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Saturday morning when the first call for breakfast came, the train was crawling along through a heavy snow storm in the region of Johnstown. As it was no scheduled to arrive till 6.15 and was then about two hours late the officers of the Clubs began to be anxious about arriving in time for the concert. As the day went by the train fell behind more and more. Telegrams were sent to Columbus, Ohio, for a special train from there to Cincinnati, and to the manager of the concert asking him to hold the audience as long as possible...
...civilization of man has increased as his power over the physical world has become greater. His history is strictly along the lines of the development of his power. At first, the great strange forces of nature, which were inexplicable to him, he deified and worshipped. But latter, by subduing these, he was able to develop the capacity of his intellect. Man has become so bewildered by recent inventions that he has said that the limit of his power has been reached; but the limit of his power has not yet been reached nor will it ever be reached...
...course was the same as last year and was marked by a trail of paper, laid previously during the afternoon. The men started at a very fast pace and soon were separated into two squads. The three leaders kept well together the entire distance and the slower men struggled along about a quarter of a mile behind. The trail lay across the common to Concord avenue, to Walden street; thence across the fields to the junction of the Fitchburg railroad and the Watertown branch, where the runners were checked for the first time; up the Fitchburg tracks to the Glacia...
...outdoor season will close next Monday with a cross country run, open to all members of the H. A. A. The course will be laid out by paper and checkers will be stationed along the route. All the winners of the hare and hounds run will contest...
...said Dr. Banks, that it would be of some interest for us to see just how much progress we are making in the temperance reform. Old people of ten tell us how very much worse things are now than they were many years ago. Let us look along the line and see for ourselves. Look at the attitude taken by church its whole position has changed in the last hundred years. We find that the church in the early part of this century was accustomed to pay. as a matter of course, bills to inn keepers for the lodging...