J C Penney plans new St Louis warehouse center
The J C Penney Company announced plans to establish a general distribution center in St Louis. The project, run by Glen G White, calls for a 12 story warehouse with 792000 square feet on a city block bordered by Spruce Thirteenth Poplar and Fourteenth Streets, starting construction in March. The investment is about 2500000 covering land and building. The site will boost shipping efficiency for nearly a thousand stores and place St Louis as a major western distribution hub alongside the New York warehouse completed in 1926.
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St. Louis
J. C. Penney Company
Glen G. White
Thirteenth
Fourteenth Streets
Charles H. Peck
Columbia Terminal Company
Poplard Street
Fourteenth Street
George Shabin
Peck
White
St. Louis Chamber of Commerce
J.C. Penney Company
New York
Wilk Hyer
Walla Walla
Washington
Missouri
J. C. Penney
When the Rattler Sheds Its Skin
An automotive repair note explains common engine noises such as rattling from loose pistons or worn push rod guides. It advises inspecting the unit, adjusting valves, replacing parts, and adding lubricant to quiet a noisy transmission or rear axle.
Jesus Pictures the Kingdom of God in Seeds
J A Lapham outlines an international Sunday school lesson on Jesus portraying the kingdom of God through the seed parable. He links Mark 4 and Psalm 145 with the Lord’s Prayer, emphasizing growth in faith, orderly divine work, and the Bible’s life power to transform hearts under the Holy Spirit.
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Jesus
Earth
Parables and seeds in Christian teaching from Amos Wells
The article discusses the use of parables by Jesus as master stories to teach concrete truths, comparing the kingdom of God to a seed and mustard plant. It urges teachers to use vivid stories and seeds in lessons, stressing family Bible reading, repentance, and living by Christ’s commands with practical classroom activities and citizenry. It notes the enduring power of Scripture to nurture moral growth and outlines the balance between personal effort and divine seed.
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God
England
Wesleys
Gene Booth
Carey
Judson
Ashmore
Clough
Jesus
Christ
Scribner
Satan
Amos Wells
Odd A Bumper Churn Milk Tale and Names in Flux
Sidelights recount quirky anecdotes from Hake Baldwin Cedar Grove about a radiator used as a churn and butter made from milk while water was scarce. It also notes naturalized immigrants angling to shorten names, a Greek applicant refusing to shorten Constantine Pappadimitrilloupoulos, and a 18 000 member society against calling Pullman porters George. A Sheriff in Louisiana hanged a life long friend Hugh Phillips in a grim note, then a Lexington North Carolina radio saved a prominent woman from a violent home invasion by a silent wavelength.
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Hake Baldwin
Cedar Grove
N. J
Hake
Lexington
N. C
New Orleans Police Charge Man With Disorderly Conduct
Police say Gene Walter C. Anderson, claiming Tennessee ties, arrived in New Orleans and exhibited disturbing the peace obscene language reviling officers resisting arrest tearing an officer’s uniform and failing to pay a 75 text bill. The report notes his temperamental peculiarities and the distance from his origin.
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New Orleans
Gene Walter C. Anderson
Crescent City
Woman’s Clever Rule Frightens Burglars Near Newbern
A blindfold bluff by two Misses Breckenridge residents south of Newbern deterred four men attempting a home robbery. The intruders fled after the women called for their brother Dave and the would‑be captors cut the telephone line. A Polk County tagged car was seen nearby, and locals organized a search toward Lacona. Two men, Charles Beeler and Clark Furgerson, were tracked back from a country trip to Lacona and the Lacona Auto Co. garage, but the bandits escaped. Also an unrelated want ad for bonds appears in this issue.
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Polk County
Lewis Mullins
Oakley
Lacona
Charles Beeler
Clark Furgeson
Lacona Auto
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NEW Warehouse
Sean
Aes
Jour Drugstore
Bly
Mont
Miles
Dr. Miles Medical Company
Elkhart, Indiana
J. A. Lapham
Prof
David Smith
Harold Sack
Crochet
Visca
By Marcy B. Darnall
Newark
Sam
Constantine Pappadimitrilloupoulos
United States
Society For the Prevention of
Sheriff Payne
Natchitoches
Hugh Phillips
Hugh
P. W. Stubenrauch
Sosa Square
Pella
Iowa
Jcpenney O
Oppenheimer- Alsop Co
Oskaloosa
Bulle-Nat
America
Lloyd
Bigelow
Hartford
Oppenheimer-Alsop Co. Furniture Dept
Southeastern Iowa
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