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Philippines. A cable from Manila told of the purchase of the Mindoro Sugar Co. by Most Reverend Michael O'Doherty. Roman Catholic Archbishop of Manila, for $1,500,000. This news betokened the continued potency of the Church in the only Christian country in the Orient. By far the biggest business interests in the Philippines are Roman Catholicism's. When the U. S. took the Islands over from Spain, William Howard Taft had to negotiate a separate arrangement with the Church for its extensive "friar lands." settled by early Spanish brotherhoods. The U. S. paid the church...
Honolulu, Sept. 29.--Dr. Hu Flung Huey, enroute by airplane to America from Manila, landed here late last night to refuel. Dr. Huey is on his way from China to Cambridge, U. S. A., to take up a post as football forecaster for the Harvard CRIMSON, undergraduate daily of Harvard College...
...Manila, P. I., Sept. 27--Two agents of the Harvard CRIMSON, arriving here today in a junk from Shanghai, China, announced that they had with them the successor to Joe Forecast, the famous Chinese prophet, Dr. Who Slung Hooey...
...great oriental prophet away from his position with the near-bankrupt Nationalist Government, and after a series of thrilling adventures and hairbreadth escapes the doctor and his two American companions were able to elude half of the Chinese army and all of the Chinese Navy to set sail for Manila in their tiny craft...
...Hooey is proceeding from Manila to Cambridge via Honolulu, the Aleutian Islands, Nome, Seattle, and Chicago, in a desperate effort to reach Harvard before the CRIMSON eleven goes on the field against Bates next week...