Word: 115th
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Major J. ("Father") Divine, Harlem cultist whose followers believe he is God, has many "extensions" or "kingdoms." Chief one until last week was a three-story building, rank with human and culinary odors, which he rented on Manhattan's 115th Street. Why this kingdom had not long since collapsed was the wonder of any outsider who ever attended a meeting there, felt its floors reverberate to the rhythmic pounding of a thousand Corybantic Negro feet. Many a Harlemite believes the black "God's" following is dwindling. Last week Father Divine's chief kingdom, still apparently in good...
...process server, was to hand a summons to Father Divine, against whom a onetime follower named Jessie Birdsall had brought suit for $2,000 which, she said, represented savings she had turned over to the Harlem "God." Greene and Comora arrived at the Kingdom, a big brick building on 115th Street which as usual was full of Negro and white faithful, babbling, "Peace! It's wonderful," and gorging themselves on the cult's free food...
Mobbed by howling blackamoors, Comora and Denove were hurled downstairs and into 115th Street where they separated, Denove returning with police. By that time, Spectator Greene had been taken to a drugstore. He came to next morning, wounded about the head, kicked in the abdomen, a tube in his swollen nose, two ribs broken, a stab wound in his side...
...Bello Horizonte, Brazil, after baking a cake for what she thought was her 115th birthday, Euflasina Maria died. Next day five of her children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren ate the cake, followed Euflasina Maria...