"'KING' BEN OUSTED" Front page headlines from the Detroit Times, Thursday November 10, 1927.

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One sheet (pp1-2 & 11-12 only), 22 x 17", folds, soil, age toning else vg. The House of David was a flourishing, Christian communal sect headquartered in Benton Harbor, MI in the early part of the 1900s, famous for its baseball teams, jazz bands & long beards (on the men). "King" Benjamin Purnell was accused of "crimes against girls" even though they all were supposed to be above such things. Also, ad for Hudson's, etc.


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