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The Mobile Item

Location

Mobile, Alabama, United States of America

Date

May 31, 1914

Page

8

Six new cocaine arrests in New York province

Six arrests reported in New York on Friday and Saturday in a crackdown on cocaine sellers. Bower chased on East Sixteenth Street. police recovered cocaine or heroin at his station. Jackson Smith held on Sullivan law charges after a violent confrontation at his West Sixty-sixth Street home. Four Jamaica drugstore arrests for selling syringes and needles. Gustave Waldeck held on cocaine charges with eighty one German envelope contents to be analyzed.

New York Manhattan Queens John Bower East Six Teenth Street Bower Valentine Bach East Twenty-Second Street East Sixteenth Street Jackson Smith West Sixty First Street Levy West Side Court West Sixty-eighth Street Mulligan Smith Jamaica Byron Shandell Gustave Waldeck Lockhart Germany

Commencement Days in Chinese Christian Schools

A vivid report from Pingtu China details the Effie Sears Memorial School year end with five graduates in a class of twenty one to twenty eight. The piece notes rising enrollment, ongoing teacher development, a Christmas in Many Lands program, diploma ceremonies, and praise from parents. It also covers Manila and Ellinwood School graduations, Sunday schools, outreach in the Tagalog provinces, and the broader impact of Christian education in New Zealand and China.

Effie Sears Pastor Key Miss Bartholomew Hurlburt China Christ

Medical Work in India and Street Chapel Work in China

A Lahore India dispensary report records 9304 visits with Mrs. Dass noting villagers seeking scripture, hymns, and prayers alongside medical aid. She cites women’s faith, misunderstood directions, and the influence of Christian outreach on families and husbands.

India Lahore Wes

Grove's The Old Standard General Tonic Claim

An advertisement touts Grove's Tasteless Tonic as a general tonic with quinine and iron. It promises malaria fighting, blood enrichment, and overall system health. The claim emphasizes tonic properties and broad health benefits.

Grove

Lowering the Pagan Flag in Ujhani Circuit Revival

Rev. William Peters of the North India Methodist mission recounts visiting Ujhani where a seventy year old Hindu idolater tore down a pagan altar banner after revival meetings, signaling a conversion to Christianity and the spread of faith in the village.

William Peters North India Methodist Mission Ujhani

Missions and church efforts across regions and nations

The article lists global Christian work and pledges, noting Prince ton University A Y M C A in Peking with 1913 contributions of 9580 dollars, and extensive church activity by the Methodist Episcopal South including 28 cities, 8 schools, 13 Wesley Houses, 150 clubs, 104 workers, and 269 volunteers totaling 60921.51 dollars. It cites Easter collections in New York schools about 3 million, a Tokyo Camden school pupil with six years of perfect attendance, 17 000 pupils in Cairo Christian schools, Baptist foreign mission funding in Texas reaching 100000 dollars, and Billy Sunday’s claim of fifty million unchurched in the U S.

Yuan Shih Kai Chinese Republic Peking China Kiangsi Nanchang The Methodist Episcopal Church South Wesley Houses New York Tokyo Japan

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