Forty-Five Years a Minister Elmer Missouri Tale
Elder J. W. Cook recalls a lifetime of preaching in backwoods Missouri. He endured poverty earning less than twenty dollars yearly while serving Knox Adair Sullivan Macon Linn Chariton counties. He travelled thousands of miles and preached thousands of sermons, often foot and horse, to sustain families and communities. The piece details his frugal life, funeral journeys, and a memorable candleless meeting in Adair County.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elmer
J. W. Cook
Prairies
Elder Cook
Cook
New Boston
Knox
Adair
Sullivan
Macon
Linn
Chariton
Miles
Not a Scab Jail Turns Public Scorn on Raymond Street
Raymond street jail houses 280 prisoners who choose to stay at work rather than strike. Anxious to avoid a walkout the inmates listen to cooler heads and remain on the job. For years the jail has been a target of Grand Juries and public scorn, with calls for demolition and reform, while the facility continues to provoke sharp, graphic condemnations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. K
Dongese
Raymond Street
County of Kings
City of New York
Coggey
Board of Estimate
Kings County Penitentiary
Central Labor Union
Tony Farrari
Farrari
Borough Hall
Bootblack
Bird
Seab
Boot
Pup Finnegan
McLaughlin
Kane
Mr. Farrari
Edwin Markham
King’s County
Grand Jury
John de Witt Warner
The Craze of Picture Postcards Across the World
The article notes a surge in picture postcards from Europe and beyond to the United States. It cites vast volumes with estimates of hundreds of millions passing through post offices, and scenes of New York Chicago and other cities flooded with postcards daily.
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Europe
United States
Picind
America
York City
Chicago
Buffalo
Orleans
Asia
Africa
San Francisco
United
New York City
Lake City
Pacific Coast
Borderland Reveries in a Scottish River Tale
A reflective piece praises the Tweed and Borderland lore drawing on Ruskin Wordsworth and Burns. It recalls Tweed’s source near Moffat, Tweedsmuir, and Linkumdoddie while noting legends of Merlin Kentigern Cuthbert and Arthur. The article invites reverence for a region steeped in song, history, and solitary scenery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Borderland
Robert Aytoun
Lord Yester
Robert Ferguson
Wordsworth
John Leyden
Henry Scott Hiddell
Burns
John Wilson
Jas. Thomson
Alexander Smith
Andrew Lang
Ruskin
Coldstream Bridge
Border
Scotland
Tweed
wiJdom
John Veitch
Vale of
Annan
Clyde
Lanarkshire
Dumfriesshire
Moffat
Berwick
Tweed’s
Rab” Brown
Kent
Caedon
Merlin
Tweeddale
Arthur
Tweedsmuir
Sacrers
Guthrie
One Man Society Brings Fierce Oath to Defy Copperheads
James B. Bradwell of Chicago, an abolitionist, allegedly formed a Home Defence Association in wartime to compel Union loyalty. He used the fictitious group to pressure Copperheads, issuing threats of tar and feathering, arson, or ruin to coerce people to take an oath of allegiance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James B. Bradwell
Chicago
Record-Herald
Home Defence Association
Bradwell
Association
Judge Bradwell
Bogus Mascots at Monte Carlo Casinos Exposed
A Montreal Standard item notes gamblers’ superstition about hunchback luck charmers at Monte Carlo casinos. One faker was punched by a patron, exposing the fraud, dimissing the hump with a quick cure and a lake dip. He left for good, yet bogus mascots remain at casino doors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monte Carlo
Casino Gardens
Montreal Standard
First Municipal Railway to Bradford Route Described
The new line runs to Lofthouse via Pateley Bridge and Southwaite reservoirs in a six mile stretch. It will carry passenger traffic with a class fare of four pence for the full distance, skirting picturesque scenery along the edge of the Southwaite reservoirs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Municia Railway
Lofthouse
Bradford
Issenger
Rom Pateley Bridge
Southwaite Reservoirs
It Donot Like Borrowell and Costs of Pleasantries
The speaker vents frustration with Borrowell blaming the effort to stay civil and noting expenses spent. A clipped, humorous aside echoes in a dated voice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Borrowell
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Adair County
Brother
Sartin
Missouri
Roan
Boonville
Acs
Treet
Raymond
New York Sun
Tweedside
Willie Wastle
Walt
Willie
Tinkler Maidgie
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