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...Obispo v. Obispo Maximo, Sixty years ago Dennis Dougherty ("Dinny" to his parents, Patrick and Bridget, Irish immigrants) was a schoolboy of grimy Girardville, Pa. who spent his vacations as a breaker boy in the coal mines. At 14 he passed the entrance examinations for St. Charles Borromeo Seminary in Overbrook near Philadelphia. Told he was too young to enter, he spent two years in a Jesuit College in Montreal, returned to St. Charles, was admitted to the same class he would have joined in the first place. In 1885 Dennis Dougherty went to Rome's North American College...
...advancement, had organized a band of volunteers after the Spanish War, fought the U. S. under Rebel Aguinaldo. Battening on Philippine hatred of the Spanish, and of the landowning, predominantly Spanish clergy which the Vatican had sent to the Islands, Aglipay founded an Independent Philippine Church, with himself as Obispo Maximo or head bishop. When Bishop Dougherty arrived, Bishop Aglipay claimed to have won over most of the Philippines' 7,000,000 Catholics, was clamoring for custody of all the Catholic Church's Philippine property. This matter was partially solved when the U. S. paid the Vatican...
JOHN KIRKEBY San Luis Obispo, Calif...
Some 150 schoolteachers, touring the ranch of Publisher William Randolph Hearst at San Simeon, Calif., crashed through a temporary flooring into an empty, unfinished concrete swimming pool. Fifteen had to be taken in ambulances 60 mi. to San Luis Obispo...
Reporters found one gloomy insurrectionist sucking away at a planter's punch in a cafe in Obispo Street. "At least," said he, brightening, "we spoiled Machado's fishing season...