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...Beverage alcohol (C 2 H 5 OH) does not cause cirrhosis of the liver, heart trouble, arteriosclerosis, diabetes, Bright's disease. It does not even cause d.t.s (the drunkard's deficiency in diet causes the illusion of snakes). It is only slightly habit-forming (smoking and overeating are far more...
Irate mobs did not denounce Joseph Smith as loafer, drunkard, Satan's instrument, until he had refused to tell the hiding place of the golden plates. After they had dug up most of the Palmyra Hill of Cumorah without finding the gold, they drove him out of New York State. After the Mormon bank in Kirtland, Ohio failed during the panic of 1837, mobs in Ohio, Missouri and Illinois tarred & feathered Smith, lynched his followers. Non-Mormons envied the prosperous, fast-growing Mormon city of Nauvoo, feared a well-trained Mormon army of 5,000 men, and known political...
...century ago, P. T. Barnum produced The Drunkard to show the tragic effects of drink. In 1933 The Drunkard was revived in Los Angeles to show the comic effects of time. Last week the Los Angeles revival went into its seventh year,* breaking all known theatrical records for a continuous (seven-days-a-week...
...first name), Adolf Hitler has a full sister and a half-sister. For a time his half-sister, Angela, served as his housekeeper at Berchtesgaden. His father, also named Alois, was a source of great shame to the Führer: he had three wives* and died a drunkard. Furthermore, Father Alois was the illegitimate son of an Austrian peasant girl, Maria Schicklgruber, and a miller named Johann Hiedler, who refused to recognize the child. The boy therefore grew up under his mother's name, and not until he was 40 years old did he get permission from...
...Howard Cadle claims that in 1914 he was saved from a gambler's and drunkard's grave by his mother's prayers. Successful thereafter as an automobile salesman (they called him "Car-a-Day" Cadle), owner of a chain of shoe-repairing shops and fruit juice stands in Indianapolis, he got more pious all the time. In 1921 he built Cadle Tabernacle, a large Spanish-style building, in which he took to preaching...