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...Crawford declared she was healed of eye trouble, lung trouble, a deformity, and an internal ailment. She founded a mission in a Portland blacksmith shop, began preaching against divorce and remarriage. She firmly advocated tithing, explaining to her followers that the Gospel is against life insurance, labor unions, lodges, the cinema, bobbed hair, stylish garb and other extravagances. Thriving on tithes plus free-will offerings at meetings, the Apostolic Faith now has $500,000 worth of property, a printing plant, a Live Gospel Mission ("Brightest Spot in Portland"), others in Norway, Sweden, South Africa and Bowling Green, Ky. Treasurer...
...Timken who, on the basis of their last SEC report on stockholdings will receive nearly $200,000. Timken Roller Bearing is essentially a family business and the Timkens are a tight-lipped family. The company was founded as a carriage works in the last century by Henry Timken, onetime blacksmith. Founder Timken thought carriages dull the moment he began experimenting with cup and cone ball bearings. His enthusiasm infected his two sons when the huge possibilities of the automobile bearing market opened up around 1900. Henry Holiday and William Timken promptly abandoned Timken Carriage Works for Timken Roller Bearing...
Over the Manhattan Starrs' little flat and blacksmith shop swarmed a scourge of salesmen. Mother & Father Starr protested, "We still work until we get the cash. . . . Then, maybe mama and I go to Palestine like all good Jews want...
...months abroad. Said he to newshawks: "There's one swell thing about Americans?as a race we are not snobs. . . . For one week I had a service flat in London with an English butler that was such a prude he would make Ruggles of Red Gap look like a blacksmith. . . . One night I decided to find out just what kind of a fellow he was under his servant's mask. I gave him so many whiskeys and sodas that I got cockeyed drinking with him. He wouldn't sit down and relax, but just stood there tossing off the drinks...
Died. John Joseph Bernet,, 67, president of the Van Sweringens' Chesapeake & Ohio (TIME, July 8), Pete Marquette and Nickel Plate R. R., onetime telegrapher, self-made son of a Swiss immigrant blacksmith; after brief illness; in Cleveland...