Word: brooklyn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hundred churches has the borough of Brooklyn, and six hundred preachers in their pulpits rising, every Sunday morning, preach like Henry Ward Beecher, and lead the good burghers in the way of salvation. So this holy borough is known as "The City of Churches." There are 105 books explaining why this is so. There is a list of famous preachers to justify it: Beecher himself. Lyman Abbott, Samuel Hanson Cox. and a score of others such as Farley, Loughlin, Carroll, Storrs, Davis, Littlejohn, Hall, Darlington, Talmage, Cuyler, Kinsolving...
...today, too, Brooklyn has her famed divines, and two of them recently went abroad, carrying the branch of Jesus, and the dove...
...other of them, Dr. Nehemiah Boynton, for many years (1907-1922) pastor of a Brooklyn church, was last week unanimously elected President of The World Alliance for International Friendship Through the Churches-to be held at Stockholm. In a colorful speech he recalled the fact that fundamental principles unite those who are seeking reconstruction of the world. He recalled the obligations resting on all Christians...
...Huyler business is an old one, and nationally known. . The F. W. Shattuck Co. was incorporated in 1906, and at present operates 21 candy stores and restaurants in Manhattan, Boston, Brooklyn and Syracuse. As of Dec. 31, 1924, its assets amounted...
...Brooklyn, the tall Persian cat of one Mrs. Anna Kiekhoffer chased a mouse this way and that, around the garbage can, under the kitchen table, cornered him by the scuttlebutt; there began to toy with him in the remorseless sadistic fashion of tall Persian cats with small timid mice. Suddenly the tiny creature, deranged by terror, turned upon its tormentor like a lion, scrabbled into the cat's mouth, put its head down the cat's throat, choked it to death by choking to death within...