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...Mexico last week Ambassador Josephus Daniels was travelling along when in time's nick a section hand near Monterey discovered a "sun kink" on the track-a rail buckled by the heat. The Daniels train, guarded by six detectives and squads of soldiers, was held 30 minutes while a new rail was laid. Ambassador Daniels reached Mexico City without mishap...
...American Biography was published, running from J to L, beginning with Soldier William Jasper, who recovered and remounted the shot-down flag in the face of a British bombardment at Fort Sullivan (now Fort Moultrie) in 1776. It ends with Thomas Oliver Larkin, last U. S. consul at Monterey, capital of Mexican California. Between are 674 giants and lesser mortals who made U. S. history. Chief giant: Thomas Jefferson, allotted 37 columns. Others: John Jay, John Paul Jones, Robert Marion LaFollette...
...crew and soared into a spotted sky of blue and white, breaking fog for the return flight to Lakehurst. . . . Very soon the first of the Akron's planes was hooked on and stowed in its lair within the ship. . . . Just south of Gilroy, Calif, dense fog rolled inland from Monterey Bay up to about 2,000 ft. The coast line was not sighted but after determining by dead reckoning and bearings on mountain peaks that we had crossed the coast we dove blindly into the fog and at about 1,200 ft. found its bottom layer. . . . Proceeding overland via Beaumont...
Upon Pullman Co. the Mexican Government levied a fine of 50,000 pesos (some $20,000). Last October, it was charged, Mexican Foreign Minister Genaro Estrada boarded a train at Monterey to return to Mexico City, found two Americans in a drawing room he had reserved and paid for. They refused to surrender it. Foreign Minister Estrada & wife slept in berths...
Reports that he sought to see Actress Monterey last week were denied in a statement issued by Playwright O'Neill's lawyer. Another lawyer denied that Mr. Barton had hoped to marry Ruth H. Kresge (5? & 10? store heiress) who sailed to Europe last week with her fiance Rufus Clark Caulkins...