Baptist Sunday School Class Contest Winners Named
Summer contest among four Baptist Sunday School classes used a six point system. Ella Wright’s T. E. L. class scored 78, winning ahead of the Men's Bible class at 76. Losing classes were honored with a banquet hosted by the T. E. L. group, with Robert Farley as toastmaster and speakers including Judge Russell and Miss Ella Wright. The Phi Lathea class performed a Humanola stunt to close the evening.
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Baptist Sunday School
Ella Wright
Robert Farley
Judge Russell
Wild Rose Day Poem Fragment
A fragmentary verse recalling a June day and a wild rose along the path. It reflects on love’s music and a choice to cherish or risk losing a treasured beloved moment. The speaker vows to avoid letting the rose be plucked too soon.
Moonshine Gas Mantle Nets Fine for Cincinnati Café
Prohibition officers fined Bernhard Schloemer, keeper on Carlisle Avenue, $400 after he used a so called moonshine gas mantle to draw liquor at his saloon. The device drew custom but led to enforcement action and the gas tank was torn out.
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Cincinnati
Bernhard “Schloemer
Carlisle
Schloemer
University Students Invited to Oxford Baptist Church
The Oxford Baptist Church welcomes University students with a graded Sunday School, a special class for students, and the B Y P U program. Special student preaching services are planned for September 24 with informal receptions on September 28. Pastor Roland Q Leavell invites students to visit "The Eyeless Eden" between campus and town.
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Baptist Congregation
Oxford
C. Longest
Eyeless Eden
Ingersoll on Suffrage and Woman Voting
Miss. Woman Voter presents Col. Ingersoll's views on suffrage praising his advocacy for equal voting rights. The excerpt cites his statements that voting should be shared with all humanity, including women, and that devotion to peace or war should guide their choices. The piece frames his thoughts as bold and ahead of his time.
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Ingersoll
Henry Ward Beecher
Robert Ingersoll
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First Baptist Church
Miss
Roland Q. Leavell
P. U
A. E. Russell
E. D. Beanland
Oxford, Mississippi
Key’s Grocery Co
Lemuella Almond
W. R. Boles
Prop
North
Mississipp
J. E. Neilson Co. Department
Col. Ingersoll
Oxford Furniture CO
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