Interesting Covenant Church address on China mission work
The Rev. R. A. Blair spoke at Covenanter Church about his Tak Hing Chau field in South China. He described urban living conditions, sanitation neglect, women’s status, and the mission’s medical educational and evangelical efforts aided by three on site missionaries and local helpers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Covenanter Church
R. A. Blair
Tak Hing Chau
South China
Blair
China
Covenanter Mission
Canton
West River
Iung
Transformation and Mission Plea Before Awakening Ends
A speaker warns that the world should see Christianization completed before awakening ends. He urges spreading Christianity to the country now or risk rejection after it becomes forceful. The address closes with a call to support mission work through travel, giving, and prayer.
Hall's Catarrh Cure a promised cure with oath
Lucas County Ohio December 6 1886 Frank J Cheney senior partner of F J Cheney Co sworn to pay one hundred dollars for every case of catarrh not cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Cure advertised as taking internally and acting on blood and mucous surfaces. Testimonials offered free. Sold by all druggists 75 cents. Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank J. Cheney
F. J. Cheney & Co
Toledo
Hall
A. W. Gleason
Lem Jackson's Civil War Service and Quiet Mountain Life
Lem Jackson, a lazy mountain resident near Greenville Tennessee, served in the Confederate army after a life of idleness. He sustained multiple wounds, including a right thigh, left shoulder, and a body gunshot, yet returned to duty. After General Lee surrendered, he returned home, remarking that war isn’t so bad and that many days bring little to do.
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Lem Jackson
Greenville
Tenn
Lem
Rip van Winkle
Lei
Dr. Girdner
Waal
Appomattox
Honest Lem
Harper’s Weekly
Electric Bitters Promote Female Health Claim
An ad claims Electric Bitters help nervous women with melancholy appetite loss headaches insomnia and fainting spells. It asserts the remedy cures female and nervous troubles and backache with weak kidneys. Sold by Lemmon's Pharmacy for 50 cents with satisfaction guaranteed.
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J. E. Lemmon
Lemmon
Curious Training Methods In Baseball Circles
An American Magazine piece surveys eccentric training practices used by players. It notes a National League catcher who hauled five gallons of iron beef and wine for strength, twenty five pound balls rolled on the abdomen, iron rolling pins and numerous oils, electric hot pads, and makeshift gyms in hotel rooms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Magazine
Preparedness and social change, Burke quote insight
A reflection on how broad shifts in human affairs come from collective minds and sentiments. Opponents of the change are portrayed as resisting not just human plans but what may be Providence, driven by fear and hope shaping the outcome.
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Burke
Home Course In Poultry Keeping Explains Egg Quality
An agricultural article outlines marketing eggs by quality, coop marketing, and cooperative selling. It details case count versus weight pricing, candle testing to sort eggs, freshness rules, packing practices, and fattening methods for broilers and pullets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Denmark
Anti Injunction Bill in Doubt and Related Proposals
Washington May 14 It is unlikely that any anti injunction legislation will pass this congress with the Moon bill facing opposition from labor unions and limited prospects for passage. Parcels post bills face merchant opposition and doubtful action this session. Rockefeller Foundation funding stalls with Senate delays and a possible state charter considered. Corporation tax receipts exceed expectations with about 26 million dollars expected from roughly 275 000 corporations. railroad bill amendments appear resistant but final shape awaits conference. The president presses postal savings and other measures while sugar trust inquiries fade.
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Rockefeller
Washington
Congress
House Judiciary Committee
Taft
Rockefeller Foundation
John D. Rockefeller
Senate
Gallinger
MacVeagh
House
House Post Office Committee
Postal Savings Bank
Dayton Vaudeville Show Opens With Two Performances
A vaudeville and musical show welcomes audiences with two shows today. An afternoon matinee and a larger evening performance will take place in a big tent across from Whiting's elevator. The band concert earlier drew praise for the boys in neat uniforms.
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Dayton
Whiting
Lost to the World at Graham Maylith company at Davenport
The Lost to the World company at Graham Maylith offers an extraordinary attraction. It has run 35 consecutive weeks at the Princess theatre in Davenport, proving meritorious performance with highly comical situations that lighten spectators hearts.
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World” Company
Graham, Maylith
Princess Theatre
Davenport
Youthful Prodigies Face Harvard Entrance Challenge
The piece profiles two young geniuses: William James Stdis, son of a Harvard professor, who recently passed Harvard entrance exams, and Norbert Weiner, who left Tufts at 15 after finishing the four year course in three. Weiner, now 12, entered Tufts early, excels academically, and shuns sports.
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United States
Harvard
William James Stdis
Norbert Weiner
Tufts College
First Comedy At Athens On A Wagon Stage
Thalia the muse of comedy and lyric poetry notes the 562 L. C. date when Susanion and Dolon, claimed inventors of theatrical exhibitory, staged the first comedy in Athens on a four wheeled wagon. They received a basket of figs and a cask of wine as reward.
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Thalia
Susanion and
Dolon
L. C
Athens
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BR. A. Blair
Arod
South
Chena
The
Pep
Lucas County
State of Ohio
Will
By Milo M. Hastings
Kansas Experiment Station
United States Department of Agriculture
American Press Association
Rural Parcels Post
Meyer
Express
Foster and Bennet
Anjor
Sugar Trust
Custom House
Percy
Mississippi
Lorimer
Linois
Saadfield CO
Atlanta
Mason Transfer & Storage CO
Iowa
Wesell
U.S
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