Third Presbyterian Church opens with grand design and cost
The Third Presbyterian Church in Lore Wayne, designed by Kendrick & Bradley in English Gothic style, features red brick exterior, Bedford limestone trim, carved stone gargoyles, a 4090 seat main auditorium, and 700 seat combined chapel and Sabbath school. The building at the corner of Marion and Taber will cost about $24,000 with furnishings and extras. organ installation slated after holidays.
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Third Presbyterian Church
Kendrick & Bradley
Lore Wayne
Stemtzifor
GO. G. Kaver
Erment
Corns
Mariison
Taber
Tomvnher
Max Irm- Guass
Cece
Cece Neerens
C. R. Wermuth
Wegrang Ake
Oldest Men and Women The Century Club of Records
Centenarians span extreme builds and fates from 104 to 125 years with tales of accidents and marriages. The piece notes heads broken, burns survived, and long-lived pairs, linking longevity partly to marriage while citing dubious but parish-certified obituaries.
New Indianapolis Mayor Elected and New City Officials Named
The Indianapolis Journal reports a new mayor H. P hic Michael and city officials including city clerk Russell Miullans and judge Dan Pyles. A Young Men group at the Y M C A outlined plans to teach proper governance and form a municipal advisory body with council members across wards. The council will organize next week and department boards will appoint members to begin the administration.
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Indianapolis Journal
Indianapolis
H. P.hic- Michael
Russell Miullans
Pe Court
Dan Pyles
Y. WM. CG. A
Earl Bawin
Arthur Haines
Clarence Newport
Ford Tisher
H. A. Fton
Ralph B. Rey
W. F. Butler
E. A. Krug
George A. Pritechard
C. BE. Clara
Fiten
H. P. Icor
C. E. Springer
B. Fr. Kepner
C. J. Conetock
L. BH. Noble
H. Daugherty
Tom Snyder
Women Break Ground in New Fields Across the Nation
A survey highlights Laura Alderman of Hurley South Dakota Joins a century of female enterprise by owning the northwest’s largest apple orchard and earning national recognition from the department of agriculture. Ellen Wheeler in Chazy New York incubates 1900 ducklings each summer and runs a bee ranch while Celia Holbrook at seventeen operates a Sherborn Massachusetts blacksmith shop and serves as a post rider. Miss Cora Kimball in Mont Clare Illinois gains admittance to the Southeastern Billposters Association, and Ellen Eames Sayre take top posts in Mont Clare fire service. Mrs Bissell reportedly leads a Grand Rapids carpet sweeper factory with a rumored invention hers not her husband’s. Belle McKimmon eyes a Little Falls plant employing 1200 workers. a Syracuse student funds college with domestic work, canning and jelly making. Elvira Milles, a former poet, becomes a passenger agent on the Louisville and Fort Louis line to attract women travelers. Mrs John Kidder of Nevada County California becomes president of a Colfax to Nevada City narrow gauge road. she learned the business while her husband lay ill.
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Laura Alderman
Hurley
South Dakota
Northwest
Department of Agriculture
Alderman
Clovernook
Chazy
Lake Champlain
Ellen Wheeler
Celia Holbrook
Sherborn
Mass
United States
Southeastern Billposters’ Association
Moudtrie
Cora Kimball
Ifiis
Eames
Miss Sayre
Mont Clare
Til
Chicago
Bissell
Aarpet
Grand Rapids
Mich
Belle McKimmon
Little Falls
Syracuse
Elvira Milles
Louisville and
Ft. Louis
Memory of a Revered English Gentleman and Long-Lived Figures
The excerpt notes a reverend English gentleman who died at 105, born under a hedge in 1679 near his death cottage. It records a man who lived to 114, and a post-deluvian patriarch who died without pain. A Scotch piper reached 122, and Colonel McDonald of Glasgow (died 1771) is linked to Elizabeth Page and Streatham, Surrey, in a physician’s depiction.
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Colonel McDonald
Glasgow
Elizabeth Page
Streatham
Surry
Treaty to Save Mesa Verde Gains Washington Backing
The club women of Colorado secure a $300 yearly pledge for thirty years to protect Mesa Verde and its cliff dwellings from relic hunters. The plan includes a toll road to the cliff site, a rest house for travelers, and hiring Indians to police the area. Ignacio, the tribe’s elder chief, is involved as the ceremony secures funding and guardianship. Relic hunting by visitors has already damaged the ruins, with access currently by horseback and long, strenuous journeys.
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Club Women
Colorado
Mesa Verde
Washington
Ignacio
Mesa
Why French Colonies Fail Says Rouen Consul
Thornwell Haynes argues colonies fail because soldiers set policy while traders target fertile markets. In Africa France relied on expeditions, England on merchants, with traders winning in commercial contests. French manufactures fail to meet colonial needs, allowing rivals to seize markets.
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France
Thornwell Haynes
Rouen
Africa
England
Paris
Heller Praises Krause Headache Capsules
Albert Heller of 1114 Farnham St Omaha reports trying many headache remedies with Krause's Headache Capsules giving the best relief. He notes others share the same view. Price is 25 cents, sold by Dreier & Bro at the Calhoun and Columbia streets corner.
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Albert Heller
Farnham St
Omaha
Krause
Dreier& Bro
Calhoun
Columbia Streota
Pope Enjoys Cosy Retreat in Vatican Gardens
The pope spends days in the Vatican gardens when weather allows, greeting animals including two prized goats and joking with the head gardener nicknamed My old friend Caesar. The Leo XIII summer residence tower can be viewed from Sagrestia piazza, offering a Roman Campagna view and sea breeze.
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Vatican Gardens
Caesar
Villepgiatra
Sagrestia Piazza
Rome
Leo XIII
Leo IV
Vatican
Purist Iron Ore Mine in Sweden Controls Supply
The Dannemora iron ore mines in Sweden produce the purest ore known, operate as a close corporation, and sell only within owner firms. They cap annual output at 50,000 tons and set a high price due to quality. Ore is underground, magnetic, with about 50 percent metallic iron and phosphorus content between 0.0025 and 0.0005 percent.
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Dannemora
Sweden
Mecca
Old Mine History and Methods Through the Centuries
The article traces a mine operated over 400 years transitioning from private to government control, then back to individuals in 1863. It notes flux in the blast furnace from limestone gangue, traces phosphorus contents, and records shifts from fire setting to gunpowder in 1829 with a current depth of 846 feet.
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Cassier
All London At Her Feet Social Star Mrs Leggett Captivates England
An American woman Mrs Francis H Leggett has gained rapid entrance into London society. After sailing to England she vowed to secure access to elite venues within three months and now hosts gatherings in a fashionable King Edward era quarter. Her beauty and wealth underpin her influence among duchesses and peers.
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London
Francis H. Leggett
Prominent Chicago Leader Once Widow of New York Grocer
The text notes a great wholesale grocer of New York and a handsome home on Fifth Avenue. It mentions a woman who, before marriage, was a widow named Mrs William Sturgis of Chicago, described as a prominent society leader in that city.
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New York
Fifth Avenue
William Sturgis
Chicago
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