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Thus warned of war, Gazette readers went on to the next paragraph, which read: "We are assured that Mr. Eustace, at the vineyard . . . has collected thirty bushels of cocoon . . . notwithstanding the loss he sustained by the hail, etc., he has a prospect of making three or four hopheads of wine in the fall...
...sons and daughters of Liechtenstein number only a little over 11,000. Correspondents estimated last week that at least 6,000 turned out to shout "Hail to our new mother!" Peasants had come trudging in to Vaduz from the remotest parts of a country slightly larger than Staten Island. They and the lowlier towns folk evidently thought that free beer and a barbecue at the castle made up for any little irregularities. Besides only sternest aristocrats would deny that in the case of Liechtenstein's ruler and Princess Elsa there are peculiarly extenuating circumstances...
When intermittent storms did come, they were destructive. In Connecticut two million dollars worth of broad-leaf tobacco was shredded to ruin by a terrific hail storm. Sudden cloudbursts in Iowa in undated crops, swept away roads and bridges, delayed trains...
...Bremen steamed away, and many a patriot recalled the grave yet stirring words of President Paul von Hindenburg when he launched the great ship last year. "It is our wish to give this newest and largest vessel of Germany's revived fleet to its elements. I hail the Bremen ... as a manifestation of the indestructible German capacity for work...
Late Bulgarian news read by ex-Exile Radoslavoff, told how Prime Minister Liaptcheff had foiled assassins when he returned to Sofia last week, by train instead of automobile, from ceremonies at Kritschin. Detective Phileon Alexandroff, who followed with the Prime Minister's car, drove into a hail of rifle bullets near Philippopolis, was killed...