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...paintings and bronzes, and exhibited them for nine days at the Central States Exposition in Aurora. From other cities came other pictures and bronzes -enough to fill ten galleries in the art buildings of the Fair Ground. Manager Erwin S. Barrie of the Grand Central Galleries accompanied his shipment to Aurora. When he had sold 20 paintings and sculptures he declared the fair " an artistic camp meeting." Said he: " Aurora buys more paintings per capita than any other city in the U. S. . . . The people of Aurora believe that art is a big asset and drawing card to the fair...
...news comes of much large-scale building of cotton mills in the state of North Carolina; also of the dismantling of cotton machinery at Lowell, Mass., for shipment to Lyman, S. C. Undoubtedly the low-grade cotton industry will soon be dominated by the Southern mills; nevertheless the high-grade industry will probably remain in the older New England centers...
...export sugar from their own ports. About one-third of the Cuban sugar crop is handled in this way and about 85% of Cuban sugar companies are owned by Americans. The Tarafa Bill would require that private ports be used only when reached over the consolidated railways or by shipment over the sugar companies' roads with a graduated tax of from five to twenty cents per hundredweight on the sugar shipped-a tax that the sugar companies say is prohibitive. The sugar companies and certain copper interests in like position are protesting at Washington that the Tarafa Bill...
...visit of General the Earl of Cavan, Chief of the British Imperial General Staff, to Poland, where he reviewed troops at the great training camp at Rembretow, has caused Trotzky no little anxiety. He says Lord Cavan's visit means " military peace between England and Poland," the shipment of ammunitions to the Polish army, finally that Poland is being used by Great Britain against Russia in the same way that France is using her against Germany...
United States Secret Service agents tracked the shipment from the Far East, through Asia Minor and France. At Bordeaux they unofficially superintended its shipment to Cuba. Then they cabled the Cuban authorities...