Successful Year for S. S. Work in Baptist Circles
Memphis reports the Southern Baptist Sunday school board had its most successful year with 969 new schools and 155,236 pupils, totaling 2,536,953 attached. BYPUs topped 17,665 unions with 546,193 members, receipts reached 1,474,931.28, and a Daily Vacation Bible School program aims to involve 1,000 schools this summer.
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Memphis, Tenn
Southern Baptist Sunday School
Sunday School Board
The
Southern Baptist Convention
J. J. van Ness
Nashville
South
Cliff Temple
Church of Dallas
Texas
First Baptist Church
Dallas
Baptist Young People’s Union
Homer L. Grice
Baptist Churches of the South
Southern Baptist Convention & Co-Operative Book Store
State Mission Boards
Young man questions value of poetry in verse and prose
A reader questions poetry's usefulness and the purpose of verse. The writer urges exploring Macaulay's Lays of Ancient Rome then Byron and Keats to experience rhythm, cadence, and language beauty, arguing poetry offers thrills and expressive power prose lacks.
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Macaulay
Rome
Byron
Senaceherib
Keats
Chairman Chicago Bar Association Takes Rap At Newspapers
Chicago May 14 Attorney A R Sherriff chairman of the Chicago Bar Association warns that trial by newspapers has ousted judges and juries. He laments that trials have become cheap vaudeville acts and says the pendulum must swing back after judges ban cameras from court trials.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
A. R. Sherriff
Chicago Bar Association
Committee On
Courts Open To Public For News, Entertainment And Food
The courts will supply pictures entertainment thrills or food for gossip to the general public and courtrooms are open to all who wish to attend in person.
Argentine Aviator Escapes An Accident
In Osaka on May 14 Major Pedro and two companions escaped injury when their seaplane overturned attempting to take off from Kasumigaura to resume a world flight. Two floats broke, the craft capsized, a launch rescued the aviators who were unhurt. The plane was towed ashore.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Osaka
Japan
Pedro “Ani
Kasumigaura
Three Men Convicted Of Murder In Bank Robbery
CAPE MAY COURT HOUSE N J May 14 The three young men on trial for killing Edwin L Tomlin a director of the Tuckahoe Bank during a robbery were convicted of first degree murder with a recommendation to mercy They were sentenced to life imprisonment The defendants were James Pettit Gustave Anderson of North Arlington N J and Walter Laird of Kearney N J Resolutions of Satisfaction Raleigh May 14 The executive committee of the board of trustees of the University met in the governor s office and passed resolutions expressing satisfaction at President Harry W Chase declining the presidency of Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute and Dr Archibald Henderson declining the presidency of the University of Oklahoma
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Cape May Court House
N. J
Edwin L. Tomlin
Tuckahoe Bank
Mercy
James Pettit
Gustave Anderson
North Arlington
Walter Laird
Kearney
Raleigh
Board of Trustees of the Unniversity
Harry W. Chase
Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute
Archibald Henderson
University of Oklahoma
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Chapman
MR. Cleanandye
United States
Atlantic Bank
Thurman Williams
A. L. Caldwell
G. A. Foliock Asst. Cashier
Petty Coal Co
Reed Living Room
Walnut
Ivory
Harder Mig. Co
Cobleskill, N.Y
Coffield Furniture CO
Wrenn St
High Point, N. C
High Point Perpetual Building & Loan Association
Commercial Nut
Bank
Lord Headquarters
Randleman
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