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Next day Thaw left for Pittsburgh. Said the Mirror: "Harry has suddenly decided to visit his sick mother, whose illness had not hitherto caused any of the many wrinkles in his bloated face. . . The Mirror has won. If he comes back to New York the Mirror will renew its campaign to get him away." With this valedictory, the Mirror published a picture of a small brunette, "winsome little Virginia Frank," and credited her with having spurned the wealthy slayer's suit. " 'Let other girls wear his jewelry,' she said...
Last week despatches called attention to one of the ramifications of Henry Ford's business not hitherto generally known. Mr. Ford owns one of the richest garnet mines in the world. It is located on the side of Bear Hill in Danbury...
Last week the final preparations were made for opening on Sept. 1 of a new government bank of issue, with a capital of 100,000,000 pesos ($50,000,000) which will circulate paper money. Hitherto practically all business transactions in Mexico have been made with gold or silver coin. In the financial district of the capital, messenger boys run from bank to bank carrying clinking bags of coin...
...Force, intimidation and oppression, which have hitherto been the weapons of the strong against the weak, are to give place to reason, cooperation and goodwill. Here America scores one of her greatest diplomatic triumphs: This is an adaptation of the Monroe Doctrine for the Orient. It is an American policy enunciated by Hay, formulated by Root and Hughes and promulgated by Kellogg...
Only slight, however, was the Presidential disappointment. For in Her Majesty's stead he saw a flawless, exquisitely cut diamond, sparkling with a transparent, sky-blue light, hitherto unknown in precious stones. Weighing 136 carats, it is the largest cut diamond in the world, and its name is "Queen of Holland...