Word: deborah
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Draper, Chairman, Miss Ruth Chamberlin; J. O. Blckford, Miss Deborah Tappan; H. Wendt, Miss Phyllis Fanning; G. L. Russell, Jr., Miss Olive Johnson; R. J. Dunkle, Jr., Miss Ruth Litchfield; J. B. Durant, Miss Ruth Holmes; Richard Donham, Miss Martha Benedict; J. H. Burrage, Miss Elizabeth Shepard...
...Died. Deborah Revere, 90, great-granddaughter of Paul Revere ("One if by land, and two if by sea"); in Montclair...
Jane Addams batting for Deborah...
Unitarian Charles F. Potter's contribution to the headlines last week was a proposal for an All-American Bible wherein American heroes and heroines would be substituted for Jewish, and wherein the writings of great Americans would become canonized. Thus for Jesus, substitute Lincoln; for Deborah (prophetess and campaigner against social wrongs), substitute Jane Addams; for Isaiah, Tom Paine or Thomas Jefferson; for the Psalms, our native verse. "If we are to have the Bible taught in our American schools, let it be the American Bible!" This proposal became at once the butt of many a merry jest...
...Deborah Gannett, under the name of Robert Shurtleff, served for two and a half years in the Revolutionary War, was wounded at Tarrytown and present when Cornwallis surrendered. The other, whose surname was Hodgers and first name remains unknown, went through the Civil War in the 95th Illinois Infantry, served at Vicksburg, Franklin, Pulaski, Lawrenceburg and other battlefields. Later she was pensioned and became an inmate of the Soldiers' Home at Quincy, Illinois. Her sex was discovered when she was hurt in an automobile accident...