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...demons in the energumen readily identified themselves. One was Judas. Another was the woman's dead father, named Jacob, who said he was damned for attempting unsuccessfully to induce her to commit incest with him. A third was Mina, the dead man's concubine, who said she had "murdered four little ones." Finally there were Beelzebub and hordes of imps who seemed to leave and reenter the energumen's body. The voices of all the demons issued from her mouth, with varying intonation, in English, German and Latin...
...Parrish's work. He did innumerable color pictures for the Ladies' Home Journal and covers for Collier's, illustrated many a children's book. One of the best known barroom murals in the U. S. is his work. At the turn of the century John Jacob Astor commissioned Artist Parrish to paint a picture of Old King Cole for his Hotel Knickerbocker. The panel, 28 feet long, showing the pipe, the bowl, the fiddlers three, was the wonder of Times Square for nearly 20 years. Last autumn it reappeared in the St. Regis King Cole Room...
...shall take for my text tonight," broadcast Hamlet Robinson, "Genesis, the 27th chapter, verse 22: The Voice is Jacob's voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau. Alfred E. Smith sought the Presidency in 1928, when a man who raised his voice on behalf of the great causes of social justice and Democratic principles was regarded by the stock-ticker patriots with smug toleration or as a potential enemy of his country...
...President Roosevelt. The seventh appointee is yet to be chosen. Three days later the old Board, set up by Woodrow Wilson 22 years ago, passed out of legal existence. Though their terms had not expired, four members of the old Board were retired without pensions. At 67 John Jacob Thomas, a Roosevelt appointee, returns to his farm and his law practice in Nebraska. George Roosa James, 69, wise and crotchety, goes back to Memphis to train his son in the wholesale drygoods trade. The two members who have sat on the Board since its first meeting in 1914 will stay...
...Honolulu dignitaries representing Church and State boarded airplanes and a U. S. tug for the short trip to Kalaupapa. There, with a Japanese cameraman filming the proceedings and Honolulu Undertaker Jacob K. Ordenstein directing operations, nuns, clergy and officials stood by the grave, watched its concrete top cracked away, the plain coffin exhumed. Because there was no longer any danger of spreading Bacillus leprae, no need existed to sterilize Father Damien's mouldering bones and dust, according to President Frederick E. Trotter of the Honolulu Board of Health. In an undersized, zinc-lined coffin of koa wood, the remains...