Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 135, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 November 1903 — Dowie Damsel Gathers The Dough [ARTICLE]

Dowie Damsel Gathers The Dough

Muuoie, lud . Nov. 24. When a strikingly beautiful young woman giving her name -as Aona Lawrence of Mariou, Ind., stru-k town today with a valise and aektd the young meu aud others to fill it with money in the interest of John Alexander Dowie, whose disoiple she professed to be, no questions were asked but quarters and half dollars rained in the satchel. She then boarded a train with a grip well filled, saying she was going to Sontb Bend, Laporte Valparaiso Hammond and other Northern Indiana towns to look after Prophet Dowie’s interests.