Great Convention Ends With Record Southern Baptists Giving
Asheville May 23 The first annual Southern Baptist convention adjourned after a week of sessions with 2,135 delegates registered and 2,006 delegates singing as the benediction was given. Total offerings last year reached 2,019,021 dollars, with a projected 1,055,500 to be raised this year for home and foreign missions across multiple states.
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Asheville
Joshua Levering
Baltimore
Lansing Burrows
Southern Baptists
Hyvmn
Women’s Missionary Union
Committee On Free Spee
Freedom
Nashville
Atlanta
St. Louis
Texas
Baptists
Southern Baptist Convention
Southern Methodists
J. W. Snvion
Apportionment Committee
Albania
Arkansas
District of Columbia
Florida
Georgia
Louisiana
Maryland
Mississippi
Missouri
New Mexico
North Carolna
Oklahoma
South Carolina
Tennessee
Virginia
Judson Fund
Home Missions
Dillom
Convention Opens as Club Women Take Armory in New York
About 20,060 Federation of Women’s Clubs delegates swarm the Seventh Regiment Armory for the biennial national convention. President Pennybacker presides as candidates Mrs. Samuel B. Sneath and Mrs. Joseph Evans Cowles campaign from floor and galleries amid intense political maneuvering.
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Carnegie Hall
Lexington
Park Avenues
66Th
67Th Streets
Federation
Civics Department
Board of Offices
General Federation Bureau of Information
Far West
Middle West
Percy W. Pennybacker
Texas
Pennybacker
Samuel B. Sneath
Tiffin
Joseph Evans Cowles
Los Angeles
Cal
Cowles
Sneath
Boy's Nap Rouses City in Cleveland Heights
Four year old Clay Herrick Jr., nephew of Myron T. Herrick, was found asleep in a garage next to his home in Cleveland Heights after an all night search by police and neighbors. He said playmate Alice Elliott had locked him in the garage after a quarrel. Two thousand school children helped with the search.
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Cleveland Plain Dealer
Clay Herrick, Jr
Myron T. Herrick
Cleveland Heights
Alice Elliott
Card of Thanks from Briggs Family
The Briggs family thanks friends and neighbors for kindness during illness and death of their wife and mother. May God bless you all.
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L. B. Briggs
Foley Kidney Pills Promoted By Illinois Man
Henry Rudolph of Carmi Illinois writes that Foley Kidney Pills let him sleep through the night without waking. The ad from Mann Drug Co highlights relief from discomfort and mentions common symptoms like backache and joint stiffness as indicators of kidney trouble.
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Henry Rudolph
Carmi
Mann Drug Co. Adv
Goodrich awards $10600 in racing champion prizes
Goodrich announces a $10,000 prize for the 1916 season champion and further $3,600 distributed to second and third place, with the American Automobile Association deciding the champion. The awards are given outright, independent of tire choice, for the season’s top driver standings.
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Goodrich
Akron
Goodrich Silvertown
B. FF. Goodrich Company
American Automobile Association
Association
Goodrich Company
Bell Telephone
Woman 104 Years Old Celebrates Birthday in Madison
Madison Wisconsin May 23 Mrs Louis Brayton marked her 104th birthday today. She never rode in an auto or saw a movie and knows little of modern frivolities. Fully alert she credits longevity to good hours spiritual life regularity and staying true to oneself.
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Madison, Wis
Louis Brayton
Foley Cathartic Tablets Praise From Cedar Grove Reader
Anna Hawn of Cedar Grove Missouri commends Foley Cathartic Tablets as the best liver pills they ever used. The ad notes the tablets do not nauseate or gripe and act freely on the liver, recommending them for constipation bloating sour stomach gas bad breath and irregular action. Maun Drug Co. ad.
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Anna Hawn
Cedar Grove
Maun Drug Co. Adv
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