Word: kirke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...same page reported the debut, the same evening, of Florence, daughter of potent, conservative Banker & Mrs. George Fisher Baker Jr. Setting: the Baker home. Guest list: small. Chicago's outstanding debutante balls-of-the-week were two: Mr. & Mrs. Andrew Watson Armour (meats) and Mr. & Mrs. Walter Radcliffe Kirk (he recently sold his soap company to Procter & Gamble) gave a joint, lavish party at the Blackstone for their daughters Elsa Armour and Beatrice Kirk; Mr. & Mrs. Gustavus Franklin Swift (meats...
...minute of play. HARVARD 1934 WATERTOWN Lawrence, g. g., Wheeler Masjoan, l.f.b. r.f.b., Vartan Parkinson, r.f.b. l.f.b., Perkins Robbins, l.h.b. r.h.b., Wells Thacher, c.h.b. c.h.b., Boujicanian Streeter, r.h.b. l.h.b., Simmonds Whitney, l.o.f. r.o.f., Paine Baxter, l.i.f. r.i.f., Fitzgerald Martin, c.f. c.f., Chamberlain Chase, r.i.f. l.i.f., McCurdy Gilbert, r.o.f. l.o.f., Kirk...
Fifth largest religious group in the U. S. are the Negro Baptists. Four years ago their adult membership was 2,914,482.* Largest Protestant church in the world is Chicago's Olivet Baptist church, membership 12,000. Dr. Lacey Kirk Williams, urbane pastor of Olivet, has been president of the Negroes' National Baptist convention for eight years. Last week he called the convention to order in Chicago. More than 50,000 delegates were in the city. They thronged through the streets. They filled the Coliseum. They conducted a "grand musicale" (1,000 choristers), street parades, an athletic carnival...
...Died. Kirk Munroe, 79, boys' author (The Flamingo Feather, Through Swamp and Glade, Campmates, Raftmates, Canoemates - 30 others) ; aide in exploration of routes for Santa Fe and Northern Pacific R. R.'s (1867-68) friend of Kit Carson and Buffalo Bill; first editor of Harper's Round Table (1879-82); founder (1880) at Newport, R. I., of the League of American Wheelmen; after a long-standing nervous ailment; at Orlando...
...acquired (for a rumored eight or ten million dollars) James S. Kirk & Co., manufacturers of Jap Rose soap, oldtime Procter & Gamble rival in the Chicago area, an ancient & honored Chicago industry which (until last week) was still controlled by the descendants of the original James S. Kirk who founded it in Utica, N. Y., in 1839, took it to Chicago two decades later...