Holy Jumpers Baptize Five in Icy Waters
In East Wareham a crowd of 300 watched the Holy Jumpers baptize five converts at the old mill pond. Nathan Long led with immersion at 12 20 as Pastor G G Edwards oversaw the ceremony with Deacon A C Covell.
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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 27, 1911
Page
6
In East Wareham a crowd of 300 watched the Holy Jumpers baptize five converts at the old mill pond. Nathan Long led with immersion at 12 20 as Pastor G G Edwards oversaw the ceremony with Deacon A C Covell.
The baptism made the five members of the Pentecostal Church of Nazarene of East Wareham with hymns and prayer accompanying the ceremony.
Rev Cortland Myers at Tremont Temple urged peace and urged the Senate to ratify the peace treaty. He claimed Roosevelt’s war advocacy should send him back to Africa and pressed for public opinion to push ratification while condemning ongoing world conflicts.
Reader warning against elastic and leg strap hernia devices sold by drugstores and specialists. The ad touts the Cluthe Truss and Cluthe Automatic Massager as superior, self adjusting, suction-held devices with a 60 day risk trial and a free 82 page book explaining dangers of operations and why belt or spring trusses fail. It claims real relief from rupture with automatic massage and asserts 199 of 200 cases improve after use.
In New York on November 26 19 year old Harry Marshall known as Little Harry died after drinking cyanide in his Bronx home at 927 Courtlandt Avenue. He left three farewell letters explaining his heartbreak over not being able to marry the girl he loved.
The notes show a boy's plea for forgiveness and a wish to leave personal items to family and Alice, including jewelry and an honor certificate from Rochester England. He asks his sister Mabel in England to receive items and instructs a Christmas gift plan with his pay, while warning his father to destroy the poison cup.
Emmeline Pankhurst, leader of British suffragettes, addresses 2500 at the Garrick Theatre on English rights and the ballot. She praises the Pennsylvania Suffragette Association, links London street clashes to revolution, and vows militant action to aid working women.
Amherst suffered two hours of darkness when the Amherst Gas Company plant burned badly. A later link to the Turners Falls main plant restored street lighting.
Louis N. Parker, author of Pomander Walk and adapter of Chantecler, arrived in Boston last night to attend Parker Night at the Plymouth Theatre tomorrow. He will speak and his daughter Dorothy will recite the prologue of the play, never heard in Boston.
The Quincy police raided the rooms of the Quincy Associates on the second floor near Washington and Canal streets and the Quincy & Boston Express Co office in the same building. Officers seized two dice tables cards pool equipment three cases of beer and other items. Ten men fled but were detained for court on gambling charges.
Frank Galucchi, a former employee of a Roxbury Crossing fruit store, attempted to murder his former employer at the employer's Jamaica Plain home at 50 Centre Street late last night and then ended his own life.
In Roxbury a dispute between former employee Colluchi and owner Caradontes ended with Colluchi firing at close range and wounding Caradontes, then fleeing. Police pursued, Colluchi shot and killed himself near the old Norfolk brewery yard. Caradontes survived after surgery and faces serious injuries.
Benjamin Ames 65 the tallest man in Lynn died at Lynn City Hospital from heart failure after a Wednesday fall from a team. He stood 6 feet 5 inches and weighed 360 pounds, with a seven by two foot casket ordered for his funeral at 2 PM Tuesday at Essex Baptist Church. He leaves four sons all over six feet tall.
Desperate clashes between revolutionists and bandits in Hwaiyuan Anhwei province reportedly left about 1000 robbers dead.
Rear Admiral Bowles, retired, dismisses European insinuations about the Fore River Shipbuilding Company contract bids for Argentine dreadnoughts. He says bids were opened simultaneously and denies any advance information. Europeans allegedly fear American rivalry and warn of sinking competition.
The Savin A. C. Roxbury squad averaging 130 pounds seeks a strong opponent for Thanksgiving morning. Contact C Cappelle at 15 Stafford Street Roxbury to arrange a match.
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