Sunday Evangelist Draws Boston Crowds With Debated Miracles
The revival at the Tabernacle in Boston drew large crowds as Sunday preached on the immaculate conception with brisk rhetoric and scripture. He cited examples from biology and history, thanked attendees for supporting the revival, and urged Sunday debts to be settled. Delegations from multiple local groups attended and Maine Sheriff W H Payne met the evangelist after the service.
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Boston
Tabernacle
Mt. Herman School
Northfield
Boston Auto Dealers
Columbus Avenue
A. M. E. Zion Men
Brookline Carpenters and Builders
Saco-Lowell
Park Street Club
Boston Wholesale Grocers
New York Mattress Company
Engineers
Massachusetts Highway Commissioners
Chevrolet Motor Company
East Walpole Men's Club
Must Do His Will Says Billy Sunday Sermon
Billy Sunday preaches from John seven to do God's will first to know the doctrine. He denounces church laxity in discipline and mocks arguments about Cain and his wife as distractions from living rightly. He uses parables on conscience and wealth to warn against trusting riches over faith.
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Chicago Y. M. C. A
Christ
Strauss
Jesus
Costello
Renauer
Huxley
God
Billy
Tabernacle
Billy Sunday
United States
Cain
Adam
Eve
Abel
Darwin
Matthew
Euhler
Land of
Nod
Josephus
Hell
Italy
Millionaire and civic leaders boost Jews relief drive
Dr. Judah L. Magnes announced major pledges for Jewish relief in Europe as figures rose with gifts from Jacob Wertheim Louis Marshall Felix M Warburg and counterparts. Chicago Boston Detroit and Portland contributed large sums while New York leaders presided and urged more donations. The meeting featured 50 Jewish girls collecting envelopes as totals climbed toward substantial 1917 funds.
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Judah L. Magnes
American Jewish Relief Committee
Europe
Jacob Wertheim
Magnes
Louis Marshall
Dr. Magnes
Philadelphia Central Committee
Nathan Straus
Felix M. Warburg
Schiff
Rosenwald
Mortimer L. Schiff
Chicago
Boston
Detroit
Pittsburg
Rochester
N. Y
Portland
Ore
New York City
Jacob H. Schiff
John Purroy Mitchel
Leon Harrison
St. Louis
United States
James A. Reed
Missouri
Trail hitting at Tabernacle totals and city compare
A fragmented report notes 25th day trail hitting at Tabernacle with afternoon and evening meetings and totals to date. It compares Boston figures with other cities, shows a large total and includes a quoted sheriff and Sunday comment about liquor enforcement.
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Tabernacle
Attendance at Sunday Meetings Report
Attendance figures show afternoon and evening sessions totaling 9 14 5 00 for the day. Previous attendance is listed as 7 000. The record mixes spaces and punctuation, but indicates a combined Sunday turnout around fourteen thousand five hundred.
Sunday Tabernacle Campaign Collections Report
Afternoon meeting collected 73.19 dollars and evening 281.04 dollars for the day. The note compares the first 34 days of Sunday campaigns across cities including Boston Philadelphia Detroit Kansas City Baltimore Syracuse with figures such as 56,235.32 and 40,594.98 and 26,689.69 totals.
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Boston
The Pearl Toss and a Warning from the Ship
A mariner recalls risking his life for a show and losing the pearl as the ship lurched. He laments seeking worldly praise and vows that the soul must seek God’s will before the final plunge into hell.
Boston Population Surges in Census Estimates
The Census Bureau released 1916 population estimates for Massachusetts cities above 10,000. Boston rises from 670,585 in 1910 to 756,476 in 1916, an increase of 85,891 in six years, with projections that Boston and St. Louis could swap places by 1920. Other city figures include Cambridge 112,981 Somerville 87,039 Fall River 128,366 Brockton 67,449 Chelsea 46,192 Everett 39,238 Malden 51,155 and more local totals.
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Washington
Census Bureau
Massachusetts
Boston
St. Louis
Cambridge
Somerville
Fall River
Brockton
Chelsea
Everett
Malden
Melrose
Newton
Quincy
Revere
Winthrop
Woburn
Arlington
Brookline
Dedham
Lynn
Medford
Wakefield
Waltham
Watertown
Weymouth
Annexation talk and port news from Boston era
East Cambridge merchants push annexing Cambridge to Boston in a weekly meeting led by John J. Ahern predicting Cambridge’s inclusion and the North Station transfer. Other notes cover steamship service changes export trade to Scotland, ship delays, a Christmas celebration plan, a Vineyard Sound collision, coal arrivals, and Cunard liner history.
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Boston
Cambridge
East
Scotland
Baggitano
United Fruit Company
San Jose
Long Wharf
Havana
Port Limon
C. R
Vineyard Sound
Mary Duff
Reading
Preston
Olsen
Conestoga
Philadelphia
Duff
Vineyard Haven
Tug North America
Cunard Traveller
Cunard Line
Servia
Gallia
Pavonia
Port Arthur
Liverpool
Turkeys Jump in Price Ahead of Christmas Demand
Dealers in the market district forecast turkey prices rising to 45 to 50 cents per pound by tomorrow, up 10 to 15 cents from earlier in the week. Fresh birds are scarce as shipments from the West lag, creating a record Christmas dinner shortage. Old bulls and some cold storage stock sell as low as 30 cents, but fresh killed birds remain expensive.
Waterfront Calendar from War Era Tide Schedule
The notice lists a December 22 waterfront calendar with tide heights for morning and evening, lunar and planetary references, and dates indicating the year’s 357th day and 76th day of the war. It records full moons and evening stars, with celestial bodies Venus Saturn Jupiter Mars noted in sequence.
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Venus
Saturn
Jupiter
Mars
Fresh fish fleet lands in harbor amid Canada seizure settlement
Nine vessels treked in including three steam trawlers and the Boston schooner John J Fallon seized by Canadian authorities for fishing inside the three mile limit. A settlement was reached. The fleet delivered 12 500 pounds in cash and 48 800 pounds of scrod haddock. Wholesale prices listed for haddock cod hake pollock and cask. Allan line steamship Pomeranian from Glas...
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Boston
John J. Fallon
Scrod Haddock
Haddock
Shipping News List Of Vessels And Tugs Departing From Various Ports
Shipping news records a long list of steamers, schooners, tugs, and towing barges sailing from and toward New York, Boston, Newport News, Providence, and other ports. Vessels include Gresham, Pomeranian, Cambell, Peronard, Dania, Prince George, Lucy May, Hattie, Scully, Marion, and many more with associated towing barges. The entry notes departures and destinations such as Provincetown, New York, Portland, Gloucester, Rockland, and Tall River, among others.
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U. S. Coast Guard
Gresham
Camden
Provincetown
Pomeranian
Cambell
Glasgow
Dania
Peronard
Copenhagen
Newcastle
Prince George
Simms
Yarmouth
N. S
Mae
Smith
Walter D. Noyes
Calhoun
Newport News
Middlesex
Wider
Norfolk
Dingley
Linscott
Portland
City of Gloucester
Lintneken
Gloucester
Lucy May
Callahan
Millbridge
Roswell
Armstrong
Sewalls Point
Hattie
Beverly
Flora
N. F. Hooper
Calvert
Harrington
Rockland
New York
Shickshinny
Stonington
North America
Nelson
Scully
Lamberts Point
Tall River
Georges Creek
Anderson
Piedmont
Brooks
Baltimore
Sewalla Point
Standard
Herbert
S. Co
John I. Lewis
Wilson
I. D. Fletcher
Seon
Conestoga
Olsen
Philadelphia
Manatawney
Neshaminy
Preston
Lykens
Bengtssen
Cto
Marion
Newport
Suffolk
Wall River
Watuppa
Army
Fall River
Foster and Gibson
Savage
Michalski
Patience
Chandler
New Bedford
Neptune
Easter
Boothbay
Halcyon
Juno
Simpson
Sandwich
W. S. Taylor
Goodwin
Ampere
Hopatconts
Tamaqua
Parkers Flats
Romney
Havre
France
San Jose
Havana
Port Simon
Boston
Corsica
Ontario
Binghamton
Sewalls
Dearing Dazern Obituaries Noted in Massachusetts and Roxbury
Dearing passes away in Clifton Springs New York with funeral at First Baptist Cambridge Massachusetts on Friday December 22 at 2 o'clock. Dazern beloved wife of James Dazern died in Roxbury December 21 at 145 Stanwood Street funeral notices to follow.
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Dearing
Clifton Springs
N. Y
First Baptist Church
Cambridge
Mass
Dazern
Roxbury
Margaret
James
Fweeney
Stanwood St
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River St
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Webster Sts
W. B. Hunt Co
Massachusetts Ave
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H. L. Wardle Drug Co
F. A. Spencer
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Arthur Hudson
Washington St
Richardson’s Pharmacy
West Medford
Wilber Winthrop
W. F. Stover
Shirley St. Woburn
A. W. Whitgher
Ph. G
Kansas City
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Sale Mill
Erin
Padraic Colum
Maurice Joy
Austin O’malley
N. Y. Evening Post
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