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Newspaper
Ashburton Guardian
Location
Ashburton, Canterbury, New Zealand
Date
Mar 03, 1913
Page
2
The Manufacturing Jewellers Jones and Sons advertise their big business through the post. Located at 8 High Street Christchurch. The message highlights mail order and local trade in a 19th or early 20th century style notice.
Large Sunday congregation at St Stephen's Church saw 58 candidates, 31 females and 27 males, presented by Rev J R Burgin for confirmation by Bishop Julius. The bishop urged courage, love, and power from God, and warned against apologetic faith while stressing discipline and the Bible in state schools.
Earthquakes shake Westport with several minor tremors at 6.28 am marking the heaviest since the prior weekend. No damage reported. Rumor of a mud spring at Tauranga Bay, ten miles southwest, circulates alongside the tremor origins.
Kusnezowa ran a so called children’s home near Archangel. Police allege the facility harmed over a thousand infants via poisoning. Certificates for deaths were forged or mishandled with doctor Butugow named as possible accomplice or careless writer of medical passes. Six hundred mothers questioned as exhumations and a major trial loom.
In the afternoon Canon Garland addressed about 150 men from Protestant churches. He preached on First Thessalonians urging prayer that the word of the Lord may have free course and be glorified. He said the Bible’s restoration to state schools cannot be decided by clergy or a small group and should involve the wider community.
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