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...orange-colored sport roadster. Her father had done very well in post-War Berlin. Starting as a boss teamster, he had specialized in hauling garbage, eventually opened several produce markets in Berlin suburbs and speculated in real estate. He invited Sigvard to his hunting preserve in Mecklenburg, to his country house on Lake Stechlin outside Berlin...
...purchase by Peabody Museum of an extremely valuable collection of ornaments and instruments known as the Mecklenburg Collection was announced yesterday by Hugh O. Hencken, curator of the Museum. The price paid for the collection although not divulged by the authorities, is estimated...
...instruments, which represent one-third of that the Duchess of Mecklenburg had found, is important archaeologically because it is the only scientifically excavated material ever taken out of the region of the Northern end of the Adriatic Sea. This area was wrecked archaeologically in the last century by unscientific excavations...
Notes on the excavation work which were written by Her Highness, the Duchess Paul Friedrich of Mecklenburg have also been bought by the museum. The collection itself consists of the contents of 350 graves from the cemetery of Magdalenaberg, which is in modern Jugoslavia and is now called Magdalenska Gora. It consists of four metal helmets showing various influences which affected the Illyrians, a bronze vase with animal friezes, pottery, swords, spears, knives and small bronze ornaments including many fibulae...
...massive desk of old President Paul von Beneckendorff und von Hinden burg last week lay a letter heavy with Dutch seals. It contained a dignified appeal from Wilhelmina Helena Pauline Maria, Queen of The Netherlands, Princess of Orange-Nassau and Duchess of Mecklenburg. Her Majesty asked only what seemed simple Anglo-Saxon Justice. The death penalty, she urged, should not be inflicted retroactively on her famed subject, the dim-witted Dutch brick mason Marinus van der Lubbe. At the time he set fire to the German Reichstag there was no death penalty for such an act. It was hastily decreed...