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Newspaper
Harper Herald
Location
Harper, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 28, 1943
Page
1
Catholic Church Growth and Institutions in the United States
The Catholic Church reports 22,945,247 adherents across the United States Alaska and Hawaii with 36,970 priests serving 18,976 churches. There are 193 seminaries with 16,838 students and 31 men’s colleges plus 638 girls colleges and academies. The total Catholic student body reaches 472,472, with 7,647 elementary schools serving 2,048,723 children and 316 orphanages caring for 38,456. Converts rise to 86,905 for 1942 43, with 4,818 more converts than the prior year. Twenty archbishops and 97 bishops lead the church. Also notes: Mr and Mrs Dude Lenmore welcome a baby boy born May 17 at Fredericksburg hospital. Miss Meta Spaeth and Miss Anell Haley of Doss attended church at the Lutheran church.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Alaska
Hawaiian Islands
Drafted Air Corps Pvt James W Danz 20 in 1943
Air Corps Pvt James W Danz aged 20 son of Mr and Mrs Willie Danz was drafted in February 1943. He was first stationed in Mississippi then transferred to Michigan where he serves at Romulus Air Base. Sergeant and Mrs Norcross of Brooks Field visited the Cot tle home in Romulus Michigan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James W. Danz
Willie Danz
Mississippi
Michigan
Romulus Air Base
Romulus
Norcross
Brooks Field
Roy Cottle
Faith and Home Ties Across War Time
Army chaplains in New Caledonia praise mission work and Christian unity among diverse troops. Leaders including J Edgar Hoover and Joseph Clark Grew stress home life and church influence against Nazi destruction. Civilian Public Service camps test grasses to aid postwar farming and rebuilding.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph Clark Grew
Japan
Big Flats
N. Y
American Friends Service Committee
Europe
Asia
Buffalo Churches Join Western New York Congregational Group
Five Buffalo area churches and one each in Hamburg Castile Reading Center and North Reading Center NY vote to affiliate with the Western New York Association of Congregational Christian Churches. The body cites historic traditions and liberal theology as reasons for joining.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W.T.S. Culp
Buffalo
Congregational Christian Churches
Hamburg
Castile
Reading Center
N. Y
Council of Community Churches of
Western New York
Western
Penny Requested in Dark Lane Footnote
Jones is approached by two men asking for a penny and hands one over after inquiry. A bride walks to the altar, trips a potted lily, and remarks that the church step is no place for a lily, addressing the solemn minister with surprising bluntness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jones
Privates Wunderlich Drafted For Army Air Base Training
Pvt Bruno W Wunderlich age 25 son of Mr and Mrs Otto Wunderlich was drafted June 22 1942. He trained at Fort Sam Houston then Sheppard Field Salt Lake City and Topeka Kansas. He moved to Fairmont Nebraska for training and was recently returned to Topeka for further Guard Squadron training at the Army Air Base.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bruno W. Wunderlich
Otto Wunderlich
Fort Sam Houston
Sheppard Field
Salt Lake City
Utah
Topeka
Kansas
Fairmont
Nebraska
Guard
Army Air Base
Roosevelt Urges Un Hammers Plan to Feed World
President Roosevelt told the United Nations food conference that no hindrance in trade transport or distribution should stop nations from obtaining the food needed for health. He linked goals to the Atlantic Charter and Rio de Janeiro talks and urged world cooperation to raise production and ensure minimum nutrition for all.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hot Springs
Pres. Roosevelt
United Nations Food Conference
United States
Cites
Roosevelt
Rio de Janeiro
Florida Private Elgin T Kirchner Returns Home on Furlough
In Avon Park Florida Pvt Elgin T Kirchner 36 son of Mr and Mrs Franz Kirchner recently visited home on a furlough from his army station in Avon Park He has been in service about six months since last fall and is stationed at the Avon Park Bombing Range in Avon Park Florida.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pvt
Elgin T. Kirchner
Franz Kirchner
Avon Park
Florida
Kirchner
State Curfew Law Goes Into Effect August 9
Beginning August 9 a curfew on sales and consumption of alcoholic beverages will go into effect in Texas. It bans liquor sales on Sundays and during weekday nights while allowing on premise consumption past midnight on Sundays and extending weekday hours with limits on election days. The measure SB 117 rewrites the liquor control act to clarify licensing and nuisance abatement and regulate marketing practices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texas
Moffett
Fisherman of the cistern and a stubborn farmer
Old Farmer Tightmoney falls into a cistern and thrashes, his wife calls the dinner bell to summon help. He refuses to wait for the men to rescue him, insisting they work until dinner time. He continues swimming, unsure when the rescue will arrive.
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Harper Herald
IAS Editorial Association
Thember
Norman J. Dietel
Harper
WBS. A. C. Wendel
Harper, Texas
Catholic Information
St. Anthony’s
Dude Lenmore
Fredericksburg Hospital
Meta Spaeth
Anell Haley of
Doss
Lutheran Church
Air Corps
James W, Danz
CY W.w.reib
New Caledonia
J. Edgar Hover
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Nazis Party
Adolf Hitler
Hitler
America
Georgia Harkness
Garrett Biblical Institute
Evanston, Il
Edwin Tateor
Fredericksburg
Mago Kallen
Kerrville, Texas
James W. Maxwell
Mgr
C. B
Yorktown News
Bruno Wunderlich
Clayton Parker
Kerrville
Belmore Roberts
Eber Parker
Lamar
Creighton Stevens
Floy Bode Station & Warehouse
Magnolia Mobigas
Texaco
Bill’s Lunch Room
Schneider's Hatchery
CASH
Fredericksburg, Texas
Guilhelm
Iltex Co
Strato
ABC
Clay St
Etree Cent
Gillespie County
Lechie Storage & Commission Co
Osoft Mats
Mion
Ged
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