Appendix A

The Trial Record

The newspaper pages behind Chapter 3, listed, described, and linked

This appendix lists the newspaper pages behind Chapter 3. Each page is named and dated, described in a sentence or two, and linked so that you can read it yourself. After the list come a timeline built from the pages, a table of the places where the papers disagree, and a short account of what the record does not hold. The story itself, and what it means, are in Chapter 3.

The list has forty-eight entries. Forty-five are pages from twenty-eight newspapers printed between May 27, 1936, and July 22, 1937. The other three are the notices that two Atlanta papers printed when Dake and his wife died in 1987.¹ Every page carries its paper, date, and page number, so you can call up the same page in another newspaper archive and check my reading against it.²

How to read newspapers from the 1930s

Most of these pages are not separate reports. The Associated Press and the United Press both sent out stories on the arrest in May 1936, and the International News Service joined them for the sentencing in February 1937. Papers across the country printed that wire copy as it came in. When the same sentence turns up in a Wisconsin daily and a Texas paper, it is one reporter’s story printed twice, and it counts as one witness. I have named the wire service in a row wherever I could tell which one it was.

Two papers had the case on their own doorstep. Zion lay in the Chicago Tribune’s territory, and the girl lived in Kenosha, so the Tribune and the Kenosha News carried the fullest accounts. Most of the other pages are wire copy or photographs. The reprints still earn their place, because a word that is smudged in one printing is often clear in another. Several readings in Chapter 3 were settled that way.

Headlines were written to sell papers on the street, and the men who wrote them did not always read to the end of the story. Some of the headlines below give Dake a mocking nickname, so it is worth reading the story under each one before trusting it.

Small errors run through the whole file. His age moves by a year or two from paper to paper, a date slips by a day, and a middle initial comes and goes. Reporters and rewrite men worked fast, often over the telephone, and slips like these got into print. Where the copies disagree, I compare them and give both readings in a table below.³ On the facts the record depends on, the papers hold steady: dates, places, court actions, the names of judges and lawyers, and words spoken aloud in court or in church.

Words the papers use

A few legal terms come up again and again in these stories. Here is what each one meant.

Term	What it meant
Indicted	A grand jury found enough evidence to bring him to trial. An indictment is not a finding of guilt.
Waived a hearing	He gave up his right to a preliminary hearing. That moved the case along faster, and it was not an admission.
Removal	A federal defendant arrested in one district is sent to the district where he was charged. Dake was arrested in Illinois and charged in Milwaukee.
Bond	Money put up so that a defendant can stay free until trial. His was set at two thousand dollars.
Pleaded guilty	He admitted the offense charged. He did not by that plea admit everything the prosecutor said afterward.
House of correction	A county jail for shorter sentences, not a state prison or a federal penitentiary. Some of the headlines below call it a prison anyway.

A sixteen-year-old girl was at the center of this case. Her hometown paper did not print her name in 1936, and I follow its lead here, as Chapter 3 does. Most of the linked pages do print her name, and some 1936 stories also name a second girl. Neither name appears on this page.⁴

The documents

The pages are listed in date order, in five groups. The paper’s name in each row links to a copy of the page on this site. Where a headline is too damaged to read, the brackets say so, and I have not guessed at the words.

The indictment and the arrest, May and June 1936

Paper	Date and page	Headline	What the page shows
Chicago Tribune Chicago, Ill.	May 27, 1936 p. 1	Zion Minister Jailed by U.S. on Mann Act	The fullest account of the arrest, with his home address, his exchange with the commissioner, and his wife’s statement.
Kenosha News Kenosha, Wis.	May 27, 1936 p. 1	Accuse Pastor of Zion Church in Moral Code	The girl’s hometown paper. It is the only paper listed here that withheld her name, and it told its readers why. The story continues on page 12 (next row).
Kenosha News Kenosha, Wis.	May 27, 1936 p. 12	[jump headline; continuation of the page 1 story]	The rest of the page 1 story. The two pages are one article. Most of this clipping cannot be read.
Baraboo News Republic Baraboo, Wis.	May 27, 1936 p. 1	Zion Pastor Faces Charges on Mann Act	A clean printing of the United Press story, with the hotel registrations and the letter to the girl’s father.
Beaver Dam Daily Citizen Beaver Dam, Wis.	May 27, 1936 p. 5	Clergyman Is Charged With Violating Mann Act; Hearing Is Waived	The same United Press story, set in a column beside unrelated tax news.
Belleville Daily Advocate Belleville, Ill.	May 27, 1936 p. 3	Minister Held for Violation of Federal Act	The Associated Press story. It names both defense lawyers, gives the prosecutor’s account of the motive Dake offered, and calls Mrs. Dake “herself an ordained minister.”
The Belleville News-Democrat Belleville, Ill.	May 27, 1936 p. 2	Minister Held, Girl Sought in Mann Act Case	Another printing of the United Press story. It helps with words that are broken in other copies.
Dixon Evening Telegraph Dixon, Ill.	May 27, 1936 p. 2	Zion Minister Faces Mann Act Charges Today	A short notice with the bond amount in its subheadline. Little of the story itself can be read in this clipping.
Lincoln Journal Star Lincoln, Neb.	May 27, 1936 p. 2	Minister Faces Hearing	A short Associated Press item. It is the only page listed here that calls the church at Zion Pentecostal.
The Oshkosh Northwestern Oshkosh, Wis.	May 27, 1936 p. 5	Clergyman Held for Violation of the Mann Act	The most useful page from 1936. It prints the Associated Press and United Press stories one above the other, so the two can be compared line by line.
Chicago Tribune Chicago, Ill.	May 28, 1936 p. 17	Zion Minister Fails to Post Mann Act Bail	The only report of the charging language read aloud in court. It also carries his admission that he made the trip.
The Baltimore Sun Baltimore, Md.	May 28, 1936 p. 21	Clergyman Is Accused of Violating Mann Act	A short Associated Press notice. It shows how far the story had traveled in two days.
The Des Moines Register Des Moines, Iowa	May 28, 1936 p. 22	Lacks $2,000, Pastor Jailed	An Associated Press item with a photograph. It records that he offered real estate as bond and was turned down.
The Journal Times Racine, Wis.	May 28, 1936 p. 7	Pastor Fails to Get Bond	An Associated Press story with a wire photograph taken minutes before the arraignment.
The Owensboro Messenger Owensboro, Ky.	May 28, 1936 p. 4	Minister Held on Mann Act Charge	An Associated Press item, and the only 1936 page listed here that names the Dakes’ daughter.
The South Bend Tribune South Bend, Ind.	May 28, 1936 p. 5	Pastor Facing Trial	A photograph of the hearing, with a long caption that repeats his admission of the trip.
Chicago Tribune Chicago, Ill.	May 29, 1936 p. 1	Pastor Bailed Out; Faithful Sing Praises	His release on bond, the trial date, his talk to the other prisoners, and the message he sent to his congregation.
The La Crosse Tribune La Crosse, Wis.	June 1, 1936 p. 6	Congregation Prays for Rev. Finis Dake	His first appearance before his church after the arrest. One line names a body said to be supporting him, and it is too damaged to read.

The plea, the sentence, and the farewell, February 1937

Paper	Date and page	Headline	What the page shows
Kenosha News Kenosha, Wis.	February 9, 1937 p. 1	Rev. Dake Gets Six Months in Kenosha Case	The most careful account of the plea. It keeps what he admitted apart from what the prosecutor alleged, reports the special service the Sunday before, and describes his wife as “also an ordained minister.”
The Kansas City Star Kansas City, Mo.	February 9, 1937 p. 2	Bible Marathoner to Prison	A short Associated Press notice of the sentence, sent out the same day.
Chicago Tribune Chicago, Ill.	February 10, 1937 p. 3	Flock Absolves Petting Parson, but Jail Waits	The fullest account of the sentencing and of the vindication service that evening. It records his plan to write a commentary on the Bible while in jail.
Chicago Tribune Chicago, Ill.	February 10, 1937 p. 40	[two photographs with captions]	Photographs of the prayer meeting and of Dake with his wife, with captions that sum up the sentence.
The Baltimore Sun Baltimore, Md.	February 10, 1937 p. 6	Pastor Gets Six Months In Mann Act Violation	A short Associated Press notice of the plea and the sentence, which gives his age as thirty-four. Parts of the full page are faded.
The Birmingham News Birmingham, Ala.	February 10, 1937 p. 7	Wife Will Run Church When Minister Goes to Jail in Morals Case	The International News Service story, with his lawyer’s statement to the court.
The Daytona Beach News-Journal Daytona Beach, Fla.	February 10, 1937 p. 10	Petting Parson Is “Disgusted” With the Devil	The clearest printing of the International News Service story, with his own words at the vindication service.
The Journal Times Racine, Wis.	February 10, 1937 p. 3	“Everybody Loves You,” His Flock Tells Convicted Zion Minister; Wife, “Sister Dake” to Carry On	A full page of that day’s paper. The headline is clear, but the story is small and hard to read in this clipping.
The Record Stockton, Calif.	February 10, 1937 p. 4	“Petting Pastor” Going to Jail Finds “Everybody” Loves Him	The same International News Service story in California. It helps settle two disputed words.
The Belleville News-Democrat Belleville, Ill.	February 11, 1937 p. 1	Kiss, Then Jail	A photograph with a caption. Two different clippings of this page survive, and both are linked: the first clipping and the second clipping.
The Times Hammond, Ind.	February 11, 1937 p. 22	Wife’s Skirts Shield Petting Parson; Jail His Next Haven	The only page that quotes Mrs. Dake refusing further statements, and the only one that quotes his rival at length. The same story appears again, complete, on page 24 (next row).
The Times Hammond, Ind.	February 11, 1937 p. 24	Wife’s Skirts Shield Petting Parson; Jail His Next Haven	The same story printed in full a second time in that day’s paper.
Beaver Dam Daily Citizen Beaver Dam, Wis.	February 15, 1937 p. 1	[photograph; caption not legible]	A wire photograph whose caption cannot be read in this clipping.
Chicago Tribune Chicago, Ill.	February 15, 1937 p. 1	Saves 20 on His Way to Jail	The farewell service in detail, with his question to the congregation and his tribute to his wife.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch St. Louis, Mo.	February 15, 1937 p. 23	Pastor Tells Flock Goodby to Serve His Term in Jail	The Associated Press account of the farewell, with his statement that he had renewed his contact with divine authority.
The Des Moines Register Des Moines, Iowa	February 15, 1937 p. 1	“I’m Happy”	The same Associated Press story with one more sentence: that he blamed his troubles on the ill will of the devil.
The Waukesha County Freeman Waukesha, Wis.	February 15, 1937 p. 2	[headline not legible in the clipping]	A detailed account of the farewell service and of the rival overseer’s remarks that evening.
Fort Worth Star-Telegram Fort Worth, Texas	February 16, 1937 p. 1	Pastor, Mann Act Violator, Begins Sentence, After He Converts 20 Adults	A front-page story in Texas. It quotes a follower who called the case a plot of the devil.
The Tipton Daily Tribune Tipton, Ind.	February 16, 1937 p. 6	“Soul Saving” Draws Jail Term	A syndicated photograph feature: separate portraits of Dake and the young woman, side by side, over a caption about the sentence.
The News-Review Roseburg, Ore.	February 18, 1937 p. 8	“Soul Saving” Draws Jail Term	The same syndicated feature two days later in Oregon, with a clearer printing of the caption.

In the house of correction, March 1937

Paper	Date and page	Headline	What the page shows
Dixon Evening Telegraph Dixon, Ill.	March 23, 1937 p. 2	Zion Minister in Correction House Model Prisoner	The Associated Press report on how he was getting on in jail, with his work assignment and his theological study.
The Times Streator, Ill.	March 23, 1937 p. 1	[Zion Minister at] Work in Jail as Shipping Clerk	The clearest printing of the same Associated Press story. It gives the deputy inspector’s name and the words he quoted from Dake.
Belleville Daily Advocate Belleville, Ill.	March 24, 1937 p. 3	Convicted Minister Is Model Prisoner	The same wire story a day later. The clipping is faded but can be read in places.

Release and return, July 1937

Paper	Date and page	Headline	What the page shows
The Kansas City Star Kansas City, Mo.	July 16, 1937 p. 20	Minister Out of Prison	His release, with the time he served, the month taken off for good behavior, and his refusal to say whether he would go back to his church. It dates the sentence February 16.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch St. Louis, Mo.	July 19, 1937 p. 20	Pastor Welcomed by Flock After Serving Term in Jail	The Associated Press account of his first Sunday back. It notes that he made no direct mention of his sentence.
The Daily Review Clifton Forge, Va.	July 19, 1937 p. 1	Greeted by Big Crowds	A fuller account of the same service, with the hymn the church played and his first words to the congregation.
Iberia Sentinel Iberia, Mo.	July 22, 1937 p. 1	Preacher, Son of Former Iberian, as “New Elijah”	A small Missouri paper reprinting a Chicago account of his return, with details found on no other page listed here. It calls him the son of “the late Henry Dake of Iberia.”

The death notices, 1987

Paper	Date and page	Headline	What the page shows
The Atlanta Journal Atlanta, Ga.	February 20, 1987 p. 23	Dake [death notice]	The death notice for Dorothy Dobbins Dake, who died five months before her husband.
The Atlanta Journal Atlanta, Ga.	July 8, 1987 p. 61	[death notice; partly legible]	The death notice for Finis Dake, with the date of his death, the funeral arrangements, and his surviving family.
The Atlanta Constitution Atlanta, Ga.	July 11, 1987 p. 57	The Rev. Finis J. Dake Sr., publisher of Dake’s Annotated Reference Bible	The full obituary. It gives his birth date and birthplace, the 1963 reference Bible, his other books, and a company figure for the hours of study behind the work. It does not mention 1936 or 1937.

A timeline from the documents

Each entry below rests on the pages listed above and is footnoted to them, with one exception. The revocation of his credentials in March 1937 comes from the Assemblies of God records, because no newspaper here mentions it. Where the papers give two dates for one event, both are shown.

Date	Event
October 18, 1902	Finis Jennings Dake is born in Miller County, Missouri.⁵
April 1935	The trip charged in the indictment. Most papers date it April 23, and one Tribune story gives April 21.⁶
February 1936	A federal grand jury at Milwaukee returns the indictment.⁷
Tuesday, May 26, 1936	Department of Justice agents arrest him at his home in Zion, Illinois, shortly before an evening service. United States Commissioner Edwin K. Walker refuses to free him on his own bond, and his wife takes the service in his place.⁸
Wednesday, May 27, 1936	He appears before the commissioner again, waives a hearing, and is ordered removed to Milwaukee. Bond is set at two thousand dollars, which he cannot raise, and he goes back to the county jail. Afterward he tells reporters that he made the trip and denies any immorality.⁹
Thursday, May 28, 1936	Bond is posted and he is released. Before he leaves the jail he speaks to twenty-two fellow prisoners. The trial is set for September 14, 1936.¹⁰
Sunday, May 31, 1936	He appears before his congregation for the first time since the arrest and denies the charge.¹¹
September 14, 1936	The date set for trial. No page here reports what happened on that day.¹²
Sunday, February 7, 1937	A special service at his church, where he prepares the congregation for the trial.¹³
Tuesday, February 9, 1937	He pleads guilty before Federal Judge F. A. Geiger at Milwaukee and is sentenced to six months in the Milwaukee house of correction.¹⁴
Tuesday, February 9, 1937, evening	About two hundred members hold a prayer meeting and vindication service at Zion. He attends and speaks.¹⁵
Sunday, February 14, 1937	The farewell service. His wife preaches, he plays the trombone, and twenty people announce their conversion.¹⁶
Monday, February 15, 1937	He leaves Zion to begin his sentence. A wire item five months later gives February 16 as the date of the sentence.¹⁷
March 1937	The Assemblies of God revoke his ministerial credentials.¹⁸
Tuesday, March 23, 1937	The Associated Press reports him working as a shipping clerk, keeping to himself, and giving his spare time to theological study.¹⁹
Friday, July 16, 1937	He is released after five months, with one month taken off for good behavior.²⁰
Sunday, July 18, 1937	He returns to his pulpit at Zion, urges his people to forget the past, and makes no direct mention of his sentence.²¹
Thursday, February 19, 1987	Dorothy Dobbins Dake dies at Lawrenceville, Georgia.²²
Tuesday, July 7, 1987	Finis Jennings Dake dies at his home in Lawrenceville, Georgia, at the age of eighty-four.²³

Where the papers disagree

On a handful of details the papers do not agree. I give both readings in each case, with a note on which one the other evidence favors. None of them bears on the guilty plea or the sentence.

Detail	One reading	The other reading	Note
His age in May 1936	Thirty-three, in the United Press copy and the Chicago Tribune	Thirty-five, in the Associated Press copy	He was born on October 18, 1902, so he was thirty-three.²⁴
His age in February 1937	Thirty-three, in the Chicago Tribune	Thirty-four, in the Associated Press copy	By the same birth date, he was thirty-four.²⁵
The date of the trip	April 23, 1935, in most papers	April 21, 1935, in one Tribune story	April 23 is the majority reading, and the Tribune’s own earlier story has it.²⁶
The date of the sentence	February 9, 1937, in the papers that covered the hearing	February 16, 1937, in an Associated Press item five months later	The papers that reported the hearing put the sentence on February 9 and his start of it on February 15. The later item does not explain its date.²⁷
A phrase at the vindication service	If the devil had a tail, in the Tribune	If the devil had a soul, in the International News Service copy	His rival answered a version about a tail the next day.²⁸
His children	One daughter, eight years old, in most 1936 and 1937 reports	Two children, in one 1937 story	No page here settles it.²⁹

What the record does not hold

There are no court papers here. The file has no indictment, no plea transcript, no judgment, and no docket sheet. Everything known about the courtroom comes from the reporters who sat in it. If the federal case file from the Eastern District of Wisconsin is ever found and opened, it belongs on this page, and it may settle some of the disagreements above.

No newspaper here records what his denomination did. The Assemblies of God revoked his ministerial credentials in March 1937, while he was in the house of correction, and I hold copies of the records that show it. None of these papers mentions the revocation. One June 1936 story seems to name a body that was standing behind him, but the line is damaged, and I do not rely on it.³⁰

Nothing here comes from the young woman herself. She is quoted twice at second hand, once in a letter to her father and once in an investigator’s summary. She never speaks in her own voice on any of these pages.

The record has a gap between June 1936 and February 1937. The trial was set for September, and the case ended with the plea in February. No page here explains the delay.

After July 1937 the pages fall silent for fifty years, until the death notices of 1987. Chapter 2 tells what Dake did in those years.

Key Point: What the Pages Agree On

The papers agree on the case itself. A federal grand jury at Milwaukee indicted Dake in February 1936, and federal agents arrested him at Zion that May. On February 9, 1937, he pleaded guilty to violating the Mann Act and was sentenced to six months in the Milwaukee house of correction. He served five months and was back in his pulpit in July. From the first report to the last he admitted the trip and denied any immorality, and his wife and his church stood by him in public. No page listed here contradicts any of this.

Where the story is told

Chapter 3 tells the story these pages contain and says what it means. As that chapter says, the conviction refutes none of his doctrines, which are tested against Scripture in Chapter 6 through Chapter 19. The record matters because his life was later held up as a reason to trust his notes. When a man’s life is offered as a reference for his teaching, all of it belongs in view, and that includes 1936 and 1937.

If you have a page that belongs on this list, or a cleaner copy of a clipping described here as damaged, please send it. I will add it and say what changed.

Notes

↑ 1. The pages come from a commercial newspaper archive, and each copy carries the archive’s header giving the paper, its city, the date, and the page. Where I hold more than one clipping of a page, the page is listed once. The one exception is the Belleville News-Democrat of February 11, 1937, which survives in two different clippings; both are linked in its row.

↑ 2. To check a page without relying on this site, use the paper, date, and page given in its row. They will call up the same page in any archive that holds that paper.

↑ 3. See “Where the papers disagree,” below.

↑ 4. “Accuse Pastor of Zion Church in Moral Code,” Kenosha News, May 27, 1936, 1: “The girl’s name is withheld from publication under a state law, with which this newspaper is entirely in accord.” The Wisconsin statute in view protected the identity of juveniles in delinquency proceedings. The decision to follow that paper’s practice in this book is editorial and is explained in Chapter 3.

↑ 5. “The Rev. Finis J. Dake Sr., publisher of Dake’s Annotated Reference Bible,” Atlanta Constitution, July 11, 1987, 57, which gives his birth as October 18, 1902, in Miller County, Missouri.

↑ 6. April 23, 1935: Chicago Tribune, May 27, 1936, 1; Baraboo News Republic, May 27, 1936, 1; Belleville News-Democrat, May 27, 1936, 2; South Bend Tribune, May 28, 1936, 5. April 21, 1935: Chicago Tribune, May 28, 1936, 17.

↑ 7. Chicago Tribune, May 27, 1936, 1, and May 28, 1936, 17; Lincoln Journal Star, May 27, 1936, 2. Each gives the month as February; none gives the day.

↑ 8. Chicago Tribune, May 27, 1936, 1, which gives the address as 620 Shiloh Boulevard and prints his exchange with Commissioner Walker; Kenosha News, May 27, 1936, 1; Baraboo News Republic, May 27, 1936, 1; Beaver Dam Daily Citizen, May 27, 1936, 5. Chapter 3 quotes the exchange.

↑ 9. Belleville Daily Advocate, May 27, 1936, 3; Oshkosh Northwestern, May 27, 1936, 5; Lincoln Journal Star, May 27, 1936, 2; Baltimore Sun, May 28, 1936, 21. The Oshkosh Northwestern and the Belleville Daily Advocate name the defense attorneys as Louis J. Portner of St. Louis and B. Krohn of Chicago. For his words to reporters after the hearing: Chicago Tribune, May 28, 1936, 17; Des Moines Register, May 28, 1936, 22; Journal Times (Racine), May 28, 1936, 7; South Bend Tribune, May 28, 1936, 5. The May 28 papers report the hearing of the day before.

↑ 10. “Pastor Bailed Out; Faithful Sing Praises,” Chicago Tribune, May 29, 1936, 1. The story is datelined the previous day, so the release is placed on May 28. It also reports that photographers and reporters were barred from the jail meeting at his own request, and that the board of deacons adopted a resolution declaring belief in his innocence.

↑ 11. “Congregation Prays for Rev. Finis Dake” (AP), La Crosse Tribune, June 1, 1936, 6, reporting an appearance on Sunday. The paper puts the number of members praying at two hundred.

↑ 12. Chicago Tribune, May 29, 1936, 1, for the September 14 date. The next dated page in the list is the Kenosha News of February 9, 1937.

↑ 13. “Rev. Dake Gets Six Months in Kenosha Case,” Kenosha News, February 9, 1937, 1, reporting special services the preceding Sunday and a trial scheduled to begin Monday. February 7 was the Sunday before the plea.

↑ 14. Kenosha News, February 9, 1937, 1; “Flock Absolves Petting Parson, but Jail Waits,” Chicago Tribune, February 10, 1937, 3; “Bible Marathoner to Prison” (AP), Kansas City Star, February 9, 1937, 2.

↑ 15. Chicago Tribune, February 10, 1937, 3, which gives the attendance as two hundred and reports that a stay of execution had been allowed until the following Monday. Photographs of the meeting ran in the same issue on page 40.

↑ 16. “Saves 20 on His Way to Jail,” Chicago Tribune, February 15, 1937, 1; Waukesha County Freeman, February 15, 1937, 2; Fort Worth Star-Telegram, February 16, 1937, 1. All three report the trombone, the sermon by Mrs. Dake, and the twenty conversions.

↑ 17. St. Louis Post-Dispatch, February 15, 1937, 23; Des Moines Register, February 15, 1937, 1; Fort Worth Star-Telegram, February 16, 1937, 1 (dateline Zion, February 15). For the February 16 date, see “Minister Out of Prison” (AP), Kansas City Star, July 16, 1937, 20.

↑ 18. Assemblies of God ministerial credential records for Finis Jennings Dake, copies in my possession, which show the revocation in March 1937. No newspaper in this list mentions it. See Chapter 2 and Chapter 3.

↑ 19. “Zion Minister in Correction House Model Prisoner” (AP), Dixon Evening Telegraph, March 23, 1937, 2; the same wire story in The Times (Streator, Ill.), March 23, 1937, 1, and “Convicted Minister Is Model Prisoner,” Belleville Daily Advocate, March 24, 1937, 3. The deputy inspector is named John Drewniak.

↑ 20. “Minister Out of Prison” (AP), Kansas City Star, July 16, 1937, 20.

↑ 21. “Pastor Welcomed by Flock After Serving Term in Jail” (AP), St. Louis Post-Dispatch, July 19, 1937, 20; “Greeted by Big Crowds,” The Daily Review (Clifton Forge, Va.), July 19, 1937, 1; “Preacher, Son of Former Iberian, as ‘New Elijah’,” Iberia Sentinel, July 22, 1937, 1, reprinting a Chicago Herald and Examiner account. Both July 19 stories are datelined the previous day.

↑ 22. Death notice for Mrs. Dorothy (Dobbins) Dake, Atlanta Journal, February 20, 1987, 23, giving the death as February 19, 1987, and her age as 83. The Atlanta Constitution obituary of July 11, 1987, gives her age at death as 84.

↑ 23. “The Rev. Finis J. Dake Sr., publisher of Dake’s Annotated Reference Bible,” Atlanta Constitution, July 11, 1987, 57, giving the death as Tuesday at his home in Lawrenceville and his age as 84. A death notice ran in the Atlanta Journal, July 8, 1987, 61, and gives the date, July 7, 1987. Neither item mentions the 1937 conviction.

↑ 24. Thirty-three: Baraboo News Republic, May 27, 1936, 1; Chicago Tribune, May 28, 1936, 17. Thirty-five: Belleville Daily Advocate, May 27, 1936, 3; Oshkosh Northwestern, May 27, 1936, 5; Baltimore Sun, May 28, 1936, 21; Lincoln Journal Star, May 27, 1936, 2; Journal Times, May 28, 1936, 7. Birth date of October 18, 1902, per Atlanta Constitution, July 11, 1987, 57.

↑ 25. Thirty-three: Chicago Tribune, February 10, 1937, 3, and February 15, 1937, 1 (“Mr. Dake, who is 33”). Thirty-four: “Pastor Gets Six Months In Mann Act Violation” (AP), Baltimore Sun, February 10, 1937, 6.

↑ 26. For the sources, see the April 1935 entry in the timeline and its note.

↑ 27. For the hearing and the start of the sentence, see the February 9 and February 15 entries in the timeline and their notes. The Kansas City Star item of July 16, 1937, reads: “Dake, sentenced to six months February 16, 1937, served only five months, obtaining one month off for good behavior.”

↑ 28. “Tail”: Chicago Tribune, February 10, 1937, 3. “Soul”: Daytona Beach News-Journal, February 10, 1937, 10; The Record (Stockton), February 10, 1937, 4; Birmingham News, February 10, 1937, 7. For the rival’s reply, see The Times (Hammond, Ind.), February 11, 1937, 22 and 24.

↑ 29. One daughter aged eight: Chicago Tribune, May 27, 1936, 1, and May 28, 1936, 17; Owensboro Messenger, May 28, 1936, 4; South Bend Tribune, May 28, 1936, 5; St. Louis Post-Dispatch, July 19, 1937, 20. Two children: Fort Worth Star-Telegram, February 16, 1937, 1.

↑ 30. “Congregation Prays for Rev. Finis Dake,” La Crosse Tribune, June 1, 1936, 6. The headline and the reference to two hundred praying members are legible; the line naming the body said to be supporting him is damaged. A reading of “Pentecostal council” is possible but is not relied on anywhere in this book. Readers who can supply a cleaner scan of this clipping are invited to send it.