Pocket Testament League Moves and Mission Across World
The Pocket Testament League, founded in Philadelphia in 1908, promotes personal Bible reading and carrying a Testament as a life rule. It reports worldwide reach, strong Sunday school and youth group support, and a pledge urging daily Bible reading with no fees. The article highlights branches in many nations, notes a school feat of 141 members with 55 men including 30 Negroes achieving reading literacy, and discusses racial prejudice affecting Black progress alongside literary allusions.
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Pocket Testament League
Philadelphia
Canada
Australia
Africa
Japan
China
Korea
Norway
Sweden
Switzerland
Great Britain
League
Young People’s Societies
Y. W. and
Moonlight school helps 61 year old inmate learn to read
Frankfort Kentucky March 5 A Lincoln County prisoner John Powell a Negro at the Kentucky Reformatory learned to read in three evenings and write quickly. He finished the first and second readers in two and six weeks respectively and now reads the third. Powell hopes to teach after release. The reform program begun three months ago by Colonel W H Moyer faced white prisoner opposition which has since faded.
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Stringtown
John Ari Lloyd
Frankfort
John Powell
Lincoln County
Kentucky Reformatory
Moonlight School
Powell
W. H. Moyer
The Dilemma of Them as an Adjective in Speech
The piece argues that using them as a demonstrative before a noun, as in I saw them boys, is erroneous. It attributes the error to repetition and education level, noting that correct usage is these boys or these.
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