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Newspaper
Suburban Star
Location
Morgan Park, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1925
Page
5
A nostalgic look at home canning as a durable American skill. It argues that despite ready made foods, home canning yields better taste, savings, and preparedness. The piece urges new brides to learn canning this season to comfort husbands and ensure winter pantry security.
Rosita Forbes discusses unequal standards of evidence in the East in Liberty, noting Arabia uses a two-witness rule with a metal tongue-test to determine truth. The article cites the imam’s fire test, claiming truthfulness shields the tongue from burning while false witnesses experience dryness and scorched tongues.
A professor tests environmental effects on a monkey by placing it in a hospital and denying social contact until age four. The isolated animal cannot laugh cry or scream yet imitates human gestures and normal monkey behaviors such as playing with bells tearing objects and chewing its thumb like children.
A fragment from the Atlanta Constitution reports a speaker saying Satan is not black in appearance but that certain antics imply a rush of followers toward a satirical laundry scene. The quotation reveals racial stereotypes and coded language in a period piece.
A fragmentary note recalls the neglected tomb of poet Ben Jonson during the reign of Charles I. The site remained unmarked until a casual visitor, Sir John Young, had inscriptions cut into it.
Morgan Park Baptist and Christian churches list ministers Beuth Irving Oakley Av and Clayton H Wilton Presiding with Bible School at 9 45 Morning Worship at 11 00 Prayer Service Wednesday 8 pm. Christian Church notes residence 1925 Pryor Ave Beverly 4678 with Bible School 9 45 Morning Worship 10 50 Evening Service 7 3 Sermon topics Morning No Condemnation to Them who are in Christ Jesus Evening Jesus Under Threat of Death. Last Sunday evening service until September. Welcome to all Prayer meeting Wednesday 8 pm.
Reverend Gillis of Washington Height M E Church will be away another week on his vacation. During his absence one of the former pastors of the church will occupy the pulpit.
Divine worship Sunday at 11 a m with sermon by the pastor. Church School gathers at 9 45 a m and a kindergarten session at 11 a m. Children may be cared for in this class during the morning service hour at 31 a m church time.
Arthur C. Kientz leads the Methodist Episcopal Church summer plan with Sunday School at 9 45 supervised by C L Fickett. Morning worship at 11 features a one hour service with special music by Mrs Clemmer and Brackett. No Epworth League next Sunday due to youth attending Des Plaines Camp Meeting and Cedar Lake trip.
The Bible School meets at 9 45 AM and the morning worship lasts one hour with a sermon on The Goodness of God in the Land of the Living The singing includes Lead Kindly Light and As the Heart Panteth The last mid week service of summer is July 28 at 10628 Longwood Drive hosted by Mr and Mrs Coleman The pastoral vacation follows with August pulpit supply and the last summer service before vacation announced
Clyde McGee leads morning worship at 10 45 with Church School at 9 30 for Primary and Intermediate Departments and the Young People's Department at 12 10. The notice outlines service times and department sessions for the Beverly Hills churches.
Washington Heights church on W 104th Pl and South Racine Ave lists Rev D H Gibbs as pastor. Sunday School starts at 9 45 a m Morning Worship at 10 45 a m Vesper Service runs July and August at 7 p m Ladies Aid Society meets Wednesdays at 1 o'clock.
Wm Murray remodels on Racine Ave while Nels Johnson buys 9556 Bishop St. Eugene Woethrich had a July 13 birthday. John MacRae Jr recovers from a weeklong illness. Mrs Jas Bradford returns to Lake Geneva after a visit. The Rickabys return from New London. Elizabeth Keenan recovers post mastoid operation. The Moscell couple returns from a California trip. Wachter hosts guests from the north side. Mrs F Dean suffers tonsillitis. Wilcox Wainian’s circle meets July 27 at Fernwood Park. Gavin couple celebrate 5th wedding anniversary. Gaienel on vacation from Washington Heights Post Office, visits Waterloo. DeYoung also on vacation, plans Grand Rapids motoring. Henry Berger buys George Gray home. Grays move to a farm. Mrs Gertrude Lorence hosts A I A Juniors banco party. Keenan elected secretary of Washington Heights Woman’s Club. Goodfellow couple host Detroit visitors. Roumanos announce Julia Kennedy’s marriage to J Casey on July 5. Goodfellows’ 20th anniversary surprise at Mrs Kayler’s home.
A new theory of inheritance proposes at least five pairs of hereditary characters linked to intelligence. If both parents are highly intelligent and possess all five pairs, their children should be very bright. If both are idiots with none of the pairs, their offspring would also be dull. Mixed parental intelligence yields varied results, with occasional exceptional children and some low mentality cases.
The San Francisco Chronicle, citing the US Naval Observatory, explains that near the pole the sun rises and sets only once per year. At slight distances from the pole the sun's upper limb appears and disappears, while farther away the sun fully rises and sets within 12 hours, with twilight extending between autumnal and vernal equinoxes. The count of sunrises ranges from 365 near the Arctic circle to one at the pole, increasing with distance from the pole. Twilight persists from autumnal equinox to about November 14 and again from January 29 to vernal sunrise.
Warmer Corn tossel mocks a newcomer sweater as a tattooed look. Jost defends the garment saying it conveys boldness and danger but hopes it won’t cause harm. The exchange highlights street style tension and bravado.
The narrator hails a street car along Roosevelt Road then explores Maxwell Street, Chicago’s Ghetto. Twilight and electric lights illuminate crowded stalls as diverse shoppers—from Latins to Polish, Negroes to Irish—huddle around pushcarts, racks, and wares. Vendors cry, scenes of commerce unfold, and Jefferson Street marks a shift to a quieter alley ending near the freight terminal. The scene closes with the city’s loop train and a fading glow over the skyline.
E Alexander Powell notes Teheran’s imperial treasury is a mirrored upper floor museum packed with European gifts and regal curiosities from Sevres porcelain to a life sized Venus de Milo. The peacock throne, once brought from Delhi, was valued at twenty thousand dollars though it has vanished.
The first American Bible printed by Robert Aiken in Philadelphia appeared in 1730 with New Testament books amid colonial Bible shortages. Subsequent editions followed in 1770 and 1781, with Congress approving purchases to aid soldiers, though Aiken received no government payment and voiced no further claim.
An account notes nightly illumination of the Niagara Falls area by electric lights, dating from May 1915, organized to aid local residents and visitors. Albert Oberstadt is mentioned among participants in the illumination efforts with support from the General Electric Company.
In a compact reflection the speaker asserts pledges sacred and promises to help must be redeemed. The text contrasts the failing trust of others with the essential virtue of self respect, emphasizing duty over selfishness.
A warden jokes about a prisoner's number as a comic moment in a Pittsburgh Chronicle Telegraph item. The prisoner, numbered 189, cannot recall his digits, prompting the warden to remark the man must have been a telephone operator.
Rich transparent quartz crystals are described from Riverside County and Calaveras County in old mining notes. The Green Mountain mine yielded a ton of quartz with 47 smaller crystals, some stones weighing over a ton. Gems shipped to New York and cut by machinery included a 3,000 valued sphere. Dorado County crystals are prized for phantom inclusions.
Aristotle defines friendship as lasting when based on virtue, where each friend desires the good for the other because of their shared virtue. Such friendship endures because virtue is stable, and good men are good both absolutely and in relation to friends.
A fragmented description of an elephant moving through a scene. It mentions breath, feeding, carrying items, protecting, pulling trees and lifting a delicate branch. The passage is largely incoherent with garbled phrases and lacks clear events or dates.
Olive trees spread from Egypt and Greece through Asia Minor with olives and olive oil valued across ancient societies. The crop reached Italy around year one B C. Cape Colony in South Africa has cultivated olives since 1720.
The Titlun columnist Cal Umnist of the Titlun (Cta.) Cazelle urges readers to cultivate a savings habit. He argues money saved grows daily via interest and warns that those who never save face financial trouble and frequent losses.
A Detroit News clipping mocks a street full of jokers on Leslie avenue. The jest centers on a prank involving a comb offered to a bald guest, causing embarrassment and a vow to curb such practical jokes to restore respect.
A Kansas City Times item tells of a dying philanthropist who offered a prize for the best idea to dispose of his estate. Many replies came, from sensible to fantastical, including funding a parrot ice supply. He died laughing after a final, fatal laugh.
The text compares the mind to a garden where courage initiative imagination willpower kindness knowledge grow plants of mental skill. It argues effort to tend the mind yields fine ideas and efficiencies while neglect leads to weeds, citing figures like Newton and Pasteur as examples.
A fragmented text discusses proposals to alter the line of succession without consent, arguing it would affect many states and reflects on the philosophy of liberty of action. The source is unclear and presents only partial phrases about governance and rights.
Oaklawn reports a church group gathering with Bible School members praised as guests. Upcoming events include Pier 16 park boat trips on July 21 23 28 and 30, a White Sox game on July 29 free admission for Bible School members, and a junior conference at Manuel Church with memory passages and songs. Building plans for a new parsonage are ready as Lanpland Lumber donates blueprints.
Pierre Van Passsen notes odd enduring customs from Paris to Petrograd. In Paris a door at the palace of justice remains ajar each night since 1618 to allow citizens to seek justice round the clock, a relic kept through revolutions and empires. A reporter nicknamed The Man With the Iron Mask was denied entry by a watchman at the prison door. Across czarist Russia Elizabeth fed a garden flower guarded by a sentry for three centuries, a tale of persistent ritual.
Sir Martin Frobisher, the noted English navigator, undertook expeditions in 1577 and 1578 in search of gold in the northwest of North America. Both voyages returned with ore deemed worthless, ending the attempts.
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