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...first untoward event of the trip. Then homeward they came; a glorious stop at Vancouver; a collision at night with a destroyer in the mists of Puget Sound; a review of the fleet; a terribly strenuous day in Seattle; indigestion; bronchial pneumonia; abrupt termination of the trip at San Francisco; a stroke of apoplexy?death. (TIME...
...with the American public. Whitefield (who nearly converted Benjamin Franklin to Evangelical Christianity), Chalmers, Moody, Drummond, were among the best known men of their times. And ten years ago, Billy Sunday, on a lower intellectual plane, was known wherever U. S. vices flourished. His "cleanups" of New York, Chicago, San Francisco, followed in quick succession. Every drawing-room debated whether he did more harm than good. Every Protestant minis ter was forced to come out either "for" or "against" him. He was jeered, knocked, caricatured and people went early to get good seats in his tent...
Died. Eugene T. Sawyer, 77, one of the authors of the Diamond Dick, the Nick Carter Detective Stories; in San Jose, Calif. (Three others of these authors, all dead within the last two years, were Thomas Harbaugh, John R. Coryell, Frederick Van Rensselaer...
...unsatisfactory conditions is the University observatory in Arequipa, Peru, it was decided to establish a branch station at San Jose, halfway between Arequipa and the Port of Mollendo of several months...
...Roman pagan family, named Laterano. This mansion the Emperor gave to Pope Sylvestre. Within the house a chapel was erected and for 600 years called the "chapel in the Laterano house"; finally, after having been twice burned and rebuilt, it was dedicated to St. John the Baptist and became San Giovanni nel Laterano. It was early regarded as the Pope's own church, and hence as the centre of Roman Christendom. Pope Pius XI will not be able to say mass in his own church on the day of the festival, of course, because he is a prisoner, self...