United Brethren to Convene East Pennsylvania Session at Mt Gretna
The East Pennsylvania Christian Endeavor Union of United Brethren in Christ will hold its annual session at Mt Gretna from June 24 to 28. Several hundred youths from across the state are expected with a packed program. Bishop A R Clippinger of Dayton will lead daily pastors conferences. Mrs J Hal Smith, a returning Africa missionary now in Dayton, will chair the 7:30 A M devotional hour. Rev P B Gibble of Palmyra leads daily twilight services and the convention music will be directed by Rev and Mrs L R Walters of New Holland.
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East Pennsylvania Christian Endeavor Union
United Brethren In Christ
Mt. Gretna
A. R. Clippinger
Dayton
J. Hal Smith
Africa
Dayton, O
P. B. Gibble
Palmyra
L. R.walters
New Holland
Stones and milk laws and a French poem
The piece surveys talismanic stones and their myths from sapphires to lodestones, notes a May 25 1925 Pennsylvania milk serving law banning non original containers, and then presents a French poem I Love Not by Prof Herman T Frueauff with reflections on love and loss.
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Pennsylvania
James Foust
Bureau of Foods and Chemistry
Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture
Lightning Risks and Thunder Cloud Discharge Odds
A science note explains that a man under a storm cloud could be struck fifteen times per hundred strokes while a man on the ground would face one strike per hundred. The figures apply only if the man is isolated, and the chance a cloud will discharge onto any single object is very small.
Eccentric Legacy In Cornish Town Five Year Dance
A will left £50 to be shared among ten little girls who would dance around a tomb for a quarter hour and sing Old Hundredth every fifth year in a Cornish town, a memory custom noted by Tit-Bits.
Birds Called Not Yet Extinct In Southeast The West
The biological survey reports the ivory billed woodpecker is present in the west and heavy semi tropical woods of the southeast United States. The Carolina Barquet is found in similar regions though scientists believe it extinct as no specimens have appeared in years. Read the Record price noted.
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United States
Florida
Two Women Seek Subscriptions From Goldwyn Smith
In a brief street scene from James Mayer’s My Windows on the Street of the World, two women solicit a subscription from Goldwyn Smith. One speaks at length while he listens in grim silence before rising to bid them farewell. Record subscription rate is $1.50 a year.
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Goldwyn Smith
Smith
James Mayer
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