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...Others before it: Amazon (4,000). Nile (3,600), Yangtse (3,400), Yenisei (3,300), Mississippi (3,160), Missouri (3,000), Lena (3,000), Congo (3,000), Niger (3,000), Obi (2,700), Hoangho (2,600), Amur (2,500), Parana (2,450), Volga (2,400), Mackenzie (2,300), La Plata (2,300), Yukon (2,000), Madeira (2,000), Arkansas (2,000), Rio del Norte (1,800), St. Lawrence (1,800), Sao Francisco...
...result of a two-day rainfall the rivers La Plata and Riachuelo were flooded to an unusual height. The river front districts of Buenos Aires, capital of Argentina, were flooded with 3 to 4 feet of water, forcing hundreds of people to abandon their homes. Firemen and police in boats helped to remove families from the flooded area to higher ground. Palermo Park, a quarter of a mile inland, was entirely submerged. Many suburban car lines were held...
...human skull claimed to be of the Tertiary period, found in Patagonia by Dr. J. G. Wolf, under the auspices of La Plata Museum. If this claim can be substantiated, ape-men existed on the earth several hundred thousand years earlier than has hitherto been proved. But the circumstances are suspicious. The skull was found in the possession of a white settler who dug it out of Pampas deposits, which may or may not be Tertiary. Scientific men are now on the way to Patagonia (which has furnished "mare's nests" before) to investigate the claim...
...TOPIARIAN CLUB. "Great American Cities beyond the Equator. II. Buenos Aires, La Plata, and Montevideo." Mr. Sylvester Baxter. Lecture Room of the Fogg Museum...
...Sylvester Baxter will deliver a lecture on "Buenos Aires, La Plata and Montevideo" in the Lecture Room of the Fogg Museum this evening at 8 o'clock. This lecture is the second of two by Mr. Baxter on "Great American Cities Beyond the Equator," given under the auspices of the Topiarian Club, and open to the public...