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Newspaper

Athens Messenger

Location

Athens, Ohio, United States of America

Date

Jun 13, 1955

Page

11

Canonization Hope Revived for Kateri Tekakwitha

Revival of a second miracle attributed to Kateri Tekakwitha renews efforts toward her beatification and potential canonization as the first American born saint. Tekakwitha died April 17 1680 at age 24 after fasting and penance in a chapel near Montreal built by the Jesuits. The Vatican Congregation of Rites noted renewed evidence supports her cause as a step toward sainthood.

Vatican City Kateri Tekakwitha St. Francis Xavier Montreal Vatican Congregation of Rites

He Collects Degrees: Fifth Diploma for Gehler

Gehler 37, a cost department clerk at a cutlery plant, earned his fifth diploma at the University of Cincinnati in eight years. He jokes that some people collect postage stamps while he collects college diplomas.

Gehler University of Cincinnati

Sixpence Gun at Fair Ends In Self Inflicted Death

Terence Hen, 23, visited a shooting booth at a London fair on a Friday night. He paid sixpence for six shots with a miniature rifle, then lay down and shot himself dead. Authorities offered no immediate reason for the act.

London Terence Hen

Two Die In Columbus Crash At Parked Truck

Roosevelt Burke 30 and Savannah Firemister 28, both of Columbus, were killed early today when their auto skid and smashed into a parked truck. Mt Asama Japans largest active volcano erupted with a three minute tremor, coughing ashes high in the air 100 miles northwest of Tokyo.

Columbus Roosevelt Burke Savannah Pan Tokyo

Word Puzzle Clues and Answers From a Crossword Page

A reader puzzle page lists across and down clues with entries like Saw yer and Becky Thatcher Eve n What boy makes at girl and Lincoln and Mary. It includes numbers for positions such as 12 Lincoln and Mary and 13 Donate 4 Dick Haymes and Hayworth. Other clues cover words for war god amphitheaters and donkey pepper with entries like Ester of oleic acid and Closed car.

Lincoln Mary

Local Actor Robert Wilcox Found Dead in Pullman Berth

Rochester report says actor Robert Wilcox aged 44, husband of Dianna Barrymore, was found dead in a Pullman berth. Cincinnati infant Alice Barbara Eversall dies after premature birth weighing one pound 13 ounces at Christ Hospital. Fire damages Legg's Grocery in Chesapeake Ohio. Ohio winter wheat forecast by agriculture department at 45,530,000 bushels.

Rochester N. Y Robert Wilcox Dianna Barrymore Benny Cincinnati Alice Barbara Eversall Christ Hospital R. E. Eversuil Washington Ohio Agriculture Department

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