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Newspaper
Alliance Herald
Location
Alliance, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Oct 05, 1905
Page
7
Since 1901 France imposes no height limit for conscripts. Previously the cutoff was five feet one inch. Despite changed rules the average French recruit still stood taller than Napoleon's waning Grande Armée and remained above the German army's average.
The text explains that all German rivers except one flow into the North Sea, Baltic, or Black Sea. The exception is a brook that rises in Germany beyond Alsace and reaches the Rhine via the Saone, ultimately emptying into the Mediterranean in the Gulf of Lyons.
The Milan province ranks as a major Italian industrial hub with 300 silk mills employing 40,000 workers, 200 cotton mills providing 25,000 jobs, and 20 woolen mills sustaining 3,000 workers.
The famous tapestries at the Palace of Fontainebleau have been cut and slashed leaving them frayed and nearly ruined. Sculptures and carved wood mantelpieces are chipped in scores of places. Estimated total damage stands at $45,000.
London obituary honors Thomas John Barnardo founder and director of charitable institutions that rescued and trained nearly sixty thousand orphans. Born 1845 in Ireland, he started ragged schools in Stepney and organized large scale emigration to Canada. His work faced controversy but earned broad respect from Catholics, Protestants, and Queen Alexandra.
Twenty thousand men and women are described as industrious law abiding and God fearing graduates of Barnardo’s schools. Henry Barrett Chamberlin writes in the Chicago Record-Herald that the world is poorer for the loss of “the father of nobody's children.”
Mme. Gadski starred as the three Brünnhildes in a Munich opera festival where her performance drew high praise. Prince Regent Luitpold awarded her King Ludwig’s Order of Art and Science for the achievement.
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