Fighters of Today and the National Guard Ethics
A veteran writer defends New York City regiments as physically and morally capable for war, arguing city youths are fittingly trained through drill and discipline. He cites regimental examples from the Civil War era, addresses city riots, and notes the value of regular troops in maintaining order.
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Aes
New York
Washington
Patterson
West Bag Meg Ba
Bull Run
Virginia
Pivabarg
Philadelphia
Boston
Broadway
United States
Macy
Dispatcher’s nerve saved two trains meeting head on at risk section
C ER Wilson now in Chicago recalls twenty four year railroad career with thrill filled anecdotes including a winter lapse on the Oregon Short Line at Halley Idaho. After a passenger train and a rotary snow plow were set on a collision course the head dispatcher stayed calm and confident until the two trains met on the only straight three mile stretch, then he handed the chair to a colleague and went to bed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. ER. Wilson
Chicago
Oregon
Halley
Idaho
St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Wilson
Bluffing Joe Simpson Fends Off Prospector Outfit
In Trinidad, veteran Joe Simpson shot at surveyors with a 44 revolver when lines were laid near his land. A deputy sheriff failed to serve a warrant as Simpson used a dummy to deter a posse, then hid in a cornfield and later surrendered with a joke about the ruse.
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The
Trinidad Chronicle
Joe Simpson
Joe
M Simpson
Effry
Simpson
England's Richest Church Living Revealed
The clergy list names Bloxham Vicarage in Oxford as the richest non bishop parish with a prosperity of 7 470 pounds but the vicar says net income is 205 pounds and population 1538. Nether Broughton and Hawarden follow with 4250 and 404 pounds, while Saale Arch bishop of Canterbury tops with 15000 pounds.
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England
Church of England
Bloxham Vicarage
Oxford
Eton College
Nether Broughton
Hawarden
Saale
Canterbury
Christmas Charity Depleted by Selfish Spending Tale
A humorous essay set in New York at Christmas portrays the narrator and Maude greedily funding gifts and charitable drives. He details barbershop, streetcar, and elevator solicitations exhausting his money before returning home with a lone tin soldier and a toy for a washerwoman, ending with a comically empty gift box and a nickel-operated church charity box.
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Dispatch
New York City
New York
Maude
Bode
Torquemada
Boss Barbers’ Association
Board of Aldermen
Howdy
Ipmc
Fulness of the time when Christ came
A sermon-style meditation argues that Christ appeared exactly at the fulness of the time when Hebrew religion Rome and Greek language united under one era. It stresses prophetic anticipation, universal Greek speech, and a world morally and religiously exhausted, awaiting a savior and a universal religion for all nations.
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Christ
St. Paul
John the Baptist
Fords of
Jordan
Nazareth
Judea
Csisphas
Moses
Joshus
Solomon
Herod
Bethlehem
David
Judah
Jesus of Nazareth
Rome
Greece
Forum
Dee
Empire
God
Tean
Galilee
Christ the Lord
Impromptu Justice In Des Moines Gambling Raid
Des Moines justices of the peace interrupted a late gambling session as Justice Johnson and three constables seized 38 players. The magistrate presided from the dealer’s chair and quickly tried most players on the spot, the game paused after about an hour due to interruptions.
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Iowa
Chicago Times
Des Moines
Johnson
New York
Earth
Corvallis Gazette notes shifting seasons in Oregon
The Corvallis Gazette reflects on winter in the East and summer like weather in the Willamette Valley. It notes sorrowful reports of boys drowning after breaking through ice but ends with gratitude for living in God’s country and the near approach of warmer days.
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Corvallis, Ore
Willamette Valley
Making a wine glass in Champlin's Common Things
Plain account of forming a wine glass from a glass blower setup. The glassmaker withdraws a gob of molten glass on a blowing tube, blows to form a bubble, rolls it on a markel, and flattens the end with a wooden tool called s bettledoor, as shown in the illustration.
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Champlin
Glass blowing process described with tools and steps
A worker forms molten glass on a blowing tube then shapes a globe at the end. He uses puoty and shears to create a flat bulb, sticks hot glass to a wine glass base, trims the top, and finishes the piece before tempering in a heated oven.
New England Pharmacologist and a Romantic Labor of Nature
A visitor chronicles a Boston pharmacist and botanist Blanque in a rural retreat. The essay hails his ecological passion, delicate extractions, and economic botany while detailing his sister's illness, a quiet life far from city bustle, and a fragrant, sunlit farmhouse study.
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Boston
Belfast
New England
England
Annie
Rubinstein
Blanque
Old Brown
Blango
Ariel
Biue Hill
Russia
Tropics
Conti
Amiteseat Betnalon
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National Guard
Max
General Echofield
Sherman
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Ieader
Shermen
Oliver Utis Howarp
Howard Fielding
Tamof
Love of
Mercy
Torquemadd
Shinee
City Hall Square
Jersey
Pittsburg
Shirley Dare
Hirley Dage
Harriet
Hubbard Ayer
Fifth Avenue
Patti-Nicolini
Aa Anhafot
Angtodjeska
Glara Louise Kello Porter
Recamier
Eggers Pharmacies
Ohio
Middle St
Smoothfield St
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Monongahela
Allegheny
Pitsburg
Poeeek É CO
Penn
Note St
Pittsbu
Scott
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