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First Pope to offer plenary indulgence was Urban II, who thereby encouraged men to join the Crusades. In medieval times a partial indulgence of 20,000 years could be had for a few prayers. Plain people often mistook the meaning of the grant, thought they were getting relief from guilt and punishment by a mere outward act. From the fact that they were willing to pay for indulgences arose the scandalous abuses against which Martin Luther thundered. Today indulgences may be gained in innumerable ways: attending newly-dedicated churches (50 to 200 days), giving alms to charitable orders, visiting certain...
...Bourbon y Asturias, no longer King of Spain but still an Austrian Archduke. Duke of Burgundy and Count of Habsburg. all this was but a faint rumor. Last week he was deep in the Sudan, hunting lion and buffalo. He had a bad moment when a native police patrol mistook his party for Abyssinian bandits. Alfonso stopped their fire by shouting in English. Meanwhile in London his lawyers won him ?11.000 ($55,880) worth of securities he had deposited in 1920 in the Bank of Westminster. Alfonso's eldest son, the easy-bleeding Count of Covadonga who renounced...
Born of sturdy stock in Sullivan County, N. Y. in 1865, John R. Mott grew up in Postville, Iowa. When he was five, he mistook a white-bearded bishop for God. Brought up in piety, he got an encyclopedia from his father for neither drinking, smoking nor gambling until 21. He went to Upper Iowa University at 16, to Cornell at 20. More interested in law than in religion, he changed his mind during his first year at Cornell. Thereafter John R. Mott's work was for Christ. He began Y. M. C. A. work as Cornell vice president...
Since the report offered only the committee's observations on the operation of the Long machine, made no recommendations for Senatorial action against either Senator Long or Senator Overton, big bumbling "Johnny" Overton jumped up to congratulate himself on what he mistook for a validation of his election...
Backed by Pink Pills & Fruitatives, Father Arthur Hardy, already a social leader of Ottawa, was appointed Speaker of the Canadian Senate by Liberal Premier William Lyon MacKenzie King. This position he filled with apparent success despite his almost total deafness. Not long ago Daughter Mary mistook poison for Fruitatives in her medicine closet and died. Last January Son Fulford Patrick Hardy eloped with a 16-year-old Toronto school girl, and after a wild ride from Toronto to Detroit to Toledo to Crown Point, Ind., finally got married. They separated soon after...