Early South Carolina church funds and 1924 church rebuild notes
Fragment from a 19th century paper details 14 original church subscribers from Camden Charleston Columbia and Savannah contributing between 10 and 200 dollars to a building fund. It lists founding elders deacons and members, notes Rev E B Carroll as minister, and mentions 1924 records and a brick sanctuary built for forty thousand dollars with steeple alterations and scars resembling bullet holes.
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South Carolina
Charleston Daily Courier
Camden
Charleston
Columbia
Savannah
W. P. Finley
J. D. Legare
W. A. Schmidt
G. F
Presbyterian Survey
Christian Observer
John Eadie Henderson
H. W. Wyman
Daniel Crosland
J. P. McNair
P. F. Henderson
H. H. Wyman
E. P. Henderson
E. S. Henderson
E. F. Wyman
Co. J. Hill
W. W. Colman
E. H. Wyman
Presbyterian Church of
Aiken
John R. Dow
R. D. Lanneau
First Presbyterian Church of
William Peronneau Finley
Charleston College
Laurens Street
Park Avenue
Dow
P. Finlay Henderson
Henderson
Aiken church history marks fire and bell fate in rebuild
The text recalls Civil War scars from 1865 battles between Sherman forces and Wheeler cavalry, a broken twenty pound church bell clapper, and a sexton’s near miss. It notes church growth from 14 members in 1859 to 267 by 1950 and a new $1 million church at Barnwell Avenue and Laurens Street with a hexagonal sanctuary and steeple.
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Battle of
Aiken
Sherman
Joe Wheeler
Henderson
Savannah River
Barnwell Avenue
Laurens Street
Holiday Traffic Toll Rises as Thanksgiving Ends
The Thanksgiving holiday traffic toll climbed nationwide with multiple fatal crashes. Five people died in a Georgia wreck as the National Safety Council warned 700 to 800 more fatalities could occur during the four day period from Wednesday evening to Sunday midnight.
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Georgia
National Safety Council
Thanksgiving Day Across America in 1969
Millions celebrated with family, parades, and meals while Apollo 12 crew kept quarantine aboard the USS Hornet. Alcatraz hosted a tribal feast and Vietnam saw both large feasts and protest fasts as news of POWs circulated. White House guests and Macy’s parade marked tradition alongside charity meals for the needy.
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Associated Press
Vietnam
Charles Conrad Jr
Richard F Gordon Jr
Alan L. Bean
Hawaii
Alcatraz Island
San Francisco
Pleiku
America
New York City
White House
Nixon
Army Pfc
Coy Tinsley
Cleveland
Tenn
Tinsley
Maryland
United Farm Workers Organizing Committee
Los Angeles
California
Salvation Army
Chicago
Union Rescue Mission
Vegetarian Society of New York
Moon rocks from Apollo 12 stun Lunar Receiving Lab
Apollo 12 rocks surpass Apollo 11 in size and light color with one stone seven inches across and over four pounds. Conrad Bean and Gordon return to U.S. soil and will be flown to Houston for study while samples are prepared for distribution.
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Jeffrey Warner
Neil A. Armstrong
Edwin E. Aldrin Jr
Charles Conrad Jr
Alan L. Bean
Conrad, Bean and
Richard F
NASA Lunar Lab Rules Ban Horseplay And Gum Chewing
The Apollo 12 lunar sample lab enforces strict conduct rules for the Lunar Receiving Laboratory. Access is limited to about one thousand people, with astronauts Conrad Bean and Gordon in quarantine, and staff must follow hygiene and behavior measures to prevent Earthly contamination of moon materials.
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Charles Conrad Jr
Alan L. Bean
Richard F. Gordon Jr
LRS
Relatives React to POW News From Hanoi
Relatives of U S servicemen listed by antiwar groups as prisoners in North Vietnam express relief at news of POW status. Families from Atlanta La Honda Pittsburgh Louisville New Manchester and New Jersey react with mixed emotions amid questions about unofficial releases.
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U.S
Associated Press
North Vietnam
Dorothy Collins
Atlanta
Collins
Air Force
James Q. Collins Jr
Concord
N.C
Vietnam
Pentagon
Miss Collins
David E. Osborne
la Honda
Calif
Dale H. Osborne
Osborne
Gladys Rhuling
Pittsburgh
Mark J. Rhuling
Defense
Robert Baldwin Purcell
Louisville
Purcell
Stewart Mayhew
New Manchester
W.va
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Aiken First Presbyterian Church
Aiken Presbyterian Church
THE
Iias A
Robert Purcell
Space Center Lab
Gordon Jr
Cape Kennedy
Fla
Hornet
Manned Spacecraft Center
Conrad
Bean
Earth
Moon
Alan Bean
Pete Conrad
Richard Gordon
UPI
NASA
Gust
Navy
William J. Mayhew
Ronald M. Lebert
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