Peribonka Tales of Paul Kirke and Entrusting Fates
In the Canadian village of Peribonka the Crippled Lady captivates locals while Paul Kirke a New York financier's descendant and engineer, marries Claire Durand. While Claire travels to Europe Paul grows close to Carla the village teacher. Carla's mother dies and Claire plans to join Paul on Mistassini as a widening rift emerges between husband and wife.
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Peribonka
Paul Kirke
Molly Brant
Joseph Brant
New York
Paul
Claire Durand
Europe
Carla
Claire
The Big Gorge Awakens Claire S Fears
Claire faces a perilous gorge excursion with Paul Derwent and Carla as they lunch on a rock overlooking the churning Lauren tiens river. Claire reveals a lifelong fear of angry water while admiring calmer swirls, amid the misty forest setting near Lac St. Jean.
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Claire
Mistassin
Paul
Big Gorge
Lac St. Jean
Lucy-Belle
Carla
Derwent
Table Rock
Charybdis
Cornwall
Doctor Derwent
Romance From Missives in Cavern Post Office
In Wind Cave National Park south of Custer a cavern 200 feet underground is called the post office. Tourists leave mementos with names and addresses on paper tucked into box formations on the rock walls. The assortment shows names from across the United States and abroad.
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Wind Cave National Park
Custer
Test in Ordinary Duties
The quote emphasizes that higher motives and ideals matter only if they strengthen a person to perform duties in daily life. It underlines practical conduct over abstract sentiment in fulfilling everyday obligations.
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Beecher
Human inheritance is learned not instinctual
The author argues humans do not inherit instincts but build behavior through learned experiences. Brain plasticity lets a baby learn, while instincts are generic reflexes. Humans accumulate culture via speech and environment, with early motor skills developed through practice rather than innate acts.
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George A. Dorsey
Four Presidents Served as Diplomatic Representatives Before Presidency
The article lists James Monroe as minister plenipotentiary to Great Britain in 1808, John Quincy Adams as envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary in 1815, Martin Van Buren as envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary in 1891, and James Buchanan as envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary in 1853.
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United States
James Monroe
Great Britain
John Quincy Act
Martin van Buren
James Buchanan
Lesson on Jesus as Friend and Lord of the Sabbath
A church lesson outlines four hearer types in Matthew eleven and the growing antagonism in chapter twelve. It covers perplexed, violent, stout-hearted unbelievers, and babes in spirit, then details Jesus as Lord of the Sabbath, healing on the Sabbath, and the unpardonable sin of blaspheming the Holy Spirit.
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John the Baptist
John
Jesus
Christ
the Baptist
Chorazin
Bethsaida
Capernaum
Tyre
Jesus Christ
David
The Last Step Wins It
A quotation from A B Simpson compares spiritual progress to a pilgrim reaching heaven’s gate where dangers from hell become most persistent, urging resolve as the final ascent nears the celestial city.
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Pilgrim's Progress
Celestial City
Heaven
Hell’s Gate
Simpson
Stability and Sincerity Quote by John Timothy Stone
A brief note highlights that stability and sincerity must accompany faith as a true Christian hastens from wrong, reflecting John Timothy Stone's urging on moral firmness and integrity.
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John Timothy Stone
Soviet to Probe Kremlin Secrets for Hidden Treasures
Soviet government grants Professor Steletsky permission to excavate the Kremlin in Moscow in search of legendary underground passages and buried riches. The expedition aims to find gold and silver treasures, historic jewels, and the famed Golden Library of Ivan the Terrible said to lie beneath the citadel since the early fifteenth century.
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Moscow
Professor Steletsky
Kremlin
Russia
Novogorod
Ivan the Terrible
Procrastination Rewards and Sunny Disposition Suffer
Procrastination sometimes has its rewards. If one is hungry, his sunny disposition suffers.
Golden Medical Discovery Promoted By Dr Pierce
A young man recalls Dr Pierce’s medical practice in Pennsylvania and Buffalo New York where he developed the Golden Medical Discovery. The tonic is claimed to aid digestion enrich the blood and improve complexion. Available in tablet or liquid form at all druggists.
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Rev. Pierce
Pennsylvania
Buffalo
N. Y
Pierce
Cheese Loving Dog Roams Pitts Field Steal Scene
A cheese loving dog roams Pitts Field as Officer William Dunn searches for the animal. The hound jumps a grocery truck while the owner is inside and noses out a large package of Sweitzer cheese before fleeing.
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Pittsfield
William Dunn
Think It Over Let’s Leave The Year Better
A reflective note questions self improvement and how vanity powders fade as time passes. The fragment sparks a musing on change, aging, and personal growth without concrete events or named figures.
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James Oliver Curwood
WNU Service
Doubleday Doran & Co. Inc
Chapter
P. B. Fitzwater
D.D
Moody Bible Institute of Chicago
Western Newspaper Union
Lord
Ewis
Philadelphia
James D. Swan
The
Pennsylvania Salt Mfg. Co
North LaSalle Street
Chicago
Ill
USA
T Doctor
Boschee
Peck Laboratories
120Th Street
Cleveland
Ohio
Balsam Leon
Cradling
Benahem
SERRE
Floreston
Hiscox Chemical Works
Patchorne
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