Missionary Impact and Bankers Face Great Change
Axtest from Crozer Seminary reports 2366 converts since opening with 1650 by a single student. Tuberculosis and typhoid deaths drop by 59 and 65 percent due to preventive health efforts. In Paotingfu, China bankers halt payments amid govt doubt, yet a US missionary gains $500 emergency funds plus a possible extra 500. Kingdom of God cited as lasting.
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Crozer Theological Seminary
China
Kingdom of God
Far East
Memorial Day Observance in Pella with Procession and Services
Memorial Day activities in Pella on Monday May 31 include flag displays, business closures, and a park ceremony. The program features a 9 45 a m gathering of Comrades and Ladies Circle G A R, a cemetery flower ceremony, a 1 15 p m parade led by the city band officials and soldiers, and a brief 20 minute program at the park with songs prayers addresses and flag presentations. Committees and speakers are listed with names and roles, and the event ends with a Baptist church memorial sermon and a final flag presentation before adjournment.
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Pella
Republic
Ladies’ Circle
Main Street
Peace Street
Old Central Building
Holland School
Comrades
Main
America
J. A. Monkman
Mrs. van Doren
Circle Pres
Columbia
Leona Hunt
H. F. Johnson
Edna van Doren
Jacob Todd
R. C. Payne
F. M. Frush
L. F. Bousquet
Geo. Ramsey
G. F. Sadler
Dick den Adel
P. van der Ploeg
Ed S. Cook
Will van Sit
Pat's Rejoiner A Prohibition Punchline Card
An Irishman Pat announces his return to drinking after signing the pledge and donning a blue ribbon. His companions tease him while he explains whiskey ruined his home and job. A friend asks about loving enemies and the Bible. Pat quips that Paul advised wine for stomachs not for him.
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Pat
Paul
Timothy
Calf at the County Fair With Blue Ribbon Exchange
A brief exchange describes how a calf with a blue ribbon is always awarded a prize at the country fair, reflecting a whimsical boast about recognition and luck.
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Pat
Knowing the Scriptures in Bible’s Peerless Light
The piece extols scripture as the most wholesome truth and mental treasure. It cites President Wilson praising how knowledge of the Scripture haunts, follows, and shapes a person like an enduring memory or guiding teacher. It emphasizes Scripture as essential to life’s fabric.
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Wilson
The Birds Jubilee Spring Song of Love
Poem extols a spring jubilee sung by robins bluebirds thrushes and other birds. Nature’s chorus highlights love as the central theme, celebrated through vivid avian imagery and seasonal renewal. The piece presents a lyrical homage to spring and affection.
Summer hotel or life saving station on the lake
Dr. Dixon recalls a summer hotel by Lake Hrie where guests eat sleep and row while opposite it a life saving station keeps watch for distress. He contrasts pleasure with purpose asking which we and our churches resemble more the life saving station or the summer hotel.
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Lake Hrie
Dr. Dixon
Hves
Dixon
Iowa hogs highlight Panama Exposition view herds
Iowa's Berkshire hogs are shipped for the Panama Exposition to form view herds. Two carloads from Ames college and Dean C F Curtiss will represent U S hog stock through September. Visitors will see the best hogs as part of a nationwide display. The piece also urges drinking plenty of pure water for cleansing the system and skin.
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San Francisco
Cal
Iowa
D. O. Lively
Vestock Department
United States
Lively
Ames College
C. F. Curtiss
Five Stock Department
Million nickels for a million Testaments campaign
The World's Sunday School Association reports that by April 1, 200,000 copies of the New Testament had been provided through gifts of American Sunday-school scholars in the drive to raise a million nickels for a million Testaments for a million soldiers. Smoke George the Fifth Cigars. tf. Bring us your egg tickets. We will pay two cents per dozen more in trade. H. D. Wormhoudt.
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The
World’s Sunday School Association
H. D. Wormhoudt
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Robert Clayton
Panama Exposition
Hawkeye State
Rogers Bros
International Silver Co
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Meriden
Conn
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Lyman Brown
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New York
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