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October 18--"The Sumatra Eclipse of 1926," Professor H. T. Stetson...
Junghuhn states in his Die Battalander auf Sumatra that the cannibals of that region considered human flesh "better than pork." The toes and the palm of the hand were esteemed as "choice cuts," and humans are still referred to as "long...
...earth twitched, with varying degrees of violence: 1) in a small section around Santa Barbara, Calif, (where last year, to a day, destructive temblors came); 2) over a larger section in the Mediterranean basin, from Italy to Crete and Egypt; 3) and nearer the Equator, at Singapore and in Sumatra. More than 200 humans perished; some 200 Sumatrans; many an Egyptian. At Santa Barbara, 3-year-old Colin Orr perished beneath a tumbling chimney. The town of Padang, Sumatra, collapsed in one thundering crash. Cairo reported over 4,000 houses in ruins. In Crete, the worst damage was demolition...
...Bacon read into the Congressional Record what sounded more like the real motive underlying his bill. He called attention to a Department of Commerce report; locating in Mindanao, Jolo, Basilan, etc., at least a million and a half acres as good as, or better than, the acres in Sumatra and Malaya where Dutchmen and Britishers raise raw rubber for the world's markets. He said, in effect, that whereas the "selfish, shortsighted" Filipinos have repeatedly refused to permit U. S. interests to build up a much-needed raw rubber supply, by refusing to permit public lands to be acquired...
...received his law training in Boston and returned again to the Islands, but still the great 200, 300, 400 Ib. monarchs, begarlanded, strutted on their way ?an illustrious dynasty, Kamehameha III, Kamehameha IV, Kamehameha V, Lunalilo, Kalakaua. A Mormon colony settled there; an adventurer came up from Sumatra, Walter Murray Gibson, and became Minister; prohobition was abolished; Chinese settlers came, Spaniards, Japanese, Portuguese. A lottery was chartered, medicine men and opium venders were licensed...