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...Passed a bill to change the spelling of Porto Rico to Puerto Rico, the Island's Spanish name...
...childbirths produces twins, one in 10,000 triplets, one in a million quadruplets. There are authentic records of several multiparities of five, but only five credible instances of six children being born in one pregnancy, and only one acceptable record of seven. Hence last week's dispatch from Porto Alegre, Brazil was well-nigh incredible: one Espinosa Nunez de Antunes of Bacacay had been delivered of eight daughters, two sons. All ten died at birth...
...Confirmed Charles Edwin Winter of Wyoming to be Attorney General of Porto Rico...
Whether addisin is the same as the stomach extract which Dr. William Bosworth Castle of Boston has isolated and, with Dr. Cornelius Packard Rhoads, successfully administered to Porto Ricans (TIME, Feb. 15), was not certain last week...
...Porto Rico is a land of mountains, of palms, and banana trees, of tropical storms and tropical beauty. The moss-grown walls of Morro Castle rise out of a wine dark sea at the entrance to San Juan harbor. Through the harbor mouth, by the great Spanish fort, to the land of romance beyond, the land of ebony-haired Spanish girls with flashing eyes, the land of Ponce de Leon and the Conquistadores, the Vagabond goes until the doors of Sever open again. Or, it may be, for a little longer...