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About 25,000 communicants attended, traveling by ship from all quarters. Neither Carthage nor much larger Tunis, ten miles away, could house them all. Most lived on their ships in Tunis harbor. Several thousand lived in tents on a large plot of ground provided gratis by a rich Tunisian Jew, and surrounded by gewgaws, food and drink stands. A couple of thousand found quarters with thrifty Tunisians, Moslems and Jews, who scraped and cooed to these profitable "infidels." The visiting "infidels" sharply eyed the resident "infidels," for white burnous-clad Mohammedans had cruelly murdered Christians and destroyed great Christian Carthage...
...major new developments in Manhattan's financial district. First and most spectacular of the announcements was that Louis Adler, onetime dressmaker, now independent real estate operator and builder, had succeeded in assembling an entire square block in the Wall Street district. Although 23 minutes after the last plot had been bought Mr. Adler could have sold at a profit, he is going ahead with plans for a 105-story office building...
...other project is for a building, probably at, least 63 stories high, on the plot adjacent to Mr. Adler's. It will be built for Henry L. Doherty & Co. as the first unit of a chain of skyscrapers. Unique features will include five entrances, escalators for the first seven floors, double-decked elevators of which the upper compartments will stop at odd floors, lower compartments at even ones...
...today in "the inevitability of the international class war": Communism v. Capitalism. Example: When the Naval Conference met in London, leading Moscow papers printed an "exposé" in which the "real purpose" of Messrs. Hoover and MacDonald in calling the Conference was alleged to be the hatching of a plot for concerted action by the Capitalist Powers against Communist Russia...
...House next took up and passed a $110,000,000 River and Harbor improvement bill. Chief contest: acquisition by the U. S. from New York State of the Erie Canal, a money-loser. Western members, pledged to the St. Lawrence waterway, flayed this transfer as a New York plot to kill off the seaway through Canada...