For Sale and Union Gospel Campaign in Scandia
A cluttered classifieds page lists items for sale including a windmill and tank trade, a 8 room house with 11 lots, seed wheat, Duroc Jersey hogs, milch cow, and contractor services. It also details a Union Gospel Campaign led by Chas S Earley and A E Buss in Scandia with meetings at City Hall Park and indoors when needed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chas
Earley
Republic Co
Hill City
A. E. Buss
Chicago
Scandia
City Hall Park
Mr. Buss
Lamp of Love Text Reflects Home and Faith
The fragment speaks of a lamp of love in a home and living close to God and His commandments. It asserts that obedience brings length of days, long life, and peace, framed by a religious exhortation and a biblical quotation marker.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ilay
Local worker avoids harvest toil and takes to pool
Old John Tellitts, living far from town, quits harvesting duties and travels with a neighbor to play pool. a Grinnell tram ride last Thursday featured a woman with five children who was asked if the outing was a Sunday school picnic. she insisted the children are hers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John
Grinnell
Anas
Opienie
Versatile Applicant Seeks Authority at Alaba Theater
A young Black man confronted a theater manager claiming he needed authority. After probing questions about comedy and talent, the exchange ends with the applicant joking about not needing a worn suit of doilies, suggesting a humorous but tense attempt to gain a role or status.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dodd Gaston
Mistah
Goat Eats Umbrella in Brighton Street Incident
A goat in Brighton takes a liking to umbrellas on perambulators, snatching a silk umbrella and chewing it before a nurse intervenes. The episode sparks local resentment among residents as the animal tours the area in search of a meal.
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Brighton
Ingland
Gloves mark two week old hunger at mission lunch
A shabby man shows gloves with the inscription I ate an hour ago and declares the hunger sign has kept him from repeat visits. He explains the ink, stamped two weeks ago, clings to skin and clothes, making him a walking advert for mercy at a small mission free lunch site.
Helping Sinning Women
Mrs. Jessie D. Hodder appointed superintendent of the Massachusetts Reformatory for Women with a theory that mothers should be allowed to keep illegitimate children. She argues this care will strengthen the mother and that men will be helped if they engage with the child.
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Jessie D. Hodder
Massachusetts Reformatory For Women
The Unhappy Jester Harbors A Riddle's Pull
In Harper's Weekly a humorist named Dobbs has entered a sanitarium after nervous prostration. Binks notes the joke about a riddle six weeks prior, where one is a chauffeur and the other a fur show, and Dobbs seeks the question that will yield a good answer, threatening sleeplessness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dobbs
Binks
Liggins
Higgins
Harper’s Weekly
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Beames
E. V. Rockhold
L. W. Nutter
Manhattan Business College
L. M. Wheeler
Kansas Agricultural College
Joe Hugos & Son
F. H. Larson
Farmers
O. N. Bettis
J. W. Crider
Belleville
Johnson
Stone House
Norway
R. I
Kansas Ave
Journal Office
Tom Thompson
Grant Perury
Love
Charity
Dittmann
Mission
Union Evangelistic Campaign
Chas. S. Earley
Albert E. Buss
Prof
Buss
America
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