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Show I Protest Against Proflanity. The annual rally of the Holy Name societies connected with the churches of Brooklyn has been held with much enthusiasm. The diocese of Brooklyn was separated separ-ated into fifteen districts, in each of w hich a church was designated as the in Hying place for several other churches. Thus around the streets of Brooklyn Sunday afternoon fully 20.000 men of the Holy Name societies of Brooklyn, marched, headed by their pastors, pas-tors, as a protest against profanity. The members carried American flajrs. and. in addition to the usual devotions, said prayers for the late President McKin-ley. |