Word: voliva
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Wilbur Glenn Voliva, 72, shepherd of the Christian Catholic Apostolic Church in Zion, virtual dictator for some 30 years of Zion, Ill.; in Chicago. He expected to reach the age of 120 on a diet of Brazil nuts and buttermilk, recently remarked that if he died before 1990 nobody would be more surprised than himself. He was best known to the world at large for his conviction that the earth is "flat as a pancake"-a belief he still held after a round-the-world cruise. In 1910 he got control of all Zion's real estate...
...back to the old Thanksgiving, Republican Governor Sumner Sewall has proclaimed the new Thanksgiving for the first time in Maine. ∙∙ An unidentified axman vainly tried to decapitate Sabrina, the bronze nymph for whom 80 generations of Amherst classes have fought one another. ∙∙ Prophet Wilbur Glen Voliva of Zion, Ill. predicted a bad end for the dictators by plunging into a lake of fire (Revelation 21:8). ∙∙ Dr. Samuel Harden Church, 83-year-old head of the Carnegie Institute, who offered a million dollars last year for the abduction of Hitler, returned his Legion...