Vote for Tom on his Experience 5a31
5a31 45 years ago today on June 1 1891 Omaha news notes include visits from Frank Pugh of Sioux City Thad Ruff from Des Moines and local events. Decoration Day programs featured speeches and poems with local officials and church leaders. A ward caucus is announced and town residents prepare for Odd Fellows day. Local sports report an Atlantic Originals defeat Cumberland Red Stockings 16 to 15.
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Omaha
West
Frank Pugh
Sioux City
Thad Ruff
Des Moines
Mesa
Court House
Silag ‘Wilson
Dr. Hill
Revs-McKiim
Shenton
Odd. Fellows
H. B. Thayer
Atlantic Mandolin Club
T. R. Wallace
Atlantic Quartette
Mandolin ‘Club
C. L. Campbell
Ed Nichols
Salt Lake City
Jesse Crooks
Tarkio
Rev. C. F. Crooks
Grant Triplett
Griswold
Max Emmert
Corning
Corning Academy
Pymosa Township
Elmer Pellett
J. W. Lamb
Lynch
John Sorenden
Walter Pellett
W. AL. Harris
Methodist union eyed as 27,426 ministers and 47,6185 churches cited
The article surveys possible Methodist unification by 1920 combining the Methodist Episcopal Church, the Methodist Episcopal Church South, and the Methodist Protestant Church. It cites 1915 figures: 28,428 Methodist Episcopal churches, 16,787 South, and 2,400 Protestant, with about 3,057,000 communicants total among the three bodies. It notes slavery split the churches and predicts vast mission capacity for a united church.
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Methodist Episcopal Church
Method
Iet Episcopal Church South
Methodiat Protestant Church
Methodist Union
Methodist General Conference
Saratoga Springs
General Conference
Methodist Episcopal Church South
New Methodist Church
Federal Council of the Churches of Chint
America
Southern Baptist Convention
Negro Baptist
Presbyterians
Miniatera
Church South
Methodist Protestant Church
Presbyterian Church
United States of America
Aize
United Methodist Church
James Osgood Andrew
Georgia
Methodist Protestant
Wesleyan Methodist Church
Vandi
Methodists
United States
Proper Pronunciation of Roosevelt Name Question
Chauncey M Depew narrates that Roosevelt's name is pronounced Roze veldt with the accent on the first half. Dictionaries favor Roose velt with the Ro emphasized. The ex president says Roze veldt as three syllables, not two, and warns against mispronouncing the latter portion as felt.
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Chauncey M. Depew
T. R
Rosaveldt
Roosefelt
Rozeveldt
Wisconsin farmer buys Chicago streetcar for 75 dollars
Fragmentary report details a Wisconsin farmer purchasing a Chicago streetcar for 75 dollars while riding, but the motorman refused the sale. The text is damaged with garbled wording and partial phrases about two well dressed men and the pad of the car.
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Farmar
Wisconsin
Chicago
Rons
Sugar Card System Extends to Co operative Stores
In England sugar rationing expands with 25 000 Co operative Society members issued cards. 125 000 members of Shofield and Becleyhall receive cards showing name and number. Cards required for purchases. nonmembers excluded. System praised for conserving supplies and may extend to other food items as shortages grow.
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Shofield
Becleyhall
T. Walton
Lincoln Receives Bible Gift From Lincoln Family
Robert T. Lincoln presents a Bible to Fisk University in Noahville Tennessee. The Bible was originally given to Abraham Lincoln by Black supporters in Baltimore in 1864. Lincoln urged the gift be kept by a permanent institution, praising Blair University for its founding by General Clinton Bowen Blair after the Civil War.
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IP. A.mckenzie
Fisk University
Noahville
Tenn
Robert T. Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln
Baltimore
Lincoln
Pby
Clinton Bowen Blair
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Dr. Ht, K. Williams
Fuh Fom Building
Thomas
Union of Branches
Waite
Rome
jTotet Sane Een
Boutaan
Alioniat
Slayar
Arthur Warren Waite
New York
Dove
Lee
Pecks
Waites
Jim
Arthur Warren Walte
Durora
Aldle aYall
Clara Louise Terk
J. B
England
Atlantic Beauty Parlor
N. W. Deering & Son
Atlantic
Iowa
Beaver Bord
Green Bay Lumber Company
Wasson
F. Parsons Company
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