Bible forbib organ sparks church split in Kentucky
Rev. Dr. J. W. McGarvey, president of a Kentucky Bible college, quits Broadway Christian Church after it votes to install instrumental music. He argues scripture forbids instruments. Supported by elder J. W. Zachry and 20 congregants who moved to Chestnut Street Church, which has no organ.
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Bible College of Kentucky University
South
Broadway Christian Church
McGarvey
J. W. Zachry
Prohibition Party
Congress
Chestnut Street
Wife's dream warns husband before fatal work accident
In St. Joseph Missouri Mrs Mary Johnson warned her husband John to stay home from the railroad yard. He went to work at the Santa Fe terminal on Hickory street where an inbound train cut off both legs crushed his hand mangled his body and caused fatal injuries. Her dream preceded the tragedy.
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St. Joseph
John
Mary Johnson
Santa Fe
Hickory Street
New York Magistrate Rules Smoking as Not Criminal
A New York magistrate says smoking cigarettes is not punishable by law, though his opinion suggests it ought to be. The Chicago Chronicle notes the hint stamps him as a wise and upright judge.
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New York
Chicago Chronicle
Lane
Anarctsa
le Ruy
N.Y
Average Man Speaks 11,800,000 Words a Year
In a quip from the Baltimore Sun a comparison notes the average man speaks about 11.8 million words annually, while joking that it would be nonsense to estimate his wife’s yearly word count.
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Baltimore Sun
Miss Menard cured by Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound
Woman credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with curing her after doctors failed to help during severe menstrual pain and low spirits. She reports rapid improvement after one bottle and full recovery after six, and offers $5000 for proof of authenticity. The product is advertised as curing female ills when other means fail.
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Miss Menard
Lydia E. Pinkham
Miss Groraizs McNnaxp
New York City
Vegetable Cutter Demonstrated in Farm and Home WRITE-UP
A makeshift vegetable cutter with 2x3 inch posts and nailed side boards uses a bottom board lever and a knife mounted on the front legs. The device, built to firm specifications, slices roots when the handle is pushed, raising the bottom edge to meet the knife for a clean cut.
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F. F. George
Cost Of Making Milk And Rent By Butter Fat
The New Jersey experiment station tracked five years of dairy costs to find milk production cost. Per cow daily roughage cost 6.21 cents. grain 6.11 cents. average quart cost 2.38 cents. peak 2.49, low 2.28. In year ending April 1 1901 30 cows, daily food 12.65 cents, yield 8.26 quarts per cow, cost per quart 1.54, total 2.34 with labor and interest. Also rent by butter fat proposed in California irrigated alfalfa district offering one third butter fat share to tenant, plus calves and pigs, with cattle supplied by tenant.
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New Jersey
California
Ivis
Money in Feeding Calves and Beef Profit Tips
Hereford breeder T F B Lotham says three calves can gain six pounds per day on the same feed that makes one mature steer gain two pounds. Feeding calves yields double the money compared with two-year-olds. stock with good blood reduces financial risk, and fattening calves is preferred to feeding older steers.
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T.F. B. Lotham
Our American Poets Love's Miracle and Verses on Home
A compendium of short poems from various authors and publications. It opens with a meditation on Love's miracle beyond touch and sight, followed by intimate vignettes of home life and memory. The collection features poets such as Cora A. Matson Dolson and S. E. Kiser, and ends with Martha Shepard Lippincott, each contributing compact verse on love, longing, and domestic scenes.
Comfort and Courage From a Mother's Love
A poem reflects a mother soothing a grieving child and the tension between mind and feeling. An accompanying verse questions the value of grand thinkers when dull critiques dismiss small wonders. The Washington Star features the piece alongside Ninette M. Lowater’s line about a mother’s comfort.
Christmas bells and mistletoe memories in verse
The passage presents a reflective, whimsical verse intermixing Christmas imagery with a birthday reflection. It cites R. K. Munkittrick and a line about Araminta beneath the mistletoe, then shifts to a musing on aging and staying sprightly with a touch of humor and Nature’s plan. The Washington Star excerpt adds a final note on laughter as life’s flowers.
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Washington Star
Homeward Roaming Feasts Crown the Traveling Board
A verse by Alice Crary in Good Housekeeping extols returning home as the finest feast, even as the sea and distant journeys tempt. The speaker praises a home table as superior to all abroad, valuing the comforts and abundance found there.
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Earth
Alice Crary
Poem Fragment Reflects World’s Indifference
A fragment from the Chicago Record-Herald poem asks if the world cares as one toils and questions if a single foolish act will draw notice. The piece suggests the world finally pays attention only after real consequences.
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Chicago
Peruna Promises Quick Cold Cure for Women
The advertisement claims healthy women should start Peruna at the first cold symptoms and follow bottle directions to avoid progression to chronic catarrh. It asserts taking Peruna with every cold would make chronic catarrh practically unknown and spare lives from misery.
Peruna Advertises Cold Prevention in Catarrh Stage
Mrs M J Brink and others report relief from catarrh and cold symptoms after using Peruna. Letters describe severe colds leading to nervous breakdowns and subsequent recovery after several bottles. The ad emphasizes early treatment to prevent chronic catarrh and promotes Peruna as preventative.
Anecdote on professions dates back 2000 years
Dr Keen notes a 2000 year old exchange between a lawyer and a doctor arguing that professions shape character. He claims the tale is the parent of many medical anecdotes, illustrating enduring views of ethics and profession.
Market reports show varied livestock and grain prices across cities
The notes cover January 13 1993 market activity in New York Cleveland Toledo East Liberty and Buffalo. Prices include Flour Wheat Corn Oats Butter Cheese Eggs Potatoes and livestock values for cattle hogs sheep and lambs with ranges and top quotes from each location.
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New York
Cleveland
York State
Toledo
East Liberty
Miss Sarah McGahan Credits Peruna For Flu Recovery
Albany resident Miss Sarah McGahan reports severe influenza led to hearing loss eye irritation and loss of taste but she recovered within two weeks after using Peruna. She invites readers to write to Dr Hartman for free medical advice at The Hartman Sanitarium Columbus.
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Miss Elizabeth Uber
Bassett Street
Albany
N. Y
Peruna
Sarah McGahan
3D Street
Albany, N. Y
So McGahan
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