Pleasant week in Moreland with entertainments and visits
On June first the H H Nash School German class staged a notable entertainment. Mrs Waller hosted a euchre party with prizes won by Mrs Fayard and Mrs Setting. Miss Bessie Miller visited Annie McHwane on Ohio street. Charles Lock, a young wanderer, showed jig dancing and feats to local lads. Funeral services for Gertrude Peterson were held June six at Norwegian Lutheran Church before burial at Mt Olivet.
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Ralph Woodruff
Ohio Street
H. H. Nash
Bessie Miller
Oakley Avenue
Annie McHwane
Waller
Forty-seventh
Austin Avenue
Euchre
Faynard
Norwegian Lutheran Church
Indiana
Sims Avenues
Mt. Olivet
Garner's Drug Store and residence listing
Office roar Garner's Drug Store. Residence 110 Sa Central Ava.
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Roar Garner
Sa Central Ava
How High Must a Church Be
A court case in a nearby city questions churchmanship levels. An Episcopal church allegedly fails to meet a donor’s high church standard though the rector has increased ritualism. The secular court may clarify where high church practices begin and broad church ends.
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Boston Transcript
Episcopal Church
Queen Victoria’s Oak Staff A Favorite Walking Stick
The Worcester gift oak staff once used by Charles II is now Queen Victoria’s favored walking aid. Originating from the Boscobel oak branch, it features a gold head and a carved Indian dol from Seringapatam, forming its grip. The stick never leaves her side.
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Queen Victoria
Charles II
Worcester
Boscobel
Cromwell
Seringapatam
Boston Herald
Imagination and disease misdirected a man’s health
In a Youth's Companion anecdote Frank Moore recounts a civil servant in India who nearly dies after a doctor’s misaddressed letter claims he has weeks to live. The man’s fear worsens until a switch reveals the error. The real recipient benefited from the mistaken prognosis after a vacations suggestion, while the other survived years in fair health.
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Frank
Moore
India
Bell on Buzzard Sparks 1863 Echo From Athens Tale
R C McAllister of Ft Gaines recently captured a buzzard wearing a bronze bell tied to a leather collar. In Athens three men H Cobb Davis Jesse L Jargell and George T Smith claim to bellet the bird 37 years earlier while serving with Echols Light Artillery near Camp Leon Tallahassee Florida. They now correspond with McAllister about the bell and the bird.
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Athens
Atlanta Constitution
R. C. McAllister
Ft. Gaines
Messrs
H. Cobb Davis
Jesse L. Jargell
George T. Smith
Mr. McAllister
Sir William Harcourt’s Private Letters Revealed
The article notes Harcourt’s private letters are fresh and witty, mostly to his eldest son, stored in neat packets. It contrasts him with Salisbury, highlighting Harcourt’s wide circle of correspondents and frank political opinions, including a quip about his shifting views over seven years.
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Sir William Harcourt
Lord Salisbury
Sir William
Burdett-Coutts at eighty six in fine health and rumor
The Baronsess Burdett-Coutts, aged eighty six, enjoys excellent health and spirits. She is forty years older than her husband, born in New Bedford to American parents, now an Englishman through marriage. He would have been Italian or Russian otherwise, yet earns $200,000 yearly. The baroness has given over $5,000,000 to charity and built more churches than any queen’s subject, surpassing Carnegie and Rockefeller in philanthropic impact.
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Baroness Burdett-Coutts
New Bedford
Great Britain
Carnegie
Rockefeller
Books for the blind require bulky embossed Bibles
A reader notes the high cost and bulk of braille Bibles, with sixty volumes needed to contain the full Bible and each embossed volume priced at 90 cents. The large type and thick pages drive up production and storage demands for blind readers.
LIFE SAVED By Little Brown Jug And Green Oar From Carboat
Richard Gilleland tells how a voyage with Lawrence Cody Mike Toole and Lin Schroeder ended when the boat capsized near Norton’s Point. Peter Johnson of Brooklyn pulled Gilleland from the water with a boathook as the others reached shore. The green jug saved his life, he says.
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Norton’s Point
Coney Island
New York Journal
Richard Gilleland
Peter Johnson
Johnson Avenue
Brooklyn
Gilleland
Lawrence Cody
Mike Toole
Lin Schroeder
Rockaway
John
Stillwell’s
Richard
Stillwell's
Mr. Johnson
Improvements Year Than Last In Bicycle Design
The Cincinnati Enquirer notes small yet notable advances in bicycles this season. Tubing is thinner and the chainless bevel gear updated with a hold-fast multi-part seat post binder and expandable jackets to fit varying post sizes. A new hub with direct spokes, a smooth barrel, flush joint stays, and a two-piece crank shaft simplify removal and replacement.
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Cincinnati Enquirer
St Thomas Hosts Twentieth Century Club Exhibition
In Danish West Indies St Thomas hosts the St Croix Twentieth Century club with about seventy young colored men training in military movements. They wear uniforms though laws prevent real arms. A daytime exhibition followed by a lantern procession and fire brigade participation drew a dense crowd.
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Danish West Indies
St. Thomas
St. Croix
Acetylene: A New Illuminant In Industrial Use
Acetylene is a powerful illuminant gas first produced commercially in 1895. It is the simplest hydrocarbon, obtained from calcium carbide made by fusing lime with carbon sources in an electric furnace. When water contacts calcium carbide, acetylene forms while calcium becomes lime again, yielding a brighter light than candle coal gas.
Cromwell Pocket Bible in National Museum collection
A description notes a Cromwell pocket Bible in the National Museum at Washington. It states Cromwell gave one to every soldier with a waistcoat pocket over the heart for carrying.
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Cromwell
National Museum
Washington
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