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Deciding to enter the Baptist Church, he was welcomed by the late great John Roach Straton, who called him "one of the world's prophets." But in 1922 he was temporarily reinstated by Bishop Rhinelander, appointed lay reader in St. Paul's Church, Evanston, Wyo. Calling his new parish "the wickedest city in the U. S.," he was sued for libel, deposed. He entered the Methodist Church but soon left town. Before he went he filed suits totaling...
Died. Francis P. Gibson, proofreader, of Evanston, Ill., founder-president of the National Fraternal Society of the Deaf (insurance organization); in Chicago; after an operation for gallstones. To a deaf audience of some 1,500 people, a deaf minister preached a sermon with his hands while his daughter translated it into words for those who could hear. By sign language also a trio, silently accompanied by twisting fingers in the crowd, articulated the hymns "Abide With Me," ''Lead, Kindly Light." "O Love That Will Not Let Me Go." Died. James P. Noonan, 51, president of International Brotherhood...
Robert Franklin Walker Smith, of Evanston, Illinois...
Midwest: Chicago v. Washington at Chicago; Indiana v. Purdue at Bloomington; Kansas v. Missouri at Lawrence; Michigan v. Iowa at Ann Arbor; Minnesota v. Wisconsin at Minneapolis; Northwestern v. Notre Dame at Evanston; Ohio State v. Illinois at Columbus; Detroit v. Oregon State at Detroit; Kansas Aggies v. Nebraska at Manhattan...
...marvelling at the antics and contortions of the Associated Press, for a generation grave, factual and colorless under its late great Founder President Melville Elijah Stone; since 1925 jazzed and "rejuvenated" under General Manager Kent Cooper. But last week oldtimers got one more startle. An Associated Press despatch from Evanston, 111., reported that a blonde girl had sold to housewives some "lily bulbs" which proved, after a week in water, to be stones. Peculiarities of the report were its complete omission of names and its precious form. It was written in something approximating rhymed couplets. The first stanza-paragraph rhymed...