Summer slump in church attendance hits Indiana city
A Times survey finds 20 to 50 percent fewer summer worshippers across denominations in Ft Wayne Indiana as vacation trips and heat reduce Sunday services. Union services are planned in Irvington and Downey Avenue churches as efforts to boost attendance include vacation Sunday School classes and sermons on modern questions.
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the Times
Irvington
B. R. Johnson
Downey Ave. Christian Church
Downey Ave
Irvington M. E
J. B. Rosemargy
Lewis Brown
St. Paul’s Episcopal Church
Dr. Brown
Frank L. Roberts
Central Avenue M. E
Small Shoe Shop Forced to Move for Gas Station
Evansville Indiana June 8 Jakob Haller owner of the city’s smallest business a shoe shop in a shed six by twelve feet has been forced to move it to make way for a gasoline filling station.
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Evansville
Ind
Jakob Haller
California leads in practical eugenics sterilizations
An article by Max Stern reports that California records show 5,820 sterilizations among inmates in six insane hospitals and one feeble minded institution since 1909, far more than the rest of the United States. It notes about one in twelve new entrants to the state asylums have been sterilized, with about 1,000 in Sonoma State Institution.
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Max Stern
Pasadena
Cal
California
Paul Papanoe
E. S. Gosney
United States
Sonoma
California Eugenics Debate Calls For Sterilization Policy
The Indianapolis Times reports on eugenics views praising sterilization as a public good. Proponents claim it protects posterity by preventing births of the inferior, noting California sterilization outcomes and expert Gosney’s claim that sterilization reduces the need for care while addressing the eugenic problem.
Five Year Fire Threat Near Oroville
United Press reports rangers near Oroville California plan a broad clearing around a five year sawdust fire to prevent spread into timberlands. District inspector E P Biggs of the State Forestry Service works to halt sparks from leaping to surrounding woods after last year’s damage.
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United Press
Oroville
Cal
E. P. Biggs
State Forestry Service
Son brings Deman brood to nineteen in Wisconsin
In Richland Center Wisconsin a son born to Mr and Mrs Elmer Deman increases their family to nineteen. The newborn joins four sets of twins making the count unusually large for a single household.
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Wisconsin
Richland Center
Wis
Elmer Deman
Magnesia Best for Your Indigestion Ad
An advertisement promotes Bisulated Magnesia as an anti acid and food corrective. It claims four tablets in water after meals neutralize stomach acidity, sweeten the stomach, prevent fermentation, and aid digestion, advising readers to obtain the product for stomach use.
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