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...Barron's, the National Financial Weekly, is authority for the foregoing statements and certainly there is no man in the United States today better qualified to talk. ... It also might be stated without fear of contradiction that Mr. Barron is one of the most difficult men in Palm Beach to catch for an interview. . . . However, when he was cornered-the word is well chosen-in his sunny apartment in Whitehall overlooking Lake Worth yesterday morning, he graciously consented to talk on anything from Wall Street to the human ear-the latter being one of his absorbing interests at present...
...residence sections, we spend long summer afternoons on green lawns beneath deep-shading palm, pepper, eucalyptus and umbrella trees, the fragrance of summer all about us, and love the tonic warmth as one never could the sticky, muggy afternoons of the middle west, where I grew up. We keep our houses closed and cool and dark, and open them to the almost unfailing night breeze. We go cool and peacefully to sleep-as one does not in July and August in Iowa-and long before morning we grope for blankets...
Twenty-six hundred botanical specimens were collected in the course of the expedition, and many of them have been placed in museums of the University. It was discovered that the only difference between the forests of Africa and those of South America was in the variety of palm trees. Whereas there are several hundred species of the palms in South America, there are only 15 in Liberia...
Three socially unregistered candidates opposed, but without reckoning the fact that people do a lot of things at Palm Beach that they would not do at home. The excitement of this new game called Politics so lured idle sunbathers, tennis players and drink-sippers that, entitled to vote or not, they turned campaigners...
Passengers on the Royal Palm Limited, Florida bound, were robbed of their clothing and valuables one night last week before the train reached Atlanta, Ga. They suspected a young couple who got off at Atlanta next morning, rushed into the passenger station after them, had them arrested. Negro baggagemen were amazed that white folk should wear blue pajamas and pink negligees in a public place in broad daylight...