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...apparent disinterestedness it can be pointed out that he is President of the Cuba Northern Railroad, and expected to become President of the consolidated railroads. Until comparatively recently Matanzas was the greatest sugar port in the world, but it now has been succeeded by a port in Camaguey, unknown only a few years ago ? Puerta Tarafa, a private port, developed as an outlet for Tarafa's railway. Not long ago it was made a national or public port; consequently it will benefit by the new bill...
This consignment was the cargo of the steamer Vulcan and was addressed to the Yugo-Slavian Government. The steamer (port of clearance unknown) put in at Trieste, an Italian port on the Adriatic, and, in the course of unloading, the Italian authorities intervened and seized the cargo...
...interfered with the funeral of a local hero, Paolo Santamaria, whose body had been brought back from the former Italian battle front. This is said to have provoked the attack by the Fascisti. At Pontelagoscuro, near Ferrara. In the dead of a pitch black night a band of unknown persons tried to storm a fort containing thousands of tons of explosives. Rifle and revolver firing continued all night. The number of casualties was not reported. The military authorities are making investigations. At Mount Tricorno, on the Italo-Yugo-Slavian frontier. Shots were exchanged by Fascisti and Yugo-Slavian Nationalists without...
...outstanding achievement is notoriously no guarantee of jury actions, as witness the fact that Thomas Hardy, generally conceded the greatest living English man of letters, has yet to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature, not to mention Conrad, Shaw, Galsworthy, Barrie, Bennett, Wells, while second-rate Spittelers, Heyses and unknown Scandinavians are deified. Nevertheless, should he receive the medicine prize, Dr. Banting will be in distinguished company. It has been awarded 16 times since the year 1901. In 1906 and 1908 it was divided between two men, so that 18 medical scientists in all have been honored, no prize having...
Mary Newcomb is the lady of the title and she retired from the action with the majority of laurel leaves. Virtually unknown before the opening night, she took her place among our leading lady agonizers...