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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Even more remarkable was the statement of Mrs. Barker, the onetime Miss Alfreda Emma Howard, a country lass of Littlehampton, Sussex. She said last week that Transvestite Barker courted her "as any young man would"; and the Register of Brighton Parish Church reveals that they were married as man and wife on Nov. 14, 1923. "I am dazed, stunned!" exclaimed Mrs. Barker. "In our six years of married life I never once suspected that dear Victor was a woman too!" Mrs. Barker's father, a venerable druggist, added his affirmations of astonishment...
...great social and religious forces now interacting and savagely opposed were first generated in the 16th century when Spain overthrew the pagan empire in Mexico, imported the Catholic Church, and set up in Mexico City an inquisition to extirpate such beliefs as that in Mexitl...
...Reverend Joseph Fort Newton, Rector of the Memorial Church of St. Paul, Overbrook, Pennsylvania, will conduct the services at 8.45 o'clock this morning...
...Search for God in the Scientific World" will be the subject of a speech by Professor Kirtley F. Mather, of the Geology Department at the Community Church. Symphony Hall tomorrow at 10.45 o'clock...
...civilization always depends on communal effort, the author argues that emotion is the only nexus powerful enough to hold men together. The emotions that have united human societies in the past he analyzes into two categories: patriarchal, which makes for perpendicular ordering of individuals as in the Roman Catholic Church; and fratriarchal, or horizontal relationship, as in American democracy at its inception. For modern times, when the patriarchal form of government is constantly losing ground, and when democracy is tending "to reduce all things,--government, art, literature and morals,--to the vulgar level of mediocrity," Mr. Denison proposes what...