Royalty may host ecumenical Methodist conference at Wesley Chapel
London dispatch explores whether King Edward and Queen Alexandra will welcome the third Ecumenical Conference of Methodism to John Wesley's Church in September. The piece notes court mourning, possible royal proximity, and the challenge of access for thousands of delegates, promising a strong American British attendance and detailed program highlights.
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Indianapolis Journal
London
Ecumenical Conference of Methodism
John Wesley
Edward
Queen Alexandra
Marlborough House
Frederick
John Bond
Bond
Corporation of
City Road
King Edward
Pall Mall
Harrison
Washington
United States
Great Britain
England
Church of England
St. Paul's Cathedral
Wesley
America
Great
Methodist Episcopal Church
M. E. Church South
Methodist Protestant Church
Atlantic
W. T. Davidson
British Wesleyan Church
C. B. Galloway
Jackson, Mis
Hurgt
Potts
Canada
Walters
M. E. Zion Church
W. C. Adamson
Georgia
Goucher
Baltimore
Hammond
Nashville
H. K. Carroll
R. W. Perks
Goodsell
Chattanooga
S. H. Adams
Savannah
Free Church Council
Congregationalists
W. J. Townsend
New Connection Church
Christian Unity
New Methodist Church
Wiliam Griffith
Free Methodist Churches
George Osborn
South
Red Desert Wyoming Described In Harsh Summer Heat And Settler Push
The Red desert of Wyoming is portrayed in brutal detail with blazing noonday heat, scarce water, and alkaline soil. Sage brush and greasewood dominate the landscape while wildlife like coyotes and lizards persist. Settlers bring irrigation, transform the region, and plan crops as gypsum-rich soil enriches farms. J. D. Whelpley reports from Red Desert, Wyoming.
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Red Desert
Wyoming
J. D. Whelpley
London City Births a Busy Square Mile By Day
London Times notes the lord mayor's square mile swells with daily life. By day the city hosts about 901,384 people in 1891 with 29,520 employers and over 200,000 male workers, while night crowds dwindle to around 90,000. The census reveals scarce pawnbrokers and old clothes dealers, few tick-tack manufacturers, and minimal vanity industries. Daytime rush starts before dawn, with thousands entering between midnight and five am and totals rising to about a million by early evening.
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London Times
England
Great Folly of War A German Soldier Appeals to French Chivalry
From the advance sheets of a forthcoming statistics book credited to Count Waldersee, a German officer argues that seven centuries of Franco German warfare ended in mutual losses and calls for peace. He claims 381 battles and numerous sieges show both nations are quits, urging France and Germany to bury the hatchet and become allies for civilization.
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Waldersee
Feld Marshal
Germany
France
William
Benevento
A. D
Namur
Mayerice
Torgau
Mantua
Aschensberg
Zusmarshausen
Ulm
Quartrebras
St. Quentin
Quesnoy
Quistello
Ypern
Manfred
Sicily
Charles of Anjou
Luxembourg
Guinegate
Bevaria
Saxony
Weimar
Reich
Metz
Strassburg
Toul
Verdun
Franche Comte
Alsace-Lorraine
Europe
Pronunciation Confusion Over Nun None and Known
A reader disputes a Bookman claim that none is pronounced as known. The writer notes educators and dictionaries favor nun for none, while some uneducated speakers say known. The piece critiques dictionary authority and calls for clarity in pronunciation guidance.
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Bookman
County Fairs Profitable Year Tops State Reports
Reports to the State Board of Agriculture show county fairs and race meetings in Indiana have had a highly profitable year. About a hundred fairs opened in June with more in July, many lasting three days to a week into September. Exhibitors, farmers, fruit growers and livestock men sent strong exhibits, and treasurers report healthy bank balances after premiums and expenses.
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State Board of Agriculture
Downing
Indianapolis
One Porter's Experience in Milwaukee Free Press
A sleeping car porter recalls a trip from Chicago to Jersey City with a family of three. He details serving ice water and coffee, cleaning shoes, and a late tip from the father. The boy refuses the nickel, calling it plugged, and the father pockets it after a brief debate.
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Milwaukee
Sonny
Primitive-Savages Sack Dances and Demon Representations
An exploration party encounters a fortified Golok encampment where hostile reception yields to parley. Chiefs and traders barter, then host a dancing display with sack-dancers, masked demon figures, and a dramatic demon battle staged for spectators in yak-skin attire amid drums and horns.
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W. c J. Bett
Taka-Mak
Ta-Kou
Duba
Golok
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