Magnificent Riverside Church Marks Forward Sweep of Religion
The article spotlights the new Riverside Church on Riverside Drive New York its 400 foot tower and Gothic design by Pelton Allen Collens Indiana Limestone used exterior and interior materials. It notes an auditorium for 2500 a baptism pool beneath the chapel bowling alleys under the chapel and John D Rockefeller Jr leading a Bible class as a symbol of religious progress and ongoing church building waves.
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New Riverside
Riverside Drive
122Nd Street
New York
Temple of Faith
Henry C. Pelton and
Allen, & Collens
Archhitects
John D. Rockefeller, Jr
Indiana Limestone Company
Bedford-Bloomington
Lawrence H. Whiting
Chicago
Fosdick
New Riverside Church
Motor license fees in first half 1927 top 1926 total
Nat Turner reports that motor license fees collected in the first six months of 1927 reached 1 970 986 dollars, beating the full year 1926 total of 1 907 198 dollars. Despite fewer licenses issued in six months, stricter enforcement and earlier licensing boosted revenue and prosecutions rose to 3 209 cases by June 30.
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Nat Turner
Motor Vehicle Division
State Highway Department
Turner
Highway Department
State warehouse cotton profits top 2.4 million in 90 days
State Warehouse Commissioner J. Clifton Rivers reports sales of over 80 000 bales of last year s cotton from 133 000 stored in state warehouses in the last three months at an average price about 30 per bale above storage cost. About 30 000 bales of the 1926 crop remain, with 1 400 licensed warehouses in operation and more planned for a strong 1927.
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J. Clifton Rivers
Rivers
Commission
South Carolina
Memorial Tablet Honors Dixie Author in Fletcher North Carolina
The Fletcher Episcopal church in Fletcher North Carolina unveiled a memorial tablet for Daniel Decatur Emmett. Emmett, Ohio born and adopted by the South, is buried in Mount Vernon Ohio. Ohio Governor sent a state flag to accompany the North Carolina flag at the commemorative exercises.
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Fletcher, N. C
Daniel Decatur
Emmett
Ohio
Mount Vernon
Fletcher
N. C
South
North Carolina
Ambassador Houghton in Wrong Sparks Debate at Harvard
Ambassador Alanson B. Houghton suggested at Harvard that Britain and the United States should only declare war after a referendum of their peoples. Washington reacts, fearing European misinterpretation and possible reprisal or recall. The piece laments suppression of opinion by officials and notes a drift toward rubber stamps in public life.
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Court of St. James
Alanson B. Houghton
Harvard
Great Britain
United States
Houghton
League of Nations
War Department
Ambassador Herrick Aids Lindbergh Landing Power
Ambassador Herrick who just returned from France helped Lindbergh at Paris landing acting as guide and advisor. The piece notes Herrick’s generous role and the cooperative effort behind the notable performance with praise for his guiding hand and American merit. It also mentions Babe Ruth’s dethroning with Gehrig taking the crown and affecting Babe’s batting eye.
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Herrick
France
Lindbergh
Paris
Mr. Herrick
Nations
Swat
Babe Ruth
Columbia College
Gehrig
Babe
Marriage increase in South Carolina in 1926
The Department of Commerce reports 23 971 marriages in South Carolina during 1926 up from 22 863 in 1925, an increase of 1 180 or 4.8 percent. Population estimates yield 13 marriages per 1 000 people in 1926 versus 12.7 in 1925, with county tallies listed for each jurisdiction.
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South Carolina
Washington
Department of Commerce
Sumter
Court of Common Pleas
Abbeville
Aiken
Allerwale
Anderson
Bamberg
Barnwell
Beaufort
Berkeley
Calhoun
Charleston
Cherokee
Chester
BRN
McCormick
Marion
Marlboro
Newberry
Orengeburg
Pickens
Richland
Saluda
Spartanburg
Union Beso
Williamsburg
York
Conservation of Resources Is Largely Up to Her
A 1914 era call asserts women must lead conservation of natural resources in the United States. It credits women with reducing kitchen waste and dress waste, urges public sentiment for economy over waste, and warns forests lands and waterpower are vanishing without public benefit. It argues reform starts with individuals, led by women.
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America
Short skirts persist despite varied styles noted
Observers remark that some people still wear short skirts even when others wear different fashions. The tendency shows ongoing variation in clothing choices amid mixed reactions from onlookers.
Sheriff backs park for youth to spoon in Wyandotte
The Wyandotte County Kansas sheriff argues for a designated park where young people can openly spoon without disturbance or interference, positioning himself as a modernist social thinker akin to Judge Ben Lindsey.
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Ubuse
Wyandotte County
Kansas
Ben Lindsey
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Appalachian
Tennessee
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