London clergyman turns church into modern spectacle
At St Mary at Hill London the Rev Mr Carlile uses a monsterphone a grand piano a magic lantern and a bass drum to draw crowds to weekday lunch hour services and Sunday evenings The reform aims to bring back masses and has boosted attendance from about a dozen to over 600 with workmen and locals among the audience and a plain spoken address replacing heavy doctrinal sermonizing
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London
St. Mary-at- Hill
Daily Mail
Mendelssohn
R. Coleman
W. Carlile
St Mary-at-Hill
Mr. Carlile
Carlile
London Mail
Grain-O the new food drink for children
An advertisement touts Grain-O as a nourishing coffee substitute for children. It claims grain based formula tastes like coffee, costs about one fourth as much, and is sold by grocers in 15 and 25 cent sizes.
Planing Mill Work and Grapevine Marvel
W. H. Daugherty’s planing mill supplies building materials including yellow pine ceilings, doors, sash, and porch decor with fast service and affordable prices. The other feature notes the world’s largest grapevine in Santa Barbara County’s Carpinteria Valley, started in 1842 by Joaquina Lugo di Ayala, now sprawling 100 by 134 feet with a base circumference of 8 feet 4 inches and four main branches.
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Carpenteria
Santa Barbara County
Joaquina Lugo di Ayala
Jacob Wilson
Wilson
California
Masterly South American Nervine Tonic Promises Cure
Advertisement claims a universal cure for stomach weakness and indigestion. It touts rapid relief from the first dose and emphasizes safety and world-wide applicability. Sold by a local druggist in Indiana Pennsylvania with dubious spelling.
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Méyer
Hetrick
Local Institutes Program at West Pike School
Institute program at West Pike school on January 12 1901 includes welcome by Wilda Carney roll call topics on teachers visiting patrons spelling schools the Philippines and more. Miss Fairman Mabel Fleming and Grace Klingen Smith lead talks with essays on Mann Africa reading and a foreign possessions rights debate. Please bring luncheon all friends of education invited.
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West Pike School
Wilda Carney
Reapunss
Grace Klingen Smith
Roll Call
Pearl Allison
H. 8. Pounds
J. Murray Moore
J. M. McHenry
Philippines
Miss Fairman
Mabel Fleming
C. E. Stewart
Rell
Eugene Field
Cordelia Hazlett
Mr. Cunningham
Mann
Luella Uncapher
Africa
Grace Klingensmith
United States
Friends of Education
Vision to build a Chicago Good Will Temple gains a million land gift
Rev J S Bitler, a Methodist minister, envisions a grand city church for the masses. He partners with A J Wharton of Colorado who donates 100 acres of mining land and a telegram reports a $1,000,000 strike. Bitler plans a Chicago temple named the Good Will Temple.
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Good Will Temple
J. S Bitler
A. J. Wharton
Colorado
Tobin
Bitler
Chicago
Measles sufferer speaks of dramatic recovery
Three years ago a Ehrenfeld child suffered severe aftereffects from measles including deafness and breathing problems. Under Dr Sadler in Johnstown one eye improved the nose opened, tonsils removed, voice restored, and hearing improved. The story ends with a note of hopeful final recovery. Also mentions free cremation offers and promotes Hostetters Stomach Bitters as a health remedy.
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Sessie
P. J. Myers
Ehrenfeld
Sadler
Capitol Hotel
Johnstown
Entertaining Blunders and Quack Remedies Endorsed
A garbled 1899-1900 board report passage mocks carbon dioxide ideas while telegraphing odd claims. An ad blitz touts Hall's Catarrh Cure from Toledo druggists and Jell-o as a family dessert with four flavors.
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Board of Education
London Telegraph
Humorous Coincidence A Gilbert Hare Railway Encounter
Edgar Pemberton recalls a startling coincidence during rehearsals for Gilbert's Broken Hearts with Mrs Kendal. Gilbert and John Hare, at odds over a scene, left the stage and met by chance in a near empty Sloane Square Court theater railway compartment, their mutual irritation briefly softened by humor.
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Edgar Pemberton
W. S. Gilbert
John Hare
Mr. Pemberton
Sloane Square
Court Theater
Indian Herb Cure Report From Millwood Woman
A Millwood woman writes from Millwood Pa on October 10 1898 praising Andersons Indian Herb Cure. She says after about three months of use she can attend to household duties with little pain in her limbs and notes long term rheumatism relief not found in other medicines.
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Millwood
Anderson
Milliwood, Pa
Jars Axnarson
Indiana
Mas
Prancus Campbell
Relief in Six Hours Kidney Cure Promises Quick Relief
Distressing kidney and bladder disease relieved in six hours by New Great South American Kidney Cure. Praises prompt pain relief in bladder, kidneys and back for both sexes. Claims immediate relief from water retention. Sold by Hetrick Bros., druggists, Indiana, Pa.
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Hetrick Bros
Druggists
Indiana
Indiana County To Vote On Poor Farm Purchase
A 1900 court order directs Indiana County to hold a countywide referendum on buying a farm to house the poor and establish a poor district. Elections will occur on the third Tuesday of February at all borough and township polling places, with tickets marked Poor House and Against Poor House. Notices and official returns follow standard county procedures.
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Indiana County
Court of Quarter Sessions
Hanry White
Curt
D. E. Thompson
Indiana
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
Seid
United States of America
Hugh Hoberts
Pine Township
Virginia Roberts
Grisémore
Election notice and probate notices from Indiana County
A 1901 election notice specifies February 19 as the election day across boroughs and townships with sheriff orders. Also listed are multiple letters testamentary notices for estates: Lacey E Moore, Jacob Bick, E D Shiffer, with executors Cunningham & Fisher and J C Moore among those named, requesting claim presentation and prompt settlement.
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Lacey E. Moore
Hast Mahoning Township
Indiana County
J.C. Moore
Indiana, Pa
Jacob ¥. Bick
Cherryhill Township
Joseph Hgolsopple
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Props
Taleda
F. J. Cheney
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West & Tiss, Wholesale Draggiata, Toledo, O. Wapine, Kigwan & Marvin
Toledo
O. Hall
God Save the Commonwealth
Peeler & Felt, Attorneys
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W. EF. Elkin
E. D. Shiffer
Smickburg
Pennsylvania
S T. C. Shiffer
D. & Tomb
M. Banks
Lelie
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White Township
Decéns Frucieg
Ian Cea Sereek
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John F. Pearce
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Chas. B. Price
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Ity
Pennsylvania Railroad
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Smith
Blairsvill Arr
Blairsville
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Ace
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Western
Fifth Avenue
Smithfield Street
J. B. Hutchinson
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R.W. Wehrle
B. I. Webbs
Philadelphia Street
Rossmayne
Rossmoyne Flouring Mills
Rossmoyne
Frantz Bros
Indiana Co
Penn’a
Brilhart
Roger Bros
Bissell
Toyland
Brilhart’s Christmas Store
McFarland & Turner
I. McFarland, Smith & MastCartney
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Clymer Manufacturing CO
Philadelphia St
Lockard
Indiana, Penw’a
People's National Family Newspaper
York
Tribune
Avi Part
Asia Fational Family
Laws
India
Orphians’ Court
John ‘B. Pierce
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