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...morbid undergraduate has any curious desire to examine the mummies of eight members of the oldest, least known Indians of pre-historic times, he may do so at leisure in the Peabody Museum where the venerable perserved corpses of antiquity are recovering from the ordeal of a strenuous autopsy to which they were subjected recently by Dr. G. E. Wilson, histology instructor at the Harvard Medical School. Rather, six of the bodies has their privacy imposed upon, results of which permit an expose of the private life of Arizona's Basket Maker Indians...
Haiti. One island: two republics. Republic of Haiti: blacks and French mulattos. Dominican Republic: Spanish Creoles, scrambled mulattos, Indians. Dominicans speak Spanish, Haitians hear French. Santo Domingo seems still a 16th Century Spanish town and is the oldest European settlement in the Western Hemisphere. Toussaint L'Ouverture, "The Black Bolivar," won Haitian independence from Emperor Napoleon. Today the U. S. maintains a nebulous protectorate to check the once incessant revolutions at Port au Prince, Haiti. In back country Haiti are congo folk, who practice voodoo rites. Columbus discovered the island and named it "Hispaniola," (Espagnola) Little Spain...
...Capital of the republic of the same name, in the island of Haiti, West Indies, Santo Domingo is the oldest existing settlement of white men in the New World...
Heidelberg University-known to theatre-goers as the scene of The Student Prince, known to the learned world as the oldest of famed German universities-will receive $400,000 from the U. S. Aroused by the university's needs, U. S. Ambassador to Germany Jacob Gould Schurman, once a Heidelberg student, last week undertook to raise the fund. Founded in 1385, surrounded by wooded hills on which the ruins of Heidelberg Castle in the state of Baden still stand, Heidelberg finds that antiquity and a picturesque setting cannot provide for material needs. The main building is cluttered with debris...
Their ships have carried practically no jute. The Isthmian Line, potent ship subsidiary of the U. S. Steel Corp., have carried four cargoes a year, the Cunard-Brocklebank Line two each month, and the Ellerman- Bucknell Line (oldest in the trade) the rest. They had old, excellent contacts with the chief U. S. importers of jute-the Bemis Bag Co., Ludlow Manufacturing Associates, Chase Bag Co., American Manufacturing...