Canton Pastor Advocates Simplicity Over Worldly Pride
The Rev. William H. Williams of Wesleyan Methodist Church in Canton denounces fashion and luxury as biblically sinful. He wears plain black attire with no necktie and carries a silver watch, urging followers to abandon ornamental home goods and flowers, while condemning wealthy displays as "worldly pride" and fashion plates. Williams, mid-aged with a black beard, has led a small amid opposition flock from Youngstown to Canton East South Street church for over a year.
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Canton
Canton Repository
William H. Williams
Wesleyan Methodist Church
Haat South Street
Williams
Mr. Williams
Youngstown
Cantor
East South Street
Public Sale Of Mrs Horst Household Goods In Massillon
The estate of Mrs. C. M. Horst will sell household items at 25 Wooster Street Massillon C on Saturday June 30 starting at 1 30 pm. Included are sewing machine organ sideboard carpets bedding and all kinds of household furnishings. Terms cash. MRS B F BLILER.
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C. M. Horst
Wooster Street
Massillon
B. F. Bliler
London tailor will design US army active uniforms
A Washington dispatch reports London tailor G. W. Winter will travel to the United States at a salary of 1250 dollars per week to advise on new active service uniforms. Winter hopes to create smart designs for both services, aiming to avoid German-style spoofing and align with American preferences. Winter is accompanied by his son as a model.
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Belog
Logden
War Department
G. W. Wineter
London
Washington
New York
Piccadilly
Slim
Tommy
North Carling
Making Over a Mountain in Helena Park Project
Helena residents transform Mount Helena into a forest park despite no water sources. A spiral path climbs to a pavilion atop the 1400 foot summit while caves will house native carnivora and the park will eventually enclose deer, antelope, moose, elk and buffalo as the area expands.
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Helena
United States
Mont
John H. Rattery
Technical World Magazine
Federal Bureau
Mount Helena
New Confidence Scheme Dupes Lancaster Farmers
A well dressed man and Henry Willie run a pawnshop confidence operation in Lancaster County Pennsylvania. A farmer searches for a lost diamond pin with a promised 150 reward but ends up paying 20 to 25 as the deceived party discovers the pin is worthless.
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Henry Willie
Lancaster County
Lancaster
Philadelphia Public Ledger
Food of the Future and a New Typewriter for the Blind
The Chicago Tribune foresees a shift to plant based diets as population grows, noting fruit trees and nuts could feed many more per acre than meat or grains. It predicts widespread fruit tree cultivation reviving deserts into fertile food sources. Also mentions a patented typewriter for the blind in France.
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Chicago Tribune
Predictions Of The Future In Eighteen Hundred Years Hence
An article cites T Baron Russell on future comforts including oxygen water baths drying cupboards and automatic dishwashers. It envisions rapid trains moving platforms electric cleanliness, accident avoidance through small firing machines, and actors repeated by kinetoscope and phonograph.
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T. Baron Russell
Joys Wealth Would Bring A Laugh From Two Irish Gardeners
Joys Wealth Would Bring A Laugh From Two Irish Gardeners employeed to tend a country place at Great Neck New York. Raymond Hitchcock recounts a Brooklyn visit where Pat and Denny imagine spending a imagined 1 000 000 noting automobiles a hotel room and a late wake up in delight.
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Raymond Hitchcock
Great Neck
N. Y
Brooklyn
Pat
Marnin
Narnin
Denny
Red Tape Lesson From Navy Thermometer Move
President’s committee probes Washington departments to cut red tape. Secretary Bonaparte recalls a naval officer seeking permission to move a thermometer, a bureaucratic process requiring ship’s commander approval, costing 53 cents for postage and stationery and 8 for nail wear.
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Washington
Bonaparte
Harper’s Weekly
Thirteen of La Sauvetat prove superstition wrong
In France two companionable groups of thirteen, all born in La Sauvetat in 1845, served in 1870, were captured at Sedan, endured months of captivity, and returned to villagers who celebrate their fortieth anniversary as a model of frugal rustic life.
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France
la Sauvetat
Sedan
London Globe
The Humor of a Bloodless French Duel
A funny staged duel ends without blood between M Millevoye the editor and Comte de Noailles. Millevoye flees to print a special edition while Noailles hacks a fence with a knife and claims Millevoye fired a bullet, keeping it as evidence. The scene ends with bad form noted.
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M. Millevoye
Comte de Noailles
Comte Mathieu de Noailles
Moon and the Apes in The Monthly Review
Paul Uhtenhuth outlines blood relationships of humans and apes in The Monthly Review. Using the precipitin test he explains how albuminous substances and animal blood can be distinguished, with medicolegal and biological relevance. He notes anthropoid apes are closest to humans, while lemurs are distant or unrelated.
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Moon
Monthly Review
Paul Uhtenhuth
Janitor Term to Be Replaced Says Brooklyn Sign
A Brooklyn flat owner posts a sign reading Apartment for rent Apply to custodian signaling a shift away from the word janitor and related associations. The New York Press notes the change may set a standard across housing as new terminology gains traction.
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Brooklyn
Park Slope
New York Press
Plan to banish anarchists to international island proposed
Milwaukee physician Dr. Walker Kempster urges an urgent worldwide move to root out anarchists. He proposes an international commission led by the United States with other nations to establish a banished island guarded by an international force, and he cites past Loyal Legion support and recent Madrid bombings as justification.
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Madrid
Walker Kempster
Milwaukee
United States
St. Louis
Post-Dispatch
Kempster
England
France
Germany
International Commission
Wisconsin
The
Loyal Legion
McKinley
Congress
Spooner
Dr. Kempster
Spain
Roosevelt
Emma Goldman
New Jersey
Paderewski and Bell Boy Tale From Boston
Rosamund Johnson once worked as a bell boy at Youngs hotel in Boston. He risked playing Paderewski's Minuet for the pianist, who later had the bell boy reinstated after the manager was fired. The column also recalls congressional backtalk in a dry dock debate and a trotting official’s warning about faker horses.
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Paderewski
Rosamund Johnson
Cole and
Johnson
Success Magazine
Clubs for trolley men provide leisure and aid
A Flatbush line conductor describes a Brooklyn Rapid Transit club system begun in 1902. The network includes a Jamaica avenue complex and eight other stations with two more in progress. Facilities include reading rooms, gym, theater, vaudeville, stereopticons, and a self-supporting operation. Benefits cover daily sickness allowances and $150 to families after a death.
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Flatbush
Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company
New York Post
Times
Jamaica Avenue
New York
Dillards
Bold Thirteen Club to Open Coffin Like Brook lyn Clubhouse
The Thirteen club plans a coffin shaped clubhouse on the site of the old Zion Methodist Episcopal Church in Brooklyn. The design features thirteen coffin shaped windows and doors, a hoodoo 13 sign, and inscriptions including Diorituri te Salutarius and Superstition Ignorance Prejudice Bigotry.
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Thirteen Club
New York ‘Telegram
Itgs
Old Zion Methodist Episcopal Church
Brooklyn
New Negro Sect Forms in Middletown Minnesota Church of God and Saints of Christ
The New York Tribune reports a new religious sect named The Church of God and the Saints of Christ has formed among negroes in Middletown Minnesota. Founder Hitler John A. Allen of Philadelphia directs the church with William Serowdy of Washington claiming to be Gods prophet and supreme ruler. Each member must give ten percent of income to the prophet. Admission rites include washing of feet and the holy kiss.
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Church of God and the Saints of Christ
Middletown
New York Tribune
Hitler John A. Allen
Philadelphia
William Serowdy
Washington
Departure of General Grosvenor in White Attire
The House of Representatives recently saw General Charles A Grosvenor in an odd ensemble a white duck suit white hair and white whiskers drawing applause. A World Washington correspondent notes the striking departure from his usual black statesman attire. Uncle Joe Cannon quips Ancient Mariner while Serena E Payne samples a wry remark about a white wings comparison.
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Charlies A. Grosvenor
House of Representatives
New York World
Washington
Joe Cannon
Serena E. Payne
Health Seekers in Town Siren of Grim Health Rush
Rural fairs and dance halls prep as travelers seek health in distant towns from Peepak bay to Shakaway. Natives watch for traps while farmers bake and wax pavilions for orderly crowds. The piece notes money spent, a harsh autumn return, as Wallace Irwin reports in the New York Globe.
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Peepak Bay
Cooger's Cove
Shakaway
Gay
Wallace Irwin
New York Globe
Man of Experience a Curious Burglar Trial Tale
Charles Black seeks extreme sensations by burgling a city residence and triggering pursuit. He evades detectives, orchestrates his arrest for study, then hires a lawyer to defend him. The trial exposes class bias in prison and final cash-based power over escape and freedom.
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C. J. Hirt
Charles Black
Babel
Black
Algo
Williams
Wildbis
Pacific Coast
M. Quad
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