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...venture to say to my Northern brethren that consolidation was patterned after the mollusk or the oyster, while Federal union was fashioned after the majestic lion or the Heaven-soaring and imperial eagle...
...silent brethren of the Abbey of Our Lady of Gethsemane celebrated their 75th year of existence at Gethsemane, Ky., by a gorgeous procession to Pontifical Mass. Their Abbot, Edmond Marie Obrecht, already mitred and having the rank of Bishop in his territory, was given the purple zucchetto, a skull cap which ranks him as Bishop where-ever he goes. The zucchetto was conferred in person by Denis Cardinal Dougherty of Philadelphia, who said: "Had it been a red zucchetto it would not have been too much." The monks celebrated by giving a feast to all their guests, although they themselves...
...Ruhr district, miners struck for a shorter day and more pay. Other strikes were reported from Saxony and Silesia. Berlin Bolsheviks urged the metal workers and railwaymen to join their Red brethren. Die Rote Fahne (The Red Flag), Berlin Communist journal, proclaimed a new wave of struggle against the hated capitalist system...
...lone exception to this state of exodus is the track squad, which will establish a patriotic precedent by refusing to desert the neighborhood of the Stadium, while their more adventurous and less sentimental brethren in the other branches of sport are languishing in Southern pastures...
This argument is set forth in a circular to American Lutherans issued by a Delaware corporation with offices in Manhattan. The circular states: "Thousands of our brethren in the faith have lost all hope; thousands have left the fold of the Church. Germany is being crushed by a nation of another faith. Shall Lutheranism be crushed in the land where it was born? We have an effective weapon to prevent this...