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...Michigan Avenue. Nobody knew where they came from. Humane society officials caught them, locked them in a dog-catcher's wagon, drove them to the Field Museum. Dr. Karl P. Schmidt, assistant curator of reptiles, was glad to get them. He planned to liberate them near Waukegan, Ill., study their habits...
...Waukegan, Ill, Jan. 18.-Trixie, George Van Valkenberg's police dog, isn't dead after all. She's sick, but the doctor says she'll be all right...
...week. Battling for souls on its home ground was Wilbur Glenn Voliva's Christian Catholic Apostolic Church of Zion City, Ill. The invading soul-hunter was Aimee Semple McPherson's Four-Square Church from California, represented by Sister Essie Locy, "Trumpeting Evangelist," who set up headquarters in Waukegan, North of Chicago and just south of Zion City...
Other methods used by Sister Locy were generally a la McPherson. Arriving, she announced: "We have unfurled the Four-Square banner in Waukegan in answer to Mr. Voliva's rule of injustice and tyranny and to provide a church home for those who are disgusted with Voliva's tactics." Then hiring a theatre she held lusty revival meetings, playing hymns on her silver trumpet. As an additional lure she stated these meetings were exact duplicates of those Sister McPherson was holding in the Angelus Temple at Los Angeles. At the end of each session Sister Locy called upon...
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