Problem of Human Life hailed as book of the age
A long promotional passage extols a 528 page cloth bound volume claiming it proves a personal God and immortality by science, citing glowing reviews from religious presses and ministers. It advertises postpaid price 2 and agents in every county with a New York address.
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Darwin
Huxley
Cyndall
Helmholtz
Baltimore
New Covenant
Chicago
Herald and Presbyterian
Cian
Amer
Christian Review
Cinn
God of Providence
Dominion Churchman
Toronto
United States
Watch Tower
Suhell & CO
University Place
New York
Local Notes and Social Ne ws from Putnam County
Local items mention Mrs J S Browning of Monroe township is ill with fever. A constitutional amendment election is one week from next Monday. John Coffman and Alma Mee Dutlie have license to marry. Bishop Bowman and daughter visit this week and go east next Monday. Mrs Pontius of Noblesville visits. W Dunnington and W W Curry preach at Universalist Church in Fincastle tomorrow. Albert E Crow and Laura K Carver wed in Putnam County. March debut described as an angry lion turning peaceful.
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J.S. Browning
Monroe Township
Gay
Zed. Goodwin
Iowa
Sea John 5
Coffman
Alma Mee Dutlie
HH. Il. Crow
Kansas
College Avenue
M. H. Church
W. A. Smith
Albert E. Crow
Laura K. Carver
Putnam County
Why Ie Consented to Leave Gunnison
A mock convention in Gunnison City prompts a committee of five to threaten Calabash Sam with violence to force him from town. Sam declines, joking about the need for his soci ety to relocate the burial ground as three shotguns are aimed at him.
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Gunnison
Gunnison City
Michigan
Parker
Calabash Sam
Deadwood
Samuel
Calabash Samarod
Menshon
Black Hills
Five Thousand Dollar Board Case Shaves Risk of Life
A Vermont Supreme Court dispute over the shaving of Cox at the House of Correction prompts a new trial ruling. Other items include a courthouse kerfuffle with Boyle and Martin ending in fines, a madam Shipton revival, a bill in Colorado offering bounties for Indian or skunk scalps, and a Rhode Island farmer's damage claim amid militia care. The Nevada Prison hosts twelve cooks among 151 convicts, cited with a proverb.
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Free Press
Cox
Eayres
Supreme Court
Rutledge
Tause of Correction
House of Correction
Acyres
Ross
Pierpont
Boyle
Martin
St. Louis
Sherif
Doyle
Rhode Island
Anyone Will Do and the Owl’s Humorous Moral Tale
A Victorian verse tale describes an aging maiden’s plea for a husband and an owl’s answer who will do. The piece is followed by a personal anecdote about a former clerk who repaid a $300 theft, earning Mr. Brooks’s forgiveness and noting the man’s later integrity and success.
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Mr. Brooks
Phases of Crime lecture notes by District Attorney Phelps
In New York the district attorney warns that innocence does not guarantee absence of guilt and that criminals do not reform suddenly. He argues the public misjudges criminals as differently constituted and stresses the need for realism in handling crime and punishment.
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New York
Phelps
California Raisins Reach Vast Planting Scale
A large capitalist company is formed to expand raisin grape cultivation in Fresno County. The movement cites high profits, strong export demand, and easier climate suitable for raisin production. In five years California raisins are expected to dominate imports.
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California
Fresno County
United States
Imaginative Thanks: Lamb on Expressing Too Much
Charles Lamb advises speakers to restrain effort and let listeners imagine the rest. He recounts rising to thank for a health toast, bowing to the audience, and sitting down, leaving the conclusion to imagination.
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Charles Lamb
Needs and Wants, Williamsport Breakfast Table
Reflection on abundance and desire in a Williamsport breakfast table scene. The speaker notes that even if all could have everything they wanted or saw, it would deprive others and leave no one with anything. The piece concludes that true sufficiency lies in what people already possess.
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Williamsport
Murder charge after widow joins Columbus society
Mrs. Armstrong, a young widow with $50 000 fortune, was married to Hermann Corzilus, county treasurer, in Columbus Ohio. Two weeks after the wedding she was arrested for the murder of her first husband, with detectives and new testimony in the case.
Curious confession pins Aust as murderer in Pike County
In November Dr Thomas Aust shot James Humphreys in Winslow Pike County Indiana then fled to Clifton near Niagara Falls. Reporters quote his confession from a Clifton magistrate office claiming motive included politics and vengeance. He boasts of money to influence witnesses and vows to return to Pike County to face trial.
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Thomas F. Aust
Pike Co
Indiana
Clifton
Niagara Falls
Pike County
Scales
Keifer
Sam
Thomasrederick Aust
Winslow
James Humphreys
Albert G. Porter
Humphreys
Medical College
Louisville
Rust
Miss Eads
Sheriff Scales
Aust
A Remarkable Train Coincidence and Escape
A Salem Gazette narrative recounts a passenger who, while pondering a fatal accident, experiences a near miss when a freight car piece fractures the passenger coach window and scatters splinters. The man remains unharmed, prompting reflection on chance and coincidence in a narrow escape from death.
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Salem
Hogs and cattle trade reports with mixed results
From Indianapolis and Curacao market notes Hogs receipts 19000 shipments 5000 market weak extra fine packing 640 to 650 cattle receipts 5500 shipments 2200 market active higher exports 550 to 590 sheep receipts 1709 market firm Wheat and corn prices in Izpia Navours report Wheat No 2 red 102 to 103 Corn 92 to 93 Oats 88 to 94 Thackeray affair ends in suicide after 30 000 investment proves insufficient and triggers despair.
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Inpianapolis
Curcaco
Ixpia
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