Pledge Under Scrutiny at Morgan Street Endeavor
Andrew Stewart, new president of the Morgan Street Christian Endeavor, wrestles with enforcing the group’s midweek prayer pledge as he confronts his own timidity and a charismatic soprano, Gertrude Brooks. The day’s events unfold from church to private resolve with a suspicious tenor observing.
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The
Christian Endeavor Society
Andrew Stewart
Morgan County Bank
Endeavor Society
Laddie
Andrew
Morgan Street Church Endeavor Society
Gertrude Brooks
Morgan Street Church Society
Society
Miss Brooks
West Parlor
Endeavor
West
New York
Woodruff
Sulzer
Platt
Albany
Bryan
Hlliot Danforth
Danforth
Hill
Chicago Markets Close Mixed With Farm Prices Steady
Closing Board of Trade quotations show July wheat at 66 3/4, July corn 38 1/2, July oats 233 4, July pork 11,673, July lard 6.35, and July ribs 6.40. Union stockyard cattle 19,500 steady to nickel lower, hogs 32,000 nickel lower, sheep 19,000 steady. Chicago receipts list wheat 73 cars and hogs 32,000 today.
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Board of Trade
C. W. Killen
Fry’s Block
Union
Chicago
Caroaco
New York Stock Market
Freeport
Porto Rico tariff news and 1900 campaign outlook
The Porto Rican tariff bill passes with a two year life and relief funds diverted to Puerto Rico needs. Discussion covers the Philippines governance Spooner bill and Foraker defense, while the 1900 presidential race centers on McKinley Bryan Woodruff Sulzer and possible Hill involvement.
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Philippines
Spooner
Senate
Lodge
Massachusetts
United States
Congress
Hoar
Philippine Commission
General Otis
Senator Foraker
Foraker
Teller
Porto Rico
United States of America
Sulzer
Rain of frogs in Arizona mystifies locals
The piece recounts a legend of frogs appearing after summer rains along the Southern Pacific line in southwestern Arizona. Locals recall a dust shower on the Atlantic but focus on frogs that emerge in pools, croaking by day and night. They claim the frogs arrive from the skies rather than from rivers or ground.
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Arizona
Southern Pacific
Colorado
Sun's Heat Wasted Vastly as Earth Reigns in Light
A New York World piece by Charles Kelsey Gaines explains the sun wastes vast heat, with scarcely one sunbeam in 2,000,000,000 reaching Earth. It details solar fuel, the sun’s fiery state, and a distant future when sunshine ends and the world dies.
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Robert Ball
Space
Earth
Charles Kelsey Gaines
New York World
Man Overcomes Illness with Arnica Salve Amid Medical Doubt
Renick Hamilton of West Jefferson Ohio suffered 18 months with a rectal fistula and doctors warned of death without a costly operation. He reportedly cured himself using Bucklen's Arnica Salve, touted as a reliable pile remedy. 25 cents a box. Sold by Joseph Emmert. Mrs. John G Oyler offers vocal culture lessons at 136 West Street.
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Renick Hamilton
West Jefferson
Bucklen
Joseph Emmert
Emmert & Burrell
Freeport Mattress Co Ad Promotes Dressed Mattresses
An old ads blurb announces Freeport Mattress Co offering dressed mattresses with a prompt to leave orders at local furniture stores or send a card. The copy places the shop two doors east of Henney Buggy Vo Co with a brief end note.
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Freeport Mattress Co
Henney Buggy Vo Co
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