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...country churches Mrs. Sloan approves garden flowers and even such wild growths as "soft brown cattails (shellacked to preserve their deep color), grasses and such delights as the brown cottony seed pods of the fireweed, the cloudy blue bayberry, or the brilliant scarlet berries of the black alder...
...this peculiar scarlet emphasis by Der Reichsführer upon his refusal of mercy to two women? In an effort to explain, an excited editor of the New York Daily News conjectured that evidently Adolf Hitler is no "pervert like some of his pals but . . . he is merely a neuter-a being who is apparently devoid of any sex feelings at all. . . . Hitler didn't execute the alleged head of this particular spy plot, the Polish Baron Sosnowski. . . . He was simply afraid to do that, in view of reprisals that would surely be taken in Poland...
Milwaukee's long-lived scarlet fever epidemic attracted national attention last week when, with the peak total of 1,507 cases reported. Dr. John Peter Koehler, chief city health officer, ordered all Milwaukee children under seven to stay away from school for a month, banned them from churches, movies, libraries, other public places...
...bells tolled and 1,000 schoolgirls waved U. S. and Papal flags. Stepping out upon a green velvet carpet, Cardinal MacRory took from Monsignor Lavelle a crucifix, which he kissed, and a holy water hyssop, with which he sprinkled the congregation as he walked up the aisle. Wearing a scarlet ferraiuolo, the Cardinal prostrated himself in prayer at a priedieu. Then he briefly thanked the people for the "welcome you have given me, the unworthy successor of St. Patrick...
After a second brief service at the Cathedral and a reception by New York's Catholic Club, Cardinal MacRory embarked once more, waving a scarlet handkerchief from the deck of the Saturnia, which flew the yellow-&-white Papal flag in his honor. To the Holy Father in Rome, said he, "I will give . . . a report that will gladden his heart...