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Thousands of devotees, black and white, went to Mother Catherine for "cures." Her apostles searched them at the wooden gate for weapons. The unarmed entered, had a pinch of salt dropped in a palm, which they lapped up and made a wish for Mother Catherine's help. "Saints" lined up the applicants. The file approached the altar where stood stout Mother Catherine, adorned by a white headdress and a starched apron with the word MOTHER embroidered in red across its bib. On a side table was a huge brown bottle of warm castor oil, which she had blessed...
...accomplished nothing, had net assets of 87?. He there upon set up a tent, hired a band on credit, held services. Three services brought him $3,500. He then made the proud boast: "The day will come when I will own every foot, every inch, and every pinch of the 6,500-acre site of the City of Zion and then I will float the flag of Zion over every building...
...down from the $120,000 that was owing last July. President Strotz boasts that his business has been better than Madison Square Garden's- and the latter offers no figures in dispute. The Stadium costs about $1,350 daily to operate. But it will seat 24.000 at a pinch and Sidney Strotz has managed to find people who could show him how to fill it. The hockey games have paid well. The Chicago Tribune held its Golden Gloves boxing matches there, the News ran an ice carnival. For political rallies and the like, the rental is $2,000. Greatest...
...main agent of the plot. He sees the wounding of the Man Cock, the handsome fiance of the Prince's daughter Sonia; he sees the rascally Peter robbing the dead and wounded. At home, as the War goes worse and worse for Russia, he sees and feels the pinch of starvation begin, and the happy band of dogs at the dump heap grow quarrelsome until they are all, save Siedoi and mad Tsygan and a big brute called Pirate, shot down to conserve food. He sees the rising of the villagers and peasants, His Majesty the People...
...embargo look like a political discrimination against Russia, the State Department last week instructed its consuls throughout the world to report on convict-made goods in their respective areas with a view to including other countries in the embargo. Complaint by U. S. tobacco producers, feeling the pinch of competition, that-Sumatra cigar wrappers from the Dutch East Indies were convict-grown caused the Treasury to start investigating. Under, study also were rubber imports from slave-ridden Liberia, phosphates from Morocco...