Christmas Reflections on Pagan Roots and Charity
A writer ponders Christmas origins as a season of peace and charity. It notes Pagan sun worship, the solar festival link, and Christian adaptation, urging humane acts toward the needy and grateful observance of goodwill at the holiday.
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New Zealand Plans Old Age Pensions and Social Reforms
The article notes New Zealand's welfare moves including universal suffrage public ownership of rails and telegraphs and a pension law for those over sixty five with weekly incomes under 13 shillings. It contrasts Australia’s influence on voting and Georgeist taxation while reflecting on scientific precision in celestial movements as evidence of a creator’s power.
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Austraia
Australia
New Zealand
Henry George
The Telephone and Bicycle Transform Society
The piece notes that modern generations have grown up with the telephone and bicycle. It cites over a million telephones in use and acknowledges the vast, hard to measure social changes these inventions bring. It argues these devices save time and money and gradually make the world a simpler place to live.
Winter Fireside Reflections and Christmas Hope
A reflective meditation on family warmth during long winter evenings by a bright fire and lamp. The prose urges kindness to children, gratitude to God, and sharing joy this Christmas season, noting the enduring appeal of home and holiday spirit for eighteen hundred years.
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Argus
Osiawa Plans Greater American Exposition Next Year
Osiawa will host a Greater American Exposition to showcase products from new possessions Hawaii the Philippines and Porto Rico. The piece notes mixed opinions on Phillipine policy and a political lottery reference while echoing holiday enthusiasm and optimistic views on life.
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Osiawa
Hawaii
Philippines
Porto Rico
When a man is riding a bobby it is always a good plan
A brisk adage urges drivers to yield to police mounted on patrol, emphasizing road safety and deference to law enforcement. The saying underscores respect for officers and orderly traffic behavior in urban settings.
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Bobby
Forty-ninth Iowa Embarks for Cuba This Friday
The Forty-ninth Iowa set sail for Cuba and trade has been strong this year.
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Iowa
Cuba
United States Philippines possession praised for guidance
The Sioux City Tribune lauds the U S taking possession of the Philippines as a great responsibility. It hopes for divine guidance and prays that this new role may bring advantages previously unseen.
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Council Bluffs
Noppareil
Sioux City
Rock Valley Cough and Lung Balsam Ads Appeal
To the citizens of Rock Valley and vicinity. If you suffer with a cold or cough do not delay but get a cough and lung remedy that will cure when all others fail. Try Dr. Stoll's Cough and Lung Balsam, for sale by your druggist, Mr. Knapp. It is pleasant, children love it, it relieves and cures all, once tried you will use no other. The great trouble is many have never used this wonderful cough remedy, and to all such, would say, try a bottle and if not found better than any you have used, vie money refunded.
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