Gathering of Odd Fellows Great Meeting
Past Grand Master William T. Meyer reports the Sovereign Grand Lodge convention in Boston as the biggest and most successful in attendance and results. Joseph Oliver of Toronto was elected Grand Sire for two years. Meyer and Leon S. Merrill chaired key committees. The parade on Wednesday drew 40 000 to 50 000 people. ceremonies, fireworks, and banquets followed. The I O O F and Rebekah membership exceeded 2.3 million, the largest fraternal organization globally.
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Grand Lodge of
Connecticut
William T. Meyer
Sovereign Grand Lodge
Boston
Joseph Oliver
Toronto
Canada
Oliver
Dominion
Meyer
Leon S. Merrill
Orono
Maine
Henry V. Borst
Amsterdam
Australia
New Zealand
Order
Jad
Commonwealth Avenue
Massachusetts
State House
Grand Sire
Vermont
Charles River
Copley Jtheatre
Bernard Shaw
National Theatre
Trinity Church
Copley Square
Plymouth
Plymouth Rock
Hoston
Rebekah Sisters
Odd Fellows
Daylight Saving Hard to Repeal in Massachusetts
Massachusetts faces a lengthy path to repeal daylight saving as the 2 o clock March shift remains in force for at least two more years. Legislature action and a 15000-signature initiative could force a repeal vote, but current law keeps daylight saving in effect until a future decision. The issue persists while citizens weigh the options.
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International News Service
Boston
State Department of Agriculture
Massachusetts
Commonwealth
Bandit Leader Sentenced in Portland Bank Robbery
Thomas Marro, leader of the bandits who robbed Portland National Bank on August 21 of 12000 dollars, received a 20 to 28 year sentence in the state prison at the Middle Town Superior Court yesterday. The jury was out less than 19 minutes.
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Thomas Marro
Portland National Bank
Spenior Court
Middletown
Eleven Million for Education by Southern Baptists
Southern Baptist headquarters in Nashville announces a four year program to spend eleven million dollars on new buildings and equipment for churches and colleges, lift debts, and increase endowments. Of the total, 2,275,000 funds the Southwide Institutions including Louisville and Fort Worth seminaries and a Negro seminary in Nashville, with the rest allocated to each state. Over 20,000 pupils enrolled across Baptist schools this session, marking record registrations.
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Nashville, Tenn
Southern Baptists
Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
Louisville
Southwestern Baptist Theological Binary
Fort Worth
Texas
Baptist Bible Institute
New Orleans
Baptist Theological Seminary
Nashville
Tenn
Baptist
Southern Haptist Convention
Alabama
Arkansas
Georgia
Kentucky
Mississippi
Missouri
North Carolina
Oklahoma
South Carolina
Tennessee
Virginia
Baptist Schools and Seminaries of
South
Ninety New Chaplains Appointed Under Reorganization Plan
Adjutant General Harris announced the appointment of 89 new chaplains for the regular army under the reorganization law. Each chaplain serves 1,200 officers and men as part of the new staffing. Japan imported German dyes totaling one million dollars in August, per Commerce Department reports.
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Washington
Harris
Japan
Department of Commerce
Sunday School Seen Taking New Shape Worldwide
Marion Lawrance of Chicago, speaking at the World Sunday School Convention in Tokio, says there are over 300,000 Sun day schools with more than 23 million pupils. He urges churches to organize Sunday schools as systematically as banks, under direct church control, to meet a divine discontent driving religious progress.
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Tokio
Marion Lawrance
Chicago
International Sunday School Association
Lawrance
Church education committee plans unified teaching system
A church council outlines a comprehensive education program across Sunday school Young People Society Missionary Bands and General Reading with a dedicated educational director. It mandates qualified teachers trained within the curriculum and a 20 year age training target. The pastor heads the plan ex officio while the Fable becomes the core Sunday school text.
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Young People's Society
Sunday school work reaches millions in Evangelism drive
Mr Lawrance said 2 1/2 to 3 million people are now engaged in Sunday school work as officials or teachers. The plan aims to organize Christian education citizenship missions temperance community service and evangelism. Advertise in The Times.
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Lawrance
HER LANDLORDS HEART Eviction prompted prayer at Christ Church
In St. Louis on October 6 a healing mission heard a parishioner describe her plight. A woman tenant faced eviction after her landlord raised rent beyond her means. She wrote to the mission seeking help.
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International News Service
St. Louis
Christ Church Cathedral
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