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...Residents arriving here from Santa Rosa, Opon, to attend the coming celebration of Santo Nino, report that one Balbino Igot, sexton of the church of Santa Rosa, is pregnant. Balbino, an hermaphrodite . . . is barely 16 years...
...Santiago de los Caballeros, were advancing on the capital. Minister Curtis ordered Courier Cabot to Santiago de los Caballeros to find out what the leaders of the revolution wanted. One hundred and nine miles and a mountain range with peaks 10,000 feet high separate the city of Santo Domingo from Santiago de los Caballeros. The road, fortunately for Courier Cabot, has been recently improved. Disregarding possible bandits, sharpshooters, expecting every instant to strike a battle in full progress, Courier Cabot dashed onward. Back in Santo Domingo white-haired nephritic President Horacio Vasquez prudently sent his wife to the American...
...Coffee and sugar are Santo Domingo's chief crops. For the past year coffee and sugar plantations have had poor crops. When this happens, the citizenry are naturally "agin the government...
Soon came a wireless message from Santiago de los Caballeros. "Supreme Chief" had accepted the hint of the U. S. Government. His forces would continue to advance on Santo Domingo, but there would be no fighting. Santo Domingo businessmen sighed with relief...
Next morning, while the Government's army in Santo Domingo remained stu- diously neutral in their barracks, the invasion of Santo Domingo city began. Two thousand revolutionists, mostly farmers in blue overalls with rifles slung from their shoulders, sauntered into town. Citizens cheered half-heartedly from the curbstones. Back from Santiago de los Caballeros came the mud-spattered runabout coupe, and seated beside Courier Cabot was "Supreme Chief" Urena. On his head, a slouch hat, from the pocket of his flannel shirt protruded a fountain pen, from his shoulder hung a broad-bladed sword, its handle ivory-inlaid...