People: Jun. 30, 1930

"Names make news." Last week the following names made the following news:

Juan Read, octogenarian Dominican Republic lumber tycoon, retired diplomat, left his Santo Domingo home hurriedly for treatment in the famed U. S. Mayo Clinic at Rochester, Minn. Entraining at Manhattan, he rode as far as Rochester, N. Y., where, hearing the station called, he de-trained in a rush, asked through an interpreter to be directed to the Mayo Clinic, discovered he was in the wrong Rochester (there are 16 in the U. S.). Since delay might prove disastrous, Octogenarian Read chartered...

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