Woman's Relief Corps meets with forty members present
The Women’s Relief Corps met May 2 at the G A R hall with forty members and one visitor. Five new members were voted in to be initiated May 16. Memorial services are planned May 26 at the Baptist church and Mothers Day activities May 12 at the Presbyterian church. By May 30 twenty one new members have joined since January 1.
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G. A. R. Hall
Comrads
Shiloh Post
Baptist Church
Relief Corps
Welcome Supper for Rev Harrington Back at Parsonage
A welcome supper was held Monday at the Free Methodist Parsonage for Rev and Mrs Harrington returning by the conference. Guests included most members who enjoyed a good time. Hosts were Nettie Benton and Alice Sutton assisted by Mrs Lillian Welter and Mrs Mary Benton.
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Free Methodist
Gas bill pun reference to light brigade
A light humorous exchange between spouses about a gas bill joke. The husband asks about charges, invoking a famous cavalry reference. The wife confirms receipt, creating a domestic comic moment.
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Light Brigade
Glass Bottles and the Labor of Making Them
A Harper's Weekly piece traces the history of glass bottles from ancient Egypt to modern times. It details the craft from blowing and shaping to finishing, trimming, and molding, noting the care involved in producing even the cheapest bottles and the skilled labor behind their manufacture.
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Harper’s Weekly
Enemies of Success and Self Belief
The text counsels identifying friends and foes of success early in life. It claims internal enemies like morbid thoughts hinder achievement more than external foes and urges overcoming inner obstacles to reach goals.
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Ronda Govind Haibaag
How Authors Slept Across the Ages
The London Chronicle notes Tolstoy and Bjorn son favored early rising while Byron kept night as his domain and Musset admits sleeping till afternoon after fouling the night. Rossini is described as the laziest genius who worked in bed and re did music rather than leave his sheets.
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Bjornson
Tolstoy
The
Byron
Alfred de Musset
Aimee d’Alton
Rossini
London Chronicle
The Turkish Bride Faces Her Groom in Fife Mockup
The Turkish bride spends a week in dancing and revelry in Fife. On leaving her father’s house she kisses his hands and feet, then arrives at the groom’s home and kisses his hand. The makeup on her face is washed away and she drinks coffee with her husband as they begin a happy life together.
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Oner
Chicago Tribune
Tooth decay warning Riggs disease dangers to health
An early warning about Riggs' disease or Pyorrhea alveolaris. It causes pus from tooth sockets, gum recession, and tooth loss and can affect the lungs heart and other organs. Without timely dental care, chronic infection resists treatment. hydrogen peroxide and antiseptics are insufficient and teeth may need extraction. Seek a dentist early per Youth's Companion.
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Maemo
Real Beginning of a Millionaire’s Life
A friend teases a captain of industry about being a newsboy. The reply reframes origin as starting life as an infant, highlighting humble beginnings and self-awareness.
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E.C. Baird
Woman’s Relief Corps
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Yamhill Electric Co
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