Postal Strike in Paris Echoes March Turmoil
The Paris Post and Telegraphs clash echoes a March strike that halted service and left 5,000,000 letters undelivered. Cabinet battles over dismissals and pay cuts followed as leaders warned of renewed action if penalties proceeded. Telegraph wires were damaged near Fontainebleau, delaying trains until restored.
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Paris
M. Simyaiy
Posta
Pelegraphs
M. Clemenceau
Daily Mail
Postal Servants’ Union
M. Simyan
Posts and Telegraphs
Postal ‘Servants’ Union
Rue de Grenelle
MM. Lamarque
Pauron
Tribune
Fontainebleau
English Meat Market Faces Unemployment Hit And Foreign Competition
London traders warn unemployment cuts demand for mutton and beef as River Plate and Australian meat flood the market. Prices fall, stores fill, and profits shrink while North American and Australian shipments rise. A Christchurch correspondent notes looming industry meetings to regulate trade.
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London
Smutton
Lamb
Dominion
Gilbert “Anderson
Australia
Ingland
Anderson
Smithfield
River Plate
Zide
New Zealand
New
Aldergon
Christchurch
Suffragist Locked Up Claims Ink From Blood For Notes
Lady Constance Lyton, among twenty six suffragists, said Holloway Gaol hindered paper and ink forcing her to use her own blood as ink. A chair once used by Henry VII in Atherstone Warwickshire is to be placed in the parish church. The Motor Engineering Society of Vienna offers £40 for a device to cap motor speed at 153 miles per hour.
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Adams and King
LTB
Gek
É Adams
King, Ltd
Hereford Street
Christchurch
Constance Lyton
Holloway
Atherstone
Warwickshire
Henry VII
Bosworth
Henry
Richard II
Motor Engineering Society of Vienna
Hotel Cecil
Hans Knudsen
Miréless
Froctoida touted for headache and digestion relief
Advertises Froctoida pills as a cure for headache indigestion constipation and lethargy with claims of rapid liver and blood detoxification. Promotes nightly doses for a week to ease constipation and reduce dependence on aperients. Sold by W G Hearne in Geelong Victoria at 1 shilling 6 pence.
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Post
Winging
Lake 5
W. G. Hearne
Chenyiah
Geelong
Victoria
Wireless writing inventions transmit printing without wires
London reports reveal inventors Hevland, Chalon, and Chantelot proposing recordable handwriting and print transmission by wireless methods. Previous demonstrations by Hans Knudsen show wireless typewriting and telewriter sketches transported over distances, with synchronized carriers and reproducing pads enabling near perfect copy of drawings and letters.
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London
Hevland
Chalon
Chantelot
Hans Knudsen
Red Eyed Influenza Spreads Through Britain And London
Reports from London describe a new red eyed influenza spreading across Great Britain. In large retail establishments and government offices many employees are ill, with nurses in hospitals also affected. The illness raises temperatures and causes eye redness with symptoms described as serious though not highly dangerous.
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Great Britain
House of Commons
London
West
Children’s Hacking Cough at aight Woods Great Peppermint
A brief note records a children’s hacking cough during a gathering at a woods event featuring a peppermint cure. The clash of remedies and reactions marks a small health moment in a rural community gathering.
Milk yields and dairy cow profitability analysis
A dairy writer discusses annual and daily milk yields, noting averages from 450 to 800 gallons per cow depending on regime. With year round milking and good winter feeding, 600 gallons yearly is a target, about 20 pounds per day. Cows under 400 gallons are unprofitable and may be culled.
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Primrose McConnell
Kew
Board of Agriculture
British Islands
Dreadnoughts lore and drift from colonial times
The piece links Sir Francis Drake and the San Felipe capture to colonial empire building. It notes a Post Office abstinence group citing 36 percent of last year’s postal dismissals due to drink and 66 percent of postmen losses for the same reason. It also mentions a Whaka geyser near the Bath Pavilion that briefly rose thirty feet.
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Sir Francis Drake
Indian Empire
Postal Service
Post Office Total Abstinence Association
Rotorua
Whaka
Roto Ahamaheka
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