Word: josephs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...state that the Prophet Joseph Smith found no hidden gold. He did. He found the gold plates upon which the Book of Mormon was inscribed. . . . The symbols found on them were no more mystic than written French to a fourth-grade American schoolboy. Magic Spectacles which you mention [are] undoubtedly the Urim and Thummim, an affair which was worn on the person, much as a telephone operator's mouthpiece, and which is not to be confused with the seer-stone...
Family Ties. In Denver, Mr. & Mrs. Robert C. Beers asked court permission to change their names to something better suited to their temperance work. In Chicago, Nunlay Boose and son Joseph were accused of stealing a case of whiskey...
...Died. Joseph ("Big Joe") Saltis, 62, onetime Chicago beer baron in competition with Al Capone, a way of life that earned him barrels of freely-spent money and two bullets in the neck; of a liver ailment; in the charity ward of a Chicago hospital...
...over the world, horticulturists were discovering exciting new plants. A new method of stipple engraving had made possible excellent prints in color. At Paris' Jardin des Plantes, men combining botanical knowledge with high artistic ability labored to record the new plants. The most famous of them was Pierre Joseph Redouté, sometimes called the "Raphael of flowers." Bessa was less prolific than his contemporaries, and his prints are rarer. But many collectors now consider him the greatest flower-painter of them...
...introduction to Steele, Carlson sent him a copy of his bogus anti-Semitic hate sheet, the "Christian Defender", which never failed to gain him entry into fascist circles. And sure enough, "Steele . . . received me cordially and we became quite friendly, for I know quite a few of the boys Joseph P. Kamp, for instance, with whom Steele had worked closely. And James, True and Elizabeth Dilling, and John Snow...