Knights of Pythias Annual Meeting Names New Officers
Traverse City division number 56 Uni form Bank Knights of Pythias elected officers for the coming year: Captain J. W. McIntosh First Lieutenant E. R. McCoy Second Lieutenant O. C. Isgiig Treasurer J. T. Hannah Recorder L H. DeZoete Guard J. M. Isging Sentinel E. E Miller. George Sutman shows a hollow log with an inside bark as perfect as the outside and a rare figure 3 formed by a circular growth in the cross section.
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Traverse City
Uniform Bank
Knights of Pythias
J. W. McIntosh
E. R. McCoy
O. C. Isgiig
J. T. Hannah
L H. DeZoete
J. M. Isging
E. E Miller
George Sutman
Lutman
Funeral of Mrs. Sally Tompkins Held in Maple City
The funeral for Sally Tompkins who died last Saturday was held Monday in Maple City. Rev. A A Darling preached. She was eight years three months old, born in New York, moved to Grand Traverse County thirty four years ago last October. Her husband died thirty five years ago. Survived by three children Lorenzo Tompkins of this city Mrs Robert Ritsy and another daughter in Ohio eight grandchildren twenty five great grandchildren and three great great grandchildren a brother C H Morse and four sisters. Mrs Tompkins was a worthy Christian woman.
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Sally Tompkins
Maple City
A. A. Darling
New York
Grand Traverse County
Lorenzo Tompkins
Robert Ritsy
Ohio
C. H. Morse
Tompkins
Young Man's Advancement Question Debated by Lyceum
Dockeray's Business College lyceum met Tuesday to hear a debate on whether the 30 year old generation has fewer opportunities than earlier decades. Judges favored the affirmative while several speakers defended the negative. Messages included powder manufacture for the U S navy and a paper on Postal Banks of England.
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Miss Kropp
Mr. Greensted
D. J. Dyer
U.S. Navy
Louis Campbell
England
Sermon at Evangelical Church Urges Immediate Salvation
Rev. Salsbury urged listeners to abandon excuses and commit to Christ now. He warned against delaying until death and emphasized that only wholehearted surrender brings true happiness, noting that church members must be sincere rather than self righteous. An altar call followed with several seeking rest in the Lord. meetings continue this week at Ninth and Wadsworth.
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Salsbury
Evangelica Church
Ninth and
Wadsworth Streets
Silent City Fragments Echo From Pompeii Across Time
The poem contemplates the line Conticuere omnes found on Pompeii walls and asks what silence means for past lives as a poet hears echoes of ruin. It reflects on love of life, human endeavors, and the fate that left people and walls in dust, inviting present readers to hear their silences.
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Pompeii
Samuel V. Cole
Critic
Ghostly West by South Guiding Sailors in Sea Ghost Tale
In a calm but perilous South Atlantic scene a ship Paul Revere sails with crew stranded after loss of comrades. A mysterious voice directs Captain Cushman to steer west by south, a Bible page appearing as if guiding fate, while survivors face a harsh night and distant help.
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Mother Carey
Ocean
South Atlantic
Heaven
Abel Cushman
Paul Revere
Cash
Sonny
Eliphalet Coleby
Mizpah
Rescue at dawn on the Paul Revere
Captain Cushman and Coleby command a rescue at sea after two men are saved from a distant object spotted on the horizon. The younger survivor recalls a prior meeting, while Cushman quarters the ship to the dawn lookout and seeks the truth of their fate.
Western Kentucky odd procession draws town’s laughter
Dr Hiram French recalls a bizarre street pageant in a western Kentucky town. An eccentric bachelor farmer led a mule cow calf and hog with ropes tied between them while the coon dog brought up the rear. The animals crept along over 20 acre accident.
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Kentucky
Hiram French
Tennessee
Louisville
Shifting Social Mores and Fashionable Speech
The New York Tribune weighs changing manners in society noting brutal frankness, casual swearing, and the decline of gentility among the fashionable. It compares a 15 to 20 year old novel’s Vere de Vere and bourgeoise to today where the roles may be reversed and slang dominates.
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Billingsgate
Vere de Vere
New York Tribune
Canvasbacks From Alaska Fetch Similar Quality In Cities
A San Francisco note asserts canvasbacks from Alaska's breeding grounds are identical in quality to Baltimore ducks. It claims San Francisco and Baltimore serve similar birds with price differences. all U S canvasbacks originate from vast Alaskan marshes and feed on wild celery in Suisun and Chesapeake marshes.
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Jan
Suen Francisco
Baltimore
San Francisco
United States
Alaska
Minnesota
Chesapeake Marshes
Rocky Mountains
Great Marshes
Sacramento
San Joaquin Rivers
Suisun Marshes
Chesapeake
Grand Trunk Railway Brake Victim Recovered With Kidney Pills
Gravenhurst February reports Samuel Murray, a Grand Trunk Railway brake, paralysed and poisoned after a hand injury, was deemed incurable by four doctors. He recovered after using Dodd's Kidney Pills, later inspected by life insurers who declared him a first class risk. The case drew attention to claims of a total disability and later recovery enabling a policy recommendation.
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Gravenhurst
Samuel Murrayv
Grand Trunk Railway
Brotherhood of Railway Trainwell
Dodd
Dodds Medicine Cor
Murray
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