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Detroit Catholics went to marvel at the dedication of a church architecturally unique in the land last week, the new French Romanesque St. Aloysius on downtown Detroit's famed Washington Boulevard ("most brilliantly lighted street in the world"). Unique feature: the seating arrangement. Old St. Aloysius, built in 1861,* torn down last spring, seated only 728 worshipers. On the same site, new St. Aloysius accommodates...
Negro Apartments. Last year Julius Rosenwald built the $2,700,000 Michigan Boulevard Apartments in Chicago, to be rented at cost to Negroes. The building has 425 apartments (rent: $16 per month per room), nursery schools, garden courts, recreation rooms. Last week directors met, announced the first year of operation will give Mr. Rosenwald 6% on his money. He had expected a loss...
...Finns of New York Mills all power & glory.-ED. Wilshire Boulevard...
...footnote which describes the article's meaning is entirely misleading. One is led to infer from it that our famed Wilshire Boulevard was named after Magnetic-beltman Wilshire in honor to him for his wonderful invention. It was not. Wilshire Boulevard was named after Subdivider Wilshire, the same person, to be sure, but at a date about 25 years previous to his fame as a magnetic-belt tycoon...
...late Albert Abrams exploited an electrical healing machine. Los Angeles has a boulevard and residential district named after Wilshire. His I-on-a-co was also an electrical healing machine. Wine of Cardui is for "female complaints." It is a not unpleasant beverage. Lydia E. Pinkham's daughter, Mrs. Caroline Pinkham Gobe, and her grandchildren Lydia Pinkham Gobe and Arthur Wellington Pinkham (company president) still sell her vegetable com- pound for "female complaints." The very wealthy Emersons (Bromo Seltzer) live much abroad...