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...reaches the U.S. through the Colombian network, often does not originate in Colombia. Most coca shrubs grow in neighboring Peru, Bolivia and Ecuador, where the Indians of the Andes have chewed the leaves for more than 2,500 years. According to legend, the founder of the Inca dynasty, Manco Capac, brought coca to earth from his father, the sun. The Indians used it to dull their hunger, cold and weariness. (When Georgia Pharmacist John Styth Pemberton invented Coca-Cola, he included small amounts of cocaine to "cure your headache" and "relieve fatigue," but the drug was eliminated from the syrup...
First Inca. For four centuries, they grew farther and farther apart, and finally lost contact with each other. Then, from Tampu-Tocco, which had flourished as the capital of the Quechua tribe, came a new King named Manco Capac. Around A.D. 1200, according to Quechua legend, he and his many brothers "set out toward the hill over which the sun rose" reached the ancient Amauta capital of Cuzco, settled there and began to rebuild the empire of his ancestors...
...Manco Capac called himself Inca (King) and was the first ruler of the greatest nation the continent had ever known. According to the 17th century Inca chronicler, Pachacuti Yamqui Salcamayhua, when Manco Capac had consolidated his power, "he ordered works to be executed at the place of his birth, consisting of a masonry wall with three windows." The only such wall yet found is in Machu Picchu...
...chatty fashion of country weeklies everywhere, the Capac, Mich. Journal (circ. 750) noted last week that "Herbert Gottschalk is some improved," "Miss Vera Reynolds is spending a few days with Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Sharrad," and "Robert McCoy is driving a new Chevrolet." Along with this gossip about the placid life of the prosperous little farm community (pop. 1,200), was one item of more than ordinary interest: "Mr. and Mrs. N. A. Hunter have planned to hold open house for Noble Hunter, Sunday afternoon ... at their home, 209 Aldrich Avenue. Mr. Hunter will be 93 years of age Saturday...
When the big day came, Capac turned out to do honor to Noble Hunter, founder, editor & publisher of the Journal and Capac's first citizen. On their way for coffee & cake at the Hunter home, Capac's second citizens traveled over good roads and passed a $125,000 high school, the results of Hunter's editorial campaigning...