Word: sundays
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Mayor Mackey of Philadelphia clutched the rostrum of the Arch Street Methodist Episcopal Church and begged Evangelist "Billy" Sunday to conduct "a great campaign in this city as an antidote to the bootlegger, hijacker and gunman." Mr. Sunday, responding, said the proposition was attractive...
Died. Patrick J. ("Paddy") Lynch, 75, famed fireman, hero of the General Slocum disaster; after several years' illness; in Manhattan. In 1904 the General Slocum, filled with Sunday School picnickers, caught fire in Manhattan's East River. The lives of 1,031 were lost. Fireman Lynch rowed zealously back and forth between the blazing steamer and the shore, saved 41 persons...
Loew's State, continuous-"The Cameraman" with Buster Keaton starts Sunday. "Two Lovers" is there...
...little more than a year ago, an Irish political leader, Kevin O'Higgins, walked on a street in Dublin. It was Sunday and he was going to church. An automobile sped down the avenue. Some men who had been loitering on the sidewalk suddenly became active. Thus was Kevin O'Higgins assassinated...
Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands, was sharply rebuked last week by dignified, shocked wardens of the Amsterdam Christian Reformed Church. They felt that the good Queen had desecrated a Sunday on which she awarded prizes to winners in the Olympic Games...