Portrait of Rome’s Palace Gardens and Grotto Echoes
The excerpt describes the palace entrance on the Piazza del Quirinale, vast historic gardens with box hedges, a proscenium theatre, and a grotto-like hall with stalactites. A distant musician’s chant and gleaming fountain jets fill the marble chamber as the narrator recalls old Rome.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Giuseppe Mangini
Republic of Rome
Fraser Saye
Poe Baer
Piazza del Quirinale
Lazza di Termini
Rome
Veil of diamonds fades as music ends in a lingering lament
A fragmentary first person nocturnal scene describes light and magic arcs transforming a terrace into a weave of diamonds. The narrator recalls green fern cloth walls and gleaming statues, then a hollow mood returns as life seems without purpose after the music ends.
Barrels and boxes of apples remain light in England market
The Liverpool auction showings for American barreled apples were nearly steady while boxed apple prices edged higher. Supplies were light for both forms, with Virginia Albemarle Pippins and P. S. No. 1 stock priced at 9.12 to 9.37 per barrel and Baldwins at 6.45 to 6.93. London demand was moderate for Winesaps and lighter for Washington stock amid fruit condition concerns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Liverpool
Foreign Service
The
Breau of Agricultural Economics
Edwin Smith
Bureau
Europe
P. S
New York
Hamburg Apple Market Report Closes for Season
The cable notes prices paid for American apples at the Hamburg auction rose last week and continued Thursday. Mr Smith reports 27 000 boxes offered with active demand. Australian apple supplies were keenly competed for and prices trend upward as the Hamburg market closes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hamburg
Public Sale 71 Acre Farm of H. M. Shoffner in Virginia
A deed of trust dated January 18 1926 prompts a public auction of a 71 acre farm near Cedar Grove Virginia. Sale at Winchester County Courthouse at 11 00 AM with terms one third cash and rest in two equal notes over two years at 6 percent interest secured by deed of trust and insurance. Trustees Aubrey G Weaver and Harry R Korn oversee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. M. Shoffner
Circuit Court
Frederick County
Virginia
Winchester
Cedar Grove
H. C. Stouffer
Oscar C. Miller
Aubrey G. Weaver
Harry R. Korn
Robbers Loot Alemite Plant in Chicago heist
A 12 man gang captured three Alemite Manufacturing Company employees and seized the plant, taking three trucks loaded with automobile grease caps valued between 50 000 and 60 000 dollars. The incident occurred in Chicago, April 29.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Alemite Manufacturing Company
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F. Marion Crawford
England
Axminster
Cretonnes
Moling & Cather
Betty Shoppe
Ramsey Furniture CO
North Main Street
Monarch
Bond Bros
Colonay
Silent His
Gloria
Fables
Shoppe
North Main St
Humphrey
Consumers Utilities Company
W. Piccadilly Street
Ple
Associated Press
France
Paris
Casion
Ases
Rz A
Aseis
Afewton
Iowa
Philadelphia
Maytag
North Broad St
Pennsylvania
Valley Maytag Co
S. Main St
Ag Numinum
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