Negro Church Prayers So Loud Neighbor Can't Sleep

1917

THEY PRAY SO LOUD HE CAN'T SLUMBER

Freeport, L. I.—Too much praying right out loud gives Ambrose Dunleavy no chance to sleep. Dunleavy lives next door to the negro church here, and since the church has started impassioned revivalist meetings he has written to Police Chief Hanes asking that prayers be suppressed. "Neither myself nor children are able to sleep," he complained.

—New Oxford Item, New Oxford, PA, Aug. 9, 1917.