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...years the painting hung in the Leonard parlor. Then it was shown to a doctor friend, an art connoisseur, who promptly called in experts. Boston Fogg and Metropolitan Museum people agreed that the picture was 400 to 500 years old. One expert thought it might be the work of Antoni Allegri (1494-1534), known as Correggio. If so, Sign Painter Leonard's painting might be worth...
...Antoni who sailed a lugger on the river. Soon the Vaccaros pooled their funds and chartered a leaky schooner, sent Son-in-Law D'Antoni to Central America for bananas. The venture was a little gold mine. Presently the Vaccaros bought a battered tramp steamer. Bananas boomed. The Vaccaros acquired a fleet of modern ships, bought up banana plantations in Mexico, Honduras, Nicaragua. Panama. Swart, stocky, with soft voices, the Vaccaros are now in their 70'$, are still known as shrewd traders. Until after the War they tended strictly to their banana business...
...Hadley. Mass., vexed with his wife, Antoni Ciaglio slyly rubbed poison ivy leaves upon her clothes, her towel. The sweat of her farm work hastened the action of the poison. She almost died. Police arrested sly Antoni Ciaglio, charged him with assault...
Jewry does not seek converts. It even discourages those few non-Jews who seek to join. Nevertheless, as sometimes happens, Jewry was petitioned in Warsaw by a Roman Catholic named Antoni-Stefan Raczynski. The Warsaw Rabbinate refused the application, was backed by the Minister of Education who cited a Tsarist ukase of 1905 granting religious liberty save to native Christians who wished to adopt non-Christian faiths. But Pan (Mr.) Raczynski appealed his case to the Supreme Administrative Tribunal at Warsaw, which three weeks ago reversed the previous decisions. Let the Rabbinate admit Pan Raczynski. The Tsarist ukase, said...