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...Trinity Church. At the time that pious pile's walls were sagging badly, the whole structure in need of repair. Richard Upjohn went down from New Bedford, persuaded the Trinity Corporation to rebuild its church entirely in the Gothic style, to move the site nine feet northward so that it would face squarely down the centre of dusty, willow-shaded Wall Street...
...land of the Nham-biquaras, whose complete nudity failed to offend the hard-bitten colonel, Roosevelt, Rondon, the others and a troop of native porters and boatmen found the headwaters of the Rio da Dúvida and started down it in rough dugout canoes. The river, winding northward through precipitous canyons toward the Equator, almost beat them. There were grueling portages around roaring rapids. Fever and bloodsucking insects sapped their strength. Once, when a whirlpool caught a canoe, a porter was drowned and Kermit nearly perished. They eked out their provisions by eating monkeys, Brazil nuts, honey, birds, turtles...
...long way to Northern Rhodesia, any way you go. South Africa bumps northward from the Cape, in a succession of plateaus separated by rivers, until it drops into the Congo basin. Beyond Cape Town, beyond the veldt of the Boers, beyond Bechuanaland and the hinterland of Cecil Rhodes's dreams, nearly 2,000 mi. by railroad from the cape, is Northern Rhodesia, a high, flat, subtropical savannah, full of elephants, roan antelope and a million lean blackamoors. On this British territory's northern frontier is one of the world's richest copper mines, famed Roan Antelope...
Then & there Frank Parish and his cronies began selling stock, millions of dollars worth, which was to make everybody rich. It made Frank Parish rich enough to buy the old Presidential yacht Mayflower for $16,000. The pipe line crawled northward out of Texas, headed for the Kansas City territory controlled by goateed, alert Henry Doherty. What happened after that and why, was the subject of a four-week criminal trial concluded last week in Chicago's Federal Courts. There Frank Parish and an associate were on trial for using the mails to defraud in selling Missouri-Kansas stock...
Banding together 126 years ago after a schism in the Baptist Church, the Abyssinian Baptists so named their sect because they liked the sound. They worshipped first in downtown Worth Street, moved northward with the city's color line. When the church was in midtown 26 years ago there arrived in its pulpit a tall, rawboned, Yale-trained Negro named A. (for Adam) Clayton Powell. After years of planning for a model church in Harlem, Pastor Powell began raising money in 1920, got 2,000 people to promise to give their church a tenth of their weekly earnings...