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Cause. Trotzky, or more properly Bronstein, was born near Odessa 48 years ago ; and, although his hair is gray, his beady, bright eyes confirm his youth. Quite early in life, he became a revolutionary; and History records his movements from Odessa to Siberia (escaped), to Geneva, back to Russia, to Siberia (escaped), to Austria. On the outbreak of the War, he went to Paris, was deported to Spain, arrested, left for the U. S., edited the Nory Mir in Manhattan, left early in 1917 for Russia, where he became Lenin's right-hand man and took prominent part...
While a proposal to institute a private banking system was under consideration, a grant was made for 50 years to the Lena Goldfields Co., Ltd., of London for exploitation of the Lena gold fields of Siberia. This company operated the gold fields before the War and will take over immediately all the mines and equipment which are now operated and owned by the Moscow Government...
...Blind Spot." Explorer MacMillan's plea for this assistance was indeed persuasive. In return for two airplanes, he would try to give the U. S. a new continent. North of Alaska and Siberia, from about 120° West Longitude to about 120° East Longitude, and from the 77th parallel to the North Pole, lies a vast region never explored by man, a "blind spot" on the most modern of maps. In 1906, three years before he reached the Pole, Admiral Peary stood on a cape of Ellesmere Land, looked northwest, swore he could discern, about 120 miles...
...Tobago, Havana, Copenhagen and Siberia...
...Reed-Putnam ($2.50). In a spirit of scholarly dignity appropriate to so solemn an undertaking, Mr. Reed, himself no idle Limericist, has prepared the compendium that was so sorely needed to preserve, immortal and immaculate, to a pure-minded posterity, all the old men of Tobago, Havana, Copenhagen and Siberia; all the nymphs of Birmingham, Nantucket, Joppa, Australia, Bangor and Iquique. Mr. Reed shows quite clearly, despite the dissenting opinions of the Messrs. Bernard Shaw, Arnold Bennett and Commissioner Booth-Tucker of the Salvation Army, that the best Limericks have never, at any time, depended for their wit upon salaciousness...