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Huddled close together for warmth in the pews of the village church at Buchau, pious farmer folk heard their beloved pastor explain from the pulpit, last week, why Europe has been visited with the coldest winter of the century...
...angry at the shameless city women!" thundered the pastor. "His eye is offended by their short skirts, from beneath which peeps the wanton whiteness of their limbs. God is not mocked with impunity! He has sent this piercing cold to make the city women feel His wrath and lengthen their skirts. That is why your vines are blighted my friends! . . . Let us now join in prayer. God's will be done...
...last week's service the House, taken somewhat unaware, was reasonably full. Two speeches were delivered, one by jovial, wavy-haired Charles Aubrey Eaton, onetime Baptist pastor of John D. Rockefeller's Euclid Avenue Church, Cleveland, now a New Jersey Representative; the other by Democratic Leader Finis James Garrett. The Marine Band played sacred music. The Imperial Male Quartet sang hymns. Chaplain Montgomery prayed at length. House Clerk Page read the roster of the dead: Vaile of Colorado, Madden of Illinois, Sweet of New York, Butler of Pennsylvania, Rathbone of Illinois, Frothingham of Massachusetts, Rubey of Missouri, Oldfield...
Died. Dr. Newell Dwight Hillis, 71, famed Congregational clergyman, and onetime pastor of Plymouth Congregational Church of Brooklyn, where he upheld the traditions of preachers Henry Ward Beecher and Lyman Abbott, after a month's illness; at Bronxville...
...Cried Pastor Vogel...