The Critic and Modern Times Revisited in a Historic Echo
A lengthy reflection surveys early German women’s magazines The Critic, social taxes, religious faith from Jesus to modernism, crime prominence, church building booms, and education efforts at the Amanesian Mountain Institute in Putnam Virginia. It notes murder rates, taxation, and calls for enduring moral standards amid changing times.
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Germany
United States
Amanesian Mountain Institute
Putnam
B. N. Waterhouse
Hope for Barkley Bill Nears Abandonment in Congress
Washington May 31 The Barkley Bill to abolish the railroad labor board faces likely failure as Senate committee backed it yet House Republican leaders oppose. Representative Barkley sees possible delay and may shift to other legislation if a vote seems blocked Monday.
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Washington
Barkley
Railroad Labor Board
Congress
Senate Interstate Commerce Committee
Senate
House Republican Organization
Kentucky
South Bluefielders Warned to Draw Water
South Bluefield residents are urged to draw water early Monday after 8 30 am before supplies are shut off west of Bland Street. The water outage will last most of the day due to construction of a box culvert on College avenue, announced by Rhodes of the Bluefield Water Works and Improvement Company.
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Bland Street
Rhodes
Blu Iad W Works and Improvement Company
College Avenue
Felonious Assault Charged in Warrant
Logan May 31 four officers W. H. Crisley J. T. Nealy and H. T. Bdateher were charged with felonious assault in a warrant. they were held for grand jury action in July and released on $6000 bonds each after being arrested following complaints by Helen Massinsky and Mrs Jeeste Jacobse. The officers allegedly entered a boarding house on Mud Ford after midnight May 14 and attacked two women.
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Mic
Gibbons Beats Carpentier in Janesville Victory
Tom Gibbons of St Paul decisively defeated Georges Carpentier in ten rounds before 27 000 to 30 000 at a sky blue arena near Michigan City Ind. Gibbons controlled every round with precise blows while Carpentier bled and limped after a rough exchange. The French challenger blamed a slipped ankle but was unable to mount a meaningful comeback.
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Michigan City
Ind
Tom Gibbons
St. Paul
Minn
Jack Dempsey
Georges Carpentier
France
Gibbons
Grogey
Carpentier
Francois Nercaren
Carnention
Cibbons
LEED LEAD GROWS AS PRIMARY RETURNS COME IN
In Charleston on May 31, results from numerous precincts show W. B. Chilton leading Isabell Brown by about 10,000 in the Democratic race for United States senator. GOP nomination appears secured for Guy D. Goff and other local races tighten as returns come in from districts across the state.
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Charleston
W. B Chilton
United States Senate
Mra
Izetta Jewell Brown
Chilton
Brown
Guy D. Goff
Jake Fisher
E. T. England
Howard M. Gore
Frank L. Bowman
Morgantown
House of Representatives
BE. Bunker Reynolds
Keystone
R. H. Kidd
Kidd
Bennett
O'Brien
Garrett
George W. Oldham
Oldham
Conaway
Ramsey
Itce l
T. J. Lally
Harry ©. Woodyard
Echols
Lillis
Terrill
Davis
Arbuckle
Butcher
Campbell
Christian
Corkiwell
Dadisman
French
Mann
McCauley
McKinley
Moreland
Paull
Price
Ratcliffe
Spencer
Taney
Samuel T. Spears
McAdoo
Thompson
Sandridge
Spears
Hendricks
Walter E. Stout
Roy Hugh Jarvis
Donald Clark
R. W. Baker
Sweeney
McLaughlin
Alderson
Summerfield
Trent
Marshall
Telegraph to Publish Special Coal Exhibition Section
June 4 5 and 6 The Telegraph will run a specie one section with pictures of many local coal auctions. Readers may request extras by notifying circulation by Tuesday.
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Telegraph
Chauncey Depew Ill With High Temperature
Chauncey N M Depew was too ill to attend the final Briar Cliff celebration. The guests joined Cornelius A Kagetey in hoping for his speedy recovery as Depew kept to his home with a high fever.
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Ayew
Chencey
Briar
Jif Cornelius A. Kagetey
Nonagen
Mge
Mr. Depew
Young man arrested on murder charge in Sistersville
Bern ie Phillips, twenty four, was arrested in Sistersville West Virginia after the death of Irene Baker, fourteen, from injuries two weeks after an alleged attack. An autopsy found a blow to the breast caused the death and a death bed statement implicated Phillips. Street car crew members may testify about the searchlight evidence from the alter ed attack.
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Sistersvilleo
W. Va
Bernie Phillips
Irene Baker
Sirteen
Baker
Phillips
Japanese protest to Secretary Hughes on immigration exclusion act
Ambassador Hanihara delivered a formal Japanese protest to Secretary Hughes criticizing the exclusion statute as discriminatory based on race. The note argues the law undermines the 1911 treaty context and Japan expects a friendly, candid American reply while maintaining broad U S freedom in future dealings.
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Maton
Sane
Hughes
Hanihara
State Department
Japan
Ambor Hanihara
Christ Returns Sermon Praises Mothers and Women
John Brown drew a Bluefir audience with a Saturday sermon extolling wifehood home making and motherhood as the true destiny of women. He warned of a gradual lowering of standards, urging women to keep high ideals and religious devotion to sustain the nation.
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John Brown
Elisha
Shumen
the Evangelist
Moses
Mary
Jesus
Y.M.C.A
Jesus Christ
Rear Admiral Stockton Dies Quite Suddenly
Rear Admiral Charles H. Stockton, retired head of the Naval War College for twelve years, died suddenly in Washington today at age seventy eight.
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Stockton
Ashington
Charles H. Stockton
Naval War College
John Brown Evangelist to Speak at Trinity Service
Campaign echoes permeate the scene as John Brown addresses mothers and women with a plan for a nursery for babies during Trinity church service this afternoon. He teases a future event a week away with a women and girls only sermon on The Old Fashioned Woman versus The Modern Woman. The crowd recalls his unruly top-mop as fifty babies were present at a recent audience, with high expectations for a lively event.
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Trinity Church
Loren Jones
John Brown
Brown
Infamous Chicago Kidnapping by Two Millionaire Sons
Nathan Leopold Jr and Richard Loeb, both students living near the Franks home, confessed to abducting and strangling 13 year old Robert Frank in Chicago. They hid the body after demanding a $10000 ransom, using a fake kidnapping telegram to lure the family. Authorities cited the motive as excitement and the ransom, with questions about alibis and background.
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Chicago
Robert Frank
Jacob Franke
Robert E. Crowe
Nathan Leopold, Jr
Richard Loeb
Franks
Crowe
Loeb
Albert Loeb
Sears, Roebuck & Company
Julius Rosenwald
Robert Franks
George Johnson
Declared Guilty Bishop Brown Denies Church Expulsion
The case of William Montgomery Brown, retired Arkansas bishop, ends with a guilty verdict for teaching doctrines not held by the Protestant Episcopal Church. The court keeps sentence until October 14 with appeals to follow. Brown vows no deposition and plans a written statement.
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W. M. Brown
Cleveland
Protestant Episcopal Church
William Montgomery Brown
Arkansas
Board of Review
United States of America
Brown
Joseph W. Shorts
Murray
Bishon Brown
Second Coming Sermon Draws Crowd at Local Church
Evangelist John Brown urged readiness for Christ's return in a fiery sermon. He explained premillennial and millennial views, linked prophecy to Jesus' first and second comings, and urged Christians to embrace the promise of Christ appearing in glory.
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Oats
John Brown
Matthew John Brown
Christ
Jesus
Jerusalem
Heaven
Jesus Christ
John
Isle of
Patmos
New Earth
New Jerusalem
Holy John
New Heavens
Ore
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Odin
Babylon
Nazareth
Avery
Barkley Bill
Cummins
Mrs. Brown
England
Daily Telegraph
Chauncey Depew
Qulemn
America
Bluefield
Jonnie
Charles L. Dibble
House of Bishops
Edwin Lines
New Jersey
John McCormick
Western Michigan
Haring
John G. Murray
Maryland
Herman Page
Michigan
Benjamin Brewster
Maine
Wilbur Faber
Montana
Frederick Reese
Georgia
Edward Parker
New Hampshire
Theodore Bratton
Mississippi
Noune
Felows
Evangelist
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