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brought a suit against Howard and the other members of the existing board, which the newcomers wanted to supplant. Superior Court Judge Shaw ruled in favor of the defendants and so they were able to resume their positions as the "legal and duly-authorized officers" of the library. The decision was
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At about the same time, Howard was the chairman of a two-man committee that examined the policy of the library regarding the purchase of books and whether "our rules need amendment in any respect, either as to the
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and a trustee of the county law library. He represented the city librarian when she sued a
Methodist minister for slander over a prayer he had recited. Howard disappeared without a trace in 1896.
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after he had called her out in a prayer from his pulpit on August 19, 1894, for having purchased a number of assertedly obscene French-language books, including
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to be placed upon the shelves, or in the manner of distributing the same for use on the premises, or for home circulation."
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and that the acts complained of certainly tended to diminish the confidence of the public in his client as a
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839:People declared dead in absentia
326:People ex rel. Willis v. Howard
375:"Says His Prayer Is Slander,"
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683:Stephenson
247:References
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673:Godfrey
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