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...words to say on this person so-called leader and other words calling himself God. Father Divine. I have been married to my wife for 20 years happily as a poor person could be I have a daughter 19 years, in high school. W. Broadway, and 193rd or 96th St. and can't recall which one. and this particular person has almost broke up my home, telling my wife he is God and she will live always and never die. she turned in her insurance with the Metropolitan after 12 years, surrendered her policy claiming this man say they...
Following the War, during which he flew with the famed 96th French Pursuit Squadron and directed training at Issoudun, "Casey" became test pilot for Curtiss Aeroplane & Motor Co. As head (and founder) of Curtiss Exhibitions Co. he flew in practically all available races from 1919 to 1926, cleaned up so much prize money with his clipped-wing Oriole that for a time his department alone showed profits in the struggling Curtiss organization. Oldsters recall one race, at Dayton in 1924, which "Casey" failed to win. As usual he loaded as little fuel as necessary into his ship. This time...
...week, young Bobby Olds was still firing without a miss, from 21 yd. Running up a perfect score is more a matter of steady nerves than skillful marksmanship, which most Vandalia shooters take for granted. It gets harder with every target. Young Olds was relieved when he missed his 96th. Then he hit three more for 99 and the $1,000 first prize, with two marksmen tied for second...
...Having studied medicine, he started work in Bellevue Hospital, but abandoned that career for reporting. His first newspaper job was with the New York Evening Journal (Hearst). Year later he changed to the American (Hearst). There he had a general assignment, roving from 14th St. to 96th St. He covered the murder of Gambler Herman Rosenthal (1912), the Black Tom explosion (1916), the Whittemore gang murders (19-26), numerous...
...96th annual meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, at Glasgow last week, was a grand concourse of ideas on chemistry, physics, psychology, mathematics, geology. So specialized and abstruse were most of the papers read in 13 sectional meetings that the 3,000 scientists attending (from all the continents) were eager to get the Glasgow newspapers for popularized reports of what was happening in fields other than their own. However there was a strong thread of thought running through all the discussions: the application of science in industry...