The Ministry as a Profession and Parish Salaries
An October Munsey's Magazine article notes alarm over dwindling seminary enrollments and poor clergy pay. It lists average yearly church salaries: Methodist 480 dollars, Baptist data incomplete, Presbyterian 700, Congregational 907, Episcopal 600, and argues ministers need higher pay to educate families and sustain study. It warns salary incentives risk demeaning Christianity, while noting demand for young ministers remains strong in big city churches.
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Methodist
Presbyterian
Congregational
Episcopal
Munsey’s Magazine
Walter Prichard Eaton
Twenty Nine Die As Steamship Castania Sinks Off Cuba
A graphic report from Mobile details the August 23 wreck of the Nicolas Castania en route Havana to Cienfuegos off Isle of Pines. Of 29 aboard, 18 bodies recovered. 11 missing believed shark victims. Cause cited: boiler explosions and collision with rocks during gale. No women named among crew or passengers.
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Mobile
Ala
Nicholas Castania
Havana
Cienfuegos
Isle of Pines
Associated Press
Nicolas Castania
When Love Changes Names in a Family Knot
A humorous puzzle from Tit Bits about a man trapped in a tangled family web. A wife’s daughter becomes stepmother, the father marries the daughter, and new babies create a maze of relations. The speaker chews through the implausible tangle to ask who is who.
Daily Item delivery price note
The Daily Item announces home delivery offered for T0c per week with afternoon circulation.
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Kkront Street
Helen M. Slaker
Grand Ave
Aurora
Geo. Doubleday
Corpus Christi College
Galesburg
Corpus Christi
J. W. Purviance
McNairny County Independent
Selmer, Tenn
J. Ernest Paxson
Press
Parkersburg
Lombard
R. S. Knapp
Federal Charter Co
Washington, D. C
Toc
Galesburg Piano CO
Galesburg, Ill
Atlantic
D.morcan
H. Kaminski
J. J. Hazard
Bank OF
Ceorcetown
United States
Onty
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