Local notices and births mark a May week in Moreland
Gust Zinter mourns an eight month old death from dysentery while Dr. Glenn welcomes a baby girl born May 4. Newborns arrive to Bertha Darsch May 1 and Anton Ohlson May 6. Robert Mill welcomes a boy May 7. Townsfolk recover from illnesses and a shot at a tea trade triggers talk of gunpowder exposure. Church talk, property purchases, legal threats, euchre club plans, and a Fulton street flat filling signal busy local life.
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Gust Zinter
Glenn
Bertha Darsch
Thomas Street
Robert Mill
Fulton Avenue
Jas. Manley
Ferre Street
E. J. Moody
Ontario Street
White City
George A. Campbell
Rehberg’s Hall
R. Moulton
Moulton & Lathrop
la Salle Street
Fulton Street
Anton Ohlson
Indiana Street
Moreland Euchre Club
H. Sharp
Ohio Street
Vance
Park Avenue
Forty-eighth Avenue
John
Nelson
Suils
Union Traction Company
North Forty Eighth Avenue
John 8S
Wagner
High Salaried Ministers in New York Churches
The New York World notes lucrative clerical pay in big city churches. Senior pastors like Dr. John Hall and Dr. Morgan Dix reportedly earn large salaries plus substantial wedding and other fees. Wives often receive wedding fees, and wealthier parishes offer homes and security beyond salary.
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New York
John Hall
Morgan Dix
Trinity
Hall
Greer
St. Bartholomew's Episcopal Church
Huntington
Grace Church
Lst
MacArthur
Calvary Church
Colorado Homestead Laws and Land Acts Explained
Attorneys note one sixth of Colorado is excluded from homestead law and much land requires desert land or timber and stone acts. Settlers pay at least $1.25 per acre under some acts, while regular homestead entries offer a patent free after required residence.
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Colorado
Soldier letter blames temperance drive for canteen abolition
In a Springfield Mass letter Frank Dellinger a Philippines bound soldier denounces temperance advocates for abolishing the canteen. He says soldiers deprived of beer and whisky turn to the Filipino drink beno which he claims wrecks health and can drive men insane citing cases of insanity from beno use.
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Reno
Springfield
Mass
Frank Dellinger
Philippines
Dellinger
Important Notice to Local Clergy Promises Wide Readership
A Chicago newspaper urges local ministers from West Fortieth Street to Melrose Park to submit sermons up to 500 words. The publisher claims a guaranteed weekly reading by about 8,000 people, including family readers in multiple homes, and invites responses without prescribing topics.
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West Fortieth Street
Chicago
Melrose Park
Instantaneous light matches advertised by Mr Walker
A Newcastle Chronicle excerpt recounts Mr Walker, a Stockton-on-Tees chemist, supplying ready made matches that ignite instantly when pinched between folded glass paper and a quick pull. The matches resist ignition from air, blows, or wood rubbing, and are sold only locally.
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Atlas
London
Walker
Stockton-on-Tees
Newcastle
England
Chronicle
Beware of the Strap in Street Cars
A New York woman suffered blood poisoning after a handkerchief touched her lip through a street car strap, traced to a poisonous transfer from the strap to the fabric. Doctors saved her life but facial disfigurement may persist, prompting warnings about strap hygiene. In another item, New Zealand’s government repurchased 324,167 acres of sheep-run land for 1,680 families.
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New York
New York Sun
New Zealand
Hymns Incongruously Chosen At Distinct Philadelphia Sites
A man recalls hearing convicts at Philadelphia penitentiary sing a plaintive hymn about angels and guidance, then contrasts it with Mr. Wanamaker's Sunday school where a thousand children, mostly girls aged six to sixteen, sang a different hymn about weariness and sin admission. The note is from a Washington letter syndicated by the Chicago Record-Herald.
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Philadelphia
Washington Letter
Chicago Record-Herald
Officials Serve Communion Emblems
During a Washington Presbyterian service bread and wine were passed by two admirals a general two supreme court justices and a former secretary of state in a notable display of high ranking officials participating in a church rite.
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Washington
Supreme Court
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