Charity Organization Society Delves Into Reforms and Vacant Lot Farming
A Indianapolis Charity Organization Society leader discusses the balance of repressive aid and constructive effort, praising compulsory education and chattel mortgage laws, and highlighting a thriving savings branch and friendly visiting. The piece also details the society’s vacant lot cultivation program turning 170 plots into productive gardens, aiding the poor and fostering self reliance.
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Finnard
G. A.B. Post
Indiana
Board of Guardians
Board of Guardians’ Law
Charity Organization Society
Indianapolis
Savings Society
Charity Organisation Society
Indianapolis Charity Organization Society
R. T. Reagin
Friendly Inn
Flanner
J. N. Richie
Stila & Miller
Jackson Park
Deschler
Brightwood
Mount Jackson
Mapleton
Medical Nomenclature and Roots in Language History
A compact survey tracing how medical terms derive from Greek Latin and local place names. It discusses apoplexy hemiplegia chorea fever inflammation and related words, notes shifts in meaning, historic beliefs about disease, and ends with a playful spoof on uncommon coinages like tachyterminate by L. N. M. D.
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St. Vitus
Per
Derbyshire
Devonshire
Haeckel
Jena
Harvey
Cicero
L. N
M. D
Questions and Answers in 1900s Journal Q&A page
In Ohio McKinley led Bryan by a 69 036 vote margin in the last presidential election. The page covers queries about silver purity, pencils, revolving mirrors, wood hardening, patent copying, state officers of Tennessee and their salaries, and explanations of electoral division, Waterloo, colonial presidents, and volunteer regiments mustered out in the Philippines.
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Ohio
McKinley
Bryan
B. H
Kentucky
Cook
Maryland politics and terrapins in a gossiping tale
The column blends Chesapeake politics with Maryland terrapin lore. It recalls 1890s Annapolis oyster houses, the diamond-back terrapin trade, and rings of Anne Arundel County figures led by Gorman. It recounts elections, German influence, and peace-making among rival factions.
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Maryland Fifth District
Anne Arundel County
Maryland
May Brown
Frank Brown
Baltimore
Ned Martin
Annapolis
Martin
Wells
Young Mike
Company of Marines
Col
Ton
Guantanamo
Andis
Marine Corps
Mike Bannon
John
Gorman
Washington
Laurel
Mr. Gorman
Arundel County
Diplomats and arid lands query in late 19th notes
The text lists United States ministers to Persia and India with their addresses, notes absence of a Congo Free State envoy, and cites consuls in Calcutta. It then identifies arid regions across many Western states and territories defined by rainfall, followed by quiz-style questions about card counting and homestead rights for Spanish American War veterans.
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United States
Persia
India
Congo Free State
A. W. Herbert W. Bowen
Teheran
Great Britain
Choate
R. F. Patterson
Calcutta
Lessons of Life and Patience in a Pilgrim’s Speech
Poem fragment cites a traveler reflecting on life’s lessons and patience as a path to a higher state. The text compares worldly trials to preparation for heaven and notes resignation as a key virtue learned through bitterness. An unrelated notice mentions contractors and builders and timber stock in obscure shorthand.
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Margaret Manning
The Soul, Immortality, and Salvation in Clarke's View
Dr. W. B. Clarke argues that the soul does not possess inherent immortality, citing scripture to claim mortality for the soul and the necessity of Christ’s atonement. He contends eternal hell for the soul is unbiblical, urging belief in Jesus for eternal life and urging abandonment of natural immortality theories.
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Herbert
Luke
Ezek. xviii
Jude
Jesus
Nicodemus
Stephen
God
Johnviii
Jobni
W. T
Heaven
Tarsus
W. B. Clarke, MD
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Questions and
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Central City
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T. H. Potter
H. G. Shuck
M. J
Patent Office
John Jones
Tennessee
Benton McMillin
William 8. Morgan
Theodore F. King
E. B. Craig
George W. Pickle
D. L. Snodgrass
Wellington
Battle of
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Hougoumont
Napoleon
Chateau
J. W
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San Francisco
Eleventh Cavalry
Philippines
Senate
Arthur Pue Gorman
White House
Cleveland
Bob” Moss
Anne Arundel
Frank Bond
Senator Gibson
Gibson
Atlanta Constitution
Marre Jim
Montana
Wyoming
Colorado
Utah
Nevada
Arizona
New Mexico
Dakotas
Nebraska
Kansas
Texas
California
Oregon
Idaho
Shantung
Ponger
Sree
WM. H. Block, CO
Summer Hardware
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White Mountain
Higgins
Lilly & Stalnaker
Gad St
Monon
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