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Died. Francis P. Gibson, proofreader, of Evanston, Ill., founder-president of the National Fraternal Society of the Deaf (insurance organization); in Chicago; after an operation for gallstones. To a deaf audience of some 1,500 people, a deaf minister preached a sermon with his hands while his daughter translated it into words for those who could hear. By sign language also a trio, silently accompanied by twisting fingers in the crowd, articulated the hymns "Abide With Me," ''Lead, Kindly Light." "O Love That Will Not Let Me Go." Died. James P. Noonan, 51, president of International Brotherhood...
...Other Piggott campaigning methods included a "Sermon Against Booze" on each pay statement. Typical of these was: "To the married man who thinks he cannot get along without his drinks the following is suggested as a solution to the bondage of the habit: "1. Start a saloon in your own house. "2. Be the only customer and you will have no license to pay. Give your wife $2 to buy a gallon of whiskey and remember that there are 69 drinks to the gallon. "3. Buy your drinks from no one but your wife. By the time the first gallon...
Finally came Rome's ranking U. S. prelate, William Henry Cardinal O'Connell, Archbishop of Boston. He preached no sermon. He stood quietly watching this enormous demonstration. Asked if he would make any official pronouncement, he shook his head. Said he: "All we know is what we can see with our eyes, and you can see as much...
...sample Everson day: Flew from Indianapolis to Muncie (54 miles), performed a wedding and a funeral, visited five sick parishioners, gave a pint of blood to a dying boy, witnessed a major operation of a friend, edited the church's weekly bulletin, wrote a Sunday sermon, returned to Indianapolis before 8 a.m. next...
...girl, Chick, who got him in the game. She beats up his rival with a poker, saying. "Ain't no one goin' to stand in my path to glory." This is the best line in Hallelujah, but Zeke (Daniel L. Haynes) has other good ones in the sermon in which, dressed as a locomotive engineer, he describes the cannonball express to hell. Sometimes local color dams up the story, but mostly, in spite of the temptation of spirituals, it is under control. Vidor's skill as a picturemaker is enough alone to make Hallelujah...