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...Hill Cumorah, near Palmyra in upstate New York, members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints last Week celebrated the 111th anniversary of the birth of Mormonism. According tc Mormon lore, on Cumorah, where now stands a large statue of the Angel Moroni, Founder Joseph Smith received from the angel the gold tablets on which the Book of Mormon was inscribed...
Likewise last week, Mormons everywhere marked the 100th anniversary of the month during which Founder Smith, making known to his people the will of the Lord, decreed that the work of his church should be supported by tithes- 10% of everyone's income. How much the tithing fund of the church amounts to today, no outsider knows. Tithing is not compulsory for all Mormon wage earners, although certain privileges of the church are denied to those who give nothing. About one-third pay tithes in full, another third in part. Tithes, which Mormons claim brought in more money last...
...Author. Constance Robertson, who has written one other novel, Enchanted Avenue and a mystery, Five Fated Letters (under the pseudonym Dana Scott), was born in the house of her grandfather, John Humphrey Noyes, founder of famed Oneida Community (1842 to 1880), one of whose concerns was breeding the Superman; consequently it was kicked around by public opinion till it was changed to a corporation which now manufactures silverware. The Templers are as authentic as a composite photograph. Everything in Seek-No-Further but the happy ending actually happened in one of the two dozen or so 19th Century communities which...
...leading German cubists. For the London show, Austrian-born Oskar Kokoschka sent a wry Self-Portrait of a Degenerate Artist. A second canvas arrived in four pieces, hacked by Vienna police when Nazis seized Austria. Symbolizing the end of a chapter in German art more poignantly than any exhibition, Founder Ernst Kirchner died of tuberculosis in Davos, Switzerland, as the London Exhibition of 20th Century German Art was being assembled for its opening...
Died. Mabelle Horlick Sidley, 61, daughter of the late William Horlick (founder of the Horlick Malted Milk Corp.); of brain edema; in the home of rich and eccentric Toronto Attorney William Perkins Bull, where she had resided for the past year. Three days later died Widow Horlick, 88, from shock, in Racine...