Why must this be Lord’s will and why
Poem of faith amid doubt and pain. The speaker pleads for understanding why suffering occurs, then accepts trust in God’s wisdom. The verse reflects prayer, struggle, reconciliation, and the shift from questioning to devout reliance. Maude Estelle Smith-Hymers, in Minneapolis Housekeeper.
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Diz
Maude Estelle Smith-Hymers
Minneapolis
True to Yourself and to God in Personal Growth
A sermon urging broad self faith as obedience to God. True self leads to Christian development, ethical action, and service to others, with the aim of enlarging one’s powers to fulfill God’s will. It emphasizes personal responsibility and unselfish outreach as central to faith.
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Baptist Union
Two Girls In A Garden Parable From German Allegory
A German allegory tells of two little girls playing in a garden. One reports a sad place, each rose tree with cruel long thorns, while the other finds beauty, noting roses growing on every thorn-bush. The mother ponders the differing views.
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Litttle
Onion Gospel News
Blue Days and Personal Responsibility
Annie M. Toohey argues that blue days stem from personal shortcomings not fate. Complaining chronic grumblers blame others, seek sympathy, and rely on a heavenly solace, becoming cynical and unhappy despite sunshine and effort.
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Annie M. Toohey
Inward Peace and Eternal Riches from Deepened Life
The Boston Watchman notes that Paul found peace not in outward luck but in the soul and eternal fellowship. It contrasts stormy surface life with deep, lasting riches, citing examples of serene people whose lives are deepened beyond worldly loss.
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Paul
Boston Watchman
Inspirational Quotes on Truth and Duty Across Thinkers
A compilation of maxims about truth, duty, self control, and moral growth from Wellspring Bulwer IIfland Joseph Cook Wordsworth Mrs. Wesley and S. 5 Times. The passages urge humility, kindness, and pursuit of truth beyond prejudice, with notes on ongoing learning and spiritual discernment.
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Bulwer
Raim
Joseph Cook
Wordsworth
Mrs. Wesley
Sunday Ice Cream Wagons In New York And Beyond
The New York Mail and Express notes Sunday ice cream wagons dominate Manhattan and Kings streets, delivering more to residences and traveling up to 35 miles daily. Wagons run late, often to serve Sunday meals, while other traffic thins. Some New Jersey seaside towns ban Sabbath wagon traffic, prompting home freezers.
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Manhattan
Kings
New York Mail and Express
New Jersey
Metropolis
Golf Girl Sees Ball Game Through New Eyes
A young woman attends her first baseball game with a puzzled companion who explains the basics in a playful dialogue. The scene contrasts high society flirtation with a rowdy peanut gallery as they learn innings, runs, bases, and outs in a humorous miseducation.
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Milwaukee Sentinel
John
Milwaukee
Ile
Margaret
Catbird Mimics Sound And Fears Cats In Nature Feature
A North American thrush nicknamed ccatbird due to its cat like mew hops between branches and imitates sounds. It hates cats and snakes and, when tamed, provides amusement. It also shows fondness for its young according to Nature.
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Cathled
Cath
Weather Man’s Forecast Fails Airship Flight Trial
An exchange notes that a weather forecast predicting a 50 mile per hour breeze did not align with the airship’s slow progress. The Ohio State Journal cites the discrepancy as a reason to doubt reliance on meteorologists for flight planning.
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Ohio State Journal
Cannot help it a plain mind envies a handsome man
A brief Chicago Daily News item notes a plain, intellectual woman admits mild envy of a handsome man, reflecting light social humor about appearance and wit.
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Chicago Daily Mews
The Hermit of Cape Malea
A 26 year old ship captain marries during a Mediterranean honeymoon voyage. After a collision near Cape Malea he survives as a wreck survivor and lives as a hermit in a hut with Greek peasants for years, stoically awaiting the sea and his lost wife. His endurance ends when his lifeless body is found kneeling by his window overlooking the sea.
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F. T. Bullen
London Spectator
Thames
Mediterranean
Cadiz
Genoa
Naples
Venice
Rome
Galatz
Constantinople
Danube
Cape Marea
Cape Malea
Titled Agents Dominate European Sales Policy
An old established manufacturing firm in this city sells products across Europe and remains run by a democratic manager who keeps his father’s policy. No agents are hired unless they hold titles, a practice easier on the continent but awkward in England. The foreign list reads like a court circular with no bogus titles allowed.
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Europe
Germany
France
Russia
England
N. Y
Engagement Fizzles Over Bakery Pie Plot
A Cleveland Plain Dealer item notes a couple’s engagement collapsing after the fiancé discovers the pie was bought by the sister. The scheme to prove cooking skill backfires when the brother buys the pie at a bakery.
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Cleveland Plain Dealer
When a Man Gets Hurt Hears of Others Hurt Worse
A clipped quotation notes how friends of the injured man gather to relate their own wounds, saying they were hurt worse than he was. The line captures communal humor and shared hardship among peers.
Street Life in the City Shapes Youth in East Side
Frederick A. King reports from the University Settlement Society on East Side street life and its effects on children. He notes vulgar speech, cruel behavior, early gambling, street crowds, and the rise of tough gangs driving juveniles toward crime and vice.
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University Settlement Society of
New York
Frederick A. King
East Side
Ruling Passion Unconquered by a Devonshire Doctor Tale
A Boston Globe excerpt recounts a Devonshire physician named Vial famed for whist redeems a desperate gambler. In a deal he collapses, recovers, then blurts trumps as he dies. A dying bon vivant wagers with the doctor he will outlive the hour, betting a bottle on life to nine.
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Boston Globe
Witty Snippets and Quips Across Newspapers
A collage of humorous exchanges and quips from several papers. Jests range from infatuation and letters to absinthe rumors and courtroom irony, featuring lines about love, money, fortune, and war experiences through various officials and citizens.
Two mile shaft possible for Tamarack mine
The article explores the feasibility of sinking a two mile deep shaft west of the Tamarack mine. It notes historic records at 2 270 feet and 4 900 feet, and 5th Tamarack shaft nearing 5 000 feet with a 6 000 foot hoist. Ventilation and cost estimates are discussed.
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No. 1
Tamarack
Milwaukee Sentinel
Red Jacket
No.5 Tamarack
Calumet District
Car Hog Quip Sparks Broadway Car Scene
A man who looked sure of himself boarded a crowded uptown Broadway car at Thirty-fourth Street. With four passengers in the row he demanded a seat and called the benches for five or four car hogs. One passenger left and retorted that the benches were for four three human beings and one car hog.
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N. Y
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