Churches and services listed for area congregations
A list of church headlines, pastors, and service times across multiple congregations including First Congregational Oak Park, Unity Church, Third M E, and Second Congregational. Details cover worship hours, Sunday schools, Leagues, and upcoming events such as reunions, baptisms, and patriotic services.
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Rsp Congregational i
Pr. Barton
Louis Falk
Wil
Buffalo
Scoville Wace
Barton
First Congregational Church
Oak Park
Lake Street
Kenilworth and
Grove Avenues
William E. Barton
Humorous Fragments and Recipes from a 19th Century Page
A collage of jokes and light quizzes on gender, health, and school life mixed with a practical recipe section. The humor includes a language mix of mock grammar, misheard phrases, and playful exchanges, followed by instructions for a frozen fruit dessert and a spiced apple syrup recipe.
New Household Ideas and Preservation Tips
A collection of domestic hints covers icing preserved surfaces, morocco luster restoration with egg white varnish, reviving roses in ice water, preserving flowers with soda water, and saltpeter as a preservative. Also includes strawberry fritter recipe and brass ornament cleaning method using lemon and polish.
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Morocco
As True As Gospel on Honor and Conduct
Brief essay extols virtue over wealth, urging honest conduct and noble disposition as sources of lasting happiness. It notes the value of diligent work, personal responsibility, and facing difficulties, while praising listening and dialogue as paths to better conversations. It cites Margaret Fuller as an example of drawing out others' best thoughts.
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Margaret Fuller
Wise sayings and social reflections collection
A compilation of maxims on work, leisure, education, reputation, humility, charity, and relationships. It contrasts prudence with vice and emphasizes self-education as a path to wiser conduct and leadership.
Moving huge trees to Fifth avenue park for Carnegie estate
The article describes Andrew Carnegie relocating four decades old trees from Westchester and Connecticut to a Fifth Avenue site. It explains the careful transplant method using a tracked axle system to lift trees with roots intact, ensuring no damage to twigs or vitality as they are replanted to harmonize with an artistic landscape.
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Andrew
Carnegie
Europe
Fifth Avenue
Ninetieth
Ninety-first
Westchester County
Connecticut
Mr. Carnegie
Fifth Avenue Park
Miner in Parliament Thomas Burt Elevates Miner Rise
Thomas Burt, MP for Morecambe, rose from a coal miner to statesman amid a life of self help and abstinence. The Northumberland lad mined as a boy and studied by lamplight, serving miners' interests since 1874 without forsaking his fellow workers.
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Morepeth
Thomas Burt
Burt
Smiles
Abraham Lincoln
Peter Burt
Blackworth
Northumberland
Thomas
Shakespeare
Milton
Scott
John Stuart Mill
Motion of Solar System and automatic astronomy advances
Professor Newcomb notes the solar system moves through space at about 40000 miles per hour, a first major nineteenth century achievement in measuring celestial motion. He cites automatic photography as a key advance, replacing manual star sketches with exact records of astronomical events.
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Newcomb
Chicago Record-Herald
First Electric Suburban Road Opens in Russia
The first electric suburban railroad in Russia began operation this year linking Lodz in Russian Poland with Zgierz and Pabianice. It runs thirteen and a half miles, uses Thompson-Houston motors from the Russian Electricity union, and cost $560,000 to build. The line is owned by Polish merchants and manufacturers, with government profit shares and a purchase option after twenty years, and full government ownership after twenty-eight years.
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Russia
Lodz
Poland
Zgierz
Pabianice
Thompson- Houston
Russian Electricity Union
No bird or fool can stay aloft without earthy needs
A pithy proverb notes that no matter how high a bird soars or how bold a fool behaves, they eventually must return to earth to satisfy hunger. The line weds ambition to basic appetite in a humorous, moralizing tone.
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Ion Earth
A Pair of Postmen
Jim Kennedy a postman loves Nora Dillon but a letter from Bertram Ryder the friend and rival complicates his feelings. Nora pleads and Ryder schemes until he marries Cicely Barstow with Nora’s help, leaving Kennedy’s heart broken but later hopeful when Ryder reveals the wedding.
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Kate M. Cleary
Daily Story Pub. Co
Kennedy
Nora Dillon
Bertram Ryder
Ryder
Nora
Elm Avenue
Jim Kennedy
Elm Street
Dillons
Dillon
Jim
Garfield Park
Bert
Bertram
Cicely Barstow
Cicely
Women Embrace the Elevator Cure in New York
A New York feature notes women flock to what is called the elevator cure, a spring tonic said to improve blood circulation. An elevator operator describes many women taking rides in multiple cars while avoiding the same elevator men, with some men trying it too.
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New York
Battery Park
Where Slavery Is Preferred in Zanzibar and Pemba
London foreign office notes 98 percent of slaves in Zanzibar and Pemba prefer to stay in bondage. Fewer slaves sought freedom in 1900 than 1899 as hopeful gains from escape seem unlikely. Masters, softened by new legislation, aim to keep labor willing and paid, making service more attractive.
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London Foreign Office
Zanzibar
Pemba
General Hobart Resigns from Milwaukee Library Board
General Harris C. Hobart resigns after twenty five years service on the Milwaukee public library board. He is eighty nine and once participated as a Union prisoner who tunneled out of Libby prison. Hobart was a two time Democratic candidate for Wisconsin governor in 1859 and 1865.
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Hobart
Harris C. Hobart
Milwaukee Public Library Board
Libby
Richmond
Wisconsin
In the Wake of Love Who Files CVN
A cryptic note surveys the question of who files cvn in a poetic line. The fragment references a theme of love and duty framed as a riddle about responsibility and identity.
Also Mentioned on This Page
Cnity Church
R. F. Johannot
M. E
John Norris Hall
Epworth
Church Directory
Unity Church
Wisconsin Avenue
Pleasant Street
D. D
Thomas Taylor Drill
C. F. Roberts
Charles Woodard
Haster
Ladies’ Social Union
M. BE
Lombard Avenue
Ontario Street
C. W. McCaskill
Robert Quayle
D. G. Kingery
J. M. Howard
Second Congregational Church
Lake and Scoville Avenue
Sydney Strong
Geo. D. Bills
Junior Endeavor
Gertrude Longley
Vesper
Senior Endeavor
J. M. Coen
Intermediate Endeavor
Anna Louise Strong
Wwe
Saturn
Philadelphia Press
Tommy
Jack
Mike
DE Anima
Slumbhr
Bourne
Harriet Osgood Lunt
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