Religion: Religion Notes, Sep. 16, 1929

Chain Churches. Distribution-minded Joseph Herbert Appel of the John Wanamaker Stores spoke before a National Conference of Retail Distribution in Boston last week. Enumerating many forms of chain selling, he said: "Education is so promulgated through classified schools, Religion is so dispensed through denominational churches."

Aged 59. In 1870 a Masserano priest sealed two bottles of wine and stipulated in his will that they should go to the Pope who brought about the settlement of the Roman dispute with Italy. Last week 1,000 pilgrims from the Masserano district journeyed to Vatican City, delivered...

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