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...told each other that it was El Aleman, the German-there is only one German to the army of Bolivia. Immediately thereafter La Paz reported that General Kundt had personally inspected every section of the Gran Chaco front. Bolivian troops had their first definite success in months, recaptured Forts Bolivar and Jayucubas from hard-fighting Paraguayans...
...Opper pencil. Early in this campaign "Happy Hooligan" was allowed to lapse when Publisher Heartst put Mr. Opper to work on a daily front-page series entitled "Erbie and 'Is Playmates" * In these cartoons the President was always depicted as a fat little busy-body surrounded by "Ropy" (Europe), "Bolivar" (the G. O. P. elephant), "Taxpayer," "Minstrels" (Republican newspapers and orators), "International Bankers," "Wall Street" and other stock characters. Throughout the series as in many another Hearst cartoon, the question of War Debts played a major part, with "Ropy" loudly boasting that he would "pay nobody" and " 'Erbie" trying...
...Bolivar, N. Y. 400 quarts of nitroglycerin exploded, shook the countryside. American Glycerine Co. waited nervously for reports of damage done. None came until Mrs. A. D. Peckham sued for damages because the blast had jiggled the eggs on which her 30 canaries were setting, ruined the hatch...
Yellow Fever Testees, Dr. Wilbur Augustus Sawyer of the Rockefeller Foundation offered a method of immunizing against yellow fever, tropical scourge. Dr. Bolivar Jones Lloyd of the U. S. Pubblic Health Service suggested that criminals be pardoned if they submitted to Dr. Sawyer's method and then to bites of the yellow fever mosquito. Thus the Sawyer principle of prevention would be proved indubitably. Dr. Lloyd offered himself as a testee, if he can get enough life insurance to protect his family "in case of any untoward result...
Died. Mrs. Delia Claiborne Buckner, relict of General Simon Bolivar Buckner; of pneumonia; in Louisville, Ky. A Captain in the Mexican War, her husband was the Confederate Brigadier-General who surrendered Fort Donelson to his old friend General Grant. Governor of Kentucky from 1887 to 1891, he was nominated for Vice President by gold-standard Democrats when they bolted William Jennings Bryan's free-silver ticket...