Surprises and Socials in Moreland Community
On June 2 Ralph Woodruff of Ohio street received a pleasant surprise. The German class at H. H. Nash School staged an entertaining program on June 1. Miss Bessie Miller hosted Miss Annie McEwane on June 2. Mrs Waller entertained ladies for euchre on June 2 with prizes won by Mrs Jaynard and Mrs Settin. A boy named Charles Lock demonstrated jig dancing and other moves last Tuesday. Mrs Gertrude Peterson, 72, died June 4 at her daughter’s home on Indiana street. Funeral June 6 at Norwegian Lutheran Church with Mt. Olivet interment.
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Ralph Woodruff
Ohio Street
H. H. Nash School
Bessie Miller
Oakley Avenue
Annie McEwane
Waller
Forty-seventh
Austin Avenue
Euchre
Jaynard
Imagination and disease misread letter mocks health
A tale from Youth's Companion recounts a young Indian civil servant misled by a doctor’s grim forecast. A misrouted letter declared his lungs and heart failed, prompting a panic and bed rest before realizing the prognosis was for another man. The error saved him.
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Frank
Moore
India
vYouth
Buzzard Belled Thirty-Seven Years Ago Found in Athens
A belled buzzard captured in 1868 by Echols Light Artillery members from Camp Leon near Tallahassee is traced to three Athens men H Cobb Davis Jesse L Jarrell and George T Smith who say they belled the bird and sent a bronze bell with a leather collar bearing a date. They are now writing to Ft. Gaines resident R C McAllister about the old bird.
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Athens
Atlanta Constitution
R.C. McAllister
Ft. Gaines
yMesera
H. Cobb Davis
Jesse L. Jarrell
George T. Smith
Mr. McAllister
Garner's Drug Store Free Rear Request
A brief note lists Garner's Drug Store and a residence at 110 Sa Central Ava with no additional context.
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Garner’s Drug Store
Sa Central Ava
High Church Trial Sparks Peculiar Episcopal Suit
A Boston Transcript report notes an Episcopal church in a nearby city faces a suit over failing to meet a high church standard. A donor left funds with a ritual requirement, while the pastor boosts ritualism but parishioners say they’ve reached their limit. The case may define where high church practices begin and broad church limits end.
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Hilow High
Ciy
Boston Transcript
Queen Victoria's Royal Walking Stick Recalled
A Worcester citizen gifted an oak staff used by Queen Victoria in meetings. The stick, a branch from the Boscobel oak, was initially simple with a gold head and now features a small Indian idol from Seringapatam. It remains her favorite and never leaves her side, per the Boston Herald.
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Queen Victoria
Charles II
Worcester
Boscobel
Cromwell
Seringapatam
Life saved by a little jug and a green oar at Norton’s Point
A catboat ran aground off Norton’s Point after a rough morning voyage that left three men drowned. Richard Gilleland, the sole survivor, credited Peter Johnson for hauling him from the water with a boathook as the others landed ashore. The rescued man said the jug saved his life.
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Norton’s Point
Coney Island
New York Journal
Richard Gilleland
Peter Johnson
Johnson Avenue
Brooklyn
Gilleland
Lawrence Cody
Mike Toole
Hn Schroeder
Rockaway
John
Stillwell’s
Richard
Mr. Gilleland
Improvements Year Than Last in Bicycle Design
The Cincinnati Enquirer notes gains in bicycle technology this season with smaller tubing lighter frames and a better bevel gear for chainless wheels. Innovations include a three-part hold-fast seat post binder inside collars expandable nuts direct spokes a smooth barrel flush joints and a two piece crank shaft improving maintenance and durability.
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Cincinnati Enquirer
Sir William Harcourt's Private Letters Display Wit and Change
The article notes Harcourt's private letters are fresh and witty and mainly go to his eldest son. It contrasts with Lord Salisbury's scarce writing and highlights Harcourt's broad circle of correspondents. A quoted anecdote recalls his reply about changing opinions over seven years.
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Sir William Harcourt
Lord Salisbury
Sir William
The Baroness Burdett Coutts Celebrates 86th Birthday
The Baroness Burdett Coutts, at eighty six, enjoys health and spirits and is forty years older than her husband. Born in New Bedford to American parents, he became English through marriage and wealth. He might have been Italian or Russian, yet earns $200,000 yearly. The baroness has given over $5,000,000 to charity and built more churches than any queen’s subject. Carnegie funds libraries, Rockefeller funds colleges, while she funds churches for the heathen world.
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Baroness Burdett-Coutts
New Bedford
Great Britain
Carnegie
Rockefeller
Baroness Burdett-Coutta
Books for the Blind Show Large Volumes and High Costs
The article notes embossing requires thick pages and large type, making volumes bulky. It cites the Bible needing sixty volumes of embossed pages and costs about 90 cents each.
St. Croix Twentieth Century club helps open century celebration
St Thomas hosts the St Croix Twentieth Century club, a group of about seventy young colored men trained in military movements with dummy arms. They staged an afternoon exhibition and a lantern procession in the evening, joined by the town’s fire brigade amid a dense crowd.
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St. Thomas
St. Croix
Twentieth Century Club
Acetylene Gas Powers 240-Candle Light
Acetylene, first produced commercially in 1896, is a simple hydrocarbon from calcium carbide. It is obtained by reacting lime with carbon in an electric furnace to form carbide, which releases acetylene when water drips on it. Acetylene provides a 240 candle power light compared with coal gas.
Cromwell Pocket Bible in National Museum Collection
The National Museum in Washington houses a Cromwell pocket Bible noted for its history. It was reportedly given to every soldier in Cromwell's army with instructions to carry it in a waistcoat pocket over the heart.
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Cromwell
National Museum
Washington
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