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...Coliseum, ancient Chicago political bear-pit, was last week the scene of a Northern Baptist convention. Oldtime revival songs swelled 5,000 throats until the Rev. James Whitcomb* Brougher, presiding, cleared his throat and keynoted: ". . .Let us keep the spirit of unity...
...James Whitcomb was famed throughout Indiana and was governor of that state, 1843-48. James Whitcomb Brougher (born 1870) and James Whitcomb Riley (1853-1916) and many another James Whitcomb were named...
...Senator said to a newspaper friend: "Seven men are running the Senate and I am one of them." That man was Albert Jeremiah Beveridge, who last week died of heart disease in his Indianapolis home. He was buried in Crown Hill Cemetery, near the grave of James Whitcomb Riley. Onetime Senator Beveridge was famed as orator, author, statesman. While at De Pauw University he won an intercollegiate oratorical medal, awarded in another year to the late Senator Robert Marion LaFollette. Entering the Senate in 1899 he was an ardent Imperialist, supporting McKinley's "manifest doctrine" policy, advocating permanent retention...
...field will be parodied. The Fairy Tales of the Grimm brothers and those of Hans Christian Anderson form the background, but besides these the Red, Blue, Green and Yellow Fairy books, Mother Goose, Aesop's Fables, Alice in Wonderland, and the children's poems of Robert Louis Stevenson, James Whitcomb Riley Eugene Field and W. C. Gilbert will be burlesqued...
Senator Norris of Nebraska, himself no mean versifier, parodied James Whitcomb Riley's Little Orphant Annie with especial reference to Secretary Kellogg...