Epworth League Convention in Chattanooga Report
Mrs. Blanche M. Hawkins, delegate from Warren Pa, describes the Epworth League Convention in Chattanooga Tenn. The gathering drew 36 states and six foreign countries, featured a John Wesley Limited train from Memphis, and a large tent for 12 000 attendees. Attendees praised southern hospitality, toured Lookout Mountain and Chickamauga Park, and reflected on war memory and faith with the motto Look up lift up.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Epworth League
Chattanooga, Tenn
Blanche M. Hawkins
Warren
Chattanooga
Highland Park
M. E. Church
Memphis
John Wesley, Limited
Epworth
John Wesley
Canada
Church of the North
Church South
McCabe
Susannah Wesley
Acre
Orchard Knob
Sherman’s Heights
Cemetery Hill
Washburne Stood In Stockings At Napoleon Dinner
Elihu Washburne then United States minister to France faced a court dinner at the Tuilleries. As empress retired with the ladies, guests rose. Washburne slipped off his patent leather pumps to ease sore feet and had to stand in his stocking feet among grinning diplomats. He remained grave and self controlled and never referred to the moment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elihu Washburne
United States
France
Mr. Washburne
Engineering feats across ancient and modern works
The article surveys ancient and modern engineering marvels from Rome’s 24 aqueducts delivering 50,000,000 cubic feet daily to the Beziers tunnel of Louis XIV and Babylon’s Nitocris bridge. It cites the Languedoc ship canal, U.S. steel leadership, and natural gas displacing coal in 1890.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Caracalla
Rome
M. Riguet
Louis XIV
Bezieres
France
Nitocris
Babylon
Diodorus
Languedoc Ship Canal
Straits of Gibraltar
Alabama
Michigan
Pennsylvania
New York
Minnesota
Wisconsin
United States
Great Britain
Ger
NEWSPAPER WAIFS AND JOKES IN SHORT QUIPS
A collection of brief humorous exchanges from various papers. The jokes cover social etiquette at the theater and social calls, misheard measurements, domestic remarks about in laws and wives, landlord and bathhouse banter, and memory proprietorship with wry punchlines.
Art and Music Notes From The Times Ofmasg
A pianist warns instrument sound worsens when the fane sits near a wall needing at least three inches. Mascagni writes an autobiography for an Italian news post. Several artworks fetch high sums at London auctions including Leborton and Troyon pieces while Westendorf takes a state post in Chehalis. Henry Doetsen’s million-dollar old masters collection yields twenty thousand at London sale though it houses Cranach Holbein Titian and Leonardo works.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mascagni
Sir Frederick LeburTon
Chicago Fair
London
Ball
J. F. Miller
Troyon
Zeke
Kathleen
Thomas P. Westendorf
Chehalis
Wash
Henry Doetsen
Lucas Cranach
Holbein
Titian
Leonardo da Vinci
FIELD PRODUCTS Blooming from Farm Trials Across States
Nebtaska reports the largest apple crop in state history. Muskegon County townships exceed 1000 acres of peppermint net. Alphoretta planter grows red cotton with red stalks leaf boll and bloom. Seed traced to a red cotton stalk found in Florida seven years ago. Dr. Brown in Tarkto raises 151 quarts of strawberries from a 20 by 20 foot patch. At ten cents a quart an acre could yield 1500 dollars. A 1000 acre cabbage patch in Galien Township, Michigan, transforms marsh land into valuable farmland.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nebtaska
Muskegon County
Mich
Alphoretta
Florida
Brown
Tarkto
Galien Township
Berrien County
Michigan Central
Foreign Personalities and Notable Feats From Afar
Glandstone’s health improves over five years. A New South Wales fund seeks a Sir John Robertson memorial grave marker. Mme Chevallard of France marks 100 years living on bread and fruit. Mrs Puumtre of England completes a Braille dictionary after two and a half years, 8200 pages and 26,000 words for the blind.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Glandstone
New South Wales
Sir John Robertson
Mme. Chevillard
Villegarden
France
Puumtre
Enthusiasm for God as a Christian discipline
Rev H Doyle outlines true enthusiasm as complete commitment to a worthy cause. He contrasts false fanaticism with disciplined zeal, citing Hezekiah and Joan of Arc to show how wholehearted effort achieves positive religious results and rallies others to support. Bible readings accompany the discussion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. Doyle
Hezekiah
God
Joan of Arc
New York Receives Chinese Umbrella for Fulton Plan Outreach
In a cross country exchange, New York state earned an embroidered umbrella from China as a reward for reporting the most societies adopting the Fulton plan of 2 cents per member weekly for missions. This year the umbrella transfers to the District of Columbia for the union with the highest proportionate Fulton plan adoption.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland
New York State
China
New York
Boston
District of Columbia
Baer
Golden Rule for Socials Encourages Universal Participation
The Golden Rule counsels social planners to include activities that engage all attendees and force interaction among guests. By ensuring everyone has something to do and must mingle, socials become more successful in the broad sense.
Open Parliament Speakers Highlight Scots National Convention
Over 20 speakers, including women, spoke at a Scottish national convention open session. In Brookline Mass a single prayer meeting raised 51 dollars for foreign missions. Boston area societies funded a bed at Union Rescue Mission Kneeland Street paying 8 dollars and 40 dollars yearly in nets. Christian Endeavor named on headboard. Portland Oregon First Presbyterian Endeavorers donated 185 to missions. one member became a missionary. Philadelphia South Presbyterian Church flower committee distributed 65 potted plants to sick, hospitals. Floating mission reports two seamen churches and 2300 comfort bags plus reading matter distributed as first year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mission Ridge
Bragg
Lookout Mountain
Point House
Sunset Rock
Chickamauga Park
Chickamauga
Ohio
Illinois
Michigan
Minnesota
Chattanooga
Brookline
Mass
Baptist Society
Boston
Union Rescue Mission
Kneeland Street
Christian Endeavor
Brooklyn
First Presbyterian Endeavorers
Portland
Flower Committee
South Presbyterian Church Society of Philadelphia
Philadelphia
Unseen Faith Moves Mountain in Galilee Encounter
In Galilee Jesus seeks quiet near Tyre and Sidon while facing opposition from Pharisees and Herod. A Gentile woman pleads for her daughter, and Jesus tests her faith with a challenging reply. She answers with humility, faith, and wit, and receives both healing for the daughter and blessing for herself.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jesus
Lake of Galilee
Tyre
Sidon
Judea
Galilee
Herod
John Baptist
Jesus of Nazareth
House of Israel
Rev William Ingraham Haven A Brookline Pastor Honored Leader
Revered William Ingraham Haven of the New England conference and Brookline church led the Ep worth League as first general conference district president for three years. He previously headed the Young People’s Christian League and studied at Wesleyan University and Boston University School of Theology. Son of Bishop Gilbert Haven and nephew of Bishop C K Haven, he also served on Epworth League board and led mercy and help. A separate vignette notes three core virtues accuracy promptness reliability as key to success, tied to a Boston bank job inquiry and a Darwin anecdote from Good Words.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Ingraham Haven
New England Conference
Brookline
Boston
Epworth League
Charles Darwin
John Murray
A Diplomatist
A quip from Detroit Free Press setting a 16 to 1 ratio about a woman not understanding an explanation. The exchange features a diplomatist and a conversational reaction about gender and comprehension.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit Free Press
Charge Against Prisoner In Infernal Machine Case
Brooklyn Life reports a court scene where a prisoner is charged with possessing an infernal machine. The officer frames the charge as an anarchist or bicyclist scenario, with Justice questioning the suspect’s identity and intent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brooklyn Life
Wordplay Fragments From The Chicago Record Clippings
A collection of brief humorous snippets mentioning Robbins relations Mack Brook lyn Life and a planing mill, plus a quip about a baby sleeping, a noisy household, and a transformed man on a bicycle. The tone matches early 20th century paper humor.
A Polite Circular Invites Citizens to Vote
A dainty circular arrived by mail printed in script with monogram and polite tone. It bore a square envelope and seemed ceremonial but upon reading it offered only a brief invitation to vote.
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J Norman Davies, M. D
Liberty Street
J W. Dunkle, S
Warren Savings
Geo. Ball’s
Warren, Pa
Allen & Sons
Allen Block
Corner Second and
Liberty Streets
Samuel G. Allen
Orren C. Allen
Harrison Allen
TE. F. W. Whitcomb
Third Street
M. E
Plaid
G. Ball
Hoffman Block
Notar Room
Pinsmoor & Peterson
Attorneys At Law
Warren Savings Bank
Chas, Dinsmoor
Ghas. A. Peterson
J T. Donly
Diamond St
Pittsburg
Several Courts of Allegheny Co
U. S. District and
Supreme Courts
Allegheny
Joseph T. Danforth
I. Streets
Liberty
H S. Perry
Justice of the Peace & Conveyancer
Water Street
Woodard & Lesser
A. McAlpin, E
RK. W. Stuart
D.D.S
Wre & Schnur
Hazeltine Building
W. Wilbur
WM. Schnur
W W. Freeman
Hazeltine
W A. Greaves, E
Thompson
Beaty Block
D. I. Ball, Co
C. Thompson
Citizens Nat’l Bank
Mayron Waters
E. T. Hazeltine
David L. Gerould
L. W. Dennison
M. Waters
P. J. Bayer
C. A. Cornen
O. F. Hoffman
J. M. Siegfried
W. Parshall
Jas. O. Parmlee
Indsey & Parmlee
Johnson’s Exchange
M. Lindsey
J. 0. Parmlee
Local Directory
Warren Borough Officers
Congress
Charles W. Stone
Senate
Charles M. Shortt
Assembly
Paul W. Brown
Charles H. Noyes
Critt Marsh
H. ©. Huntington
George F. Yates
Wm. McCray
D. M. Howard
A. W. Jones
John A. Akins
B. Sampson
Roger Mooney
Fred B. Jackson
Railroad Guide
Eric R. R
Eastern Standard
East West
Ave
Wwe
Tpramm
Western West
Dunkirk, North
New York and
BR. R
Allegheny Valley
Pittsburgh
Acororee
A. Weiss
Clothier
Water St
the Mail Office
HE Mail and
Philadelphia Weekly Press
Ackley & VW Heelock
Penn’a
C. Best
Averill
Greenland
News OF the World
New York Weekly Tribune
Geo. W. Best
Tribune
New York City
Sapolio
HH. A. Archer
M.D
Oxford St
N. Y
Cartos Martyn
D. D
Castoria
Eowrin F. Parver
125Th Street
7Th Ave
Tae Centaur Company
Murray Street
Olean
Olean, NY
Foley Bro’s, Proprietors
Foley
Bro’s
Tennessee
Washburne
Louisville
Alice
Harper’s Round Table
Ocean Bar House
Stone
Harper’s Bazar
Finn
Boston Transcript
Music and Art
Field Products
Banks
Toots
Tanks
Hood
C. H. Venable
Keithsburg
Mars
C. HL Venable
Ill
I. Sarsaood
Hood’s
Ures
Hood’s Pills
Endeavor
U.S
W. J. Yates
A. M
GEMS
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Herman Merivuale
W. I. Haven
Christ
Robbins
Mack
Chicago
Pitcher’s Castoria
Chicago Post
Port of Love
Fate
Milton Goldsmith
Mary A. Townsend
Thou
J. H. Mackley
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