Massachusetts Pastor Uses Ads to Draw Big Congregations
A Beverly Massachusetts correspondent describes Dane Street Congregational Church pastor Rev. F. F. Van Horn using ads and posters to fill Sunday services. He financed initial campaigns, then ran persistent notices in the Evening Times and front-page billing. Attendance grew from a few hundred to between 1,000 and 1,500 most weeks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Massachusetts
Beverly
Mass
Dane Street
van Horn
Ohio
New England
Myers
Stey
van Hor
Serviers
Evening Times
Angel Food Inventor Dies Amid Winged Speculation
A mans death stirs muse on angel food cake and its rumored airborne nature. The New York Press and tobacco ads mingle with odd claims about remedies and sensational lines from a damaged item list. References to Raleigh North Carolina, Toledo Ohio, and Indiana appear among scattered misread phrases and ads.
Inventor touts novel church contribution box
A narrator describes an inventor claiming a money making idea for churches. The device uses coin slots of different sizes so half dollars quarters and dimes land on velvet while nickels and pennies fall onto a Chinese gong, promising widespread church use and big profits.
Beet Sugar Industry Growing In New York State
A Beets to Sugar factory near Binghamton plans to produce 12 to 16 tons daily in season. Factories in Binghamton Rome and Bay City Mich lead a rising beet sugar industry using diffusion, lime treatment, and vacuum pans to produce refined sugar. With beet quality driving profits, 30,000 tons at 15 percent sugar could yield 7.5 million pounds, versus 5.4 million at 12 percent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Binghamton
Broome County
N. Y
New York State
Rome
Bay City
Mich
New York
Michigan
Delaware, Lackawanna & Western
Beet Sugar Extraction at Bay City Factory
The system uses interconnected tanks to wash beet pulp and extract sugar. Fresh water saturates the pulp as molasses move through stages, enabling near total sugar removal in twenty four hours. A ton of beets yields about fifteen percent sugar.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aluieaway
Tery
Bay City
Mich
Jefferson and Randolphs Early Education Home
In Virginia near Richmond a historic Randolph family estate marks where Thomas Jefferson and Thomas Mann Randolph as children received early education. An elderly woman, Mrs. A Doolittle, fought a wild opossum at her chicken coop, sustaining serious injuries before neighbors found her and the animal dead nearby.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jefferson
Goverland County
Virginia
Tuckahoe Creek
Randolphs
Thomas Jefferson
United States
Thomas Mann Randolph
Wowmwon
A. Doolittle
When He Hears the News in France and Passion Flowers
The fragment notes how a death sentence in France is not announced to the condemned until minutes before execution. It also describes the passion flower and its brief display, fading quickly after harvest in South American forests.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
France
Rage in Arkansas as Seven Negroes Lynched in County
A Texarkana special reports a race mob in Little River County Arkansas killing seven Black residents. Bodies hung from trees, others shot or dumped in a creek, white mobs patrol areas while Black people flee. Investigations and threats of further violence continue as conspirators are pursued. Three more lynchings occur in Mississippi near Bilver City Yazoo County with victims weighted and dumped in the Yazoo River.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texarkana
Ark
Little River County
General Duckett
Edwin Goodwin
Adam King
Joseph Jones
Benjamin Jones
Moses Jones
Joe King
John Johnson
Mocha
Indian Territory
Texas
Mlassasippi
Jackson
Miss
Bilver City
Yazoo County
Yazoo River
Minor Wilson
Reed
Willis Boyd
Miners’ Bodies Recovered From Shaft Cave-In
Cartersville Georgia dispatch reports the bodies of Frank McEver and Charles McCulver were recovered about noon Thursday from the Chumbley Hill shaft. Both men were buried in mud and lived only a short time after the cave-in. Rescue crews continue seeking Thad Chastain, but life is not expected.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cartersville
Frank McEver
Charles McCulver
Chumbley Hill
Thad Chastain
Belmont Scores Teller Row Over Democratic Clash
Perry Belmont president of the New York Democratic Club released a written statement denying Senator Teller of Colorado called Democrats Republicans in disguise. Belmont accused Teller of leading silver Republicans aligned with Bryan to split the Democratic ranks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Perry Belmont
Democratic Club
Teller
Colorado
Belmont
Taller
Bryan
Chicago
American School Furniture Company Forms After Absorbing 12 Plants
From Wabash Indiana a dispatch reports the organization of the American School Furniture company with capital stock of 1.5 million dollars. On Thursday it absorbed more than twelve large manufacturing plants across the United States. Samuel Lawrence is named president and James Summerfield secretary in the articles of association.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Scientific American
Wabash
Ind
American School Furniture Company
Capital
Articles of Association
Samuel Lawrence
James Summerfield
Also Mentioned on This Page
Uy Stra Oyynya
Perit
Addrons
On, Baltimore
Eptaor
Bowles
Jannint
Polambia
Erling Memedy Company
Ject
Nawsna St
Luther Pub. CO
Atlanta
Thompson
Ahern
Ald Wisn Aa
New York Press
Bac
Wonder Worker
Eterling Remedy Co
Raleieh
N.C
Hall
Cnewny & Co
Toledo
Drugelam
Hal
IFC. C
Indiana
Sty ‘Doo
Afl Tie
Oirate
Wehiliren
Griswold Ave
Detroit
Anya
Tourtcott
Atle
Dr. Williams
Dy Williams Medicine Co
Schenectady
Niversity OF Virginia
Mmner
Sepember
Cataine
Adres
Charlottesve
Asule One
Arkansad
Missieaippi
School Furniture Trust
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!