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During the last three months of her pregnancy, pious, 24-year-old Mrs. Esperanza Sacramenta Rafael of Manila lay in bed gazing at a chromo of Christ pointing to his exposed, bleeding heart. Last fortnight, in a small hospital in the Tondo slum district, Mrs. Rafael gave birth to a seven-pound baby girl, named Maria Corazon (Mary Heart). The baby's heart, faintly beating, lay on her chest, outside her body. Mrs. Rafael's friends, who thronged to the hospital, stoutly maintained that the baby's condition was due to Mrs. Rafael's daily adoration...
...STONES AWAKE-Carleton Beals- Lippincott ($2.50). The long, descriptive, awkwardly-written chronicle covering the affairs of a beautiful, sympathetic Mexican peasant girl, Esperanza, from the Diaz regime of 1910 to the present. Her adventures include two love affairs, widowhood, direct or indirect participation in many a revolution...
...Cross nurses with stimulants and concentrated food preparations moved to Mixcoac Hill on the second day. The newspaper National thought the broadcasters were improving as their hunger increased. Senor Esperanza Estrada sang "A Cup of Coffee, a Sandwich and You," fainted dead away...
Federal troops captured Esperanza station on the Vera Cruz Railroad and extended their operation to Orizaka and Talapa. Rebel losses exceeded 2,000 in killed, wounded and prisoners. All these places are in the vicinity of the port of Vera Cruz, the rebel stronghold, which was threatened and which the Federals expected soon to occupy...
...more than usually unfortunate results. The official observer who stands at Fort Wadsworth at the entrance of New York harbor and sights along an imaginary line where the sea "ends " and the U. S. "begins" reported that five vessels crossed the line before midnight on August 31. They were: Esperanza (Mexican), 11:55 p. m. Braga (Italian), 11:56 p. m. Washington (Greek), 11:57 p. m. Byron (Greek), 11:59 p. m. Estonia (Danish), 11:59:45 p. m. Immigration Commissioner Curran at Ellis Island telegraphed Washington and was told that the immigrants on those ships must be counted...