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Deciding to enter the Baptist Church, he was welcomed by the late great John Roach Straton, who called him "one of the world's prophets." But in 1922 he was temporarily reinstated by Bishop Rhinelander, appointed lay reader in St. Paul's Church, Evanston, Wyo. Calling his new parish "the wickedest city in the U. S.," he was sued for libel, deposed. He entered the Methodist Church but soon left town. Before he went he filed suits totaling...
Died. Pal, 14, famed cinema bullterrier, in Hollywood; of old age. For ten years he chased and threatened the trouser-seats of Harold Lloyd, Larry Semon et al., scampered with Hal Roach's Rascals, paralyzed Negro extras, once performed with the late Wallace Reid...
Died. Dr. John Roach Straton, 54, fundamentalist Baptist preacher; in a sanitarium at Clifton Springs, N. Y.; of a heart attack...
...said he was writing his autobiography, others that quarrels with his wife had broken his heart. He lived on a ranch somewhere and was only seen in Los Angeles one afternoon when he went to the funeral of a cowboy friend of his. Last week he signed with Hal Roach to make an all-talking horse-and-pistol picture...
...Friday, April 12 the Reverend John Roach Stratton D.D., pastor of Calvary Baptist Church. New York City, and V. F. Calverton, editor of "Sex in Civilization", will debate at Symphony Hall. Boston on the question. "Is Religion Necessary to Human Welfare" Dr. Stratton will uphold the affirmative, while Calverton, who is an extreme defender of the modernistic school of thought, will argue the negative...