Moral warning from Carnegie on abstaining from alcohol
The Dundee Advertiser reports Andrew Carnegie urging young men at St Andrews to avoid alcohol and tobacco. He warns that indulgence harms future character and success, likening drink to a hidden foe that undermines strength, discipline, and life prospects.
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Carnegie
University of St. Andrews
Dundee
Scotland
Carpmegie
Dundee Advertiser
Hke
Dyimker
Saloonless Imperial Valley Promotes Thrift and Schools
The Imperial Valley in lower California, about six years after settlement, boasts no saloons or gambling venues despite a 10,000 population. Deeds forbade liquor manufacture or sale, creating an ironclad prohibition that reduced crime and attracted temperate, progressive settlers focused on schools, churches, and industry.
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Imperial Valley
Lower
California
Temperance Will Funds UK Cause, Troy Times Reports
The Troy Times reprints a London merchant's will leaving 1 250 000 to promote temperance, urging it to far outweigh liquor spending. The note frames temperance as a greater evil than pestilence or flood and fire, and sees the sum as a powerful persuasive tool for total abstinence.
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England
London
Troy Times
The Touch That Heals Bucklen's Africa Salve Ad
Bucklen's Africa Salve advertised as a healing salve for all ages and all sores ulcers burns cuts wounds and piles. The Dreier & Bro druggists guarantee the product priced at 26 cents.
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Bucklen
Dreier. & Bro
Appreciation in Bethany a lesson in giving and praise
In a sermon on Mary’s costly anointing of Jesus, the speaker urges appreciation over constant seriousness and cynicism. He argues Jesus praised genuine good in others, cites Judas and the disciples’ grumbling, and calls for costly, timely kindness to loved ones to inspire and uplift.
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Lfe
Jesus
Bethany
Mary
India
Marys
Disciples
Judas
Jésus
Health in the Canal Zone
The Panama Canal offers high wages tempting young artisans to join the skilled workforce. Fear of fevers and malaria keeps many away, but Electric Bitters users say they travel fearlessly, claiming the remedy guards against malarial influence. Also advertised as a cure for blood poison biliousness weakness and stomach liver kidney troubles. Sold by Dreier & Bro. druggists at 50 cents.
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Panama Canal
Dreier & Bro
Twin Patriarchs and the Lying of Good People
The article retells the biblical story of Esau and Jacob, highlighting the birthright bargain, Rebekah and Jacob’s deception, and Isaac’s blindness. It contrasts Abrahamic courage with modern Isaacs and Jacobs in commerce, warns against deception, and urges moral reflection on truthfulness in families, business, and public life.
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Christian Herald
Isaac
Rebekah
Esau
Jacob
Joseph
Reuben
David
Solomon
Jehovah
Hbsan
Abraham
Egypt
Héther
Harry Esau
Hsau
Tie
Laban
Christ
God
Abrahams
Rome
Bacchus
Venus
Isaacs
Iim
Truthfulness and hypocrisy in daily life narrated
The essay argues lying harms character and urges honesty. It cites a boy named Jake Burkett as a parable where a lie about planting corn is exposed by truth in the field. It warns that many people today sacrifice health and reputation for brief temptations, likening it to selling eternity for temporary pleasure.
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Christ
God
Jesus
Nathaniel
Paul
Epahroditus
Timothy
Church of Christ
Valley Forge
Yorktown
Job
Mark
Matthew
John
Judas
Jacob Burkett
Jake
Orino Laxative Fruit Syrup Promises Gentle Cleansing
Advertises Orino Laxative Fruit Syrup as a mild, pleasant liver stimulant that cleanses the system and clears pimples. Claims superiority to pills and waters, with no griping or sickness, marketed by Dreier & Bros.
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Dreier & Bros
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Andrew Carnegie
Pioneer Town
Trvbat
Jefferson Street Church of Christ, Fort Wayne
Canal Zone
BIBLE
Jacob and
Wilbur F. Crafts
Jacobs
Howell
New England
Jabbok
Israel
Tsaac
Hfe
Ely’s Graam Balin
ELY Brothers
Warren Street
New York
Tor
DR. Tucker
West Wayne. Street
Charles Wesley
Tri-State Loan and Trust CO
A. Wilding
W. E. Mossman
Louis Fox
G. W. Pixley
F.C. Heine
W. J. Vesey
Att’y
H. C. Paul
First National Bank
Fort Wayne
Ind
J. H. Bass
H. R. Freeman
C. H. Worden
J. H. Orr
H. A. Keplinger
Ust
Dr, Wender
Bright
DR. N. R
Wenger
Calfioun Strést
Fort Wayne, Lad
Pine-Use Medicine Company
Chicago
Rhodes Drug Store
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