The Visible Man and the Soul Within Our Time
A reflection argues that society worships the external man focused on wealth and comfort while neglecting the inner soul. It warns that happiness comes from cultivating the true self rather than materiel abundance and urges abandoning a overcoat religion for a nobler approach to life and faith.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
JL Corinthians
Africa
Oreas
Ae Ren
Itolizion
Jhotien
Coeur
Areda
Sanitary Tooth Brush Patented For Scientific Cleaning
A new sanitary toothbrush designed to cleanse molars scientifically has been patented. It features a casing with a spirally grooved shaft held in place and a hollow handle that turns the brush as it rests over the teeth, similar in motion to automatic screwdrivers.
Local Theatre Troupe Faces Snowbound Curtain Call
Amid a blizzard the country theatre troupe presses on as lovers muse on fate and love. Ten feet of snow blocks the stage door while performers improvise and fans wait for word on the show’s fate.
Industrial Items Snapshot Across Nations
The report lists diverse industries by country and region, from Manila’s single brewery and London’s 15 060 policemen to Japan’s 73 cotton mills and India’s electrically lit jute mills. It notes sugar, coal, tobacco, and eggs production and consumption figures across multiple states and empires.
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Manila
Japan
Santiago
London
Italy
Egypt
Berlin
Tennessee
America
Needed Inventions Spark Laughs and Candid Wit
A playful list features a bicycle lamp that stays bright a shelf that won t topple an ice pick that breaks the ice a scale that lies for the fisherman a servant s alarm clock that won t wake the family a safety catch for a faulty elevator an automatic peach basket bringing peaches up a piano sounded the same to girl and neighbors a palatable health food kids eat willingly an adjustable ring for summer engagements an ambulance surgeon who can tell drunkenness from a skull fracture.
Flies Invade Egypt as Israelite Households Remain Clear
The excerpt describes swarms of flies descending on Egypt while the Israelites’ houses remain untouched. A child asks why there are no flies on Israelite children, echoing the ongoing famished and restless scene. The dialogue blends biblical imagery with playful schoolroom banter.
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Israel
Frey
Mall
Aithaenaties
Domestic Thrills From Hilarious Newspaper Quips
A Chicago News quip collection contrasts startling wakeful fire alarms with a humorous domestic moment about a wife claiming the baby swallowed her thimble. The tone echoes sensational urban humor.
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Chicago News
Why am I shook? Wife murderer questions judge
In an Indianapolis Journal blurb a wife killer asks why he feels shaken as a jailer explains that women visitors are sending bouquets and cakes to a man on another floor who killed his wife’s pet dog.
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Indianapolis Journal
Figures and Thistles Opinion Verse
A short, aphoristic piece argues thinking aids thinking and urges that knowledge is powered by the holy spirit. It suggests a moral test for churches and links faith to practical action in doing good.
The Human Body Facts From Everyday Life
An exploration of body size, weight, brain mass, and bodily limits. The piece notes a tall man is rare, weight scales with height, lunatics weigh less on average, and racial bone weight differences exist. It explains blood circulation speed, heart output, and potential travel distances of blood. It cites brain weights, nerve counts, and muscle capacity, with notes on foot and hand cushions, tongue motion, and limb usage patterns.
The Oculist’s Cautionary Color Blind Joke
An oculist recalls a failed railroad color test bid worth five thousand a year. He misread signals when the railroad president mistook colors and called him an impostor. The tale ends with a warning to guard secrets and avoid foolish pride.
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Roa
FEBRI CURA: A Sweet Chill Tonic of Iron Promoted
An advertisement touts FEBRI CURA as a powerful tonic to combat chills and fever, claiming it outperforms quinine with added iron. The pitch promises a money back guarantee if it does not cure and warns against inferior substitutes, sold by B. W. Hargrave.
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B. W. Hargrave
Christmas Island Settlement Opens in Indian Ocean
About forty men live on Christmas Island 200 miles south of Java where phosphate deposits and coffee experiments attract settlers. Since 1896 Andrew Ross led efforts, erecting houses and plantations while importing workers from Java to prepare for mining. The island hosts limited wildlife with five mammal species and a rich bird life during the rainy season.
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Christmas Island
Indian Ocean
Java
Flying Fish
Andrew Ross
Cocos Keeling Islands
Pasage
Singing Well of Harris County Texas Delivers Odd Music
A 60 year old well, west of Cedar Bayou in Harris County, Texas, known as the Singing Well, emits Aeolian like tones that rise with west winds and peak before northerly blasts. The 60 foot deep water-filled bore once drew attempts to fill it in. water remains clear with a blue tint and the phenomenon is unique to this site.
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Cedar Bayou
Harris County
Texas
Watkins
Spider halts 23 year old Nantucket clock at last
A spider that spun a web around a pendulum and endured many failures finally stopped a 23 year old clock in Nantucket. The tale highlights patient perseverance as the spider achieves its unlikely feat.
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Nantucket
Train Schedules on North Carolina Branch Lines
Detailed timetable notes list daily and weekend train runs on the Washington, Nashville, Clinton, and Midland NC branches. It includes departure and arrival times between Weldon Halifax Plymouth Tarboro Goldsboro Raleigh and Richmond with late connections via Train No 72. Officials EMERSON and KENLY supervise operations.
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Scotland Neck Branch Road
Laves Weldon
Halifax
Shotland Neck
Greenville
Rigeser
Weldon
Sunee
Washington
Parneile
Parcocele
Smithfield
Goldsboro
Nashville
Eave Howey Mount
Spring Hope
Kecky Mount
Clinton
Eaves
Warsaw
WY Oidon
Richmond
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Herard
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Uncle Sam
United Kingdom
Astoria
Oakley
NEW Ocean Settlement
ST. Germain
Mme
Paris
United States
Canada
King Harvard Co
Washington St
Chicago
Nee Coast Line
Wilmington and Weldon
Florence
Dav
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Pies Lyeht
JK. Kenly
Geni
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Emerson Trafic
Weidon
Rocky
Rocky Mr
Tae
Wilson
Seima
Fayetteville
Dion
Gedsbee
Magnolia
Wilmington
Selma
Tarboro
Monays
Dalive Srege
Freighs
Bernverc
Tsui Road
SEARS
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Hochnel Ste
Acme Bird
Pfurkish
Taltinore
John Gaston
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