Gambling boom hits French coast casinos this summer
Paris reports gambling expanding across France as Deauville Le Touquet and other Channel coast resorts see record crowds. Easter and Pentecost receipts surpass previous levels with casinos open late and bets reaching tens of thousands of dollars and millions of francs per session.
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France
Associated Press
Paris
Deauville
North
South America
England
le Touquet
Channel
Whitsuntide
French Still Troubled By Confederate Money
Confederates money still passes at par in many French towns with Americans offering their notes at hotels and stores. Versailles saw a exchange of Confederate bills for French currency, while Paris merchants increasingly recognize US money via Foreign Exchange windows in the city.
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Associated Press
Paris
France
Versailles
United States
Parisienne prize awards 50,000 franc elegance contest
In Paris a new annual 50,000 franc grand prize of elegance is funded by Leonard Rosenthal the pearl merchant. The prize winner must donate fifty 1,000 franc notes to fifty dressmaking shop inettes, recognizing French fashion as a refined national mission.
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Paris
Parisienne
Leonard Rosenthal
France
Gilded peaches and march requirements raise fruit fraud concerns
French soldiers will carry supplies on the march while a supplementary sack travels by motor truck. A ruse called gilding the lily on peaches misleads buyers. police caveat reports eyes not better than customers, and the fraud squad is ordered to stop the practice. Also noted: cooking food in deep fat is just boiling fat once fat covers food and reaches the correct temperature.
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Pat Pack
Paris
Life Growing Easier For French Soldiers
Paris reports milder service terms as conscripts now serve eighteen months instead of three years and the army reduces equipment loads. The easing of duties aims to lighten the daily burden on poilus and improve morale.
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Paris
Doumergue
Roland Marcel
National Library
Marcel
France
Notice road machinery dealers for Pot ter County Texas
The Commissioners Court of Potter County Texas will receive sealed bids until 10 oclock a m September 3 1927 for one 10 ton crawler type tractor and one 12 foot grader to be delivered F O B Amarillo unloaded and set up. Bids to be addressed to Sam B Motlow county judge and filed with H G Hamrick county auditor at his office in the Courthouse Amarillo. The court reserves the right to reject any or all bids.
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Commissioners’ Court
Potter County
Texas
F.O.B. Amarillo
Sam B. Motlow
H. G. Hamrick
Amarillo
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West Texas State Teachers College
Canyon
D. A. Shirley
C. B. Thomas
Plainview, Texas
Carey
S. M. Parker
Plainview
Reed Sheet Metal & Roofing CO. Inc
H. M. Reed
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