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Newspaper
Mansfield Mirror
Location
Mansfield, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Feb 05, 1914
Page
5
A guidance passage teaches how to confront self righteous individuals about sin using Romans 3 and Isaiah 53. It directs asking readers to read aloud and discuss God s standards versus personal judgment, highlighting that all have sinned and need Jesus death for atonement.
An historic Boonville court episode recounts Abraham Lincoln as a tall curious youth drawn to law. He read Brackenridge library books by firelight and witnessed a Kentucky attorney’s fiery plea, later meeting him at Lincoln’s second inauguration and receiving a quiet apology for the earlier slight.
A reflection on Abraham Lincoln s humility and propriety noting he avoided the title president except in official use and spoke of his office vaguely as the president s room was a focal point He maintained native dignity despite humility impressing foreign observers A Philadelphia record notes over seven million gross of pencils produced annually in the city.
A meditation on Nancy Hanks as the formative mother of Abraham Lincoln. The author credits her with shaping his character, discipline, and moral conscience, comparing her influence to famed maternal legacies in history. The narrative also references Gutzon Borglum and a note about American education and a Trinidad mangrove tree with its peculiar root system.
Professor Gray of the Royal Society exhibited gyroscopic toys at the Royal Institution. A doll figure hangs by wires and moves hand over hand as the gyroscope spins. Three acrobats on trapezes balance with gyroscopes in each doll while a doll on a tight rope rider uses gyroscopes to maintain balance. A model suggests placing gyroscopes in cars to prevent overturns on curves, though practical feasibility remains theoretical.
Kansas City juvenile judge lauds the Boy Scouts for curbing gang activity and shaping youth into self reliant, nature loving, help giving men. The Denver Weekly Post calls the organization splendid and worth a civic cradle.
Instructions describe making a tile chair for a dollhouse parlor set. Cut unbroken lines with sharp scissors after transferring pattern to cardboard. Fold along dotted lines, turn cross marked sections, paste, then upholster with cloth or paint woodwork for a simple white enamel finish.
An old Celtic myth says mistletoe was once a forest tree but was cut for the cross and cursed to exist as a parasite. Druids revered it for healing powers and magical qualities, while ancient English customs still show its kissing tradition under the mistletoe.
A quarreling figure asks if pedestrians have rights equal to those of a car. A policeman retorts that pedestrians deserve rights but questions the consequences if he walked the street making hornlike noise similar to automobiles.
A revived term Memnon's Harp refers to the Theban Memnon statue in Egypt said by ancients to emit musical tones at sunrise, likened to a harp. The phrasing reflects historic belief in the statue's waking music and a poetic connection to dawn.
Conducted by the National Woman's Christian Temperance Union notes Dr David Starr Jordan describing how daily brandy and soda dulls the senses. The tale follows a man who notices the world differently after drinking and deteriorates physically and socially, ending in poverty.
Travel writer details A Henry Landor’s Antarctic and Himalayan journeys plus a 15750 mile Brazilian traverse through impassable terrain. He recounts shipboard dangers, 60 days of rapid river rapids, 16 days of starvation, and credits temperate habits for health. He asserts abstinence from alcohol and tobacco as key to endurance.
A British Medical Association gathering in Brighton featured about forty anti alcohol talks on the evils of alcohol on the human body. Doctors preached crusade style, using lantern projected charts to bring lecture room practice into churches schools and chapels for a broad educational indictment of alcohol.
Jack London argues that alcohol is a dangerous societal trap and compares it to an uncovered well in a yard full of children. He insists the only rational response for modern society is to cover the well, since mere preaching cannot deter youths from reaching alcohol.
A fragmentary quotation argues that no matter how good a drinking man is he would be better if he let liquor alone and notes a comparable view about an inferior total abstainer. The source text includes the author initials J F Cuneen.
Father Ward of Detroit denounces saloons, arguing that voting for alcohol access sanctions crime in all its forms. He appeals to voters to align with public welfare and prevent crime by opposing saloon interests.
A perceptive reflection on alcohol. The speaker warns it lures with brief exhilaration but steals self-respect and causes ruin for individuals and society. Quotation by Prof. BE Kraepelin contrasts with a yearning for affectionate recognition and a broader realm of essence beyond illusion.
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