Lodge management urged as progress shown in Draska
Washington’s grand recorder urges active work in Draska with 1907 gains expected to surpass recent years. He notes a defunct lodge can revive with new financiers and praises members living up to obligations as best path to advancement in the order. The California AOUW recalls the order's long history since 1868, founded in Meadville, Pa. by John Jordan Upchurch.
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Kansas
California
Odd
Indiana
Odd Fellowship
Spollo Lodge
Philadelphia
Grand Recorder
Washington
Uch
Draska
Order
Meade
John Jordan Upchurch
Knights of Pythias Endowment and Honors Update
The text outlines changes in titles from ranks to knighthood style within the order. It notes an endowment rank with 4600 active sections and $5,950,291 paid to 12,402 deceased gift settlements since 1877. It reports many new uniform rank companies, a thriving military branch, temple construction, and a monument planned for Past Supreme Chancellor D B Woodruff in Macon.
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Merly
Order
Supreme Lodge
D. B. Woodruff
Macon
Protected Home Circle Initiation Class in Sharon Headquarters
The Protected Home Circle plans a May initiation for a class of about 1,000 candidates under the supreme lodge vision. The organization reports substantial assets and shows the Sharon Pennsylvania headquarters with ownership and value details.
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Supreme Lodge
Pennsylvania
Sharon
Order
Woodmen of the World to Build Bridgeport Temple
The Woodmen of the World plan a new temple in Bridgeport Connecticut costing about $35,000. The organization has expanded greatly in the past year and now claims over 102,000 members.
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Bridgeport, Conn
Hall's Catarrh Cure advertised with $100 reward
A period advertisement claims Hall's Catarrh Cure cures catarrh by acting on blood and mucous surfaces with a $100 pledge if it fails. It cites testimonials and lists F J Cheney & Co Toledo as makers, with 75 cent pills for constipation and another note about air travel fiction offering a fifty thousand dollar prize.
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Hall
F. J. Cheney & CO
Toledo
Farms to Rent by J A Y Ashby
Neighbors fooled by a dramatic coughy tale. Eva Uncapher credits Dr King’s New Discovery with curing a deadly cough after weeks bedridden. Hospital and pharmacy notes advertise the medicine with trial bottle free and prices 50c and 1.00.
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Dr. King
Eva Uncapher
Grovertown
Stark Co
Indl
Steward’s Pharmacy
Bucklen's Arnica Salve Proclaimed Safe Cure
Charles Walters of Alleghany Sierra County declares he has found Bucklen's Arnica Salve cures all injuries from burns to boils and sprains. He praises the product's rapid healing and guarantees it at Stewart's Pharmacy.
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California
Bucklen
Charles Walters
Alleghany, Sierra Co
Mr. Walters
Stewart
Muchman Promises Large Gift to College
A dialogue notes a donor, Muchman, offering 100000 dollars to a college if trustees raise another 100000, name a building after him, and let him oversee the funds, with several other conditions. An advertisement for Pazo Ointment claims cure for piles in 6 to 14 days.
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Muchman
Shallenberer
Wright
Erik
The Confessional. A Common Sense View on Penance
The Rev. Father Fidelis Games Kent Stone recounts a Philadelphia mission arguing confession remains essential. He defends its burden on priests, rejects anti confessional charges, and shares his personal journey from Protestant doubt to Catholic belief.
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Father Fidelis Games
Kent Stone
C. P
Philadelphia
Tam
Newark
Bayley
Baltimore
Schuylkill River
Branetiere Died Revealing Catholic Conversion Shock
Ferdinand Branetiere the renowned French writer and critic died recently. He led the Revue de Deux Mondes for years and resembled Sainte-Beuve in influence. He lectured at the Ecole Normale Supérieure and the Sorbonne and announced his conversion to Catholicism at Lille during the Catholic congress, presenting a public confession in a keynote address.
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Ferdinand Branetiere
France
Revue de Deux Mondes
Sainte-Beuve
Brunetiere
Ecole Normal Superieure
Sorbonne
Europe
Newman
Lille
Why She Became an Catholic
Mrs. Elizabeth Thurman McCormick daughter of the late Senator Allen G. Thurman of Ohio and wife of the late R. C. McCormick former governor of Arizona has joined the Roman Catholic Church. She said she called the step of her own free will and cites greater solace and spiritual comfort in Catholicism. She was baptized by Rev Richard J. Cotter of Lake Placid New York who helped her leave Protestantism. Her father was raised Methodist and her grandfather was a prominent Methodist. Her mother was Scotch Presbyterian.
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Elizabeth Thurman McCormick
Allen G. Thurman
Ohio
R. C. McCormick
Arizona
McCormick
Richard J. Cotter
Lake Placid
N. Y
Cardinal Merry del Val The Vatican Secretary of State
Cardinal Merry del Val Raphael Merry del Val is described as a distinguished theologian student and linguist when named secretary of state at thirty eight. He is fluent in Latin English French German and Italian and treats Latin as a mother tongue.
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Cardinal Merry del Val
Raphael Merry del Val
Vatican
Short Sermons and Saintly Adages from Religious Figures
A collection of aphorisms and maxims urging virtue and gratitude from bishops and saints. Key lines exhort forgiveness in victory and defeat, keep death before the eyes as a caution, value prudent long term judgment, cultivate trust and gratitude, avoid rejoicing at others misfortune, and seek inner peace to inspire others. The mix includes Spalding Dignam Bernard de Blois and others.
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Bishop Spalding
St. Bernard
Abbs Roux
Father Dignam
L. de Blois
Spalding
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the Confessional
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Lynn
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