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...tale of two city-states, Tuluum and Chichen-Itza, whose kings warred while a Tuluum prince loved a Chichen princess-was contrived by Don Luis Rosado Vega, Yucatan troubadour, once jailed for translating the Mexican constitution into Indian, now director of the Museum of History and Archaeology in Merida...
...Venezuela, Eugene Manners, oil scout, "matches Yankee shrewdness against Latin cunning . . . and unscrupulous Dutch competitors." The heroine is "Sola Merida . . . whose flamelike beauty had so ill a setting in a foul cafe." Flamelike Sola appears at first as the daughter of Peon Pacheco. In the last chapter she is revealed as the entirely legitimate daughter and heiress of the aristocratic Toros...
...Peabody Museum is awaiting the arrival tomorrow of 100 skeletons, shipped from Merida, the capital city of Yucatan, by permission of the Mexican Government, in the interests of a study of race mixtures being conducted by the authropology department of the Museum...
...Williams, who recently returned from an anthropological expedition in Mexico obtained the consent of the authorities to export the skeletons, and selected the specimens being forwarded to the University from the grave yards of Merida. The purpose of procuring the skeletons it to supplement measurements taken among the natives during the recent expedition, according to Dr. Williams...
...Yucatan, the district court took action against Edward H. Thomson, for many years U. S. consul at Merida, who lately returned to the Peabody Museum (Boston) with, a vast collection of Mayan artifacts taken from the sacred well at Chichen Itza (TIME...