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Anselmo Bonin, accustomed to boasting that he had a great fortune in gold and who was always ready to lend to his neighbors, was disturbed by a visit from four masked bandits. Bonin refused to divulge the hiding place of his gold hoard and the bandits first beat him " until his body was a mass of blood and bruises," then broke his bones. The victim was reported unwilling to speak, so the bandits roasted him over a fire in the kitchen hearth; then left him for dead. Bonin was not dead! No trace of the inquisitioners was found...
...peasants, having known years in which they did not have enough grain to sow their fields in the spring, want to hoard whatever grain they can. The Bolsheviki, having failed to get this grain by persuasion, are reported to be trying to starve the people out. The Reds argue that the country is in need of credits, and that if the peasants yielded their grain the same amounts as at present could be shipped with less disastrous results to the country. This is a typical Soviet attitude. Meanwhile, the world waits to learn how the Russian government will spend what...
...Examinations Today 9.15 A. M. Anthropology 11 Peabody Mus. Chemistry A Abbott to Hoard (incl. Zool Lect.-rm. Hodgkinson to Manierre (incl.) Pierce 302 Mansfield to E. W. Stevens (incl.) Pierce 304 G. Stevens to Zottoli (incl.) Pierce 307 Chemistry 3 Abrams to Johnston (incl.) Sever 35 Kanswerstein to Williams (incl.) Sever 36 Economics 1b Sever 11 Economics 14 Emerson D English 3b Bernardin to Ryan (incl.) Sever 20 Shepler to Wright (incl.) Sever 24 English 11b Alper to Porter (incl.) Harvard 2 Rapport to Wright (incl.) Harvard 3 English 29b Emerson D Fine Arts 1d Altoonian to Means (incl...
...sorry that pending examinations kept so many undergraduates from Mr. Noyes's reading last night. Such is the rarity of addresses of great literary and poetic merit that they ought to be received with at least as much enthusiasm as the hoard of political and social lectures which occur so frequently at more favorable times. We do not by any means begrudge the Cambridge public the opportunity to hear our distinguished visitors, but we do bemoan the fact that so few undergraduates care enough for literature to take an hour from their work or leisure to hear a truly notable...
...Middle Ages there was no great system of property owning, whereby a man could borrow money on security, but rather a universal pawn-system, in which money was obtained by pawning farm products, etc. It was an essential for each small householder to keep a hoard of money to meet expenses, whereas, today, wealth may be obtained solely on credit. It is an interesting fact that we have but three times as much money in circulation, nowadays, as at the time of Louis XVI, while we are seven or eight times as rich...