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January 16, 1928

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COOLIDGE IS WARMLY WELCOMED TO CUBA; GOES TO PALACE AMID SHOWER OF ROSES; TALKS TO PAN-AMERICAN MEETING TODAY; MULTITUDE ACCLAIMS HIM Tens of Thousands Line Shores and Mass in the Streets of Havana. PRESIDENT DEEPLY MOVED Standing on Balcony With Machado, He Waves One of the Welcoming Blooms. STATE DINNER TO BE GIVEN This Will End Full Day That Begins With Opening of Parley of Twenty-one Nations.

By Richard V. Oulahan. Copyright, 1928, By the New York Times Company Special Cable To the New York Times

N Y S Chamber of Commerce delegation to be guests of Pres Machado

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Dig for Treasure of Incas Beneath Streets of Lima

By Unknown Author

Residents of Lima, Peru, dig for Inca treasures beneath city streets

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SMITH STUDENT GONE; HUNDREDS JOIN HUNT; Parents Offer $1,000 Reward for Miss Frances St. John Smith of This City. MISSING SINCE FRIDAY Her Disappearance Compared to That of Miss Corbett of the Same College.

By Special to The New York Times

Missing from Smith Col; parents offer reward for information; search

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Balmy Sunday Draws Thousands to Shore; New Jersey Reports a Midsummer Jam

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Balmy Sunday

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Governor Returns to Albany As Wife Continues to Improve

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Recovering; visitors

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Notable Births

William Kennedy (author)

1928William Kennedy, American novelist and journalist^[†]

William Joseph Kennedy is an American writer and journalist who won the 1984 Pulitzer Prize for his 1983 novel Ironweed.

Pilar Lorengar

1928Pilar Lorengar, Spanish soprano and actress (died 1996)^[†]

Lorenza Pilar García Seta, known professionally as Pilar Lorengar, was a Spanish (Aragonese) soprano. She was best known for her interpretations of opera and the Spanish genre Zarzuela, and as a soprano she was known for her full register, a youthful timbre as well as a distinctive vibrato.