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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Into old First Baptist Church at Easton, Md. one night last week crowded 600 fervent Baptists for the wind-up of Rev. Dr. C. Thomas Brookshire's ten-day campaign. Evangelist Brookshire retired to put on rubber boots, rubber apron for the baptismal service. His pulpit was moved aside. A section of flooring was taken up to expose a waist-deep tank of water. Evangelist Brookshire stepped in. A-a-a-men! A-a-a-men! cried the congregation. Two girls, 12 and 16, approached. Praying loudly, he helped them down, doused them in the tank. Then followed...
...nation's opposite seaboard, another Governor was being bedevilled for taking precisely the opposite view of lynching from Governor Rolph's. Month before a mob at Princess Anne, Md. had hanged and burned a Negro named George Armwood, accused of raping an aged countrywoman (TIME, Oct. 30). When the local prosecutor failed to act on the cases of four men accused of having taken part in the lynching, Maryland's handsome Governor Ritchie sent 325 militiamen to round up the accused, bring them back to Baltimore (TIME, Dec. 4). Farmers and fishermen of the Eastern Shore bridled...
...Lima, Peru, the censor withheld from inflammable Peruvians news of last week's mob activities at Salisbury, Md...
...Princess Anne. Md., State militia were ordered out by Governor Ritchie to apprehend the lynchers of George Armwood who was hanged last month after raping an old white woman. They seized four suspects, placed them in the guard room of the armory at Salisbury. When a crowd of 400 angry citizens gathered outside the armory to protest the arrest, cry for the impeachment of Governor Ritchie, militiamen threw tear...
Last winter Mrs. Cora Britten of Elliott. Md. became convinced that she had cancer of the breast. A friend told her about Dr. Harlow R. Street, who conducts a "cancer sanatorium" at his Washington home, has a "secret salve" to devour cancer. Against her physician-husband's advice Mrs. Britten went to the Chevy Chase, Md. home of Dr. Street's partner, Dr. Nathan Sherwood Ferris, for treatment. She spent nine weeks there, two days in a Baltimore hospital before she died...