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King Nana Amoan III of the Gold Coast on arriving recently in New York admitted that it was somewhat different from his home town in Africa. Having got quite a big laugh out of that one, the king rambled off into small talk about the Gold Coast. It seems that things are coming along nicely out there this year. The tatoo and bamboo business is booming, gold is, of course, plentiful, and heads are up at par. Its a good thing to hear this too because sometimes there comes a hollow, uneasy feeling that all is not well...
...Female College-the only one in the State. She stayed there two years and left, aged 15, to marry the Rev. Orcenith Fisher, a Methodist minister. She served long and well as a minister's wife and bore six children. She went with her husband to the Pacific Coast for 15 years, where he founded the Methodist Church in Oregon. In 1872 they were called back to Texas. Her husband died many years ago. All but one of her children are dead, but she has five grandchildren and as many great grandchildren...
...last week saw plenty of fighting in Morocco. Along the northern concave side of the sausage which is Mediterranean Coast, the Spanish made a landing and bit out a little piece of enemy territory near Ajdir. The troops were embarked at Melilla to the east and cruised along the Riff coast for two days with convoying battleships, both French and Spanish, shelling enemy works. After two feints, one morning the battleship Paris steamed into Alhucemas Bay and began to shell the Riff positions at the main beach. For four hours the bombardment with 12½-in. guns continued. The Riffs...
...Paris, bombarding the coast of Sidi Driss, sent a salvo nine miles inland to Annoual. French aviators reported that one shell exploded in an Arab coffeehouse, sending Arabs and coffee high...
...Coast of Folly. Gloria Swanson is back again in her first picture since the trip to France on which she did Madame Sans Gene (TIME, Apr. 27) and acquired a count for husband. The new picture is a throwback. Miss Swanson spends most of her time wearing gowns and wandering among expensive stretches of scenery. Most of the latter are in expensive sections of New York and at Palm Beach. There is too little story to make it at all worth while...