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...John Jacob Raskob...
Founded with eleven members in New Haven in 1882, K. of C. calls itself a "fraternal benefit society." Any good Catholic may join. Most famed members: Alfred Emanuel Smith, John Jacob Raskob, Senators Thomas James Walsh of Montana and David Ignatius Walsh of Massachusetts, Manhattan Contractor William F. Kenny, great & good friend of "Al" Smith. Insurance at low rates is available to every Knight. The order has an elaborate system of initiations, demands a certain secrecy "unless the interests of State or Church demand" otherwise. Because of this, many ignorant people hate and fear...
Massillon gave the old gentleman an attentive ear because he was no less a person than Jacob Coxey, 76. It was from Massillon in the Spring of 1894 that "General'' Coxey led his rag-tag and bobtailed army of unemployed across the country to the Capitol at Washington to demand relief. That march made its leader famous, though it failed to advance the bizarre economic cause for which he staged it. The Coxey plan for unemployment relief in 1894 and 1931 was to have States and municipalities issue 25-year non-interest bearing bonds to be deposited with...
Married. Mary Margaret Elizabeth Mercer-Nairne, 21, step-daughter of Major John Jacob Astor (publisher of the London Times); and a Captain R. Myddelton of the Coldstream Guards; in Hever, England...
...that the wearer may seem terrible to the opponents of truth," the two small gold & silver casks of wine and golden loaves of bread which are the offerings of the faithful to its priesthood, Dr. Thomas Kiley Gorman last week donned a pair of white kid gloves (as did Jacob who covered his hands with skins of kid), was blessed and became the first Roman Catholic Bishop of Reno, Nevada...