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...tumult and shouting and bombs bursting in air, by the iron Duke of Wellington. Many a time have we seen the good duke's armies cavorting on the silver screen, and never to such advantage as in "The Firefly." We feel, however, as one whose ancestors fought in the Peninsula Campaign under the aforementioned duke, that it was not altogether worth the candle. There is no reason why Spain should always be the football field for other nations' military escapades...
...Fick. Jr.; Oak Park, Illinois; George M. Firestone, St. Paul, Minnesota: Arnold S. Gale, Brookline; Tudor Gardiner, Gardiner, Maine; Leonard C. Holvik, Elbow Lake, Minnesota; Garfield H. Horn, Elk Grove, California; Ward MacL. Hussey, Chicago, Illinois; George S. Kurland, Dorchester; Paul Olum. Binghampton, New York; Robert L. Peesok. Peninsula, Ohio; Isadore N. Rosenberg Boston; Stanley J. Sigel, Portland, Maine; Charles G. Swain Wolaston; Leverett S. Tuckerman, Jr., Saem: and Harry E. White, Dorchester...
...whole tip of the Shantung peninsula was last week nipped off by Japanese forces. They not only completed the capture of Tsingtao (TIME, Jan. 10), but with little fighting gained control at one stroke of 11,000 square miles, their biggest haul in weeks. It was a profitless victory in one respect, for they found Chinese had wrecked and burned some $100,000,000 of Japanese property, mostly factories and warehouses, including 438 Japanese private homes in Tsingtao. This, however, will provide a good excuse for demanding an indemnity and the forehanded Japanese promptly valued their wrecked houses at some...
...Camden, Del., Farmer James Harris lost the silver platter he won as first prize in the pie-baking contest of the Peninsula Horticultural Society when Mrs. Hynson Cohee sent word to the contest committee that she had sold Harris the pie for 30?, and that she wanted her pie tin back...
...South America and Mexico; 13 plants newly discovered in Maine; a most important series of 2609 plants of eastern arctic Canada; 698 finely preserved and botanically significant plants of the alpine areas of Alaska; 330 plants from Maine; 22 critical ferns of Florida; 171 rarer plants of the Delaware Peninsula; and 2434 of the rarer plants of Quebec and Ontario...