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...which it is still staggering. The 1929 sugar price slump hit the island's chief source of income. Tourist trade, despite the fine big Condado-Vanderbilt Hotel in San Juan, is negligible because Porto Rico, as part of the U. S., is nominally Dry. Even the natives' greatest sport?cock fighting?is illegal, although this month the insular Senate passed a bill to permit...
...always welcome and off he goes to the front with Fedka. They are taken prisoners and live for a while in Germany. Then back they steal into Russia as heroes and Siedoi becomes more and more the main agent of the plot. He sees the wounding of the Man Cock, the handsome fiance of the Prince's daughter Sonia; he sees the rascally Peter robbing the dead and wounded. At home, as the War goes worse and worse for Russia, he sees and feels the pinch of starvation begin, and the happy band of dogs at the dump heap...
...register factory at Bound Brook, N. J. a moving picture company was started in 1910. It was named for Charles Pathe, French experimenter with kinetic shadows. Among the early U. S. picture companies Pathe became important and prosperous, famed for its comedies, its newsreels. Its symbol was a crowing cock. Into fame the Pathe rooster crowed Harold Lloyd, Pearl White. In 1927 Pathe was reorganized, began to make feature pictures successfully on a small scale. Its principal assets were a library of film stories said to be the best in the business, and the services of three brilliant young actresses...
...this later statement disturbed hope-ful grapegrowers, they were more disturbed last week when Director Wood-cock's agents obtained indictments against nine officials of California Vineyards Co., for sending "cards and advertising matter through the mails to hundreds of thousands of prospective customers guaranteeing 'fine old wine' would be provided in accordance with the Prohibition law." Observers anticipated a legal fight between a Government-subsidized industry and the Government, predicted a sweeping Wet victory on the wine question if the California jury, like the one at Baltimore, finds the "fine old wine" non-intoxicating in fact...
...Leyden miller, that he studied only briefly. He married the rich Saskia van Ulenburgh, and after her death took his servant Hendrikje Stoffels as mistress. He enjoyed popular favor for a time, but lost it when his Night Watch heartily displeased the members of the Banning Cock guard, who had paid for their portraits, not for a dramatic episode. Bankruptcy followed plenty. He died in disgrace and poverty. In addition to many miraculous etchings, there are hundreds of paintings signed with his name. Of these J. C. Van Dyke says 48 are genuine, but Hofstede de Groot lists...