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Last week the second lecture was de livered. The place was the University of Missouri. The speaker was Editor Marlen Edwin Pew of Editor & Publisher...
...Editor Pew had a report to make on Canton: "I can tell you tonight, because I have seen it with my own eyes within a fortnight, that Canton is still, this minute, cursed by a tenderloin - a loathsome well-identified district of vice and crime where the scarlet woman plies her trade, where the illicit traffic continues and where dope may or may not be sold. I am told that the Federal authorities (not local police) have latterly fairly well stopped the narcotic traffic. The mayor of Canton is C. C. Curtis, elected by the people since the death...
...Kansas City. Mo., a nicely dressed gentleman entered the Catholic Cathedral. He was Henry J. Schepers. a bill collector. He knelt in prayer in a rear pew. Then, still kneeling, he drew a pistol from his pocket and blew a hole through his head. The bullet pierced a stained glass window with the gleaming legend THY SINS ARE FORGIVEN THEE. The bullet hole made a period for the sentence...
...quiet of his sacristy into the flower-decorated chancel at the Little Church Around the Corner* last week, to preside at the unveiling of the fifth stained glass window there in memory of famed actors. This time it was to commemorate John Drew,† whose mother had a pew at the Church before...
...Theresa Rummel, 82, sat in a front pew and wept while her son, the Right Rev. Joseph F. Rummel, was consecrated Bishop of Omaha, Neb. Besides Mrs. Rummel, St. Patrick's Cathedral, Manhattan, held a throng of church dignitaries - Patrick Joseph Cardinal Hayes, three Archbishops, eleven Bishops, 49 Monsignori and not many less than 1,000 priests...