New Year Eve Devotion Foretells Life’s Reckoning
A preacher recounts a vision at City Hospital NJ where a man asks what to do with his life. In a dramatic panorama a lion and eagle urge nobler purpose, while a judgment scene reveals Christless work rejected. The author pledges renewal and later writes of choosing a life devoted to God.
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Weil Weeks
City Hospital
Agnes
Ellen
Webster
Clay
Lincoln
Darmity
Retua
Bho
New Years Homily: The book of the old year closes
A New Years Homily reflects on the ending of the old year and the opening of the new. It contrasts completed records with future prophecy, noting how modern practicality values history while prophecy seems discounted. It links the year’s end to the record left behind and the promise of what lies ahead.
New Year's Resolutions Reflections
A thoughtful verse contemplates resolutions on New Year’s Day. It contrasts the fool and the wise with cynic laughter, urging self improvement while accepting inevitable imperfection, and notes how failure can feed scoffers.
When Talleyrand and Stael in Delphine discussed roles
In a remark cited amid gossip about Mme de Stael novel Delphine, Talleyrand joked that their presences were mirrored in the story with him as an elderly lady and Stael as the heroine, noting their disguises as women.
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Talleyrand
Mme. de Stael
Delphine
M. Talleyrand
Passing of the Old Year in a Reverent Mood
A terse, atmospheric reflection speaks of farewell to the old year and the coming dawn. The piece evokes nostalgia and quiet resolve as voices recall past joys and sorrows, framing the season with a somber, hopeful cadence.
Psychology of Dress and Its Influence on Women
Dr Clouston of Edinburgh warned of the broad damaging effects of a disease and its nervous impact while Dr Thomas Claye Shaw of London discusses the psychology of clothes. He suggests dress shapes self-perception and behavior beyond mere appearances. Around 6000 New York residents have not visited the city in two months per year over the last decade.
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Clouston
Edinburgh
Wext
Dundee Advertiser
Thomas Claye Shaw
London
New York
Europe
Local Death Customs In Japan Quoted
A passage notes that there are no undertakers in Japan and that after death the closest relatives place the body in a coffin for burial and mourning begins after burial.
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Japan
Indian medical rites and soma herb practice described
The passage outlines a young Indian novice learning medicine from tribe members, including obtaining soma herb secrets from a medicine man for ponies. It details spiritual ceremonies to invoke the Great Spirit, plant and animal omens, votive tobacco offerings, and the dream and prophecy beliefs tied to medical success, as reported by Denver Field and Farm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indiana
Smist
Denver Field and Farm
Where the Pennies Go
A Brooklyn Eagle piece cites John M. Haton on saving pennies in business. It recounts a Mid West manufacturer's use of seven‑line printed Manila envelopes reused seven times, cutting annual envelope consumption from 500,000 to 72,600 and saving about $376. The note stresses tightening small-scale waste as operations grow.
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John M. Haton
System
Magazine of Business
Middle West
Brooklyn Eagle
Concrete Floors For Vessels In Great Lakes Shipping
One major Great Lakes ore carrier is replacing wooden hull floors with concrete in its steel ships. The change targets rot from water ballast cycles and damage from grab buckets during unloading, reducing repairs and extending floor life, according to Popular Mechanics.
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Great Lakes
Narrow Escape As Lightning Strikes Spectacles In Stoke
During a recent storm in Stoke on Trent England a young woman escaped injury when lightning struck her spectacles. The frames split and the glasses broke but she remained unharmed.
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Stoke-on- Trent
England
Interesting Items From All Sections of the Keystone State
Apollo free library and reading room gifted to the town by the Woman’s club and trustees as a Christmas present. Agnes Millen to be librarian. Borough residents to use books free. outsiders pay $1 yearly. Maintenance funded by Apollo citizens. Most books and equipment donated by local friends. Mrs. Annie E. Smith of Pittsburgh honorary president donated 60 volumes.
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Apollo
Apollo Free Library
Woman's Club
Kiskiminetas Valley
Agnes Millen
Apollo Citizing
Annie E. Smith
Pittsburg
Woman’s Club
State to Publish Books Prefers Bible Education in Schools
Washington county schol directors at their nineteenth annual session adopt resolutions urging the governor to appoint a commission of leading educators to prepare a series of suitable textbooks to be published by the commonwealth and furnished to schools at cost. They also urge a law making Bible reading in public schools compulsory to promote moral excellence and continue education on liquor evils, requesting directors not to use influence to secure licenses for intoxicants.
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Washington
Washington County
Commonwealth
Washington County Teachers Oppose Liquor Prohibition
At the annual institute the Washington county teachers adopted a resolution opposing liquor traffic. They believe temperance guards the home and school and hinders crime and ignorance, resolving to discourage manufacture and sale of intoxicating drinks and to eliminate the saloon from the county and Pennsylvania.
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Washington County
Washington
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
Electrician Electrocuted at Greensburg Substation
John G B Miller 28 an electrician at the Greensburg substation of Westmoreland Light and Power Company was electrocuted. Navy discharge four months ago after four years service. He was to be married in January. No one was at the plant when the accident occurred and the cause was unknown until an investigation checked why the lights were off.
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Greensburg
John GB. Miller
Westmoreland Bighl and Power Company
Miller
United States Navy
President Roosevelt Grants Clemency to Two Bank Employees
President Theodore Roosevelt extended clemency to Ridward P. MacMillan and Charles Menzemeh, former employees of Enterprise National Bank of Allegheny, who faced misapplication and false entry charges. They were transferred to the Western Penitentiary on July 5, 1907, after appeals led by the men’s wives.
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Theodore Roosevelt
Enterprise National Bank of Allegheny
Ridward P. MacMillan
Charles Menzemeh
Western Penitentiary
P. R. R. Station Robbed at Blairsville Intersection
Safe crackers robbed the Blairsville intersection Pennsylvania railroad station. They took a small sum of money and many tickets. The dynamite blast shattered windows for several hundred yards, waking railroad workers who found the thieves had fled with the loot.
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Greensburg
Pennsylvania Railroad
Blairsville
Hyde Park Tin Mill to Restart, 500 Return to Work
The American Sheet and Tin Plate Company plant at Hyde Park will reopen in full next month, employing about 500 men after a year of closure. No word yet on Saltsburg plant status, also closed for a year.
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Hyde Park
Leechburg
American Sheet & Tin Plate Company
Saltsburg
Sharon South Sharon High Dedication Ceremony
The new high school building in Sharon South Sharon was dedicated with auditorium ceremonies. Addresses were delivered by Judge A. W. Williams County Superintendent F. F. Foltz Superintendent J. M. Hostetter and A. R. Maywell. The buff brick building cost $100000.
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Sharon
South Sharon
A. W. Williams
F. F. Foltz
J. M. Hostetter
A. R. Maywell
Mil Superintendent Resigns From South Sharon Works
George A. Paff, superintendent of the South Sharon works of the American Steel & Wire Company, tendered his resignation to take effect December 31. He will relocate to Sterling, Illinois, to run the Griswold Wire Company mill. No successor has been named.
Cleveland firm to build West Middlesex furnace
New furnace at West Middlesex, Sharon Pickands Mather & Company of Cleveland will replace the dismantled stack. About 300000 dollars will be expended. In Washington John J. Kahl died suddenly at his home after a paralysis strike. He was 32, in good health, survived by widow and two children.
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West Middlesex
Sharon
Washington
John J. Kahl
Man Struck by Axe at Boswell Lumber Yard
Johnstown report states Charles Wilson a negro was struck on the head with an axe during a fight at the Babcock Lumber Company operations in Boswell and died the next morning. The assailant escaped.
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Johnstown
Charles Wilson
Babcock Lumber Company
Boswell
Ford City curfew ordinance limits under-16 street hours
The Ford City council enacted a curfew ordinance prohibiting children under 16 from being in the streets after 9 p m from April 1 to October 4 and after 8 p m during the rest of the year.
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Ford City
Kittanning
Oil worker dodges disaster on steep hill
Franklin resident G. W. Long, an oil work shooter, saved himself from a deadly nitroglycerin load when a mule team slipped on a steep hill near Hast Sandy. With one strap breaking and a mule losing footing, the other mule pulled back, and Long kept cool to prevent a catastrophe.
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Franklin
G. W. Long
Hast Sandy
Soxaviea
Want Judge Criswell for Franklin Supreme Court seat
The Venango County Bar Association unanimously recommended George S Criswell for Franklin supreme court bench to succeed James T Mitchell whose term expires in January 1910. Republicans and Democrats alike supported a resolution adopted with Christopher Heydrick a lifelong Democrat and former supreme court justice taking part. A committee was appointed to promote Criswell's candidacy.
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Criswell
Franklin
Venango “County Bar Association
George S Criswell
Supreme Court Bench
James T. Mitchell
Christopher Heydrick
Supreme Court
Church Sued and Gambling Indictments in New Castle
The First National Bank of Wells ville N. Y. sues St Marys Polish Catholic church to recover a 1500 promissory note signed by Rev. Father John Andrewjewski. The note was issued July 17 and discounted to Fidelity Funding Company, now bankrupt. In New Castle, Judge William B E Porter refused to quash indictments against four men tied to gambling house operations and allowed previously proposed evidence in the trials.
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New Castle
First National Bank of
Wellsville
St.Mary's Polish Catholic Church
John Andrewjewski
Fidelity Funding Company
New York
William BE
Porter
Charles Tidball
Harry Sutton
Frederick Clark
Charles Kelly
Councilmanic
Lewis Charges Treason At Wilkes-Barre Convention
President T L Lewis accuses certain United Mine Workers of America members in the anthracite region of seeking to wreck the union. He writes to all locals warning of a crisis at the January convention.
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Wilkes-Barre
United Mine Workers of America
T. L. Lewis
Guests Escape Fire At Three-Story Beaver Falls Hotel
Fire gutted a three story frame hotel on Eleventh Street in Beaver Falls at 3 30. Guests were saved by fire escapes and ladders raised by firemen after flames spread from a basement stock room.
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Beaver Falls
Windsor Hotel
Eeleventh Street
Rev Hugh Lenox Hodge Called Greensburg
Rev Hugh Lenox Hodge pastor of Central Presbyterian church at Drie was called to the First church here. The pulpit has been vacant since Rev Edwin S Wallace left two years ago. Run Over by Wagon and Killed Washington A 14yearold Alvin Ross son of John Ross fell from his wagon and was instantly killed a wheel passed over his neck. William Penn for New Party Nams Harrisburg The William Penn party name was preempted for 1909 elections by Campbell Wallace Yocum Belmont and Elliott all of Philadelphia. Bharon Republican committeemen set primaries January 28 under the new law. Sharpsville Greenville and South Sharon voters also decided upon uniform primaries.
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Hugh Lenox Hodge
Greensburg
Central Presbyterian Church
Drie
Edwin S. Wallace
Washington
Alvin Ross
John Ross
John Roge
William Penn
New Party
Harrisburg
James F. Campbell
Robert R. Wallace
Jacob H. Yocum, Jr
Leo Belmont
George Elliott
Philadelphia
Bharon
Sharpsville
Greenville
South Sharon
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Eid
Carl Weys
Haha Pladness
Dtcana
Hhidlane
Keystone State
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Mil
Lewis
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