The Voyage of Life and a Kindness Tale in the City
A children’s corner piece blends a moral about following the chart of redemption with a crafted tale of a rosy faced Irish mother and two children on Fifth Avenue. A kindly passerby helps them cross as Santa Claus nears, prompting thanks and hopeful blessings from the mother and children.
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Rother
Fifth Avenue
Fourteenth Street
Patsy
Santa Claus
Childers
Sid
Gen
A Quaker Interrogates Social Slights on a Train
A Quaker passenger questions a well dressed fellow traveler about decency. He challenges the man’s casual actions, asking if sharing a drink, cutlery, or smoke would be acceptable after the other had used them, exposing social impropriety and the boundaries of civility.
Dream of Rats and a Temperance Son
A Scotchman wakes to recount a dream of a fat rat advancing with two lean rats behind and a kind rat in the rear as omen of calamity. His temperance son offers a practical interpretation, likening the fat rat to the public house keeper and the lean ones to himself and his mother.
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Frank Lewlie
Jean
Think of each hour as part of eternal life in Zion's Herald
The passage urges readers to view every hour and deed as steps toward ongoing, purposeful salvation beyond mere accepting of salvation. It frames life as a continuous chain of deeds shaping an endless progression of meaning and power.
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Enya Zion
Moral law and the eternal life prepared by action
The passage declares that saying I will embodies the moral law and that life is prepared not for death but for eternal celestial reward. It rejects spiritual inertia and cites Christ's call to go into the world as a call to active preparation for life to come.
Crown and thorn in the soul’s ascent toward light
A lyrical dialogue unfolds with a seeker at a gate of Light requesting relief for sorrow. An angel grants a gold crown, but the soul pleads for deeper comfort. Yet the spirit receives a laurel, and finally a crown of thorns is given to one who mourns.
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Randy
Hanis
Eye of a Needle Tale Sparks Generous Reform in Scotland
A Scottish church member named Sandy resisted giving to the poor saying he needed the funds for himself. A dream showed him standing before heaven’s gate unable to enter because his wealth could not pass the eye of a needle. The minister urged him to change, prompting Sandy to shrink his pocketbook and worldly desires and give more to Christ’s work.
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Scotland
Glasgow
Sandy
English Language Move Endorsed by Church Leaders
The United Norwegian Lutheran Church of America, meeting in Avalon at St. Paul, unanimously endorsed the English conference started last April. Leaders say introducing English in services is essential to engage youth, noting English spreads in school, social life, and business, and that a church built on a foreign language faces decline.
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America
Alaska miners spooked by cold air and mosquitoes
R Harvey, fresh from Yukon, says Alaska’s harsh winter and pervasive mosquitoes make another season there impossible. He notes that extreme bites have driven some men to madness and cites rising crime as adventurers flood in, prompting vigilance committees.
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Alnake
R. Harvey
Yukon
Alaska
Skeeter
Fortune in a Bible at Forgue Reveals Last Will
An Aberdeenshire bachelor farmer died recently leaving his property to the crown. All goods were sold except a packet Bible and some books given to his housekeeper. A scrap in the Bible proved to be his will leaving her all possessions, forcing the crown to refund two thousand pounds. The article adds that any reader may find a fortune within any Bible.
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M Hibie
Forgue
Aberdeenshire
Crown
Fragmented exclamation on rescue and reward a local line
A fragment notes a saying about rescuing a drowning man in Nome or England and the reward for saving him being tied to the timing of actions, ending with a garbled phrase esbillings.
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Nome Parte
England
Fruit crop outlook summarized by agricultural department
July 21 report notes overall poor fruit conditions nationwide. Apples down from 71 to 64 percent in June with regional variation. peaches show mid to medium prospects. Delaware Maryland Ohio Michigan Illinois New Jersey Missouri Kansas and others expected mid quality. Atlantic coast worst.
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Iterel Department
Agricultural Department
Just Publia
New England
New York
Pennsylvania
Michigan
Towa
Nebraska
Atlantic Coast
Ohio Valley
Missouri
Delaware
Maryland
Ohio
Kentucky
Kansas
New Jersey
Kansas Banker in Jail On Forgery Charge In City
The Exelhaunge National Bank cashier SG Fleming was arrested on forgery and embezzlement charges. He allegedly forged four notes totaling 810,000 on prominent county residents, with first forgery April 20 and last June 21. Fleming claimed no money is recoverable and offered no statement. A local inquiry reported the bank shows over 1000 in cash, sparking community concern. Mr He me fur, a church and politics leader, was mentioned in connection with the case.
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A & Ae
Kid
Minawa Sey
SG. Fleming
Exelhaunge National Bank
Emil Restewment
Sr. Fleming
Heme Fur
Malvern Fire Destroys Town. Four Men Under Arrest
The town of Malvern Arkansas suffered a major blaze at 2 AM destroying the railroad depot, two hotels, the bank and most businesses. About 6,000 residents left with total loss estimated near 100000. The fire, started in three spots, was incendiary and four men are in custody.
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Malvern
Arte
Andes
Juaner
Ark
Dun's Review of Trade Amid Market Gloom and Diamond Trust Rise
Dun s Review notes Chicago convention disapproval shakes markets while general gloom and low spirits dampen speculation. Wheat support remains modest as favorable government prices ease. Diamond Trust raises prices with control by English and South African parties and a hefty yearly increment demanded by the trust. Also reports of two Leavenworth suicides, one by morphine overdose and another by shotgun, with no known cause.
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R G. Dun & Co
Chicago
Leavenworth
Lyaviesworrn
Kay
Joseph Norris
Ile Eaves
Nortix Wash
Marion Wagner
Fifth Avenue
Sensational claims against New Orleans judge stir Steele estate case
Dr FI Sensational Charcen Br Joaxii Mo July 24 Dr Bare ton Pitts son in law of the late Dud ley M Steele sends a letter making sensational charges against Judge Lazarus of New Orleans Vine ton Pike representing Chicago creditors and others in the Steele estate Pitts alleges over 70000 has been squandered by lawyers hindering heirs from getting their share Pitts is under arrest for pummelling Attorney Pilea
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Charcen
Br. Joaxii
Bareton Pitts
Dudley M. Steele
Lazarus
New Orleans
Vineton Pike
Chicago
Iinent
Steele
Pitts
Pitta
Pilea
Republican Committeeman Quits Utah Over Party Platform
OJ Salisbury of Utah resigns from the Republican National Committee citing disagreement with the party’s financial plank adopted in St Louis. In a separate Kansas City area incident Dr Burton Pitts attacked lawyer Vinton Pile with a stick in Pile’s office over a disputed lawsuit, leaving Pile with fatal injuries.
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Baur Lake
Utah
OJ Salisbury
Republican National Committee For
St Louis
Bt Jovept
St. Josefn
Bureton Pitts
Vinton Pile
Pike
Dassidy
Bicycle incident sparks debate over speed and fault
A fragmented report from Chicago Post recounts a bicycle incident on a hill where a rider asks what she did wrong as a man accuses her of speeding. She insists she wanted to stop, while he defends vindicating the speed.
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Chicago Post
Travel article and medical quips from era notices
A fragmented column showcases travel pride and medical quips from early 1900s papers. It cites a Phoebe Hanaford lecture condemning male-church rhetoric, references a Bible verse, and promotes Syrup of Flea as a household laxative while noting sensational social gossip from Indianapolis.
Right climate cures: health resorts in the Southwest
Expert physicians affirm that the right climate may curb consumption and related diseases. They describe pure dry air equable temperature and constant sunshine found in the Salt River Valley of Arizona and various places in New Mexico. Free pamphlets describe the regions and are available from G. T. Nicholson, GP, A, AT. & S F Rv, Chicago.
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Ealt River Valley
Arizona
New Mexico
Santa Fe
G. T. Nicholson
Chicago
Grant's Troublesome Soldier in the Round Table
General Grant recalls a regiment tale of a soldier who nagged for favors, prompting Grant to call him the most troublesome man in the Union army. The soldier retorts humorously, noting that the phrase matches what the company has been saying. The anecdote appears in Marper's Round le.
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Grant
How to Grow 40¢ Wheat Seed Catalog Offer
Salzers Seed Co advertises a fall seed catalogue costing 40 cents with free grain samples. Send a 4 cent stamp to LaCrosse address for the catalogue and samples for fall sowing.
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Salzer
John A. Salzereed Co
LaCrouse
Story of Cripple Creek Gold by O W Crawford
Pittsburg Chronicle extols a new Cripple Creek gold book by O W Crawford, Masonic Temple Chicago, illustrated in three colors. It covers locating, mining, milling, payments, titles, camps, Cripple Park’s Apollinaris Springs, with a second edition in press and a price of 50 cents.
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Colorado
Cripple Creek District
O. W. Crawford
Masonic Temple
Chicago
Rine
Cripple ‘Creek
Cripple Park
Apollinaris Springs
Quiecka
Simple Barometer at Macon Public Library
A makeshift barometer described at a Macon library uses a cedar strip and a pine strip attached perpendicularly to a wooden base. When rain approaches the strips bend downward and when dry they stay straight, claimed to unfailingly indicate storms. The text concludes with a nonsensical aside about human geese and a quack doctor.
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Macon
Ibis
Fragmentary note on travel and local curiosities
A garbled fragment mentions a bicycle bond between a husband and others, a reference to St Louis and the Wabash road, praise of Berry ices, Cripple Creek travel talk, and sightings of four legged chickens in Ohio. The text is incomplete and lacks a coherent narrative.
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Row
Ohio
Mai’s Catarrh Care and Legislation Pointer
An OCR fragment notes Mai’s Catarrh Care offered for internal use at 750 and hints at a legislative push requiring pedestrians to carry bell and lanterns, with a stray line about bicyclists and a gate. The readable facts are sparse and fragmented.
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Mary
Dun's Review OF Trade
Voon
Mamond Trust
Diamond Trust
Dell Rhodes
Harney Burnato
Abraham Abrahams
P. Robinson
Verner, West & Co
Joseph Bros
Diamond
Norwin-Tose
Mra
Phoebe Hanaford
St. Paul
Jerusalem
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
A Chit Kajore
Buskins
Indianapolis
Goswell
Tom Dukane
Pittsburg Chronicle
Eanais City
St Louie
Wabash Road
Cripple Creek
Oll
Wei
Childres
The
Pill
Ayer
Thompson
Teat Son
Columbias
Columbia
Pope Mfg. Co
Hartford, Conn
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