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Married. General Emilio Aguinaldo, famed Philippine insurrectionist (1899-1901); To his third wife, Senorita Maria Agoncillo, 49, sister of much-moneyed landowning Filipino Gregorio Agoncillo; at Manila...
...outbreak of cholera in the Island of Bantayan, 300 mi. southeast of Manila, is causing uneasiness throughout the entire Philippine Archipelago. Governor General Dwight Filley Davis returned last week from a tour of the infested district, assured his fellow citizens the plague was under control. Robert Hart, chief quarantine officer of Manila, declared that city was quite safe. But it was learned the disease had spread from Bantayan to the neighboring islands of Cebu and Masbate despite a strict government quarantine which has stopped practically all commerce within the affected region. Especially miserable and hungry were the inhabitants...
Robert Knox Vincent '32, of Manila, P. I., was appointed second assistant University tennis manager, it was announced last night. He prepared for Harvard at Phillips Academy, Andover. Philip Garner Livermore '32, of Jericho, Long Island, N. Y., was appointed assistant second University manager. He prepared at St. Paul's School. At the same time it was announced that George Beard Walker '33, of Schenectady, New York, was chosen Freshman tennis manager...
Charging that Miss Mabel Brummitt, U. S. teacher, had insulted Filipinos by calling them "savages, imbeciles, simpering idiots, contemptible cads," 2,700 pupils of Manila North High School struck, demanded her dismissal...
Because of "the uncertain status of American newspapers under present conditions in the Philippines," the Manila Times (U. S. daily founded in 1898), announced that it would soon suspend publication...