Word: baptiste
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have read with interest your article entitled, "ST. PETER" under the head of Religion in the issue of TIME, June 25. In this article you say that ST. PETER and ST. PAUL ... are the only two chapel cars in U. S. railroading. I may say that The American Baptist Publication Society has been doing business with chapel cars on the railroad manned by a good preacher and his wife with well-equipped pulpit and auditorium and living quarters for 44 years...
...brought back to Colorado for service. In 1894 we built our third chapel car, "Glad Tidings," with money given by Mr. William Hills, of New York, in honor of his wife, and it operated in the Southwest. In 1895 we built our fourth chapel car, "Good-will," given by Baptists in general who were inspired by the generosity of Mr. Hills and the effective work of the other cars. In 1898 we built our fifth chapel car, "Messenger of Peace," and it has operated in Oregon for many years. In 1900 we built our sixth chapel car, "Herald of Hope...
Twenty-nine years have passed since Richard Strauss's Salome first shed her veils for Herod, shrieked her demands for the head of John the Baptist, groveled before it, kissed its cold lips. Scene was the Dresden Opera House where four years later Elektra scuttled crazily about the stage, screaming her lust for vengeance. Dresden heard the first Rosenkavalier, the first Egyptian Helen, the first Arabella, Strauss's latest opera (TIME, July 10). It was a right and fitting act of gratitude, therefore, for Dresden to stage a seven-day festival last week in honor of the greatest...
...night a mile away Mrs- Adolph Zukor awoke from a sound sleep on the 13th floor of the Blackstone Hotel to discover that she had been robbed of a $60,000 pearl necklace, a $1,100 pair of diamond-studded lorgnettes. Five thousand curious Texans gathered at the First Baptist Church of Fort Worth to watch Pastor J. Frank Norris baptize Jack Dempsey Floyd, 9-year-old son of Outlaw Charles ("Pretty Boy") Floyd. Said Jack Dempsey Floyd: "I want to be a preacher or a lawyer when I grow up." In St. Louis, detectives pulled from a freight...
Already the Government has got back from the Chase National Bank with which it was trusteed, the half million dollars which Jackson Barnett gave the Baptist Home missions. It is suing Washington's Riggs National Bank to recover $200,000 trusteed there for Mrs. Barnett out of the "donation" made to her. It is also suing Lawyer McGugin for the sum he received...