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...would cause no such quiverings U. S. Churchmen know him well as an evangelical leader, on the safe side despite his joining with other Federal Council committee members in approving the use of contraceptives. Born in Idaho, son of a British circuit rider. Baptist Beaven went to Shurtleff College (Alton, Ill.), studied for the ministry on the Pacific Coast while earning a living chopping wood and scraping barnacles from boats in Puget Sound. He studied at Rochester Theological Seminary on a scholarship was graduated in 1909 to become pastor of Rochester's Lake Avenue Baptist Church. This congregation...
Seatrain's counterpart by land appeared last week when the Alton, now a unit of Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, was permitted to carry loaded trucks on flat cars between Chicago and East St. Louis. Trucks up to 20 tons are accepted, loaded and unloaded at the truck firm's expense. The transportation costs between $30 and $60 depending on weight, is slightly cheaper than the cost of driving the truck over highways. This service was hailed as "the first move of the western steam railroads to cooperate with trucking companies." Several months ago Chicago North Shore & Milwaukee (electric) offered...
...Republican ticket, the candidates for governor, lieutenant governor, attorney general and treasurer. He and they stood in line on deck to shake hands with the muddy-footed electorate. Filing awkwardly past, the electorate was then shoved onto a government barge towed alongside, encouraged to dance to phonograph music. At Alton there was a small charge for drinking water...
After the finals of the 110-metre high hurdles, the track looked as though someone had driven an automobile through the jumps. Willi Welscher of Germany had knocked down four, enough to disqualify him. John Alton Keller of Ohio State had knocked down two and finished fourth, Donald Finlay of England who was given fourth place until an electro-photograph of the finish proved that he was third, was a step behind Percy Beard, Alabama Tech instructor whose scissor legs usually make up over the jumps what speed they lack on the flat. Even University of Iowa's lean George...
Baltimore & Ohio, with 20.3% trackage, reaches the Hudson River by Reading and Jersey Central. Alton gives it a Chicago-St. Louis-Kansas City link. Western Maryland affords a short-cut between Baltimore and Western Pennsylvania. Ann Arbor taps Michigan. With Lehigh & Hudson, a "bridge road," B. & O. gets around New York City, hooks up with New England. Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburgh opens Western New York...