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...Argentina, which, paradoxically, was named by exploring Spaniards after the silver (argenta) which they expected but failed to find in her mountains. Last year Argentina borrowed more U. S. dollars than any other nation. Most of them she spent on developing the low-lying, fertile Pampas and the highland grazing grounds of Patagonia (see Map). To her especial credit is the fact that Argentina also spends millions on schools and public works, and possesses today the most literate population in South America...
Married. Sebastian S. Kresge, 61, famed 5 & 10 cent store tycoon, lavish Anti-Salooner, of Highland Park, Mich.; to Mrs. Clara K. Swaine, 34, of Cresco, Pa., daughter of a late Bronx insurance examiner; in Kunkletown, Pa. In 1897 Mr. Kresge married Anna E. Harvey of Memphis; she divorced him in 1924, obtained a $10,000,000 settlement for herself, $5,000,000 for each of their five children. In 1924 Mr. Kresge married Mabel D. Mercer of Pittsburgh, daughter of Capt. George A. Mercer, onetime partner of Andrew Carnegie. Last February she divorced him, obtained a settlement of about...
Story: "A Birmingham-Southern College student was shot and fatally wounded shortly after 9 o'clock Wednesday night in an altercation at the Highland Pharmacy, located at 1000 South Twenty-Sixth Street...
...formation of the Continental Illinois Bank & Trust Co. in Chicago by the Continental National Bank & Trust Co. and the Illinois Merchants Trust Co. (see p. 38); the Commercial Investment Trust Corps' purchase of Peierls, Buhler & Co. (see p. 43), and the consolidation of two rough rolled glass makers-Highland Glass Co. at Washington, Pa., and the Western Glass Co. at Streator, Ill., Shirley, Ind., and Fullerton, Calif.-as the Highland-Western Glass Co., with $5,000,000 capital. The men who control both the United Light and Power Co. and the American Light and Traction Co., were indifferent...
...wife of meat packer) have a dog farm at Highland Park, Ill. Last week a cat crept in among 150 of the dogs; created a yapping, snapping havoc. A passerby rescued the cat, helped quiet the dogs, asked for a fine bulldog, was granted his request...