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...Lima, Peru, Mardi Gras revellers, unable to afford confetti, threw maize, rice, water, flour, soot...
...Calumet & Hecla 2,573 d 6d Caterpillar Tractor 1,361 8,714 Consolidated Laundries 689 771 Continental Baking 4,243 6,114 Cream of Wheat 1,504 1,868 Glen Alden Coal 7,391 12,245 Industrial Rayon 683 1,547 La Salle Extension University 75 167 Lima Locomotive 1.414 d 1,382 McGraw-Hill 869 2,021 New Jersey Zinc Co 3,051 5,013 Parke, Davis & Co 6,292 7,514 Standard Brands...
...beaten path) knows what South America has to offer. It is also time that South Americans know another type of tourist than the one which religiously fails to survive the daily cocktail hour, snorts ceaselessly at the embryonic plumbing, and tries to carve his initials on the Lima cathedral. From the Andes to the Atlantic, northern South America offers: the world's largest untamed (but travel-easy) wilderness, peerless hunting, excellent fishing, real but tractable savages, colorful waterways and jungle paths, and altogether, the most vivid and exotic primitive scene left in this...
Died. Augusto B. Leguia, 68, onetime President of Peru; of bronchial pneumonia following a long illness; in Lima. Small, wiry, dynamic, Peru's "Bantam Roosevelt" got his start selling U. S. life insurance, ruled as a dictator for eleven consecutive years (1919-30) until ousted by rebellion. For 15 months he languished in a Lima jail...
...keep her husband from leaving home with a stick of dynamite in his pocket. During their scuffle the dynamite went off, blew up both of them. . . . Ten were killed, 13 wounded at Paijan in street fighting. . . . Strikes broke out on the sugar plantations around Trujillo. . . . On the outskirts of Lima, police arrested 30 men breaking into a private shooting club, not to practice but to steal weapons. . . . All this was considered as natural an adjunct as the gold braid and oratory with which seven-fingered President Luis M. Sanchez Cerro was inaugurated last week at Lima's Government Palace...