Light To Lead Way Inward Church Advertising Plans
Dr. William C. Covert of the Forty first Street Presbyterian Church advocates modern advertising for church aims. He discusses concise dignified phrases and a 60 dollar prize for best article on the Men and Religion Forward Movement. The plan includes nationwide publicity tests and a series of editor interviews.
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New York
Broadway
Conservation Congress
Men and Religion Forward
Congress
William C. Covert
Forty-first Street Presbyterian Church
Chicago
Men and Religion
Committee On Christian
William J. Bryan
William T. Ellis
America
Archdeacon Madden
Liverpool
Greer
William McDowell
Robert B. Speer
Fred B. Smith
John R. Mott
J. Campbell White
Oakland
Oakwood Boulevard
Woodlawn
City Club
Laymen's Missionary Movement
Chi
Feed beans to children say Harvard doctor
Dr Charles Putnam urged mothers at Harvard Medical School to feed Boston baked beans to children claiming they are nutritious and tasty. He also recommended corporal punishment for certain behaviors and advised letting children go barefoot to avoid restrictive clothing.
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Boston
Mase
Charles Putnam
Harvard Medical School
Child’s vivid misdescription of jewelled-teeth man
A four year old attempts to describe a young man to her mother and says, O don't you know the man with the jewelry in his teeth. The line captures a child's imaginative reference to a stranger and hints at curiosity or fear.
Lyons Surrenders to Court Flexing Father Son Bond
In Baltimore Hugh C Lyons asks the court to swap sentences with his father Hugh D Lyons alias. The judge grants the unusual request and allows the son to take the father’s remaining year, reversing the two year sentence for the elder Lyons and reducing the son’s term to three years. Both men weep as the exchange is effected in open court.
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NROEM
Goldstein
National Desertion Bureau
New York
Domestic Relations Court
South America
Russia
Germany
Baltimore
Hugh C. Lyons
Criminal
Elliott
Lyons
Hugh D. Lyons
The Eternal Feminine and Man’s Emancipation
Paraphrased excerpt from Jean Finot’s new book argues that emancipation must come from men declaring independence from women. It retells Adam and Eve in Eden with humor about gender roles, emotions, and old patriarchal constraints.
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M. Jean Finot
Church Council
Adam
Mock wedding binding shocks Bridgeport couple
Dr. Howard P. Mansfield and Miss Clara Georgia sought divorce after a mock marriage twelve years ago. They discovered the ceremony was binding and now pursue legal dissolution of the union.
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Bridgeport
Conn
Howard P. Mansfield
Clara Georgia
Japan’s Merchants and the New Spirit of Honor
An Atlantic writer notes Japan’s evolving商 commerce as the old social bias against merchants fades under imperial reform. He contrasts Japanese and European mercantile honor, highlighting the Mitsui family’s enduring trusted role alongside broader shifts in Japan’s business culture.
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The
Atlantic
Orient
China
Trents Porte
Japan
West
Miteaul
Rothachilds
East
What Fleet Street Wants
A London Opinion quip on crime and sensationalism. The piece pokes at public appetite for regular grisly murders, noting the Newsboy’s blunt demand that weekly horrors would boost interest and revenue for the press.
England's 800 Silent Sentinels of the Sea Lights
The coast lights now number over eight hundred, silent sentinels guarding ships at night. A century ago there were twenty five with dim illumination. Some reflect brightness up to thirty million candle power and are visible for about a hundred miles under favorable conditions.
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England
Wanted to Be Helpful in a Prairie Wedding Quip
Witty exchange frames a bachelor and a widow in playful banter about marriage plans. A humorous contrast of affection and family duties stirs lighthearted urban social life.
Lawyer Seeks Jury Ready for Major Corporate Case
A parent reports securing a big corporate defense matter for his son and plans to prepare through extensive pretrial work to assemble a ready jury.
Domestic farce over flats and a cat named Daffy downhilly
In a tense dinner scene Mrs. Field argues with her sister in law about bohemian neighbors living in the upstairs flats. Harry conceals a planned rescue of a cat as the pair confront worries about manners and respectability while a nocturnal mouse chase unfolds.
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Mr. Field
Harry
Alice
Cate
Field
Rebecca
Tom
Mrs. Field
Chubby
Bob
Edna
Attie
Callie
Edith
Misa Duncan
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Presbyterian Church
New York City
Gaye M. Finot
Paradise
Eve
Bee
Alb
Fleet Street
London
Daffydownhilly
Associated Literary Press
Miss Duncan
Daffy
Mrs.Field
Bart
Harrison - Field
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