May Music Festival promises premier operas and master recital
The May Music Festival program announces May dates with the first evening featuring Earl King's grade soloists and the B U chorus. Afternoon recitals on the 22nd and 23rd highlight master performers. May 22 offers Cavalleria Rusticana under Prof. Grosel, May 23 Faust by Gounod with Kan sas City Symphony Orchestra members providing the score. The festival aims to surpass prior Baker College events in scale and prestige.
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Stone
MaCaghi
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Groseh
Faust
Gounod
Kanas City
Middle West
Will Orda in Class On This Sunday
Fragmentary notes show a church meeting with names of elders and deacons listed, a bishop presenting a draft for the charter fund, and a conference on the Epworth League. Afternoon events included a Grand Army of the Republic reunion and Epworth League anniversary with talks by Reverend Eugene Kramer and Lv. Wo. Partis.
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Fyworth Les
Dr. Burtis
Leine Agi
Euurel
Becaue
Vr. Barris
Deviiareh
Unseakel check from War Department arrives in Lawrence
A War Department check sealed without proper envelope sealing arrived safely in Lawrence yesterday. The office clerk neglected the proper formality, but Uncle Sam’s study department ensured delivery to its destination despite the lapse. The report contrasts this with lengthy trials abroad.
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War Department
Washington
Lawrence
Sam
The Voters Manual In Politics Subscriptions
Time Wasted. A character teases Hepperty about life insurance as he reveals he has just taken the agency for a subscription book called The Voters Manual. The work promises party platforms biographies of readers and statistics on Internal Revenue and tariff debates in a period tone.
Pile remedy ads claim cures via customer testimonials
Unguarded letters tout Primaid Pile Remedy with many claims of curing piles. Readers are urged to mail name and address for a free trial package, priced at fifty cents if ordered, and to obtain it from a druggist in a shoebox Pyramid Pile Remedy.
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Shea
God
Pyramid Pile Remedy Offer Coupon Notice
A vintage prompt invites readers to mail their full name and address on a slip of paper to Pyramid Drug Co at 422 Pyramid Bldg Marshall Michigan. A sample of the Pyramid Pile Remedy is promised by mail at once, free and in a plain wrapper.
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Pyramid Drug CO
Pyramid
Backbone and posture in character study
The passage explores how posture reveals character from upright, confident back to stooped, clumsy looks. It links straight backs with strength and boldness, while rounded spines and high shoulders signal laziness, slyness, or craven traits.
Ideal of Duty and Joy From John Burkin
A brief quotation credits John Burkin with an ideal to elevate body and soul through duty and happiness. It emphasizes helping and honoring others, avoiding rivalry, and seeking personal peace and joy. The line frames a personal creed focused on altruism, service, and inner harmony.
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John Burkin
Predecessors of Capt Lux Tell of Prussian Prison Escapes
A fragmentary wartime note recalls dozen escapes by Capt Lux and other French officers from German jails during the Franco German War. It highlights General Lavasier then colonel, who escaped Grandeng by disguise, crossed into Poland, and returned via Austria and Italy. General Zurlinden fled Glogar on Christmas Eve, passing Berlin and Karlsruhe to Basel. M Deroulede, disguised as a Polish Jew, barely escaped betrayal while fleeing Breslau.
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Glogar
Silesia
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Frankfort
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Basel
M. Faul Derouiede
Breslau
Bohemia
M. Deroulede
Pape's Diapepsin Promises Five Minute Indigestion Cure
An old advertisement-style fragment touts Pape's Diapepsin to end indigestion in five minutes. It claims quick relief from dyspepsia belching and stomach upset, with mentions of Stomach trouble, indigestion, and a store pitch for related products and remedies.
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Pape
Hewitt Eal
Sant
Enterprising landlady profits from room rentals
An astute woman who owns several apartments sublets furnished rooms at high rates. She tells applicants the price is a confidential concession and if anyone reveals it she will revert to the original rate. Within two weeks rents rose as tenants exchanged gossip about discounts.
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Reais
Lesson of Grief and the Home Bird's Fire
The Pasadena News recounts a dramatic dawn fire at a bird’s tower where flames lick the roof as a pigeon, dislodged from the tower, aims for its nest. Despite the danger, the bird twice returns to the blaze before it vanishes into the furnace, illustrating instinct amid catastrophe.
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Bird
Pasadena
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