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Information given us at various times on our many travels by those in authority in many places in foreign lands always placed violet-tinted white jade as the highest in grade and value. A few of these places where it was seen were: the Emperor's Museum in the "Forbidden City," Peking (now Peiping), China (time, about 11 years ago), finely carved Buddhas and other ornaments; Mandalay and upper reaches of the Irrawaddy River, Burma, India, bead necklaces, etc.; Tibet, lama's hand prayer wheels...
...Berkeley near Chicago. Mr. Hurley, a co-receiver for onetime Insull properties, was attending a directors' meeting of Central Illinois Co. when he was told of his wife's injuries. He reached his wife five minutes after her death, resolved on an investigation of the Illinois Central grade crossing where a locomotive hit Mrs. Hurley's La Salle convertible coupe, dragged it 300 feet, seriously injured her daughter and son-in-law, Attorney William A. Ryan. Died. J. Frank Zoller, 54, General Electric Co.'s tax attorney, foremost U. S. breeder of Brown Swiss cattle; from...
...very pleasant. The cheerful natives, amazingly handsome, dressed for hot weather, have all the paraphernalia of civilization except machines. They spend the morning marketing, chatting, weaving, carving statues, attaching gold leaf to bolts of cloth, swimming, raising rice, flying kites with prodigious, sarcastic tails. Main event of a high-grade Bali day is a cremation, preceded by dances, bull races, prayers. Corpses of dead Balinese are placed in ornamental towers mounted on floats to be carried about the island. After a cremation, the ashes are scattered...
...Curtin, his white-haired chief counsel, a day and a half to sum up the defense and move unsuccessfully for a dismissal of the charges. Lawyer Curtin talked till his voice cracked. He was voluble but ungrammatically inarticulate. He harangued the Governor as if he were a low-grade juror. Samples of the Curtin argument...
...called for only $10,000,000 of its subscribed $100,000,000. Even on that sum Wall Street thinks it must have rolled up a fat profit. A boiling bond- market last week brought the Dow-Jones averages 24% above their June lows. Nu merous second-and third-grade issues have registered gains that shame the performances of shares on the Stock Exchange...