Fire walking in Tokyo's fire temple awe inspires visitors
In Tokyo a Shinto fire walking rite draws priests and crowds. Fire priests prepare a bed of glowing charcoal with salt and alum mats and several performers cross the heat unburned. European skeptics decline to attempt the feat while locals buy crossing tickets and marvel at the spectacle as night falls.
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Tokio
Nestor
Femple Gardens
Ryder Haggard
Cookie
W. Cc. J. Reid
J G Cannon A Familiar Name In Public Life For Thirty Years
Washington March 4 J G Cannon of Illinois long a familiar public figure served fourteen terms. The article recalls his zeal for economy, the rise of the billion Congress, and Cannons loss in that era while noting Henderson as senior in appropriations.
Churches and Saloons debate in New York trust plan
Special report from New York discusses clergy involvement in running saloons and distributing proceeds to hospitals and libraries. It notes opposing views, cites Earl Grey’s English saloon trust, and surveys upcoming church conventions and denominational agendas across the United States, with emphasis on Lutherans, Methodists, Presbyterians, and Baptists.
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Indianapolis Journal
New York
Pregent
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England
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Philadelphia
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Methodist Episcopal Church South
Dallas
Tex
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St. Louis
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Judicial Commission
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Omaha
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St. Paul
Minneapolis
Southern Baptist Convention
Charlotte
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Cannon of Illinois Shapes House Prowess in Budget Battles
The article profiles Joseph G. Cannon of Illinois as a blunt but effective budget fighter in Congress. It recalls his rise from 1873, his control of the purse strings, and famed clashes with rivals like Henderson. It also notes his role in sundry civil and naval bills and his influence on party strategy.
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Henderson
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Peter Hepburn
Charles A. Boutelle
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Charybdis
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Out of the Ordinary Facts From 19th Century Press
A collage of world notes on laws, trade, geography, and industry. topics include Heligoland theater rules, European ship ownership, Cuban forest areas, Havre coffee stock, Suez navigation hazards, superstition in Missouri, Eskimo tattoo meanings, Greenland glaciers, Moscow hospital capacity, cotton seed value, Santa Clara church timber, Jerusalem aqueduct arches, Kansas teacher ages, Pyrenean salt mountain, French postcard circulation, Boer prisoners to Seychelles, Vesuvius population danger, Cape to Cairo telegraph, Brussels glove cutters craft, and heirloom glove-cutting knives.
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Red Sea
Suez Canal
St. Joseph
Anthropological Society of Washington
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Cal
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Pyrenees
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Vesuvius
Cape To Cairo
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London
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Poem Excerpt by Clinton Scollard in Kansas City Journal
The reader reflects on releasing toil and distress as the wind and open nature soothe the soul. The speaker contemplates freedom from constraint, joy with friends, and a return to earth’s bounty. The fragment ends by noting Poultney Bigelow’s view on Prince Henry’s reception amid tensions between the United States and Germany.
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Kansas City Journal
Poultney Bigelow
Prince Henry
Germany
The Too-Willing Boy
Mrs. Mary E. Mumford recounts a Washington Mothers' Congress story about a crowded street car scene. A well-behaved elder sister offers her seat to a young girl while a boy, disappointed, asks if he may give his seat to the next fat lady who enters the car.
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Philadelphia Times
Mary E. Mumford
Board of Education
Mothers’ Congress
Washington
Faith on the hill through a locust hedge poem line
A fragmentary verse by Emma Carvicten contemplates faith as a road winding uphill beyond a locust hedge. It argues that absence does not denote an end, implying persistence of belief.
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Emma Carvicten
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