Joseph's Bones and the Covenant of Carrying His Body
A biblical tale from Genesis and Hebrews is retold as highway and byway rhetoric. Joseph dies in Egypt at age 110 and his sons Ephraim and Manasseh vow to take his bones to Goshen. Potipherah presses a tomb plan. the brothers secretly move the coffin to a hidden Goshen site while Egypt mourns. The priest departs, the plan survives, and the bones become a symbol of divine promise to visit and deliver Israel.
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Joseph
Israel
Abraham
Isaac
Jacob
Henge
Egypt
Gypt
Pharaoh
Asenath
Potipherah
Manasseh
Ephraim
Goshen
Osiris
Ther
Temple
Temple Courts
Model little home on 25 foot lot by Dennis & Gastmeyer
Plans and designs by Dennis & Gastmeyer for a compact 25 foot lot home with full cellar brick walls and coal bins heating by hot air furnace. Exterior features include pine siding, terra cotta gables, cedar roof shingles and white lead paint. Interior highlights oak staircase, cabinets in dining room and parlor, gas piping, and complete kitchen bath fixtures. Price as low as 1700 dollars depending on materials, with 20 foot lot option without side piazza.
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Dennis & Gastmeyer
Broadway
New York
North Carolina
Forced Footprints Guide Thief Footwear in France
A description notes burglars in France using false soles to mislead footprints. The diagram shows a detachable leather sole to enlarge foot size, another to create a large footprint from a small boot, and a boot viewed from below reveals the distinct false sole. Possession of such footwear is strong evidence of guilt.
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France
Sage Advice on Matrimony From a Kansas Paper
A Kansas paper counsels young men on proposals noting attire and timing. It jokes about returning a dropped glove and inspecting morning behavior. It warns against dark proposals if the woman is dressed slovenly but praises prompt action if she wears a neat dress with a rose in her hair.
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Sage
Kansas
Law on Mothers-in-Law Sparks Judge’s Domestic Rule
Norristown Pennsylvania judge states in a recent case that the husband is master of his house and the wife may not invite her mother or others without the husband’s consent. The wife may visit her mother but must not neglect duties to husband and home.
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Norristown
California Fig Syrup Co
Possible abundance of radium in earth suggested by ionization study
A Philo sophical Magazine article by A B Eve argues that air ionization data imply an atmospheric activity equivalent to 0.5 gram of radium per cubic kilometer. Extrapolating world averages, 600 tons of radium bromide would lie in a Earth layer only meters thick, hinting radium’s broader role in planetary heat and biology.
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A. 8
Eve
Earth
Electrical Review
Underground Wires Cut Transmission Power Significantly
The telephone and telegraph companies object to burying wires noting underground circuits lose power. Fifteen miles of underground wiring in New York reduce current as much as eight hundred miles of overhead transmission.
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Telephone and Telegraph Companies
New York
Switzerland Plans Electric Railways Tied to Water Power
Swiss government aims to electrify all government railways and operate lines from water power plants. Mountain streams will serve as energy sources. Two experts have been sent to the United States to study electric railway methods.
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Switzerland
United States
United States Tops World Silver Output From Comstock Lode
The United States leads global silver production with the Comstock lode ore reported as containing 60 to 80 percent pure silver. The historic lode marks a high yield source in American mining history.
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United States
Comstock Lode
Dickens Editors Rule On MA and AM Forms Across Languages
A miscellaneous literary note lists editors rule on MA versus AM in Latin and English titles. It cites Gabrielle d Annunzio as Rapagnetta and mentions Dre De Gallese, then profiles Howells, Bangs, Octave Thanet, Miss Alice French, and Miss French’s transcontinental life shaping her writing style.
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Charles Dickens
Oxford
Cambridge
A. M
M. A
Gabrielle d’Annunzio
Rapagnetta
Dre de Gall
John Kendrick Bangs
Yonkers
New York
New England
Alice French
Octave Thanet
Octave
Thanet
Miss French
New Zingland
West
South
Grape-Nuts Promoted by a Brain Worker Author
A literary man credits Grape-Nuts with clarity of mind and sustained thinking. He describes heavy meals dulling the mind, notes how Grape-Nuts digested easily, and claims the cereal boosted both output and quality of work for brain and nervous system.
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Postum Co
Battle Creek
Mich
Wellville
Boy Laughs At Tooth Extraction Prank
A small boy asks for his extracted tooth and plans to take it home to stuff with sugar and watch it ache. The dentist offers the tooth and questions the harmless prank, in a light York World anecdote.
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N. Y. World
Bald Heads Covered with Cuticura Hair Cure
Assisted by dressings of Cuticura the great skin cure this treatment stops falling hair removes crusts scales and dandruff destroys hair parasites soothes irritated itching surfaces stimulates the hair follicles supplies the roots with energy and nourishment and cures scalp conditions for all ages with Cuticura Soap Ointment and Pills priced 1.00 a set often sufficient to cure
Doctors Debate Wealth and Practice in New York
In a quoted exchange from the New York Magazine, two doctors discuss access to care and wealth. The first questions whether a practice serves the wealthy, while the second notes self-reliance and affluence, saying a man who can eat with his own knife rarely needs another.
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N. Y
Nickel Plate Road Offers Through Trains to Eastern Points
Three daily through trains connect to Cleveland Buffalo New York and Boston with Mealy dining service on the Individual Club Plan priced from 26 cents to 1.00. Luxurious sleeping cars on all trains with no excess fare and full information on rates connections and reservations available from J Y Calahan Chicago. The Com moner quote notes the boastful fighter trope.
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Nickel Plate Road
Eastern
New England
Cleveland
Buffalo
New York
Boston
J. Y. Calahan
Adama al
Chicago
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Cartersittle
Colville
Homebeek
Spokane
Wash
Athenie
Fitzgerald & CO
Box KH
Washington, D. G
Mull
Jobber
Mull’s Grape Tonic Co., Makers
Third Ave
Rock Island
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