W C T U Officers and Committees Listed in Salem Column
The W C T U column lists officers and superintendents for Salem with roles including president Mrs Mimah Hobbs Day, vice presidents Mrs L M Lee and others, recording and corresponding secretaries, treasurer Mrs W A Ferguson, and department heads such as Mrs C E B Obonchnin for By and Almshouse and Mrs KE R Moore for Florence Crittenton Home. The piece notes the column is hosted by Tus Times-Reclarer and SENTINEL and invites reader engagement with the department. Dr. Thomas cheap insurance and Eclectic Oi l ad appears as an advertisement noted at the end.
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W. A. Ferguson
Bym and Almshouse
C. Eb.obonchnin
Florence Crittenton
KE. KR. Moore
Tus Times
Sentinel
Disof
W.C. T. Union
Temperance Update From Washington to Louisville Debates
The Union Signal readers miss Margar et Dye Ellis as Congress adjourns, noting key temperance bills and advocating continued school based temperance teaching. Physicians Dr. Hughes and Dr. Kellogg frame alcohol as a public health issue with doctors as role models, while other sections cover the International S. Association session in Louisville and related temperance currents.
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Washington
Margaret Dye Ellis
Union Signal
Congress
Ellis
Bennings
District of Columbia
Union Signals
Salem Union
International So S. Association
Louisville
Kentucky
Ww. Cc. T. U
American Medical Association
Chicago
Society For the Study
H. Hughes
St. Louis
Sue Dr. Kellogg
Battle Creek
The Will of the Father and the Call to Co operation
The piece argues that Thy will be done requires sincere effort to join God’s plan for the Kingdom. It describes Jesus as hopeful and submissive to the Father, urging cooperation to root out sin and oppose legalized saloons and dispensaries harming youth and causing murder.
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Jesus
Dr King’s New Life Pills Sold With Guarantee
Ayscue of Ingleside NC says after 15 years of indigestion and $200 spent, Dr King’s New Life Pills are the best pills ever sold. Sold under guarantee at W T Youngers drug store. Mrs Benham and Henliaga comment on the product with differing opinions.
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Dr. King
N.C
W.T. Youngers
A Well Kept Diary Reflects a Life of Worldly Measures
A seventy three year old European man kept a diary for fifty two years starting at eighteen. The published diary notes 628,715 cigars smoked with 43,692 gifts and 585,023 purchased costing about 10433 dollars. He drank 28,786 glasses of beer and 26,085 spirits totaling 5350 dollars and ends with I have tried all things and accomplished nothing. The record contrasts his life with Pauls urging of a steadfast faith and crown of righteousness.
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Europe
Paul
Georgia Victorious Banner of Temperance Signals Victory
A historic prose verse proclaims Georgia has banished alcohol and declares the white ribbon a symbol of victory. It extols the state's choice to defend virtue, urge temperance, and lift citizens toward freedom and God crafted by Brolden Age.
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Temperance
Brolden Age
Fragmentary Verse Riff From Youth's Companion Text
A garbled excerpt appears to present a poetic exchange about choosing provisions and a ram-seller's wife sending turkey and wine. The lines show misread words and odd spellings, suggesting OCR errors and a muddled older text. The passage centers on appetite, value, and decision with a humorous tension.
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Teo
Touching Civil War tale of heroism and kinship
An old soldier recalls a Civil War episode near Charles Town and Berryville where local women tended wounded soldiers and arranged burials. A young Confederate soldier died on a Berryville porch, buried in Charles Town. Decades later an Abingdon woman learns the soldier was her son and has his remains reinterred there.
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Washington Post
Charles Town
West Virginia
Berryville
Abingdon
Electric Bitters Endorsement Promotes Family Medicine
Mr. Frank Conlan of 436 Houston Street, New York, commends Electric Bitters as a grand family medicine for dyspepsia, liver issues, back pain, and weak kidneys. The tonic purports to regulate digestion and purify blood, restoring vigor to the weak, with a money back guarantee at W. T. Younger's drug store for 50 cents.
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S.S.S
Swift Specific CO
Atlanta, GA
Frank Conlan
Houston Street
New York
W. T. Younger
The Brute Starts Banter on Frosts Treatise
Frost has written a treatise on bachelors titled Lives of the Slunted Life. The Brute relays the question and answers in quirky banter, reflecting local humor and literary quips.
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Frost
Look Out For Her In The Chicago News
Poem warns a young man about a charming admirer whose flattery and smiles may signal trouble. It cautions against reading too much into bouquets and kindness, suggesting the maiden strings a cautious trap and that misreading her intent could bring misfortune.
Global cash per person figures across nations
The passage compares per capita cash distributions if each nation divided its money among citizens. It cites France at 35 units, the U S at 25, Great Britain 18, Germany 17, Russia 38, Japan 38, and Cuba 2, highlighting wide international disparities in potential percapita cash gains.
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France
Great Britain
Germany
Talkative men fade before action in Chicago clash
A proverb quoted by Chicago News notes that a loud talker is unlikely to back up threats, while a man who talks often tends to retreat from a fight, reflecting a cautionary stance on bravado.
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Chicago News
We’ll Take On Us the Mysteries of Things as God’s Spies
A Louisa Lane McCrady essay argues parents and teachers should nurture imagination as children’s core religio. By balancing new scientific discoveries with the old treasure of tradition, educators can guide youths to view learning as sacred, likening inquiry to God’s spies in King Lear’s spirit.
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Amon
King Lear
Cordelia
Louisa Lane McCrady
Atlantic
Thinks It Saved His Life by Dr King’s New Discovery
Lester M. Nelson of Naples Maine writes that Dr King’s New Discovery saved his life after years of use for coughs and colds. The remedy is promoted as a preventive for pneumonia and healer of weak lungs, sold at W T Unger’s drug store with a 50c and 1.00 price and a trial bottle free.
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Lester M. Nelson
Naples
Maine
Dr. King
W.T. Younger
The Best People Are The Most Tried Alderman Saying
Fragmentary quotation speaks of merit through trial and joy in hardship, attributed to an Alderman.
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Lev
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Salem W.C. T. U
Mra
Mimah Hobbs Day
L. M. Lee
N. Brown
W. B. Dillard
Ft Hoore
B. T. Semones
G. F. Moyer
W. B. Whitescarver
Lucy Gravely Stevens
Flower Mission
B. T. Lemones
Missie Whitesell
J. T. Penn
F. &. Campbell
M. WY. D
Thomas
Georgia
Lot
Ana Wellelad
Ana Rom-Selion
Mississippi River
Amory
Miss
R. Cowley
Salem Dry Goods Co
J. Horace Smith
Cardus
Sallie H. Blair
Johnson City
Tenn
Dan Cupid
Juun
Richelieu
Calvert Mills
Flmtronimuss
Campbell Ave
Henry St
Salem Ave
Roanoke Vfa
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