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While Herbert, the youngest prisoner ever to enter the institution, was amusing himself with his harmonica, being kept away from the older felons, a first citizen of Omaha, Neb. became interested in his case. He was Father Edward J. Flanagan. Father Flanagan was born in Roscommon, Ireland, 45 years ago. He entered one of Omaha's poor parishes in 1913. The hardships of his own people had accustomed but not blinded him to human misery. In the winter of 1914 he began trying to feed and house a few down-&-outers, many of them drunkards and criminals. What made...
...sweepstakes news. Said he: ". . . I know that you have done this by agreement with the Post Office authorities, but let me tell you that Joseph Pulitzer wouldn't have been muzzled in such a fashion." He and many another newsreader argued that the sweepstakes is legal in Ireland and therefore legitimate foreign news...
...estate forms a trust fund for Mrs. Florence Crane, the widow, and Cornelius and Florence Crane, children. If they die childless, one-half of the residue goes to Crane employes, one-half to eight Chicago hospitals and charities. Birthdays, Hon. Katherine Plunket of Ballymascanlan, "Grand Old Lady of Ireland" (in); Patrick Joseph Cardinal Hayes (64); Representative John Nance Garner (62); the Pennsylvania Limited (50); Archduke Otto of Habsburg (19)-Died, John Walker ("Johnny") Pope, 32, famed young Wall Street operator; of a lung infection following whooping cough; in Manhattan...
Shaw and Harris were born in different corners of Ireland within six months of one another, but they never met till they were grownup. Shaw's father was a genteel but scandalous drunkard. With the Shaws for many years lived, innocently but unconventionally, a singing teacher, George John Vandaleur Lee. To help the family impecuniosity Shaw went to work at 15, rose to be a cashier before he decided to seek his literary fortune in London. Painfully shy, Shaw's eyes would fill with tears "at the slightest rebuff." First thing he did in the British Museum...
Delegates to the conference heard Secretary Frederick Luke Wiseman of the Home Mission Department, Wesleyan Methodist Church report on increased Methodist membership in Great Britain and Ireland. "Communists," he said, "have been converted and are now preaching the gospel they sought to destroy, which is a further indication of Methodist progress." He pointed also to progress in the movement for union of all the branches of Methodism in England. Delegates applauded loudly when Bishop John Monroe Moore of Dallas, Tex., said that the Northern and Southern branches in the U. S. "cannot be kept apart much longer. . . . The causes...