Churches Schedule Highlights and Ministers
A column lists multiple local churches with pastors, service times, and events. Focal entries include CNITY CHURCH with Rev. R F Johannot, FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH at Oak Park with Rev. Barton, UNITY CHURCH led by Rev. Johannot, and THIRD M B Church with Rev. McCaskill, noting Sunday services, Sunday school, Epworth Leagues, and midweek activities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cnity Church
R. F. Johannot
D. D
Thomas Taylor Drill
C. F. Roberts
Charles Woodard
Ladies’ Social Union
First Congregational Church
Oak Park
Lake Street
Kenilworth and
Grove Avenues
William E.barton
Louis Falk
M. BE
Lombard Avenue
Ontario Street
C. W. McCaskill
Robert Quayle
Epworth
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
Humorous Bits and Jokes From an Old Paper
A collection of light humor and lighthearted dialogues with puns about marriage health gender and everyday absurdities. It includes classroom quips a bank pay-envelope joke a peacemaker remark and a kitchen recipe for spiced apples.
New Household Ideas for Cleaning and Preserving Items
A mix of domestic tips includes flour or corn starch on cakes before icing, oiling stoves to prevent rust, egg white varnish for luster on mgrocco, and preserving flowers with soda and water. Also notes berry fritters, cleaning chased brass, lemon polishing brass, and strawberry ice cream making.
Principles of character and conversation many virtues
The passage extols honorable conduct, useful work, and self restraint as paths to personal greatness. It notes that wealth and lineage matter little, while responsibility for one’s own good is clear. It praises facing difficulties, aging gracefully, and being a good listener, citing Margaret Fuller as an exemplar of drawing out others’ best thoughts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Margaret Fuller
Wise Sayings and Proverbial Reflections
A collection of aphorisms on work and leisure. Observations about education, reputation, generosity, leadership, and gender roles, presented as concise maxims. Each line distills social observations into brief, pointed statements.
Moving Full-Grown Trees From Native Soil to City
Article describes Andrew Carnegie moving about forty year old trees from Westchester and Connecticut to his Fifth Avenue park. It explains careful transplanting without damaging any twigs and details the tracking system used to lift trees with their roots and earth intact.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Andrew Carnegie
Europe
Fifth Avenue
Ninetieth
Ninety-first
Westchester County
Connecticut
Mr. Carnegie
Fifth Avenue Park
Miner in Parliament and the rise of Thomas Burt
A profile of Thomas Burt M P for Morepeth the miner who spent 18 years underground and began working at ten. A self made statesman from Northumberland born near a coal line who rose from pit life to parliamentary service while remaining abstinent Primitive Methodist and devoted to miners interests. His career since 1874 shows steadfast public service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Morepeth
Thomas Burt
Burt
Smiles
Abraham Lincoln
Peter Burt
Blackworth
Northumberland
Thomas
Shakespeare
Milton
Scott
John Stuart Mill
Motion of the Solar System and Advances in Astronomy
Professor Newcomb discusses progress in astronomy noting mankind’s first real grasp of the solar system’s motion, roughly 40 000 miles an hour, and the century’s greatest achievement. He also highlights automatic photography replacing manual sketches for exact celestial records.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newcomb
Chicago Record-Herald
First Electric Suburban Line Opens in Russian Poland
The first electric suburban railroad in Russia begins service linking Lodz with Zgierz and Pabianice. The 13.5 mile line uses Thompson Houston motors supplied by the Russian Electricity union. Built by a Polish merchant company at a cost of 560000 dollars, it includes a government profit share and a government option to purchase after twenty years with full transfer of road and equipment after twenty eight years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Russia
Lodz
Poland
Zgierz
Pabianice
Thompson- Houston
Russian Electricity Union
No Bird or Fool Escapes Earthbound Hunger
A wry proverb notes that no matter how high a bird or fool flies, they must return to ground by the pull of hunger, underscoring appetite as a universal limit.
A Pair of Postmen Love Triangle In Elm Street
Jim Kennedy, a young postman, loves Nora Dillon but faces rivalry from Bertram Ryder who writes Nora letters. A failed early attempt and jealous misunderstandings drive Kennedy to heartbreak until Ryder reveals he has married Nora’s ally Cicely Barstow with Nora’s help. Kennedy reconciles with Ryder and rushes to Elm Street to celebrate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kate M. Cleary
Dally Story Pub. Co
Kennedy
Nora Dillon
Bertram Ryder
Ryder
Nora
Elm Avenue
Jim Kennedy
Elm Street
Dillons
Dillon
Jim
Garfield
Park
Cicely Barstow
Cicely
Will
Bert
Elevator Cure Women Ride for Spring Tonic in New York
A Battery Park elevator man recounts a popular fad called the elevator cure. He notes that three of four women using the cars claim benefit to blood circulation, while men try it less. The piece humorously observes women selecting fictitious names from directories and riding different elevators to avoid repetition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Battery Park
Where Slavery Is Preferred in Zanzibar and Pemba
London foreign office correspondence reports 98 percent of slaves in Zanzibar and Pemba favor remaining in bondage. In 1900 fewer slaves sought freedom than 1899 as British commissioners note limited prospects for immediate advantage. Masters have become kinder since slave legislation and strive to attract continued service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London Foreign Office
Zanzibar
Pemba
General Hobart Resigns From Milwaukee Library Board
General Harris C. Hobart resigns from the Milwaukee public library board after twenty five years of service. He is eighty nine and was a former Libby prison breakout participant and twice a Democratic candidate for Wisconsin governor, first in 1859 and again in 1865.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hobart
Harris C. Hobart
Milwaukee Public Library Board
Libby
Richmond
Wisconsin
In the War of Love Who Flies Con Quers
A terse note questions romantic conquest with a playful twist on flight and fidelity, hinting at a literary riddle about love, pursuit, and outcomes in a wartime metaphor.
Also Mentioned on This Page
Rirnst M. BE
John Norris Hall
Minsr
Irch
Barton
Buffalo
Scoville Pace
Church Directory
Unity Church
Wisconsin Avenue
Pleasant Street
Saturn
Philadelphia Press
Tommy
Jack
Mike
Charity
First Electric Suburban Board
Harriet Osgood Lunt
Anima
Bertram
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