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Spiritual descendants of old German Pietists were the members of the "Community of True Inspiration" who, hounded from their homeland, settled at Ebenezer, N. Y. in 1843. Outgrowing this home, the community trekked westward to Amana, where it acquired 26.000 acres of good farmland. The colonists built seven villages of unpainted German-style houses...
Seven hours later the excursion arrived at Kingston, N. Y. where Father Divine has lately acquired a "Promised Land," some 1,000 acres of farmland worth $160,000. Plan is to settle the Promised Land with Divine disciples who do not mind field work. While Kingstonites gawped, the Divine excursionists debarked, formed a parade in which one of Father Divine's touring cars, with a stuffed white dove on the radiator cap, was preceded by mounted Negroes in berets and riding togs, followed by female "angels" in green and white satin, wearing banners blazoned "Father Divine is God." Pennons...
...growing son, shows that he is a dreamer. Marlise contemptuously excludes him from any knowledge of her own little private banking business. Warned that Aime will not be able to protect the Bertaud property after her death. Marlise is still unable to share her control of monies, mortgages, farmland. She has an instinctive realization that she will outlive her son, who wilts and dies in his 50's without ever daring to tell Marlise of his mistress and his bastard son, Remy...
Founded by practical missionary Dr. John Henry House in 1902, with ten orphans for pupils and a native farmer-teacher for faculty, the American Farm School has grown to 300 acres of cultivated farmland worked by some 150 farmer-students aged 13 to 18, under the direction of a faculty of 17. including five of its own graduates. Two of these native instructors benefited by four years of additional training in engineering and husbandry at Princeton and Cornell respectively, on scholarships raised by Princeton classmates of the present director of the School, engineer son of the founder, Charles L. House...
Cause of the general rejoicing and the Marken gloom was the same: Holland remade her geography last week with the closing of the last gap in an 18-mi. dike between Wieringen and Friesland, thus putting an end to the famed Zuyder Zee. Some 500,000 acres of rich farmland will be reclaimed from the sea bottom when pumping operations are completed. The rest will make an inland lake (one-third the size of the original Zuyder Zee), to be known from now on as Ijsselmeer, in which the former fishing fleets of Volendam and Marken will be marooned...