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...Life Saver. Patrick Henry Callahan, paint and varnish man of Louisville, Ky., oldtime friend of William Jennings Bryan, ardent Dry Catholic, indefatigable letter-writer and publicist, told the committee of the lives Prohibition had saved. His statistics: alcoholism, 26,400; cirrhosis of the liver, 42,300; Bright's disease, 62,100. Declared Mr. Callahan: "With undisputed statistics I have shown from merely three diseases where prohibitionists have saved more [U. S.] lives than were lost in action in the Great War.* A hundred thousand lives are not to be sniffed...
Aimee Sample McPherson, Los Angeles soul saver, denied that she was going to marry Homer Alvan Rodeheaver, archangelic trombonist for Evangelist William Ashley ("Billy") Sunday, but admitted that he had given her a diamond ring...
...indeed are the social errors which can not be apologized for via this most recent time-saver, which covers a veritable multitude of sins, among them "riding to bounds in a ballroom", "dismantling plumbing fixtures", "throwing potted palms", "setting fire to footmen", and "deposing mural moosehead in punch". Others, one hardly printable in a proper family journal, are listed to aid the social delinquent...
...Minnie ("Ma") Kennedy, mother of Aimee Semple McPherson, Los Angeles soul-saver, successfully defended a $50,000 suit brought against her by Rev. Harry H. Clark, Seattle divine, for breach of promise, in Seattle. Her plea for nonsuit granted, she was surrounded by crowds of spectators who congratulated her, smacked her hands...
...Life Saver...