Order of the Smiling Face Rules for Cheerful Members
A verse from Catholic Messenger promotes the Order of the Smiling Face urging members to keep a cheerful mouth and bright eyes. It urges not to pout and to wear a smile, claiming the practice makes one an active member immediately. A second excerpt, from Nature and Science, describes how different trees shed leaves in November with ash, beech, hornbeam first, while poplars and willows drop later.
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Catholic Messenger
Nicholas
Jack
Bob
The Carnahuba Palm and Its Wide Uses
A survey of the Carnahuba palm describes its Brazil origin and diverse products. The text notes fiberous stems, medicinal sap, edible pulp, seeds for coffee substitutes, building materials, and various by products including salt and soap alkali. It contrasts with meat packing claims and includes a children's anecdote about fair play and a cane incident in a school setting.
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Brazil
Chicago
Baby Bashfulness Teaches Bobby a Fourth of July Lesson
A shy boy named Bobby struggles to buy fireworks for his birthday. A misheard request leads to soda crackers thrown into a stream, sparking a lesson from a kindly minister and a willing shopkeeper about perseverance and courage. The tale ends with Bobby choosing the right crackers after guidance.
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Baby
Bobby
Father
Mother
New York News
Loreto Holy House Legend and Translation to Loreto Shrine
The Fortnightly Review recounts the Loreto legend of the Holy House from Nazareth to Dalmatia and finally to Recanati, then Loreto. It details the miraculous appearances, investigations, and relocations ending in the basilica and its enduring pilgrimages.
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Nazareth
Tripoli
Ptolemais
Dalmatia
Fiume
Tersatz
Adriatic
Peter
Luke the Evangelist
Palestine
Celestine V
Recanati
March
Ancona
Loreto
Football in Henry VIII England Sparks Legal Debate
A historical note recalls football being treated as a crime in England under Henry VIII, reflecting royal and legal attitudes toward mass games in Tudor times. The brief outlines how public sport clashes with order, authority, and social norms of the era.
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England
First Money He Earned by Sam Clemens
Marshall P Wilder recounts Mark Twain recalling his first earnings at school. A rule punished mailing desk marks with a public whipping or a $5 fine. Twain’s father paid the fine, yet Twain chose the whipping, keeping the $5 as his first money earned.
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Marshall P. Wilder
Mark Twain
Sam
Clemens
Unsuccessful Success Prize Move for Kansas Woman
Mrs A J Stanley of Lincoln Kansas won 250 from a Boston firm for the best answer to What constitutes success She wrote a definition praising a life well lived laughed often loved much respected intelligent men loved children and leaving the world better through art or acts and inspiring memory as a benediction.
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Kansas
A. J. Stanley
Lincoln
Boston
Earth
Kansas City Independent
New Island Reported in Bering Sea By Fishermen
The London Globe reports a new island rising in the Bering Sea likely from a volcanic eruption. The warm surrounding water and heat deterred approach as rocks and earth form rugged headlands near Boroslaw, which had a similar origin a century ago.
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Bering Sea
London Globe
Boroslaw
Attractive blouse waist for many outfits
New York City notes a stylish blouse waist with versatile uses. It can be paired with a matching skirt or worn as a standalone waist, suitable for broad fashion styling.
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New York City
Very Light Colors For Wraps And Evening Wear
The article describes pale hues such as white biscuit pale gray grayish light blue soft strawberry and green matching wraps for carriage and evening wear. It notes these shades as modish and flattering for outfits and accessories.
Novel Young Girl Pony Coat Adapts To Skirts And Wraps
The feature describes the season’s pony coat for Misses, a short jaunty jacket in a range of silks and crepe de Chine, with options in Russian green broad cloth and Jacqueminot red. It highlights versatile construction with fronts and backs, braid trim, and a Tuxedo collar, suited to coordinating outfits and wraps.
Governor Terrell Urges Agricultural Education in Georgia
The Savannah News reports Governor Terrell’s annual message stressing stronger school support, especially for agriculture. He calls for funds to build agricultural college facilities at the State University and proposals for at least three regional agricultural colleges, noting agriculture as Georgia’s foundation and urging trained leaders for rural prosperity.
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Terrell
Georgia
Savannah News
State University
South
Richmond Times- Dispatch
Fashionable chemisette and waist ensemble details
The description outlines a chemisette with lace trim and a waist made over a fitted lining. It notes belt and trim options using taffeta, wool, or thin silk, with tuck shirring sleeves and shaped cuffs. Materials for a medium size include four yards twenty-one, three and one-fourth yards twenty-seven, or two and one half yards forty-four inch wide plus lace and banding requirements.
A Novel Scheme for Marking Cloth Is Patented
An ingenious method uses tissue paper patterns pasted on fabric placed in a sewing machine with no thread in the needle. The pattern is stitched along its design line, and when lifted it leaves a handsome outlined pattern. The fine needle marks the design in neat detail.
Fashion description of neck and sleeve cuffs
The neck and the comfortably full sleeves are finished with prettily shaped roll-over cuffs.
Garment Materials for a Sixteen Year Old Girl
The record lists fabric quantities for a girl of sixteen: four yards twenty seven inches, two and one quarter yards forty four inches, or two yards fifty two inches wide, with twelve yards of braid and three and three fourths yards of silk for lining.
Pastel veils described in chiffon with chenille dot border
A fashion note praises automobile or other veils with a border of graduated chenille dots, noting their unusual beauty in fine chiffon. The item is offered in many charming pastel shades.
Size of Heads and Hat Sizes in Historical Observation
A historical text asserts average head circumference around twenty two inches and hat size around six. It notes Aberdeen sevens and college professors wearing sizes seven to eight, claims about head sizes below twenty inches indicating weakness, and mental deficiency judgments for heads under nineteen and eighteen inches respectively.
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Aberdeen
Death notice letters from Bombay amuse Curzon
Lady Curzon collected humorous Hindustani written English. A Bombay letter on an elderly firm head’s death claimed “the opium market is quiet” and priced chests at Ma. 1500 rupees, ending with a Bible verse and a farewell line.
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Curzon
Bombay
London Standard
Diving For A Wife In Greek Islands
In Greek islands diving for sponges is a major occupation. A girl may wed only after proving her diving skill by bringing up sponges from depth, or in some places the custom is reversed. The father weds his daughter to the diver who stays longest and harvests the largest cargo.
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Greek Islands
New York Herald
Rings on Her Finger Nails
A Philadelphia beauty Kate Furniss now Mrs. Thompson is the season’s sensation at fashionable watering places. She displays countless rings worn only on the upper finger joints, weighing digits with diamonds rubies sapphires and emeralds while the lower joints remain bare. The look is described as bizarre and unique.
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Philadelphia
Kate Furniss
Thompson
Louisville Courier-Journal
Railway Stations in Russia Allow Open Complaints
Reports describe Russian railway stations keeping books where passengers may write any complaint they wish to wake. The practice invites candid notes about service, delays, or staff behavior to be recorded on the station complaint books.
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Russia
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