Biwasaki Lepers Get Baseball Field Gifts
The Biwasaki leper colony in Japan receives Christmas gifts of baseball equipment and a planned field from the Society To Aid the Missions. Father Shimura, Sisters, and patients express gratitude as they prepare a spring training program and an Easter outreach for the community.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Biwasaki
Japan
William Labodie
Barnabas Shimura
Friends of the Society
Shimura
Jesus, Joseph
St. Francis
Mother Marie Steve
Franciscan Missionaries of Mary
Prudent Sisters
Marie Steve
Biwasaki Cardinals
Across the Crossroads and Apron Pocket Poems
Alberta Schumacher reflects on spring at the Crossroads inviting readers to go fishing in Celina St Marys and Ft Loraine areas. Marvella shares a Lenten apron pocket poem about drawer cleaning and Lent virtues, while readers discuss chick trends and local farm chatter. Contributions for the Easter Leper fund go to the Society to Aid the Missions Cincinnati Ohio.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Celina
St. Marys
Ft. Loramie
Marvella
St. Henry
Springfield
Cy Savins
Burkettsville
Coldwater
Dream Kite and a Grandson's Flight
A narrator watches a boy fly a kite and recalls a grandfather’s hopes. He sees contentment in helping a child’s dream rise above sorrow, leaving his own faded dreams behind to enable joy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ela
Ran
Also Mentioned on This Page
Desire—Fountain Pens
Redeker & Dick, Inc
Mercantile Stationers
Metal Business Equipment
E. Ninth St
Cincinnati
Ray
Main St
H. Meyer CO
Cherry
Eagle Savings & Loan
Eagle Savin
Glenmore
Cheviot
Montgomery
Silverton
GS & Loan Ass'n
Fanger
Rampe
Pearl & Broadway
Anaes
E. Fifth St. Parkway
Dorst Jewelry Company
Reading Road
Ohio
Arno A. Dorst
Ralph J. Simon
Edwin G. Becker
Council
BA Burger Srewing CO
Cincinnati, Ono
BURG
Crossroads
Alberta Schumacher
Edward A. Freking
Shattus Avenue
Society TO Aid
The
Society For the Propagation of the Faith
Association of the Holy Childhood
Catholic Near East Welfare Association
Missionary Union of the Clergy
Society To Aid the Missions
Archdiocese of
Shattue Avenue
Westerhaus Co
Kessen Ave
Semet Solvay Coke
Sys
Cincinnati Street Railway CO
Bernice Foley
WCPO
Channel 7
the Book Review Club
Sycamore Street
Bernice Williams Foley
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