Consistency in Christian Endeavor Education and Life
A 1908 Christian Endeavor lesson stresses consistency in professed faith, urging members to live the Christ spirit in daily life. It argues against hypocritical religion, notes impact on others, and urges self-examination to prove heart change by the Holy Spirit. The piece cites Bible readings and highlights youth-focused missions and civic involvement.
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H. Doyil
James Well
Christ
Jesus
Endeavor Society Grows After Fresh Start at Steubenville Church
In Steubenville, the Congregational church Endeavor Society, now ten and all female, rallied under young leader Davis who refused to quit. They claim forty new members, twenty-five of them young men, and a pastor encouraged by a more active group of about fifty with plans for twenty more. The postscript sermon urged persistence with the line never pay to give up and always pay to ginger up.
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Ohio
Dead Men Voted in Windy City Grand Jury Report
The Chicago grand jury report allege widespread voting fraud in last August's primaries. Repeats, dead and absentees voted with officials' connivance. 81 indictments issued. Voting machines urged, civil service expanded, police aid criticized.
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Chicago
Der
Grand Jury
Booth relics sold at auction raise small sums
Edwin Booth stage wardrobe and collection pieces were auctioned in New York. About 200 items from his theater career and nearly equal furniture bric-a-brac sold to around 600 attendees for modest prices. Highlights included Shylock scales 26 dollars and a Shylock knife 20, with a Hamlet wig fetching 50. Mrs Edwin Booth Grossman, the executor daughter, conducted the sale.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Edwin Booth
Richard Third
Brutus
Deerakin
Edwin Booth Grossman
10000 Jobs in Danger in Pa Collieries Closing
Ten thousand men in the region face unemployment as the Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company warns of indefinite mine closures within ten days barring heavy rain. The Susquehanna company may issue a similar notice. In Mahanoy City water scarcity forces Schuylkill Traction to suspend operations, drawing from Girardville boiler fires until rain falls.
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Dreuth
Shamokin
Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company
Susquehanna Company
Trosley
Mahanoy City
Schuylkill Traction Company
Mahanoy
Shenandoah
Bollera
Girardville
Stewart Brice Declared Insane by Jury in New York
Stewart M Brice son of late Senator Calvin G Brice formerly a councilman was found insane and incapable of managing his affairs after a commission and sheriff s jury valued his property at 75000 He appeared but did not testify clearly and Brice born 1870 Harvard 1893 Spanish American War captain long a Broadway figure Fatally Shot by Mackier Superior Wisconsin Richard Evans of Philadelphia wounded after a demand for money was refused
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New York
Stewart M. Brice
United States
Calvin G. Brice
Ohio
Brice
Po" Broadway
Harvard
Macer
Richard Evans
Philadelphia
Pittsburg Warned Waste of Fuel May End Industry Dominion
Pittsburg officials face a coal shortage warning from J C White West Virginia state geologist at the American Mining congress. He claims Pittsburg district coal is lower quality and less abundant than US Geological Survey estimates, forecasting a life of about 30 years versus 150 to 200 years. The alarm stresses urgency for conservation and industrial policy.
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Pittsburg
Pis
J. C. White
West Viretaia
White
Peans
Mapa
Pittbury
Atlazheny County
Westmoreland
Washington, Greene
Fayette
Boater
United States
Mi O R. Campbell
Pitishirs
Dutch Ships Demonstrate Off Venezuelan Coast
Willemstad reports the Netherlands has begun a naval demonstration off Venezuela after failing to settle differences amicably. Vessels flying Dutch flags have ranged about 3000 yards from shore from Puerto Caballo to La Guaira. Battleship Jacob Van Heemskerk and cruisers Gelderland and Vriesland are in operation, with the Jacob Van Heemskerk arriving to oversee the move as Gelderland is to be relieved at Maracaibo.
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Venezuela
Willemstad
Den
Netherlands
South American Republic
Puerto Caballo
la Guaira
Jacob van Heemskerk
Gelderland
Vriesland
Blazacalbo
Hoemakerk
Maracalbo
Meet to Discuss State of Farm Life
Washington reports indicate many responses to President Roosevelt's invitation for rural life discussion today. The meetings aim to review the national commission's findings on farm conditions and involve farmers and open-country residents including ministers teachers editors. Schoolhouses are proposed as natural meeting places to discuss rural efficiency, farm labor, good roads, postal facilities, sanitation, and related topics.
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Washington
United States
Roosevelt
J. H. Bailey
Country Life Commission
F’armers
Etec
Strike Averted as Engineers and Pennsylvnia Reach Agreement
Washington December 5 A conference between the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers Pennsylvania railroad lines near Pittsburgh and the board of mediation led to a settled agreement. General Manager Q L Peck and the engineers board approved the mediation board's proposal. Both sides expressed satisfaction and exchanged written copies of the agreement. Two Children Die in Arkansas After Mysterious Poisoning. Marked Tree December Following the deaths of Oly Leona aged six and Elisabeth aged eight, William McBroom was arrested on murder charges. The two girls died after suffering in great agony from an unknown toxin. Looting Incident in Iowa Two bushels of fruitless mail stolen in Ward area. A farm near Warnaw Northwest of here. The thief took only cash from opened checks and money orders left behind.
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Pennsylvania Engineers
Washington
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
Pennsylvania Railroad
Neat
Pittsburg
Board of Mediation
Knapp
Interstate Commerce Commission
J Charles P. Neill
Q. L. Peck
Pennsylvania Lines
Board of Adjustment
Veray
Upo
Huntend
David Homes
Here
Wreck of Soo City Believed Lost in Newfoundland Gale
A gale off the Newfoundland coast likely sank the Soo City with crew of eighteen to twenty eight aboard. Captain John G. Dillon led the vessel from Ogdensburg to New Orleans when it vanished near Cape Ray. Debris washed ashore at Cape Ray including life preservers and deck fittings marked Soo City.
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Newfoundland
Sea City
Cape Ray
St. Tolina
Dar. D
Ape Ray
Soo City
Great Lakes
John G. Dillon
Brooklyn
Unite States
Missouri
Indiana Transportation Company
Felix Jackson
Velasco
Tex
New Orleans
Taxan Porta
New York
T.H. Franklin
Michigan City
Ogdensburg
N. Y
F. Y. County
Milwaukee
Husband Follows Wife to Grave After Poison Death
In Wheeling West Virginia December 5 William Shorts of Bridgeport Ohio drank carbolic acid shortly after his wife Kittle Shorts killed herself. Authorities believe Shorts forced his wife to drink the poison during a quarrel sparked by an arrest over an alleged former lover. Shorts had previously shot his sweetheart Anna Miller and served time in the Ohio penitentiary.
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Wheeling
W. Va
William Shorts
Bridgeport
Kittle Shorts
Hoth
Ueve Shorts
Shorta
Anna Milter
Ohio
Old Feud Renewed at Caroline Islands War Tension
An official dispatch from German warship Jaguar reports Ponape in the Gare itna Islands facing looming religious clashes between Protestant and Catholic factions. About 800 rifles exist between camps, with 100 policemen and the Jaguar preventing conflict so far. The gunboat will remain at Ponape until order is restored.
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Caroline Islands
Berlin
Jaguar
Ponape
Gare Itna Islands
Mrs Mariani Divorced. Mayor’s Daughter in Court Case
Elizabeth Johnaca Mariani, daughter of Mayor Tom L Johnson, obtains a divorce from Frederico Maplan, a New York playwright. She testifies their band never supported her during marriage begun in March 1907, and they soon separated after moving to New York. The piece notes a related local event canceling the McKinley Birthday Celebration due to Taft’s unavailability.
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Tom L. Johnees
Cleveling
Elizabeths
Johnaca Mariani
Tom L. Johnson
Frederico Maplan
New York
Mariani
The
Wave
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