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...report poor fruiting, yet fair prospects. Louisiana and Oklahoma have altogether too much moisture. Growths are going rank. For the whole country, final production of most crops will be under that of 1925. The Department of Agriculture estimates that they will be a full 6½% below the past ten-year average. Nevertheless, certain Federal Reserve Banks, speaking for their districts, consider 1926 an excellent year for the farmer...
...most markedly successful applications of the British diplomatic steamroller to an Oriental people was accordingly signalized last week when representatives of Turkey, Irak and Great Britain signed at Angora a ten-year pact of security and nonaggression, apportioning the Vilayet and Village of Mosul to Irak-the Turko-Irak frontier to be delimited by a Swiss chairmaned commission within six months, approximately as adjudicated by the League. Further treaty provisions: 1) Turkey to be granted 10% of the revenue of the Mosul oil fields for 25 years. 2) Turkey to be empowered to sell these revenue interests. 3) Mutual security...
...they burst in upon his parents at Manchester-by-the-Sea, Mass., announced their secret marriage at Putnam, Conn., on the eve of her departure for Europe to confer with Max Reinhardt respecting future roles, Morris Gest having reputedly offered her a ten-year contract. Her husband will remain in the U. S., will row at the Sesquicentennial Exposition, Philadelphia...
During his two months' imprisonment, Mr. Bergdoll has had the freedom of the prison garden, has dined exclusively upon meals supplied by a neighboring hotel, has grown a mustache. He appeared nervous and acutely conscious that a possible ten-year sentence might await him if convicted. Large drops of perspiration dampened his brow as he took the stand in a courtroom from which spectators were excluded "for the protection of public morals...
...Bowdoin. Bowdoin College has become introspective of its own accord. President Kenneth C. M. Sills and his faculty are not complacent about the present character of their institution. They are looking ahead. They have adopted a program of self-analysis for the institution to follow and evolved a ten-year plan of popular reforms. Alumni, faculty and undergraduate committees are in action. Last week the undergraduates made public some answers they had given to 88 questions of their own devising. Such performances, wherever conducted, seldom bring anything startling to light. They would never be held if there was any likelihood...