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...HOLSMER Pastor St. Francis De Sales Church Beckley...
...chiefly women-"who yearn for the better things in life"; and the "better things" that he gives them examples of are physical well being and stories of love and sin. The office girl on the street car, nuzzling into his current magazines sees photographs of Bernarr Macfadden, her physical pastor, wearing only a skimpy breechclout, his chest hairless. He is illustrating "How I keep fit at Fifty-Eight." Yet pictures of girls predominate in the periodicals. A favorite female pose is the sway-back with the mons veneris thrown forward. An advertisement by the Ancient and Mystical Order Rosae Crucis...
...discussed the miracle far into the night. Who on earth was Lydia Pinkham Gove? Why should she be handing out free airplane trips to California? One alert girl remembered reading in the newspapers that a Lydia Pinkham Gove of Salem, Mass., had just flown home from California with the pastor's assistant of the Second Unitarian Church of Salem, one James Luther Adams. Both passengers had been wildly enthusiastic about their jaunt. The newspaper, a local sheet, had called it "an important epoch in aviation history...
What is a devout pastor to do when he can no longer inspire his flock? What can he say when the President of the U. S. comes to worship at his church, attracts curious thousands, and the sheep listen not to his sermon...
Plaster. A month ago Rev. J. Frank ("Killer") Norris shot D. E. Chipps to death (TIME, July 26 et seq.). Last week on Sunday, while the pastor shook the rafters with his transcendental, logical harangue, the plaster fell on his hearers, injuring two seriously, 200 slightly, the pastor...