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...TIME, July 12, Una Jeffers of Carmel-by-the-Sea reported a visit to the old Lime Kiln near Bixley Creek on the new Carmel-San Simeon Highway. She visited it a few months ago and saw the ruins, but I, as a little girl, spent many a happy summer vacation there when the busy trams carried the lime, down to the cliffs 25 years ago. My father, Mr. Frank D. Shields, and four other business men of San Francisco controlled the production at that time and as children my brother and I visited the Kiln for our summer holidays...
...prayed, as it moved through the streets to the Church of St. Sava. Reaching the centre of Belgrade, they faced double ranks of gendarmes, who charged on the congregation. Women fled in terror. The police cracked down with rifle butt and truncheon on the chanting priests. Hoary old Bishop Simeon of Shabatz lifted a heavy silver cross to protect himself and down came a rifle butt, smashing the cross against his head. Blood pouring from his face, he was carried off suffering a brain concussion. Sacred emblems were snatched from priests' hands, banners torn to shreds before the procession...
...tall, heavy-hung gentleman in his seventies yet surprisingly quick-stepping, got off a train at Winslow, Ariz, one day last week and boarded a plane for San Simeon, Calif. It was the Lord...
...Simeon himself, a sadder but wiser and sounder William Randolph Hearst. His return from New York was not entirely a Waterloo. He was sad because he had killed his dearly beloved New York American (TIME, July 5).* He felt wiser because he had at last taken the advice of his business associates who urged him to drop or consolidate losing properties. He was sounder because he was putting his financial house in order all along the line and had just concluded a constructive deal in Rochester and Albany...
Complaint: While repairing a truck on Mr. Hearst's San Simeon ranch, a "vicious, wild and dangerous ostrich" did knock down Mr. Zelda, stamp upon and trample him so that he was unconscious for three hours and suffered from brain concussion, traumatic hernia, nervous shock...