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...Reports Graphic, Manila, P. I. weekly, for March 4: "This station was a hoodoo, a place tabooed by the superstitious residents of Tokyo. The rite was performed for the purpose of driving away the evil spirits. . . . "When the railway station was nearing completion, an innocent-looking stone from a tomb was included in the platform. Then things began to happen-which resulted in a series of untoward occurrences. . . . There have been several cases of derailment, suicide, mysterious deaths . . . unaccountable accidents. The place was haunted by evil, prowling spirits of the nether world, so the religious Japanese claim. The stone from...
...When Edgar Wallace's Chicago gangdom play, On the Spot, was presented in that city-last week, to please civic-minded Mayor Anton Joseph Cermak the locale was changed to New York City, a Tribune Tower backdrop was painted out. Grant's Tomb painted...
...Their Majesties and their party, accompanied by the Secretary of State and Mrs. Stimson, the Siamese Minister and the Acting Chief of the Protocol Division, will leave the residence for Arlington National Cemetery to place a wreath on the tomb of the Unknown Soldier...
...gaudy wounds of their Christ, fondled the feet of their Deity, groveled at their "Sea of Gethsemane," prayed with the soft-rubbed words of Louisiana Negroes for the fulfillment of their "vision": that Mother Catherine was coming back to them. Mother Catherine did not come back, and the tomb prepared for her in the temple lay unused, the health authorities refusing permission for her to lie there...
...first I arrived in Managua I believed it to be the noisiest place in the world. . . . One might imagine that workers screamed at the top of their voices, that every automobile blew at least two blasts to every block. . . . But now there is everywhere a quiet as of a tomb. The natives, in the appalling realization of what has happened within two short days, have suddenly been stricken dumb...