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...Edward D. Rogers, Suffield, Conn.; Edward V. Salvatore, Greenwich, Conn.; Frederick L. Smith, Lancaster, N. H.; Hamlin D. Smith, Winnetka, Ill.; John E. Smith, Jr., Andover, Mass.; Richard P. Sprague, Bridgewater, Mass.; Robert P. Stephens, Jacksonville, Fla.; Alanson H. Sturgis, Jr., Milton, Mass.; Kingdon W. Swayne, George School Pa.; Gerhardt G. Thiem, Lawrence, Mass.; Edward C. P. Thomas, Cambridge, Mass...
...Gerhardt G. Thiem, Lawrence--Andover...
...most persistent problems: how to sell farmers who have no electric current and dislike hauling their batteries to town for recharging. Last June President McDonald heard of two Iowa farm boys near Sioux City who had worked out a miniature windmill-generator. Radioman McDonald went to see Brothers John & Gerhardt Albers, helped them form a company, contracted for their entire output. Since then Zenith has sold no less than 200,000 farm sets equipped with "Winchargers...
...star in the east was Saturn. So last week pronounced a German wise man, Professor Oswald Gerhardt of Berlin, who had been pursuing it for years. And Jesus Christ was born April 2 in the year 7 B. C., wrote Professor Gerhardt in Forschungen und Fortschreiten (Researches and Progress). According to ancient Jewish and Christian texts, Saturn ruled the Hebrews. The Messiah was expected to arrive under this "Star of God," which was called both Chiun (Amos, 5:26) and Remphan (Acts, 7:43). In Babylon and Susa, whence came the Wise Men, Saturn was visible at the time...
Respectable authorities have assigned Christ's birthday to every month in the year. Widely celebrated with independent local feasts throughout Christendom, by the 4th Century it became settled upon Dec. 25, possibly through the influence of old pagan midwinter festivals. Long before Professor Gerhardt of Berlin could make use of astronomy in his researches, the church father Hippolytus picked April 2 as Christ's birthday. Arguments against its falling in winter are that this is Palestine's rainy season: the Romans would not have then held the census which brought Joseph and Mary to Bethlehem; nor would...