Missionary council closes as delegates depart for foreign fields
The final sessions of the Congregational boards in New Haven today farewelled missionaries bound for overseas posts. The American board adjourned to meet in Los Angeles in 1917 while 1850 delegates attended. Rev H H Potter resigned as Home Missionary Society president to allow a single president for all societies under a new coordination plan.
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New Haven
National Council of Congregational Churches
American Board
Los Angeles
Home Missionary Society
H. H. Potter
Hartford
Conn
Congregational Educational Society
J. D. Brownell
Northland College
Ashland
Wis
W. H. Rollins
Fairmount College
Washington
A. E. Holt
Manhattan
Kas
Congregational Sunday School and Publishing Society
Cc. F. Swift
Fall River
Mass
National Council
Beardsley
Council
Wilson
Praise for Police Courtesy and Call for Stricter Punishment
Darius Cobb writes praising police for their courtesy during the suffragist parade and crowded streets. He urges harsher penalties for assaults on officers, arguing fines are insufficient and imprisonment should reflect seriousness.
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Post
Bromfield
Tremont
Darius Cobb
Low Panama-Pacific Exposition Rates Via Nickel Plate Road
L. P. Burgess advertises Panama-Pacific Exposition travel bargains via the Nickel Plate Road. The Boston agent offers special rates from 312 Old South Building for trips to the exposition with convenient schedules and service.
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L. P. Burgess
Old South Bidg
Boston
Union Park Forum Opens Next Month
The Union Park Forum launches its second season with a Nov 7 vestry gathering at Union Park Temple where Louis D Brandeis will speak on The Jewish Renaissance. The non sectarian forum welcomes all and plans a season with Henry Gideon organizing a choral club and a slate of notable speakers.
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Union Park Forum
Union Park Temple
Louis D. Brandeis
Samuel Straus
New York Times
Felix Frankfurter
Harvard Law School
Henry Moskowitz
Civil Service Commission of
New York
Markus Marks
Borough of
Manhattan
Meyer London
Stephen S. Wise
South End
Boston
New England
Ford Hall
Forum
Henry L. Gideon
Adolph Giesberg
Isaac Gordon
Theresa Cohen
Maida Herman
Frances Stern
A. K. Cohen
Werbert Ehrman
Louis E. Kirstein
A. Lincoln Filene
Fred Vorenberg
Samuel Silverman
Max Henry
Juliet Poyntz
Thomas Mott Osborne
Sing Sing
Joseph Fels
Philadelphia
H. M. Kallen
University of Wisconsin
Rabbi Levi
Temple Israel
Commonwealth Avenue
John Elliot
J. Leonard Levy
Pittsburg
Roxbury Fire Forces Evacuation At 91 George Street
A three story Roxbury building at 91 George Street was evacuated after smoke from a cellar fire reached the upper floors. Mrs Nellie Murphy was rescued by her son Frank while seven Halloran children were carried out by their father and Edward Lennon.
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George Street
Roxbury
Nellie Murphy
Frank
Thomas Halloran
Edward Lennon
Wright Baking Company
Episcopal Delegates Chosen for Panama Mission Congress
The Board of Missions of the Protestant Episcopal Church voted to send seven delegates to the Panama inter-denominational missionary congress to be held in February. The decision followed a two day debate over the congress purpose and the Roman Catholic Church’s refusal to participate.
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New York
Board of Missions
The
Protestant Episcopal Church
Panama
Episcopal Board Delegates to Panama Congress Pose No Binding Action
After long debate the Episcopal Church's board adopted a Panama congress resolution aiming to recognize all faiths, with delegates authorized only to confer with other denominations and not to bind the board to ecclesiastical or missionary decisions. Five prominent members resigned in protest. two attended but had no voting power.
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Panama
Episcopal Board
Ee Wwe Ewe Aweee
Ama
Delany
Yuen Vu
O Gates
Weller
Church Mission House
Spe
House of Bishops
Episcopal Church
Edinburgh
Congress
Jesus Christ
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Manchester
Lowell
New Bedford
Brockton
Fitchburg
Worcester
Springfield
Providence
Pawtucket
Bridgeport
Episcopal
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Eeri
Christ
Latin America
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Natural History Museum
Berkeley
Boylston
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Children’s Museum
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Olmsted Park
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