Shadows in the Screen Love Poem by W A Russell
A poem about shadows and perception from Chamber's Journal. It muses on whether loved ones are mere shadows behind a screen, and whether reality would change if the screen were torn, ending with the notion that shadows be we all.
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Thalf
W. A. Russell
Chamber
Big Rock Church
Col
Theodore Dent
Three Oaks
Barlow
Betsey
Israel
Ivory Love
Jame Luke Swinebroad
Maria
Seraphiny
Green
Col. Dent
Luke
Old Luke
Orly
The War Against Consumption by Dr Florence O Donohue
Dr Florence O Donohue president of Syracuse Academy of Medicine argues exercise in open air and sunlight plus nutritious food as best preventives for consumption. He notes open air hospitals abroad and a £2,000,000 donation to fight tuberculosis. Medicines have limited value and cod liver oil is outdated. creosote fell from favor. He asserts cured only by physical vigor and proper environment, not drugs.
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Florence O. Donohue
Syracuse Academy of Medicine
New York State Board of Health
State Tuberculosis Commission
King Edward
Brompton Chest Hospital
London
Bible and Education Across the World Report
The article surveys global religious and educational topics including Bulgaria’s Moslem majority, Hamburg university talk, Poura Bay Sierra Leone as a tiny five professor school, a new forestry chair at the University of Michigan with Filibert Roth, Bible distribution in India and Africa, Japanese elites at a London banquet, a Gospel wagon in Cheyenne, Wyoming, and a school examiner’s arithmetic riddle.
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Bulgaria
Hamburg
Poura Bay
Sierra Leone
University of Michigan
Filibert Roth
Bureau of Forestry
United States Agricultural Department
India
Singapore
British and Foreign Bible Society
Africa
Japan
Tokio
Oxford
Cambridge
Presbyterian Church of
Cheyenne
Wyo
Adventures of a Gunboat Monocacy Ends Its Asiatic Station
The Monocacy, a side wheel double ender launched in 1865, served against Corean pirates in 1871 and survived entombment in the Yangtse mud for 28 years. Refitted in 1900 during the Boxer outbreak, her light draft again proved valuable, earning praise as a noble ship destined for future descendants rather than sons.
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United States
Asiatic
Eastern
Corean
Yangtse
His Awful Predicament in a Satirical Sketch
A humorous mock dialogue portrays Russian nobles in a chaotic scene. The grand dukeski Ivan Alexanderyich Kutmynoseoff is set to wed the second daughter of the Grand Duchess Andabulosia of Schkinkenburg. A bungling clergyman muddles multiple names in comic fashion.
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Scottovich
Matterskoff
Fitovich
Ivan Alexanderyich Kutmynoseoff
Andabulosia of
Schkinkenburg-Katzenblatter
Anastasia Venna
Pauline Celesta
Overstudy and Idle Men Inspire Humorous Quips
A string of light anecdotes from sources including the Philadelphia Press and Philadelphia Record lampoon jealousy and vanity. An actor notes Starr the tragedian’s madness caused by his understudy’s surprise hit. A sewer digger gag crowns idle townsfolk. A Miss Withers joke closes with a flirtatious misread.
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Starr
Crittick
Philadelphia Press
Philadelphia Record
Miss Withers
Flipp
Miss Callow
Chicago Daily News
Growth of a Negro Colony in Calhoun County Alabama
A lantern talk described Calhoun school and settlement in Lowndes county as fostering a large negro farming community. The project has broken 50 acre farms across five square miles, with $18,000 paid for land and over $700 a year in tuition. Calhoun blends farm home and school to raise family standards and educate hundreds of students while serving thousands of children countywide.
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New York Post
Pitt Dillingham
Calhoun School
Lowndes County
Ala
Calhoun
Hampton
Tuskegee
Speyer
Teachers’ College of
Columbia University
Booker Washington
Alabama
Bayside New Jersey A Quirky Fishing Haven On Delaware Bay
Bayside in Cumberland County New Jersey is a seasonally bustling fishing village that attracts 1,500 residents during peak months. The town thrives as a shad fishery with vast catches and related commerce, then quiets to a handful of inhabitants in the off season as sturgeon nets and small-home life resume.
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Seraphiny
Barlow
Israel
Ivory Love
Maria
Seraphine
Barbara Warren
Matilda
Maria Swinebroad
Three Oaks
Aunt Maria
Brent Carter
Hiram Badgett
Clip Cumillins
Deacon
Big Rock
Elisha Swope
Cummins
Clip
Seraphing
Sistuhs
Ahusband
Evening Post
Delaware Bay
Cumberland County
N. J
Bayside
New York Sun
Sam
Bridgeton Bank
City Commission
New York
Philadelphia
New Jersey
Bay
Remarkable Express Train Demonstrated in Electric Railway Study
A Sheffield Literary and Philosophical society conversazione showcased John Brown’s all stations express model. It envisions through trains with self acting switches and independent motorized carriages, reducing delays from local stops and enabling safe, continuous travel between any two stations.
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Sheffield Literary and Philosophical Society
John Brown
Dunmurry
Belfast
Ireland
Scientific American
Liverpool
Sheffield
Presidents Without Descendants Reported
Albany Argus notes that among the 25 U.S. presidents, ten had no descendants. The item surveys presidential lineage and reflects on familial legacies without progeny.
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United States
Albany Argus
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S. B. Hackley
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Carter
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Mawnin
Bredder
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Swinebroad
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