Baptist convention faces inter church federation move
The North American Baptist convention debated joining an Inter-Church Federation to raise funds across denominations. Opposition waned after reservations to preserve Baptist independence and avoid organic union. The decision followed long discussions and will shape five year aims, education plans, and future convention sites.
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Inter-Church World Movement
Army Welfare Organizations
Inter-Church Federation
Baptist Church
Convention
Southern Baptist, Convention
Presbyterian, Church At
St. Louis
Atthews
University of Chi
Cago Divinity School
Conference On Organic “Union
Presbyterian
Hessian
Bolshevik Rule Tightens Amid Looting and Press Censorship
A fragment describes Bolshevik excesses with army troops looting and murdering dissenters while civilians fear punishment. It notes no foreigners protection, a decree erasing foreign identity, and daily large scale paper money printing. Only two newspapers are allowed The Soviet News and the Soldiers' Truth.
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Red
Aurgy
Russia
Ford Tribune libel suit moves to evidence phase
The Ford-Chicago Tribune libel suit enters the evidence stage as the second phase ends. Proceedings today wrapped arguments on admissibility of evidence, concluding the second week of the trial.
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Clemens
Ford-Chicago
Tribune
Mondey
Evi Dence
Counagh
Glimpses of Bolshevik Life in Moscow Revealed
An Armenian engineer who fled Moscow reports life under Bolshevik rule. He describes terror from the Red Guard, severe class restrictions forcing bourgeois to hide in streets. Luxury attire provokes protests and punishments, as citizens endure strict social controls.
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Moscow
Russia
Carelessness Causes Most Fires in 1918 Oregon Report
The 1918 annual report by Oregon state fire marshal Harvey Well shows 1,985 preventable fires with 42 suspected incendiary origins. Deaths totaled 18, including 11 children, and carelessness was the principal fire factor. Defective wiring caused 229 fires, defective chimneys 482, and smoking tobacco 300 fires.
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Associated Press
Salem
Ore
Harvey Well
Ships Boose Encased in Cement Given Jail Sentence
Salt Lake City May 24 Joseph T Whitehouse superintendent of a foundry and machine works and J H Murphy were sentenced to four months in the county jail by Judge Tillman D Johnson after conviction of violating the Reed amendment They were found guilty last week of shipping liquor into the city from San Francisco encased in cement.
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Salt Lake City
Utah
Joseph T. Whitehouse
J. H. Murphy
United States
Tillman D. Johnson
San Francisco
Plane Plunges. Two Killed in Atlantic City
Atl City aviator Beryl Kendrick and local real estate agent James Bew were killed when Kendrick's plane plunged into a sandy bar in the inlet at the upper part of the city tonight.
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Atlantic City
N. J
Beryl Kendrick
James Bew
Kendrick
Frontier rein provisioned amid Liberia attack claim
A frontier area has been reinforced and is said to be ready to attack Liberia. Santa Ro has been reoccupied by revolutionary forces, indicating a shift in control and rising tensions in the region.
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Liberia
Santa Ro
Inside Bath For Healthier Skin And Vitality
A 19th century health column touts drinking hot water with a spoonful of limestone phosphate each morning to cleanse the stomach liver kidneys and bowels. It claims improved complexion and energy, urging readers to adopt this internal sanitation regimen to avoid illnesses and achieve rosy skin.
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American Baptist Foreign ‘Mission Society of
Boston
American Baptist. Home ‘Mission ‘Society of
New York
Fosdick
Union Theological Seminary
New ‘York
NeMe A
Edith
Commander Towers
Trepassy
New Foundland
Azores
The
SDAMS
Twin Falls
Falls
Dus
Ana
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