Easter Blizzardinterrupts Union Service in Spring Valley
M E Church notes report a severe Easter blizzard on Sunday April 4 1920 disrupting attendance but the two week union meetings of Congregational and M E Churches proceeded as planned. The pastor and neighboring ministers delivered high order sermons and Sunday school study focused on Judges while community events honored Mrs Octove Trillet with dishes for her birthday and farewell gatherings for Gus Woinine family as they move to Saginaw Michigan.
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M. E
Ladies Aid
Octove Trillet
Cate
Gus Woinine
O. Trillet
Saginaw
Michigango
Spring Valley
Interchurch World Movement Publicity Plans Noted
Congregational Church notes urge attendance as the Interchurch World Movement nears with county meets in the state. The pastor will speak next Sunday on the movement and its findings. Bureau County meets April 9 in Princeton Baptist Church with Alfred Pierson and Rev. Mills likely attending.
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Bureau County
Princeton
Alfred Pierson
L. Mills
Congregational Church
Spring Valley
Maryland History Highlights in War and Founding Years
Baltimore founded 1728 Frederick 1745 Georgetown 1751 Maryland aided the Revolutionary War. In 1783 Congress met in Annapolis and Washington resigned his commission on December 23. Fort McHenry faced a brutal bombardment in 1814 during the War of 1812, inspiring The Star-Spangled Banner by Francis Scott Key.
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Maryland
Baltimore
Frederick
Georgetown
Congress
Annapolis
Washington
Fort McHenry
Francis Scott Key
Hawks on Farms Benefit Farmers Says Agriculture Department
The department of agriculture states that of fifty principal hawk varieties forty seven aid farmers by catching many crop-damaging rodents. It notes hawks on farms are as valuable as a cow, while three varieties are deadly to poultry and should be shot on sight.
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Department of Agriculture
Rural Churches Struggle Prompt Planned Baptist Action
The Northern Baptist Convention reports rural churches face decline, urging action like establishing community centers, higher ministers salaries, and more missionaries. Plans across states cite new centers, federation models, and expanded evangelism to revive farm communities and meet growing rural needs.
MissionaryEducated Burma Schools under British Direction
Great Britain employs American Baptist missionaries to promote education in Burma. Missionaries operate 856 schools under government supervision, advancing local schooling efforts and institutional development.
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Great Britain
Burma
American Baptists educate Burma women widely
Women in Burma are educated to an extent not rivaled anywhere in the Orient. Women’s schools are conducted by American Baptists at Moulmein Rangoon and Mandalay.
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Burma
Orient
Moulmein
Rangoon
Mandalay
Medical aid abroad far outstrips U S doctor-to-population ratio
Census figures show one doctor per 600 people in the continental United States in 1910. In Burma, four American Baptist missionary physicians attend to more than 10,000 patients.
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Pased
Continental
United States
Burma
Missionaries Prep 25 Cars for Burma Post
Twenty five automobiles are to be sent to Burma by the American Baptist Foreign Missionary Society. The cars will triple the work capacity of the 69 American missionaries there as the British government provides excellent roads.
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Burma
American Baptist Foreign Missionary Socety
Rangoon Baptist Mission Press in Burma Modern and Self-Supporting
One of the largest publishing plants in the Orient, the Baptist Mission Press at Rangoon Burma, is described as modern and self-supporting. It serves as a valuable aid to the local workers with 88 percent of Burma’s people able to read.
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Baptist Mission Press
Rangoon
Burma
Lea
It’s Not Your Heart It’s Your Kidneys
An early 20th century health snippet stresses kidney trouble as the root of many ailments. It lists symptoms such as weariness sleeplessness backache stomach trouble and nerve issues and promotes Gold Medal Haarlem Oil Capsules as a remedy.
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Nature
Haarlem
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Granville
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Telephone
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Erie St
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