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...cross, "Inter-nationalis Congressus Eucharisticus" and "Eire" (Ireland). Throughout Dublin some 450 loudspeakers have been set up to broadcast the affairs of the Congress over a 15-mile radius. Dublin florists advertised seeds which "if planted immediately will yield a wealth of bloom for the Eucharistic Congress." Another advt. said: "Enhance and prolong their stay by treating them to a night's rest on a 'Nelpha' mattress or bedstead." Dublin set up floodlights and searchlights, asked its citizens to help with electric lights and candles. An arclight, most powerful ever rigged up in Dublin, would write...
Monsignor Massimo Massimi, dean and examiner of the Sacred Roman Rota (Church law court) published the Vatican's first want advt. He needs a priest who has been graduated in canon law and theology, who knows French, who can typewrite...
...Note: The following is a verbatim record from a full page advertisement in the Cornell Sun. A picture of a unshaven, filthy, albeit jovial bum smiling over a glass of beer headed the page. A 180-bold "Prohibition" smacked the eye from the center of the advt...
Wearing such stockings and swathed in such furs a Japanese matron might next be attracted by the following advt., tastefully displayed in the centre of a page directly opposite a magnificent reproduction of a print called River Floats in Tenjin Festival. In words first stirring, then discreet, then rational and, finally pious the advt. read...