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Newspaper
Jeffersonville Star
Location
Jeffersonville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 02, 1920
Page
2
The Star announces William Baim of Jeffersonville as the Republican nominee aspirant for Sheriff of Clark County subject to the Republican primary decision in 1926.
The announcement states Harland D Sanders seeks the Democratic nomination for Representative from Clark Genaty, subject to the May primary election.
We are authorized to announce W. C. Lewman as a candidate for the Democratic nomination for County Commissioner first district, subject to the primary election May 4, 1920.
A 1901 world survey shows ministers earning far less than lawyers doctors or manufacturers. It highlights shocking poverty among pastors with many under £5,000 yearly in the British system while other trades earn more. The piece calls Protestant cooperation to end underpaid pastors and push for pensions and fair pay across denominations.
Relics emerge from the Fort St. Louis site on the Navidad river near Port Lavaca Texas including an iron cross found near the riverbank. The Fort built in 1685 by La Salle and his party sits above Matagorda Bay where explorers like La Belle set out toward the Mississippi and inland.
The text notes La Salle and his explorers faced dangers on their cross country trip and that two new men were left to hold Fort St. Louis. It speculates the fate of those men, suggesting they may have been killed by Indians, though history does not say.
A terrier named Fury belonging to a British lady in the lower Himalayan hills incites a troop of local monkeys. The simians torment the dog by pinching, plucking fur, and crop him off a cliff after a chase through rhododendron thickets.
The piece lists traditional Native American lunar names for each month. January is the Winter Moon, February the Raccoon Moon, March Sore-eye Moon, April Moon in which geese have eyes, May the Planting Moon, June the Strawberry Moon, July the Choke-cherries ripe Moon, August the Harvest Moon, September Rice drying Moon, October Rice drying Moon, November Deer Killing Moon, and December Deer Moon, as printed by the Editor al Review.
Wanted to buy good used fur niture rugs and stoves. Call Dan Robison. Phone 16. Adv February 18 tf.
A feature on Ginling College in Nanking, its moon door entrance, and the contrast between old Chinese architecture and modern laboratories and dormitories. The Interchurch World Movement survey highlights Ginling as central to five provinces with 110 million people, but limited by the old gung-gwan building. Fundraising of 500,000 dollars is needed to expand to a full modern campus.
Arrangements completed for a series of pastors conferences in the central West and March under the Interchurch World Movement. Proceedings will cover the movement from 2 p.m. start with devotional exercises and lengthy sessions on foreign and home surveys, education, finance, and evangelism.
New edition of Diamond Points on the Interchurch World Movement issued by the Literature Department. The folder outlines origin nature scope and plans of the Movement and adds a dozen concise paragraphs summarizing the World Survey Conference results and the forthcoming financial campaign training pastors conferences evangelistic and life enlistment programs.
A New York surrogate orders a $100,000 payment from the J Arthur Hinckley estate to secure a permanent home in this country for John Arthur Hinckley, a boy who will inherit millions. His guardian is his grandmother Mrs Josephine Wood, and his mother agrees the home is in his best interests. The estate totals over $4 million with staged inheritances.
In Millersburg Ohio Judge E B Kinkead ruled Amish Mennonite Eli Ginerich may wear suspenders without church persecution. The decision states he may keep his trousers up while remaining a Christian, noting prior ostracism affected farm help and even attendance at his daughter's wedding.
Report notes the ceremony granting the Prince of Wales the Freedom of the City of London. The parchment document lists his names and titles and pledges privileges, including tax exemptions for goods entering the city and no required naval or military service. It also promises financial aid in hardship.
London reports Imre Kiralfy, famed organizer of pageants and spectacular plays, died at Brighton leaving a fortune of 2 million dollars. He reportedly realized 22.75 million dollars from his colossal productions mainly in America and abroad, including a World’s Fair pageant in Chicago that earned about 1 million. The issued statement calls this the largest total receipts in opera drama and pageantry history.
We buy and sell all kinds of junk rags paper etc See us before you sell We pay the best prices Phone 884 Geo Colvin 215 Spring Street Adv Feb 23 to Mar 23.
An advert for battery service at Osborn and Vor gang's includes contact phone 374 and address in Coots Building. It runs from February 17 to March 17.
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