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...Holy Land trembled and was shaken last week from Jerusalem to Jericho (13 miles) and very largely along the banks of Jordan. Outside the quake area were Bethlehem and the Dead Sea on the South; and Nazareth and the Sea of Galilee in the North. Between these two seas (65 miles apart), an area roughly 55 miles in diameter trembled. Killed were some 670 persons?not one of these reputedly a U. S. citizen or Jew. Injured were more than 3,000 natives and a few scattered Occidentals. Property damage, hasty appraisers said, exceeded...
...Virgil Jordan, chief economist of the National Industrial Council, at its Conference Board meeting in Manhattan: "The business forecaster who attempts to predict the business outlook for the rest of this year and for 1928 is up against it, if he relies upon most of the current and fashionable methods [of prognosticating]. For some reason the old medicine no longer works. . . . There may be a slight further recession in business for a short time, but it is likely to end in a real business boom, rather than in a genuine depression...
...Pierian Sodality Orchestra plays its annual Boston concert tonight in Jordan Hall at 8.15 o'clock...
BLACK BUTTERFLIES-Elizabeth Jordan-Century ($2.00). When Dorinda Maxwell's father died, she wanted the freedom that he had refused her. At first she thought she had found it in the unconventionality of some drunken esthetes who called themselves the Black Butterflies. Later, when she fell in love with a model young man, she knew she had really got what she wanted. The story of a war of independence is marred by the inability of Author Jordan to raise a real issue between the behavior of eccentric people and that of normal ones. While the normal ones...
BLACK BUTTERFLIES - Elizabeth Jordan-Century ($2). Courageous honesty versus intemperate egoism, in a nowadays wife...