Great movement to raise 33 million across 30 denominations
An armed volunteer force of about six million will rally April 26 to May 2 in a monumental interchurch World Movement campaign. Led by a national cabinet and regional directors, denominations, states, counties, and local churches organize to raise 33 million dollars for worldwide missionary work and religious life. The effort envisions tens of thousands of community volunteers and a vast network from national to local campaign teams.
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United States
United Financial
Interchurch World Movement
George Mecklenburg
Montana
National Campaign
Gen'al
United Mpaign
State United Campaign
County United Campaign
Burglars Alarm Bank. Police Deter Daylight Theft
Crowds in West Park watched as the Yegen bank alarm triggered by a short circuit drew Chic Murphy and officers to investigate. Bank officials praised the rapid response and noted two protection systems guard deposits around the clock. In Springfield, five year old John Warren Wilson survived a skull fracture after a horse kick, with surgeons using piecewise bone grafts and staged surgery to repair the skull, attracting national attention.
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West Park Street
Yegen Bank
Chic Murphy
Dakin
Murphy
Mr. Dakinwala
Springfield
Ill
John Warren Wilson
Kreider
Parker of Scottsville Dies as Civil War Bounty Arrives
Moses J. Parker, an ex en isted man from Scottsville who waited over 50 years for civil war bounty, died the day a warrant for his bounty with interest was delivered to his home. Attorney General Groesbeck ruled the warrant becomes part of Parker's estate. The original bounty was $150 with interest totaling $644.
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Lansing
Moses J. Parker
Scottsville
Board of State Auditors
Alexander J. Groesbeck
Iceland
Real wages urged to boost U S production and stability
Boston merchant Edward A. Filene argues that American business must raise pay in real terms to sustain four years of intensive production. He warns that food shortages worldwide could fuel radicalism, urging cooperative business models, better labor relations, and policies improving housing, health, and pensions to lower costs and raise purchasing power.
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Boston
Mass
Edward A. Filene
Chamber of Commerce of the United
United States
Europe
Co-Operative Savings
Lke
Prince Feisal Story of Syrian Revolt Revealed
Lower Thomas recounts Feisal’s rise as king of Syria and Palestine and the Arab revolt that aided Allenby. He details Feisal’s leadership uniting tribes, the Mecca to Damascus campaign, and the push against the Turks with limited French support and the desire for an American mandate.
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Chicago
Feisal
Syria
Palestine
Arabian
France
Lower Thomas
Mecca
Damascus
Thomas
Free Arabia
Allenby
Emir Hussein
Abdul Hamid
Con
Stantinople
Mesopotamia
Lawrence
Oxtort
Felsal
Mail mixup on rural route shocks Jewett City
A man on a rural delivery route in Jewett City Connecticut vomited at the post office after not receiving mail for weeks. The postmaster explained another carrier had covered the route and left mail in a bite house on the ridge pole of his barn instead of the regular box, causing the confusion.
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Jewett City
Conn
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Interchurch Drive
Rom
Chamber of Commerce
Symons
Ecru
Sellian Eee
Symon
Louis Cuban
Copenhagen
Norfolk
Yegen Institution
WTA
SAS
Emir Feisal
the Gumps
Andy
Fashion
Follies
Hale
Sidney Smd
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