olney at 3 to 1 and McKinley at 24 to 1 as favorites for party nominations. The piece notes lawmakers expect Congress to finish appropriations by mid May and return home to prepare for national conventions. Speaker Reed reportedly believes Congress will quit before June 1.
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Chicago
Tammany Hall
Whitney
Olney
McKinley
Congress
Reed
Walter Wellman
Chicago Times- Herald
Healing Evangelist Opens Faith Home in Aurora
Dr William Whitehead, renowned for prayer cures, leases Orchard House hotel in Aurora Illinois as a faith home. He will keep it filled with the lame and the blind, provide free treatment, board, and newspapers to residents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Whitehead
Aurora
Ills
Orchard House
Sketches by M Quad Bucking a crossing and a cuckoo clock
A humorous vignette from M Quad recounts a crossing at Kaw river with a cavalier ferryman and a bluffing cowboy shooting his hat, a cuckoo clock sales pitch gone wrong, a staged upstairs confrontation, and a city scene where a redhot fighter and a guardian of propriety clash with a high tea anecdote ending in a comical police insinuation.
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Indiana’s Big University
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Kaw River
Ofce
Woodbridge Street
Jim
Broadway
Grove Street
Len
Bastille
M. Quad
Detroit Free Press
Chicago Post
Splazley
Longreen
Jazblin
Somerville Journal
Papa
Indianapolis Journal
Riser
Bohemian
Gno XX
Centlivre
Fisher Brothers
Calhoun St
Samuel Fisher
Max B. Fisher
Sommer’s
Fortayne
Uis
W.g.burket
D.D.S
Sceebedb Tech
Freese & Ranke
Calhoun Street
J.B. Monninc
Vedermark Block
J. B. Manning
Fort Wayne
Tre
Klegin
East Washington ST
Kong HE SA
Mark
Indianapolis
Denison
Indiana
Mennonite Book Concern
East Main Street
Vrcor
J. Thos. Hunt
Spy Run Ave
Hunt
Summit City
M’f’g. CO
Incorporated
S. Harrison St
Ind
Bradley & Son
East
Wayne St
Fort Wayne Steam Laundry
West Main Street
W. B. Phillips
Telephone
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