Fund Drive of Churches Gains Momentum Across Denominations
The united drive for church budgets totals 336,777,000 across 30 denominations with Presbyterians leading New England by subscribing 70 percent of their quota. Rockefeller gifts spur New England Baptists toward an 87.6 million target as local congregations push to top their allocations.
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Presbyterians
United Financial Drive
Northern Baptists
New York
William W. Illiffe
Brookline
Presbyterian New Era
New England
Reformed Church
Disciples
Mt. Vernon Congregational Church
Beacon Street
Massachusetts Avenue
Laura Spellman Rockefeller
First Baptist Church
Newton Centre
Fifth Avenue Baptist
John D. Rockefeller
Pennsylvania
Massachusetts
Ohio
Illinois
Indiana
New Jersey
Minnesota
Iowa
Rhode Island
Kansas
Missouri
Vermont
Maine
George M. Hersey
Boston
Interchurch World Movement
Interchurch
Boston Bill Seeks Tax Limit Boost for Schoolhouses
A municipal finance committee report favors a bill to raise Boston’s tax limit for new construction from 68 to 168 cents per $1000 and for repairs from 35 to 84 cents. The changes would apply to the current year and the next two years, increasing available funds for school construction and repairs by about 1.4 million and 0.73 million respectively over three years, and lifting the total limit to 12.44 per thousand if Senate action aligns with the proposal.
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Boston
Committee On Municipal Finance
Senate
Women Missionaries Off for Belgian Congo
Six women missionaries were assigned to posts in the Orient by the American Baptist Woman's Foreign Missionary Society board during a session at the Ford building. Three others left Boston for St John New Brunswick, to sail today on the Matagama for the Belgian Congo. Names include Miss Anna Hagquist Miss Helen Yost and Miss Beulah MacMillian.
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Orient
American Baptist Woman’s Foreign Missionary Society
Ford
Boston
St. John
N. B
Matagama
Belgian Congo
Anna Hagquist
Helen Yost
Brooklyn
Beulah MacMillian
Des Moines
Margaret Winn
Winchester
South China
Helen in Oblivion in Boston Sunday Post Magazine
In this installment of Mabel Herbert Urner's series, Helen endures social oblivion caused by her husband. The article notes her plight as part of a continuing profile in the Boston Sunday Post Magazine.
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Helen
Mabel Herbert Urner
Warren
Boston Sunday Post
Reprieved on Eve of Death for Bronx Subway Murder
Ossining N Y April 29 four men convicted of murdering Bronx subway agent Otto Fialo and scheduled for execution in Sing Sing were granted a last minute reprieve by Governor Smith four hours before the planned electric chair death. The four are Joseph Milano James Cassidy Joseph Usefor and Charles McLoughlin Milano reportedly admitted guilt to Warden Lawes who relayed the confession to the governor.
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Ossining
N. Y
Bronx
Sing Sing Prison
Smith
Albany
Lewis xi Lawes
Joseph Milano
James Cassidy
Joseph Usefor
Charles McLoughlin
Otto Fialo
Milrno
Warden Lawes
Fialo
Governor Smith
Russian Princess Weds U S Captain in Washington
Princesse Nadeja Vasilievna Troubetzkoy, who worked as a nurse at the naval hospital, married Captain Wallace Strait Schutz of Milwaukee. The ceremony featured Russian music and noted the princess had been decorated by the Czar for her work on a hospital train on the Eastern front.
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Washington
Naval Hospital
Princesse
Nadeja Vasilievna Troubetzkoy
Wallace Strait ‘Schutz
Milwaukee
Wife Seeks Conservator for Veteran Physician
In New York on April 29 Supreme Court Justice Lydon granted a motion for a commission to inquire into the mental state of Dr. Alfred K Hills 79 former publisher of the Medical Review Mrs Hills petitions say he is incompetent to manage his 900000 estate including properties in Philadelphia Germantown Penn and Hudson N Y
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New York
Alfred K Hills
The
Old Medical Review
Supreme Court
Lydon
Five Per Cent Bill Killed in House Vote
The House rejected a bill to raise small loan interest to five percent per month for loans of fifty dollars or less. Republican Leader Young’s amendment to strike the five per cent clause passed by voice vote. Sawyer’s motion to strike the enacting clause failed as Brown’s four per cent amendment was defeated.
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Representative Young
Weston
Sawyer
Ware
Gerry Brown
Brockton
Brown
Warner
Train Collision Kills Five in Sanborn Minnesota
Five people were killed and twelve injured when two Chicago & Northwestern passenger trains collided head on near Sanborn Minnesota early today.
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Sanborn, Minn
Chicago & Northwestern Railroad
Here
Wilson rides in front seat on Maryland trip
President Wilson broke his usual practice by riding in the front seat of an open car and chatting with the driver during a three hour motor trip in Maryland. His physician Dr. Cary T. Grayson did not accompany him on this outing, though Mrs. Wilson and several family members traveled with him.
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Washington
Wilson
Maryland
Cary T. Grayson
Swedish Lutheran Conference Elects New England Officers
The Rev. Dre F. G. Hagglund of Dorchester was re elected president of the New England Conference of Swedish Lutheran Churches at their Quincy convention. New officers include Vice president Rev Henning Jacobson Cambridge secretary Rev Julius Hulteen Hartford and treasurer Rev S W Londstrom Pawtucket. The Rev C G Ericson Portland Conn announced he would assume the presidency of Upsala College Kennilworth N J, funded by the New England and New York conferences.
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Dre F. G. Hagglund
Dorchester
New England
Quincy
Henning Jacobson
Cambridge
Jullus Hulteen
Hartford
S. W. Londstrom
Pawtucket
C. G. Ericson
Portland
Conn
Upsala College
Kennilworth
N. J
New York
$55 000 For Anti Suffrage
New York April 29 Raising of a budget of 55000 to be used to fight the federal suffrage amendment was authorized at the annual meeting of the National Association Opposed to Women Suffrage. One thousand women delegates from 26 States attended the meeting and luncheon. Mary Kilbreth and Hamilton Fish Kean were reelected president and treasurer. Others elected included Mrs James M Rodman Mrs Henry P Scott Mrs Walter Douglas Lamar and Mrs William L Marbury with Miss Margaret R Grundy named secretary.
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New York
National Association
Mary. C. Kilbreth
Hamilton Fish Kean
James M. Rodman
Boston
Henry P. Scott
Wilmington
Del
Walter Douglas Lamar
Macon
William L. Marbury
Baltimore
Margaret, R. Grundy
Philadelphia
House Passes 2.75 Per Cent Beer Bill
The House approved a 2.75 percent beer bill 121 to 67 yesterday. It moves to the Senate for enactment, but may be tabled awaiting the Supreme Court ruling on the Volstead act.
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House
Senate
United States Supreme Court
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