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Churches, 1914

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Shrieking Sisterhood. Unhappy Family. Why Churches Are Burnt. London. June 9

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 10 June 1914 · page 5

Miss Wylie, speaking at a meeting of the Women's Social and Political Union, defended the smuggling of drugs into prison for the use of hunger-strikers…

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St. John's Catholic Club

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 11 June 1914 · page 4

On Monday evening last at Mr. Geo. Moore's refreshment rooms, Mr. Edward Ferry, for a lorrg number of years a faithful and enthusiastic member of the above…

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The Suffragettes. Disgraceful Scenes in Church

Singleton Argus · Thursday 11 June 1914 · page 2

London, Monday.- Extraordinary scenes were witnessed at Brompton Oratory on Saturday. Twenty women suffragists chanted the suffragist litany,…

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Missionary Exhibition. St. Paul's Church

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 12 June 1914 · page 6

An exhibition of missionary work was held in St. Paul's Parish Room yesterday afternoon, when there was a large attendance. These exhibitions are held three The earwig which held up the London District Railway service recently, by short circuiting the electric-signalling appara[?] with unwittingly emulating the…

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Churchwarden Stories

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 12 June 1914 · page 6

A warden when he goes to church must be prepared for anything. One never knows what to expect, but I certainly never could have "imagined"…

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Churchwarden St0ries

The Scone Advocate · Friday 12 June 1914 · page 4

A warden whom he goes to church must be prepared for anything. One never knows what to expect, but I certainly never could have "imagined"…

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Presbyterian

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 13 June 1914 · page 5
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The Rev. John Hall, of Warrander Park United Free Church, one of the notable men among Edinburgh's younger ministers, has just celebrated his ministerial semi-jubilee…

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Methodist

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 13 June 1914 · page 5
Also in The Maitland Daily Mercury

The West London Mission's twenty-seventh annual report is a fine production in quarto size, with a splendid portrait of the late Mrs. Mark Guy Pearse and three…

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Roman Catholic

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 13 June 1914 · page 11
Also in The Maitland Weekly Mercury

The Rev. Father Foley, of Bundnrra, who has been appointed to succeed the Rev. Dean Tobin at Armidale, the latter having been transferred to Inverell, was farewelled…

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St. John's Catholic Club

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 13 June 1914 · page 4

The usual weekly meeting of the above club was held on Thursday night last, when the speaker (Mr. E. Prendergast) occupied the chair, and there was an excellent…

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Bible and Mission Study School

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 13 June 1914 · page 4

The Rev. John T. Lawton, M.A., foreign missions secretary of the Presbyterian Church in New South Wales, has been conducting a series of meetings of a somewhat…

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Votes for Churches

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 13 June 1914 · page 5

Sir N. Helme, gloving the second reading of this bill, said it was a bill upon which agreement had been arrived at in the House of Lords. Its object was to give the…

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Churchwarden Stories

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 13 June 1914 · page 6

A warden when he goes to church mutt be prepared for anything. One never knows what to expect, but I certainly never could have "imagined"…

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News of the Churches. Church of England

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 13 June 1914 · page 11
Also in The Maitland Weekly Mercury

The Bishop of Bathurst, preaching to crowded congregations at Cobar on Sunday last, referred to certain evidence given on the Interstate Commission lately, and…

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St. Paul's Church

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 13 June 1914 · page 4

To-morrow there will be a celebration of Holy Communion at 8 a.m. and services at 10 a.m., 11 a.m., and 7 p.m., at which the Rector will preach. Evensong will be said s…

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Why Churches Are Burnt. London, Juno 9

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 13 June 1914 · page 3

Miss Wylie, speaking at a meeting of the Women's Social and Political Union, defended the smuggling of drugs into prison for the use of hunger-strikers…

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