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...Peacock Throne" and other travel books, is now traveling in America. He started at Abyssinia, where the king of the country entertained the American, then saw Madagascar and Megambique, and crossed Africa on the trail of Stanley. Along the Gold Coast north to Morocco and then a final motor dash across the Saharah, will finish his formidable and not exactly hackneyed expedition. He has a travel book partly written which The Century Co. will publish...
...incorporated under the laws of California a holding company known as the Hearst Publications, Inc., which will acquire ownership of eleven Hearst publications, including the San Francisco Examiner, San Francisco Call-Post, Los Angeles Examiner, Los Angeles Evening Herald, Oakland Post-Enquirer, Good Housekeeping, Cosmopolitan, Harper's Bazaar, Motor and Motor Boating. A prominent firm of Wall Street investment bankers will underwrite and distribute a 6½% first mortgage issue of over $12,000,000 for the new holding company...
Died. Marie Corelli, 60, at Stratford-on-Avon; author of best sellers for 40 years: The Sorrows of Satan, The Murder of Delicia, Problem of a Wicked Soul, God's Good Man, The Devil's Motor, The Secret Power, etc., etc. She was of mixed Italian and Scotch Highland blood, was adopted in infancy by Charles Mackay, famed song writer, who afterwards sent her to a French convent to be educated. Queen Victoria admired her work; Tennyson wrote her a letter of encouragement...
...seaplane with, motor going is seaworthy enough. But without propulsive force, a seaplane is much worse off than an ordinary boat. The wind at any moment may catch the vast expanse of wings, bringing capsizal and disaster...
...launch, purchased from the Lawley Yacht Company of Dorchester, and reputed to be second only to the Patricia in speed, has been secured by the crew management as an addition to the equipment of motor launches. The new boat is the sixth to be acquired, and thus gives a launch to each coach...