Leper Home in Jerusalem details care and hopes
Bishop Ward visits the Jesus Help Leper Home in Jerusalem, run by Moravian sisters from Niesky. Founded forty-eight years ago and funded by Americans, British, and Germans, it now treats Arab lepers under Dr Canaan. Ward notes grateful patients, improving remedies, and urges letters to nurses, donations of bandages, clothing, and bedding, with appeals for ongoing support despite harsh war conditions.
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Tibet
A. Ward
International Moravian Mission Board
Herrnhut
Saxony
Lower Hospital
Jesus Selp
Jerusalem
United States
Great Britain
Germany
Niesky
Lusatia
Prussia
Plain of Rephaim
David
Kinsl
Canaan
Gou
Hussein
Monsieur Delora
Jesus
Christ
Europe
America
Bishop Ward
West Church Street
Bethlehet
Pales- Terusalem
Millersville Teacher Sets Example for Longevity in Service
A Millersville educator, described as Kate Bundell, is noted for a public teaching career extending toward age seventy. The text also reflects on perseverance and self-reliance with adages about moving forward and listening to reason in one’s own way.
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Mies
Kate Bundell
Millersville
Tannister
Rears
Apples For Use The Year Round In Pennsylvania
Weathered catalog of apple varieties and seasonal availability in Pennsylvania. Lists start times for Transparent and early apples in June July, then Williams Early Red, Maiden Blush, Gravenstein, Wealthy, Detroit Red, Grimes Golden, Jonathan, McIntosh Red, Winter Banana, Delicious, Fall and Holland Pippin, York Pippin, Twenty Ounce, Rhode Island Greening, Stayman Winesap, Baldwin, York Imperial, Northern Spy, Old Fashioned Winesap, Rome Beauty, with availability windows from June through July and through the year ending in July again.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pennsylvania
Detroit
Jonathan
Rhode Island
York
Skunk Breeding Urged By Agriculture Department
The Agriculture Department promotes skunk breeding to stabilize the fur market and calls the animal the farmer’s best wild friend. It says skunks can destroy mice grasshoppers crickets and white grubs while yielding 350 to 100 dollars a year. Farmers should respect dens keep poultry safe in skunkproof yards and cull an old horse each fall and be tactful when meeting them at dusk.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Department of Agriculture
Alaska Pleasant Dwelling Place Revealed by Century Writer
Andrew J. Stone in the Century describes a stroll through a woodland path in Alaska, noting knee-deep lupin beds, blooming flora, tall ferns, and forests that resemble a tropic jungle. He explains that fur companies spread a cold climate myth to limit outside competition, with real climate and agriculture only becoming known after the gold rush.
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Alaska
Andrew J. Stone
Gude's Pepto Mangan Promises Health Through Rich Blood
An old advertisement urges readers to maintain red blood by using Pepto Mangan. It contrasts strong, healthy workers with those who are ill from anemia and touts the product as boosting blood with essential ingredients. Both liquid and tablet forms are offered, labeled as genuine Gude's Pepto Mangan.
We Thank Thee Lord For All Thy Ministries
A devotional verse praising divine providence across creation from dawn mist to storm. The poem thanks the Lord for morning dew, summer rain, winter snow, wind, clouds, rainbows, sunshine, seas, moonlit splendor, cliffs, waves, gales, and calm, expressing gratitude for Might and Love.
Thanksgiving Hymn Once Prominent Now Forgotten
A look at the first presidential Thanksgiving proclamations starting with Washington in 1788 and the 1863 Lincoln proclamation that began the annual national festival. The 1863 hymn by Rev Dr Muhlenberg, once sung widely, faded over time but remains a notable historical artifact tied to Lincoln’s call for gratitude and unity.
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Washington
Gettysburg
Vicksburg
Lincoln
Doctor Muhlenburg
St. Luke's Hospital
New York City
Humiliating Eflusion Remarks by Doctors on Hymn
Doctor Bushnell cites Doctor Muhlenburg's hymn and air as having merit but failing to win public reception. He notes the piece was too long and included three or more parts, with the accident of being fairly born lacking.
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Dovtour Mualienburg
Gineeln
Robert B. Mittra
Muhlenburg
Lincoln
Horace Bushnell
America
Doctor Bushnell
Doctor Muhlenburg
Forgotten hymn revived at Illinois fiftyth convocation
The Alumni Quarterly notes a revived hymn dedicated to Lincoln from 1863 sung during the University of Illinois fiftieth convocation on November 20, 1913. Professor Dodge discovered the piece in a New York Tribe issue, adding a novel touch to the exercises.
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University of Ilinois
Alumni Quarterly
Lincoln
Muhlenburg
Dodge
The
New York Tribe
All Should Toil and the Promise of Merit
A columnist argues for universal productive toil as social progress, criticizing laziness and aristocratic loafers who rely on subsidies. The piece contends individuals must earn their place, with society rewarding only those who prove necessity through work. It ends by urging readers to subscribe to the RECORD at $1.50 per year.
Plants Affected by Gas Increases Crop Growth
A report notes that increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide boosts plant growth. Gas produced during iron ore processing was piped to seven acres, and crops from the treated plots rose by 82 percent or more compared with untreated plots.
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Lititz
Nollig
John Oxenham
Jayful
Lincolm
Raezers’ Pulmon-Ic
Geo. B. Raezer
Penna
Cascara
la Grippe
Hill
Lancaster
Ralph M. Spacht
Oliver H. Bair
Phila
W. H. Baek
Lititz PA
Lititz Electric Supply
C. E. Mohler
East Main St
Lititz, Pa
Hunt
Curtis Hensel
Cedar & Main Sts
Lititz, Penns
Geo. B. McCauley
Manheim
Groff & Wolf CO
North Queen Lancaster
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