DUNS DELINQUENTS Plan at Centenary Church Portland
The Centenary Methodist Church in Portland Oregon adopts a novel fundraising plan proposed by Rev J J Waters. A large visitor roster with two dollar credit marks beside each name is posted in the vestibule. At month end contributors are marked, creating a steady pressure to give. The system aims to shame delinquents into paying. The plan was approved unanimously.
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Stent Monitor
Methodier
Oregon
Cen
Tenary Methodist Church
Portland
Ore
Chicago Chronicle
J. J. Waters
After Seventeen Years a California Miner Marries the Nurse
A California romance of poverty and riches follows widow Cecelia Nougues who became a nurse and married John Tite, once a gold miner who waited 17 years to wed her. The couple met in a sickroom in Oakland after a long separation and wed on October 14.
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California
Cecelia Nowgues
Pacific Coast
John
Tite
Nongues
Sirs
Nougues
Oakland
Charles W. Wendte
Remarkable 22 Year Settlement of Old Credit Debts
A Springfield shoe dealer, ruined by stock depreciation and unpaid accounts, paid off creditors in full after 22 years, despite initial 50 cent on the dollar compromises. He avoided naming himself, stating his conscience and modesty would be harmed by publicity.
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Mls
Springfield
Mass
Republican
Intoxication Cured by Cabbage in Ancient Belief
A brief note claims cabbage cures intoxication. It states Egyptians eat boiled cabbage before other foods if they plan to drink wine after dinner. The item reflects a historical belief in cabbage as a remedy and mentions native Egyptian practice.
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Egypt
Used Afloat and Ashore Bucksaw on Sea and Land
The piece recalls a middle aged man discovering the bucksaw’s wide use from a New York Sun piece. It contrasts wood cutting on schooners and canal boats with land work, noting bucksaws aboard deep water ships as a weed float tool used aboard far offshore as on farms.
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New York Sun
Effert
Jon
Fastest blind typewriter Carrington sets Roxton claim
Miss May Carrington of Forton, employed as secretary and bookkeeper, reportedly wrote 108 unfamiliar and 144 familiar words by dictation with hardly any mistakes in three minutes using touch typing. The feat, claimed as a blindfold writing record, underscores growing adoption of touch typing and its instructional use for the visually impaired.
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Carrington
Forton
Roxton
May E. Carrington
Miss Carrington
Miss Carr
Admonished Judge Hammock Known Fight Lover
The Glasgow News recalls Judge Wilson Hammock of Lebanon Tennessee who died in February. He was praised as highly gifted but linked to a fatal early life incident. In Hartsville district court a heated insult led him to adjourn, then smash a chair over an attorney’s head before resuming: “Gentlemen, when anyone cares to insult this court, let nothing prevent.”
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Wilson Hammuck
Lebanon
Tenn
Glasgow
Judge Hammock
Hartsville
Hammock
Loreley on the Amazon and a German novelists tale
A German paper reports a Porto Allegro lore on a golden haired woman who ensnares men at night near a river bend, origin of the legend questioned as possibly German. The piece also notes Aloncar’s tale Effects of Diamonds, Sarah Bernhardt’s view on diamonds, her gown adornments, and city population figures for Berlin Hamburg Munich Leipsic Breslau Dresden and Cologne. An oak tree’s annual water uptake is cited as about 123 tons.
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Porto Allegro
Amazon
Berlin
Hamburg
Munich
Leipsic
Bresau
Dresden
Cologne
Hardest-Worked Woman in the White House Revealed
A column based on letters described as The Inner Experiences of Cabinet Members Wife, exposing life in the White House. It claims the current first lady has more leisure, minimal domestic control, a housekeeper runs affairs, and reporters press for daily notes while she avoids being informed about steward reports including rat problems.
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Whit House
Cabernet
Ladies' Name Journal
Washington
Fife
White House
America
Mr. Steward
Turkeys From Wild Covey Roost In Virginia Farmyard
Wild turkeys roost with domestic flock near Traveler's Repose West Virginia. Yeager and daughter Pearl carried six young birds home by bonnet after a spring covey encounter on Cheat Mountain. The birds grew into esteemed, tableworthy fowl welcomed by the farmyard neighbors.
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Virginia
P. M. Yeager
Traveler's Repose
W. Va
Monterey
Han
Richmond Dispatch
Miss Pearl
The Chinaman's Pigtail Haircut in Prison Policy
A Washington Post piece notes that cutting the pigtail hair of Chinese men signifies insult and that public works prison in Toronto will allow inmates to keep their pigtails. It contrasts with U.S. state prisons where hair is cut short, and affirms that the pigtail is treated as sacred in some contexts.
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State Department
Washington Star
Howdy
San Francisco
Amon
Washington Post
Larkins
Sydney
N. 5
Hus
David
Jericho
Public Works
Toronto
Belief in Fetiches Thrives Among City Negroes
The Philadelphia Record reports that many colored people in the city believe in fetishes. Head Keeper Manley at the zoo supplies skin charms from reptiles and soft parrot feathers for love luck. Fighters also prize tail bristles for courage and strength.
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Manley
Zoo
Philadelphia
Sight of Caterpillars in Front of Them
A renowned French scientist states that caterpillars cannot see beyond a centimeter or about two fifths of an inch. The claim discusses larval vision limits and implies limited forward sight in these insects.
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