Booming Birmingham and the Southern Baptist Convention
The writer reports from Birmingham during the Southern Baptist convention. Birmingham grows rapidly with 60 000 residents, 19 million invested in new industries, and a mammoth steel plant. Delegates numbered in the thousands, the opera house packed beyond capacity, and the event featured sermons, mission reports, and fund drives reaching into many tens of thousands of dollars.
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Eprtor
Mirror
Birmingham
Dr. Pickard
Sid
Opera House
Haralson
New Norfolk Wilmington and Charleston Railroad Tour In Greenville
Messrs A J Cadwallader Yardly Penn John Runk Philadelphia W D Pender Norfolk and F L Pittman Wilmington toured Greenville to promote the Norfolk Wilmington and Charleston Railroad Ex Governor Jarvis is a director The line would run from Norfolk Virginia to Wilmington North Carolina to Charleston South Carolina opening eastern NC and eastern SC to rail and river trade with a 6 million capital stock and a 400 mile long route to profit local traffic and northern markets
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Greenville
A. J. Cadwallader
Yardly
Penn
John Runk
Philadelphia
W. D. Pender
Norfolk
F. L. Pittman
Wilmington
Norfolk, Wilmington and Charleston
Jarvis
North Carolina
Norfolk Va
Charleston
New York
Florida
South Carolina
Chowan
Roanoke
Tar
World World Women's Temperance Union Aims Global Federation
Florence South Carolina notes a global federation plan by the World Women s Christian Temperance Union to unite women worldwide in temperance social purity and reform work. It envisions a network enabling exchange of methods laws and literature and urges international action against liquor traffic and exploitation.
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Woman’s Christian Temperance Union
World's Woman's Christian Temperance Union
United States
Africa
Dominion of Canada
North West Territory
Great Free State of the Congo
Berlin
Moderately Wise Advice Mixes Caution and Faith
A long miscellany of maxims on honesty debt marriage and appearances, mixed with religious verses. It urges prudence kindness toward the poor while joking about wealth and social pretenses, ending with devotional lines about walking with God in darkness.
Young man explains trade policy with a kiss joke
A young man explains protection free trade and reciprocity using a cheeky kiss analogy to his sweetheart. The couple and bystanders share a light moment as political topics mix with romance.
To the Memory of My Dear Friend Susie Bardin Sanders
A memorial poem from a schoolmate lamenting the death of Susie Bardin Sanders. The verse speaks of heavenly rest and reunion, with imagery of angels, celestial paths, and a hoped reunion in Paradise. The speaker mourns the loss and honors the friendship across the afterlife.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Susie L. Bardin Sanders
Susie
Spirit Land
Angels of God
Why She Said It Papa
A forty one year old woman calls her elderly father papa in a tender scene. The old man, proud of his lineage and social standing, gazes fondly at his daughter whose soft voice and loving gaze convey deep affection. The piece focuses on family bonds and reverent affection.
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Texas
Papa
Father
Dedicatory Services Open New Baptist Church in Tarboro
The Tar River Association will meet in Tarboro on Thursday May 28 with a large delegation from several associations attending. Sunday features include a dedicatory sermon by Rev. H W Battle of Wilson and a second service for a new church at Eagles 15 miles away led by Dr J W Carter and others from Wake Forest College and Raleigh.
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Tar River Association
Tarboro
New Baptist Church
H.W. Battle
Wilson Baptist Church
Eagles
J. W. Carter
First Baptist Church of
Raleigh
Charles E. Taylor
Greene
Wake Forest College
Bailey
The
Bibliical Recorder
Boy Calvary Calamity: Sixteen Year Old Killed Ploughing
Calvin Anderson of Edgbombe, aged about sixteen, was thrown from a mule while ploughing. His foot tangled a trace chain created a makeshift stirrup. Dragged by the runaway mule, he struck his head on ground stumps and died.
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Calvin Anderson
Edgbombe
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Southern Baptist Convention
Carter Helm Jones
Knoxville
Sunbeams
Bagly
H. W. Battle
Behee
Ford
Geo. B. Taylor
A. 2 Holt
L. Burrows
Esop
Association Baptist Theological Seminary
Kerfoot
Louisville
Boyce
Geo
W. Norton
Wm. P. Norton
Home Mission Board
Bermingham
John A. Broaders
Nashville Town
American Baptist Educational Society
England
Tian Temperance
Florence, S. C
Smith
Brown
God
Marah
Thas
Harrys
Harry
Roanoke Union
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