Church Directory Regular services across local congregations
Second Reformed Church offers morning and evening services with Sunday School and Christian Endeavor. Third Reformed has a 6:00 am morning service and 7:30 pm evening service with Sunday School. First Christian Reformed lists morning and afternoon services with a 3:5 pm Sunday School. Second Christian Reformed and M E Church provide multiple services and Sunday Schools. Baptist Church also holds services, Sunday School, and prayer meetings. First Reformed repeats BK service at 9:30 am and 1:30 pm with Christian Endeavor in the evening.
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Second Reformed Church
Christian Endeavor
Third Reformed Church
First Christian Reformed Church
Second Christian Reformed Church
W.S
Riddle
T.j.edmond
Epworth League
Baptist Church
First Reformed Church
Soar or Sore A Lesson in Disappointment
Two students share the lowest mark in a sixty student class. One vows to soar and improve, while the other stays through the term and rises to the top ten. The piece urges the right spirit to soar and forget being sore, avoiding blame and dwelling on defeat. Selected thoughts emphasize resilience and a motto of all soar.
Don’t snub a boy for humble beginnings or faults
A moral urging kindness to boys regardless of clothes, home, or abilities. It cites Edison in yellow breeches, Shakespeare’s father’s illiteracy, Lincoln’s log cabin, Milton’s blindness, Hogarth’s dull start, and Demosthenes’ stammer, arguing not to snub anyone. The message frames snubbing as unkind, wrong, and un-Christian.
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Edison
Boston
Shakespeare
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Milton
Hogarth
Demosthenes
Greece
Dr. Pierce
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A Boy's Story About Kindness and Manners
An elderly lady and two girls discuss a boy Ned known to one girl. She argues his good behavior reflects his home life, praising his mother Mrs Lee and sister Nellie. The girls resolve to treat Ned better, noting other boy Will darts and shuffles, while Will’s mother and sister curb his conduct.
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Ned
Rob
Classmate Excerpt Shows Hidden Earnest Tone in Banter
A line from The Classmate depicts a speaker joking about keeping watch over a younger brother. The remark blends light humor with underlying earnestness, suggesting a protective, amiable disposition beneath the playful surface.
How a Dog Helped a Christmas Basket
In extreme north Scotland a poor shepherd and his family await a promised Christmas basket. Son Willie loses the basket in a snowstorm. The faithful dog Jip searches the moor, digs clear, and returns with the basket, saved from loss.
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Scotland
Willie
Jip
Confession Joke From Old Memoir Told By Clergy
An 80 year old memorandum from Bronson Michigan recounts a humorously sharp exchange between a parent, a priest and a boy about who must confess and how much is charged. The boy questions bishops and the pope, while the priest insists God charges nothing and forgiveness rests with God.
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R. N. Conrad
Dea
C. M. van Every
Bronson
Mich
Church of
Rome
Thought for One's Parents
A note on the late Nelson Mor tis a Chicago packer who died recently after coming to America penniless from Germany. His paternal home in the Black Forest had burned and his father’s farm was confiscated by the government. At fifteen he arrived in the United States, seized opportunities, and by toil won the means to buy back the family home, deeds later given to his parents for their final years. The piece highlights Mor tis’ perseverance and success.
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Nelson Mortis
Chicago
Black Forest
Germany
Morris
America
Signs of sterling character and prayer in daily life
The text extols parental gratitude as a sign of good character and cites biblical figures known for prayer. It endorses DeWitt's Kidney and Bladder Pills for backache and bladder inflammation, sold by Langerak's Drug Store and Vander Linden's Bazar, 35-38. It also promotes Kodol for Indigestion and Dyspepsia, a digestive aid, available from the same merchants.
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DeWitt
Langerak’s
Vander Linden
Bazar
Langerak
Vander Linden's Bazar
Absent-Minded Professor and Early Risers Ad Details
A humorous tale recalls a Western college professor calling roll and asking for the absent boy in the chair. The ad copy touts De Witt's Little Early Risers and DeWitt's Carbolized Witch Haze Salve, sold at Lang erak's Drug Store and Vander Linden's Bazar, 35-38, with lifestyle quotes and promotions.
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de Witt
Langerak’ Drug Store
Vander Linden
Bazar
Municipal lights cost misrepresented in Chicago report
The Chicago municipal electric plant, largest in the U S, is shown by a reform critique as delivering poor service and higher costs than private contracts. The report omits or downplays taxes depreciation and office costs, and compares unfavorably with external providers while overstating savings.
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M. O
United States
Chicago
Reform Club of
New York
Sioux City Considers Municipal Electric Plant
A Sioux City Iowa municipal electric light project has been studied by a commission whose adverse report leads the city council to plan bidding for a city lighting contract after the current agreement expires.
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Sioux City
Tax Rate Drops Tied to Municipal Plant Sale in Lakewood
The Cleveland Leader notes Lakewood Ohio tax rate will be about 2.75 mills after the sale of the city’s municipal electric light plant. The report attributes the rate drop to proceeds and fiscal adjustments following the sale.
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Cleveland
Lakewood
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