New Thought Convention Reflects Belief in Health Wealth Love
A Carnegie Hall gathering highlights New Thought pioneers from New York, Boston and Brockton led by Mrs. Julia Seton Sears. The movement links wealth to spiritual health and universal cosmic consciousness, urging practical cures and love as paths to happiness despite differing views on medicine.
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New Thought
Carnegie Hall
New York
Carnegie Lyceum
Boston
Brockton
India
Isms
New Organization
New Thought Church
New Thought College
No. 1
New Thoughter
Julia Seton Sears
New Idea
Sears
Ella Chapman
New Hampshire
Ella M. Robbins
T.C. Rajan
Yengar
Frama
A Good Samaritan in the South Cares for the Deserving Poor
A Southern city man described as a scientific healer of “fresh sinners” catalogues each fault before housing the abandoned woman in his guest chamber. He argues restoration comes via his fireside with a wife and many children, claiming many women recover.
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Independent
Practical Plant Breeding Methods for Farmers
Farmers compare plant breeding with animal breeding and aim to create new plant races that yield well. The article notes the emphasis on traits that correlate with high per acre grain yield, not just decorative or exhibit-worthy characteristics.
Plant breeding contrasts the roles of male and female in animals and plants
The article explains how animal breeders hinge on male lines while plant breeders often emphasize the female parent. It outlines methods for selecting the best individuals through large, uniform trials, notes on ideal type adherence, and strategies to breed for seedlessness and new variations.
New Thought Beliefs Promoted by Mrs Sears Spar Over Wealth
An analysis outlines New Thought ideas as taught by Mrs Sears, stressing universal abundance, inner authority over fortune, and the power of belief to attract wealth. It notes the system’s compatibility with medicine and cautions against material excess as a path to salvation.
Suburban schemes and theater gags in playful banter
The piece weaves witty dialogue on joinings and legacies at the Rialto and a suburban plan. Hamlet Fatt claims the Kemble mantle while Yorick Hamm jokes about clothes. A lunch route fixes summer, and a king questions hanging gardens to outwit neighbors.
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Hamlet Fatt
Kemble
Yorick Hamm
Babylon
Ample Vocabulary Quip Echoes City Speech
The quote defends a compact lexicon by contrasting the general claim with a New York twist. It suggests an average person can manage with about three hundred words. A playful line narrows to a trio: Broadway money and fierce.
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New York
Broadway
The Tardy Suitor Delays December Wedding
A playful verse notes May weds December’s snows as July fails to propose. The speaker jests that timing and season affect romance.
Virtues of the Wood Cut in Arts and Education
The piece argues wood cuts remain superior to cheaper half tone engravings for clarity and reproduction. It cites eye-care concerns for children, reviews foreign print quality, and praises old wood cuts like Sappey’s Anatomy while noting the need for high craftsmanship. It also recalls an anecdote about a preacher and social mores.
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Association of Women Principals
Public Schools of
New York
New York Medical Journal
Sappey
Realism Is Art Described Along with Bananas
The dialogue notes Dauber’s praised work and Egbert comments on a banana painting that turns green then yellow within a month. The exchange presents a light discussion of artistic realism and color change.
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Bacon
Dauber
Egbert
Wind Lesson Ends In Sharp Student Insight
A Liverpool teacher tried to show a class what compressed air is by placing a bicycle in the room and asking for the hidden force under the back wheel. After failed guesses, a pupil exclaimed that the force is wind, having stabbed the tire to prove it.
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Liverpool
Wasted Caution. A Cord Reminder Prank
A humorous exchange between Chapell and wife about a finger cord used to remind him to mail a letter. The wife forgot to hand him the letter, delaying the posting.
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Chapell
The Cereal Eater Poses in Vegetarian Magazine
A figure named Smith earns his living by posing as The Cereal Eater in Vegetarian Magazine. He claims to eat three porterhouse steaks daily as part of the act, drawing curiosity about his methods.
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Smith
Wood Lot guidance from forestry bureau on farm timber
A circular from the Washington forestry bureau promotes setting aside part of farms for wood lots to supply fuel fence posts and timber. It explains tree species for plantings and offers planting and protection advice, available free on request.
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Forestry Bureau
Washington
Decline in Hay Prices Across Regions
A steady decline in hay prices is noted with the average three dollars below last year’s quotations yet higher than two years ago. Farmers in the eastern states sell Timothy and mixed hay while buying alfalfa for dairy stock, a factor in the softer market alongside overall business conditions.
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East
Hive Supports Lift Hives Off Ground
The article advises providing supports to elevate hives at least a foot or more above ground to deter ants and insect-eating animals that may trouble ground-level hives.
One Woman's Endurance in Southern Town
Mrs A. Payne of Columbus Mississippi endured years of severe kidney pains and weakness. She credits Dean's Kidney Pills with rapid relief and improved health after doctors offered little help. Available from Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY 50 cents a box.
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Payne
Third Ave
Columbus
Miss
Dean
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo, N. Y
Meesa Wilson Confesses Breakage Comedy
A Japanese servant vows to tell Mrs. Wilson whenever he breaks a dish. While guests are in the parlor he bursts in with a childlike grin declaring I break my pants and I tell you when I break something.
It Depended
A bystander asks if the husband is ill. the wife says it depends on the doctor versus her husband. The doctor predicts a short illness while the husband’s claim suggests imminent danger, creating a contrast in medical versus personal views.
INVALID SAD PLIGHT AND CUTTONIC CURE STORY
A past inflammatory rheumatism case describes severe skin peeling high fever and hair loss with bed sores. The petitioner credits Cuticura remedies for complexion hair and sores, dated March 6 and 12 1907 from Stamford Connecticut.
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Lavina J. Henderson
Broad St
Stamford, Conn
Steichen’s Breakthrough Brings Individual Prints to Fore
The article recalls Steichen’s rise from a small Fifth Avenue studio to Gallery recognition via Oil paintings and successful print exhibitions. It notes high prices for his prints from fifty to one hundred fifty dollars and a shift in taste toward individual photographic works valued for technical merit and esthetic uniqueness.
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Steichen
291 Fifth Avenue
Photo-Secession
Glaenzer
Fifth Avenue
Two Topers A Teacher's Experience
A Minnesota schoolteacher nicknamed the Postum Preacher relays her conversion from coffee to Postum. She describes nervous tremors, initial reluctance, family coffee habits, and a successful switch that improved nerves, appetite, and sleep, crediting Postum with lasting health.
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Samaritan
H. J. Webber
Dr. Fears
All Will
Actors’ Club
Postum Co
Battle Creek
Mich
Wellville
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