Dr Barker's Washington appearances encourage youth
Dr Charles Barker addressed youths in Washington from a Sunday church talk to multiple high school sessions. He stressed Garfield's success marks a strong body clear mind and brave heart, urging study moral rectitude and self discipline to guide students through education into useful work. His decades of lectures reach millions of young people.
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James A. Garfield
United States
Garfield
Barker
Washington
Keeping Young In Mind and Body Through Posture
The piece argues that youthfulness comes from staying limber and maintaining good posture. It advises regular activity or gentle games to stay agile, plus erect sitting and standing to prevent chest flattening and abdominal distension. Proper posture aids heart and lung function and reduces toxin buildup.
Pickled Tales Prompt Mabel Finney Letter
Readers respond to a letter from Mabel Finney about a cousin’s remark on a “Pickled” topic. The exchange shows community interest and lighthearted confusion over a minor misstep and humorous phrasing.
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Mabel Finney
Taft praised as Christian pacificator by visiting speaker
Dr. Barker visited Washington under the Rotary club auspices to deliver praise for Mr. Taft four years into his presidency. The speaker lauded Taft as an even tempered, good humored man who lived by high ideals and unselfish service, calling him a pacificator in many notable instances. The visit inspired boys and girls with impulses toward useful, principled lives and future success in any community.
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Dr. Barker
Washington
Rotary Club
Germany's liquor spending cited as four billion marks annually
The Western Christian Advocate reports Germany spends four billion marks yearly on liquor, about 952 million dollars. At a Frankfort on the Main anti alcohol rally a speaker said such funds could reduce debt and boost production and social progress if used for prohibition. The Advocate questions whether leaders will heed this view. The piece ends with a digression on politics and pests, noting age of parties and a remark about dandelions.
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Germany
Frankfort-on-the-Main
Contributors Take Free Re'n Day In Quiet Acknowledgment
The message notes that contributors will keep quiet for a day to allow others’ input to shine. It describes withholding explicit announcements and letting the collective input speak for itself as a form of courtesy.
Spring poems and witty vignettes from a newspaper page
A collage of light humor and verse including a doughnut wake quip, a slobbering horse cure joke, a spring poem about nature’s house cleaning, and a child’s church kneeling remark. The pieces showcase a mid-century column voice with brief anecdotes and rhymes.
Journal thanks office for lending a typewriter
A brief column note thanks the Journal office for lending a typewriter while the writer’s machine was being repaired. It directs readers to send protest actions directly to the Journal and closes with a cordial greeting.
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Journal
Rotary lecture by Dr Charley Barker praised in Washington note
A reader lauds Dr Charley Barker for a Washington lecture arranged by the Rotary Club calling elders deacons and trustees to attend church in front seats. The note also mentions a Monday talk for men at the high school and Sandy Hook for Mrs L R Severt visiting Rock Island to see her son Hubert Wilson.
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Charley Barker
Washington
Rotary Club
L. R. Severt
Rock Island
Hubert Wilson
Daily Lessons in English Eloquence and Usage
W. L. Gordon presents guidance on common misuse and pronunciation. Today's focus defines eloquent as having fluent and elegant oratory and notes sample usage in a speech.
Tailor’s wool lining finished with resilient bias cut
A description notes a lining fully wool with non wrinkle properties and resiline, stitched on a true bias to prevent twisting.
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