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...black boys taper the kiboko, or sjamboke, down, smooth and polish it with a bit of broken glass. Grinning ingratiatingly, he will hand you a tawny whip. Just right for use on a blackamoor, in the opinion of most South African white men. The callous manner in which White Rancher Jaerl Nafte recently violated every rule and canon of kiboko etiquette was really the cause of his undoing...
...Arturo del Toro is not, and does not claim to be, a lawyer. He is a mine operator and rancher in the State of Sonora, Mexico...
...Rancher del Toro held a conference with the best known divorce lawyers in the U. S. Stuffing the results into a formidable briefcase, he returned to Sonora, where with practically no trouble the Sonora Congress was persuaded to change the divorce laws of the State to read in this sense: A) Any ground for divorce recognized by any State in the U. S. is cause for divorce in Sonora. B) Three new grounds were added: 1) Mutual consent (Senor del Toro avoids this ground because U. S. courts might consider that it smacks of collusion). 2) Irreconcilable incompatibility. 3) Absence...
Last fortnight (TIME, Jan. 14), one Francisco Fimores, Mexican rancher of Douglas, Ariz., led into Mexico a small force of men. He sought Apache Indians who, in 1926, had killed his wife, kidnapped his son. Last week, U. S. soldiers and cattle men gathered along the Mexican frontier, prepared an expedition to rescue Mr. Fimores, from whom no word has been received. A member of his band, however, had been found alone and delirious. It was feared that the avenging band had been surprised and slaughtered...
...Earl & Countess of Portsmouth, of Barton House, Morchard Bishop, Devonshire, England; and Jean Moore, daughter of Edward Small Moore, Manhattan capitalist (cans, biscuits, railways, banks). At the death of his older brother in 1925, Young Wallop's father succeeded to the Earldom. Formerly he had been a Wyoming rancher, a naturalized U. S. citizen...