Church Services and Schedules in Local Congregations
Presbyterians hold services on the second and fourth Lord's days at 11 a.m. and 7 p.m. Friends Church offers 11 a.m. and 7 p.m. Sunday meetings with Thursday sessions and a monthly meeting the first year revived. Evangelical Church runs services first and third Sundays at 10 a.m. and second and fourth Sundays at 7 p.m. Sabbath school Sundays at 11 a.m.
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Friends Church
Rebbath School
Evangelical Chirch
Community notices and church group meetings
Devotional services every Sunday evening. Young men urged to attend. YWCA sessions Saturdays in rooms over Moore's Drug Store. YWCA TU holds a monthly second Saturday business meeting. GAH sessions first and third Thursdays monthly. WWCU holds a third Saturday afternoon business meeting each month.
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C. F
Moore
Y. Wou. T. U
G. A. H.sessions
Hell
How Does the Dog Know So Much Wade the Mastiff
A Pittsburg Dispatch item explains Wade the English mastiff displays curiosity and routine. Each Saturday he skips breakfast and accompanies his master to the railroad station to receive a special butchered meat portion, implying canine reasoning and foreknowledge of weekly events.
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Wade
Pittsburg
Bismarck Saves Friend with Morass Trick
A tale recalls Otto von Bismarck refusing to enter a sinking morass to rescue a friend. He suggests shooting to end misery but misses, prompting the friend to fight free by grabbing a tree root. The grateful survivor credits Bismarck’s presence of mind for the narrow escape.
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Bismarck
Eugene Field
Chicago News
Grandma's Idea of a 61000 Salary Tale
E W Winter, Omaha railway general manager, shares a humorous family anecdote about his grandmother in Vermont praising Erie as “doing right well” and noting a supposed salary of a thousand dollars a year, which she questions as possibly not earned honestly.
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E. W. Winter
Omaha Railway
Himelf
Vermont
Erie
New York
Pacific Coast News Roundup From West of the Rockies
Condensed notes report Idaho population at 34 220 followed by a 51 519 rise over ten years. Tristan Burges, past Grand Commander of California Knights Templar, is dead. San Jose property valued at 19 127 459, up 45 757. Wellington mine shaft in Nanaimo on fire. Steamer Wellington ran aground off Coronado. no damage. Santa Fe grand jury brings indictments against sixteen for murder in Marcel. New Mexico calls a constitutional convention October 7. Kelly works in Magdalena district burned by incendiary. Spokane Falls financier B R Freeman and San Jose doctors Secord and Potts named special medical examiners. Indio murder trial acquits Joseph Carreras on self-defense. San Francisco Marine Firemen learn from Nanaimo to avoid using Wellington coal. likely orders issued. Cocopah delegation protests mined encroachments in Lower California. Heirs of Matthew A Williams settle with Southern Pacific for 50 000. Admiral Brown of the Charleston dined by Seattle Chamber. praises Whitney and Tracy reforms.
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Tristan Burges
Knights Templar of
California
San Jose
Cal
Tunnel Under the St. Clair River Nears Completion
Eastern items report the tunnel project under the St Clair River nearing completion. A separate immigrant arrival in New York confesses to a murder, detailing the motive and sequence of events.
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St. Clair River
York
Port Huron
Sarnia
Ontario
Brooklyn Bridge
Foreign News Highlights From Across The World
Prince Bismarck curbs the German press while Denmark, Texas and Wall Street report shifts. Edison touted a noiseless motor. Naples deaths rise. China and Soochow moral reforms push theater limits. London synagogues and English education plans appear alongside copper and liquor duties, floods of speculation, and railway ventures.
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Edison
Portland Market Sparks Broad Range Of Commodities
The Portland market shows steady export demand and active trading with rising receipts and liberal offerings. Prices listed include Valley soybeans at 1.27 and Walla Walla at 1.20, flour at 3.00 to 5.00 per barrel, brans and meals around 17 to 32 per unit, and a wide array of fruits vegetables and dairy items with varied per unit prices and weekly receipts noted.
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Wurat
Valley
Walla Walla
Fiour
California
Oregon
Young America
Borren
Naite
Meat Market Prices Stand Firm In Regional Trade
The market shows firmness across beef mutton veal and hog products with live and dressed prices listed. Spring lambs offered at two dollars per head with various cuts quoted for breakfast bacon lard and sides.
Grandgan for Valle di Pompe Sanctuary in Crema
The Philadelphia Ledger describes a grandgan being built at Crema for the Sanctuary of Valle di Pompe. It is a polyphonic gan with three 61 note keyboards, 34 pedals, 2000 pipes in 40 registers, and a near perfect imitation of the orchestra especially strings and woodwinds.
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Crema
Valle di Pompe
Philadelphia Ledger
Dover man described as the heaviest subject of the crown
The Dover resident Thomas Congley is noted as the heaviest of the realm’s subjects. At 42 he is described as intelligent and respectable, with a birth year around 148 and an astonishing 440 pounds, a 80 inch waist, and very short legs, per the St. Louis Republic quotation.
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Thomas Congley
Dover
St. Louis Republic
Readings in Proof Editing and Profit
A fragment notes profit from correcting proofs with quotes about reading and a mention of receiving 25 for proofreading work. The text is a dated, casual conversational snippet referencing printing and editing tasks.
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Harper's
Prairie schooners and moving life in early Texas
In Texas the prairie schooner evolves from rugged wagon to a refined trade outfit. Immigrants move in small fleets with households, tents, and goods, using running water at camps and multiple wagon styles. The article notes movers seeking farmland and western settlement, with families traveling together and maintaining practical camp routines.
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Texas
Philadelphia Telegraph
Grindstone and Kiljordan Sleepless Wean Onion Remedy
The exchange cites Grindstone and Kiljordan debating using a raw onion to cure a sleepless infant. Kiljordan says he tried it and fell asleep only after enduring the lingering onion taste. Chicago Tribune.
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Kiljordan
Chicago Tribune
A Wise Man In An Argument
A Wise Man depicts Mr. A remarking that Mr. Charles is wise because in a dispute he lets the other speaker dominate while he stays quiet. The line underscores restraint as a sign of wisdom in debate. Woat Shore
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China
Soochow
Shanghai
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