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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Jan 27, 1922
Page
6
A brisk anecdote recalls MacTaggart, a clever Scot, who sits on a man’s hat at a cinema. The owner protests, MacTaggart retrieves the hat and remarks it could be worse, adding it might have been his own. A quip about lawyers follows. Also a quick tip to clean slender vases with sponge on a stick.
An advertisement recommends Cuticura Ointment for pimples redness roughness or itching followed by Cuticura Soap with hot water and a gentle dry. Finish by dusting Cuticura Talcum for fragrance priced at 25 cents each.
Dialogue depicts Elsie noting her grandpa is always out of doors and Bobby quips that his father calls him an oxygenarian. The exchange highlights a playful family moment centered on aging and outdoors.
Rome reports the death of Pope Benedict XV after a rapid decline from double pneumonia and bronchitis. Doctors, cardinals, and diplomats crowded the Vatican as officials announced the pope received last rites and had attempted treatment, though inflammation spread to the lungs and he passed away in the early hours.
New York reverend Francis Clement Kelley president of the Catholic Church Extension Society praises Kelley for wartime and postwar relief work. He highlights Kelley’s missions encyclical efforts and advocacy for native clergy in Africa China Japan and elsewhere. He notes Kelley aided starving Polish children through pleas funds prayers and action.
Pope Benedict XV, the 260th Roman pontiff, led the church for about seven years and five months after his coronation at the Vatican on September 6, 1914. His tenure was shorter than the reigns of the three popes before him, notably Pope Pius X who served 11 years before dying in 1914.
Pope Benedict XV became supreme head of the Catholic Church on September 6, 1914, after a rapid rise from cardinal. Born November 21, 1854 near Genoa, he pursued church service in Spain and Italy before becoming archbishop of Bologna and a cardinal in 1914. He urged peace during World War I, appealing to belligerents and meeting Wilson, while backing Wilson’s 1917 peace note and supporting Irish negotiations.
A Philadelphia Ledger comic dialogue features Rev Sparrow Jones and Aunt Miranda debating how epidemics come to remove bad people while the preacher bites gingerbread. Another vignette shows Johnny on sentry duty denying a neighbor a broken window claim with a sly reply.
A Birmingham Age-Herald quote features Senator Snorts Worthy reflecting on constituent advice. He notes he occasionally acts on it and recalls enjoyable vacations not prompted by overworked constituents.
The Dusuns, a tribe in British North Borneo, are noted for women serving as priests. The piece highlights gender roles, with women leading religious duties and virtue framed as a valued gem in contrast to vice.
A faithful old servant explains that Libby named the new baby Gabrielle as a term of endearment. The exchange reveals the servant’s view that babies reflect likeness, not fixed identities, as she notes the family matriarch is called Miss Katie while the baby bears Gabrielle.
A Birmingham man insists he did nothing wrong after being charged with possessing liquor. He claims he called police to report twenty four quarts of Scotch found buried in his backyard and offered to defend himself, while a lawyer notes he does not take prohibition cases.
An elderly spectator in the stands offered a fellow observer a cigar from a bulky case and quipped that the other man might mind smoking after both agreed to light up. The moment drew a lighthearted exchange at the football game.
Burges in Spain Bourges in France Bruges in Belgium are noted for magnificent Gothic ecclesiastical edifices from the Middle Ages. The dressmaker's work is a matter of form.
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