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...storm was quickly over. Spinning out of the Atlantic, it swiped at the Virgin Islands, killing 15 persons and leaving St. Thomas littered with wreckage. Then its full force struck Puerto Rico at the northeastern tip, moved across the northern part of the island and was gone to blow itself out against the mountains of Haiti. San Juan, the populous capital, was sharply ripped by the storm's 120-m. p. h. vortex. Lesser villages were torn from the hillsides. In all, 217 Puerto Ricans were killed, 2,219 injured, 75,000 left homeless. Next day Governor Beverley flew over...
...Sharpest blow in the Long Island contest was aimed at Nominee Whitney by sharp-tongued Editor Julian Starkweather Mason of the Society-struck New York Evening Post: "He has conducted the usual amateur campaign. . . . Stories of his heavy contributions to the Democratic campaign fund grew. . . . Reports increased that his party managers did not expect him to win but were going to 'take care of him if Roosevelt won by giving him Trubee Davison's job [Assistant Secretary of War for Aeronautics] at Washington. . . . Young men with the political morals of Cornelius V. Whitney should not be welcomed to our public...
...Springfield, Ill., home of Lincoln, the Grand Army of the Republic last week held its 66th encampment. One Civil War oldster got out of bed at 2:45 a. m. to blow reveille. At 4:30 a. m. a life & drum corps again roused the sleepy. To "Marching Through Georgia" and ''Yankee Doodle" 637 octogenarians hobbled nine long blocks past the reviewing stand and Commander-in-Chief Samuel Patterson Town...
...Peru is a pacific people! It does not plan to enter war with any other state, but it has to preoccupy itself necessarily about its defense when winds of war blow along the frontier...
Last week came another blow. Mayor McKee forbade Dr. Norris' medical assistants the dignity of hiring private cars by the hour. They must use taxicabs, which are more economical. Huffed, Dr. Norris did what many an official anywhere would like to afford doing. He at once resigned...