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Great stone cities slumber, long ruined, in the jungle bush of lower North America. In Mexico the Aztecs, in Yucatan the Mayans developed civilizations which declined and fell so long ago that little is known of them today. Their traditions, lingering in the stones and exhumed jewelry of their cities, are of an antiquity admirably suited to folklore and epic poetry. Hence Payambé, "The First One," a new Mexican opera...
Industrial dreamers have long enjoyed slumber-visions of a great foodstuff merger. Industrial doers have long pondered specific methods of making such dreams come true. Last week came rumors that the House of Morgan was planning a gigantic food manufacturer's consolidation. Nucleus of this merger was to be Fleischmann Co., of which the Morgan company purchased a large minority interest (400,000 to 500,000 shares) in 1926. Inspiration for working out the merger was provided by the unique Fleischmann daily delivery system. Constituents in the merged company were rumored as Postum, Gold Dust, Corn Products, Campbell Soup...
...After four nights in the bed provided at the White House for Presidential slumber, Mr. Hoover ordered his own bed to be brought from his S Street house...
...that in New Jersey a miracle has come to pass. In Keansburg is the little Catholic Church of St. Anne's. With its unadorned walls and severe arched windows it resembles a Spanish mission. Two days after Christmas Father Thomas Kearney was roused from his early morning slumber by a wild-eyed townsman who talked of visions. Together they went and stood before the church. On the door shimmered a soft image. A tender, shadowy face, slender hands and billowy robes were suggested in mottled luminescence. At dawn it disappeared. Thereafter the image appeared at twilight, continued through...
...interested in the fifth correction of Herbert Janvrin Browne in LETTERS of Oct. 29. "Incidentally," Mr. Browne writes, "less is known about the slumber habits of horses than of any other domestic animal." That may be, but I have had experience which proves to me, at least, that horses do sleep, and with a vengeance...