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...slow, chuffing train from Athens U. S. Minister Lincoln MacVeagh and a quorum of the Greek Cabinet traveled up last week to the northern seaport of Salonika. Base of Allied operations during the War, Salonika was shelled again during the abortive Venizelist revolt last March. This time, however, diplomats and statesmen were going north on a more peaceful mission-to honor one of the most permanent institutions in the Balkans, bearded little old John Henry House of the American Farm School in Salonika...
...Roosevelt, Mrs. Calvin Coolidge, Mrs. Thomas Edison and the presentation to the school of a 90th Birthday Fund totaling nearly $5,000. Made up of hundreds of individual contributions, each was a multiple of 90, from 90? to $90. Mrs. B. Adjemovitch, wife of the Yugoslav Consul General at Salonika, went all the way to Belgrade to bring back special wax candles for the birthday cake. Beamed Dr. House: "The whole place seems to me as much like a miracle as possible when we remember what it was when we bought it. I never tire of looking out from...
...until he had been in the Balkans 30 years that Dr. House decided on exactly the sort of school he wanted to run. At that time he bought 52 acres of desert land near Salonika, put ten little orphans, his first pupils, into a mud-walled cottage and started the first scientific agricultural college in the Balkans. Last week the American Farm School was still the best-known agricultural institution in Greece, with 164 pupils and a homemade swimming pool...
Field Marshal George Francis Milne, Baron Milne of Salonika and of Rubislaw, Governor and Constable of His Majesty's Tower of London, Master Gunner of St. James's Park, returning to England with his wife and his daughter from a tour of Australia, landed one icy day at Vancouver, B. C. He tried to get an eastbound train, found Canadian railways buried by snowslides, torn by washouts. Vastly annoyed, Lord Milne, wife & daughter took a train which veered south across the U. S. border, stopped at Seattle. Shortly newshawks came, bothered them with questions. Snapped His Lordship...
...interesting fact was the way in which the Harvard expedition was able to profit from the terrific fighting of the Great War, for the shell holes and trenches on the Salonika front revealed many archaeological deposits that might otherwise have been long concealed. The expedition also made the discovery that the early Macedonians, the Roam legions, the Trurks, the modern Serbians, and finally the armies of the Great War all used many of the same strategic points, with the result that today ruins of many successive fortifications throughout centuries are often found on a single site...