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...Forster twins are females in appearance. Both lack anal openings, which is an early embryonic condition. Like young animal embryos and full grown birds, each has a single opening, or cloaca, for its urogenital and rectal passages. The tube which joined these children contained the great gut (colon) of both...
...left New York with his little command by steamer for Panama City and crossed the Isthmus, a flat country barren of people, on horse to Colon, where they again took steamer for San Francisco." When Panamaian editors read that paragraph from an article on the late General Philip Henry Sheridan written for the Saturday Evening Post by Joseph Hergesheimer - they invited Author Hergesheimer to visit Panama, learn something about its geography.* Recently Mark Gosling, member of the legislative assembly of New South Wales, prominent Australian radical Socialist, began a crusade to form "Socialist cells" in Australian universities. Came news last...
McGrath, a member of the All-Star team, helped defeat the Colon players, champions of the Isthmian league by hitting a home run and bringing the score to 4 to 2. In the last game, on January 1, with the Cuban Telephone Company, McGrath shared pitching duties with Trudnak of Bucknell, and also scored a home...
Opera-lovers in Argentina's outlands last week tuned in by radio on the program broadcast from famed Colon Opera House at Buenos Aires, prepared to thrill to the voice of the booming Russian basso, Feodor Ivanovitch Chaliapin. Especially eager were they, for Chaliapin had declared that after he fulfills Argentine and Chile engagements he will return to the U. S., sing a few times, then retire...
...Colon stage was set for Moussorgsky's Boris Godounov. For the role of the Infanticide Boris, Chaliapin was making up, robing in his dressing room. Wires and microphones were in readiness to flash the deep magic of Chaliapin's singing throughout the land. Time for the opening curtain neared. Suddenly, without warning, Chaliapin declared that if a single note of his were broadcast under no circumstances would he set foot on stage...