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...Cherrie then left the party and proceeded by caravan with the valuable assemblage of specimens to Constaniff-nople by the way of the Caspian Sea and through the Caucasus Mountains...
...principals are a young Trappist (Christian) monk who burst his cell and his vows for the world and a young Englishwoman who sought the desert to escape from the world and its strife. They marry, spend their honeymoon in a desert caravan. She, ardent Catholic, knows nothing of his sacrilege. He, ardent lover, dares not tell. When conscience has extorted a confession, she returns him to his monastery and God, betaking herself to the Garden of Allah, gem of the desert, where their courtship began and her days will end. It is a strangely dignified conclusion for a cinema, making...
...summer camp of Samuel R. McKelvie, onetime (1919-23) Governor of Nebraska. The last few miles of the journey were made in wagons and when the horses became wearied the President joined those who added the strength of their arms to the progress of the caravan...
...caravan consisting of a soft-seated motor bus and four automobiles will purr out of Winfield, Kan., on July 9, carrying 45 students of Southwestern College on a tour of 22 U. S. states, and two provinces of Canada. It will not be a mere rubber-necking tour, for Dr. William M. Goldsmith, who is in charge of the expedition and of Southwestern's biology department, has promised to instruct as well as point out. The students will visit Mount Vernon, Va., and Bunker Hill, Mass., as well as the Metropolitan Art Museum and the Museum of Natural History...
...prison and five jails have lodged "Uncle" Remus since his 1924 conviction on bootlegging charges. From headquarters at Death Valley Farm, near Cincinnati, he purchased four distilleries, organized a caravan of liquor-laden motor trucks, distributed whiskeys to bootleggers. Reputed to have made $5,000,000, he built an ornate, swimming-pooled home in Cincinnati. The Death Valley headquarters were raided in 1921; three years later he was en route to Atlanta...