Break in the Siberian Railway at Lake Baikal
Perceval Landon describes the perilous Baikal crossing as the sole obstacle to the railway from Dalny to Moscow. He chronicles brutal ice storms, sledges racing across the frozen lake, and a mid journey halt at the half way house amid shifting ice and wind.
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Commercial Tribune
Moscow
Dalny
Lake Baikal
St. Petersburg
White Siberian
Pereomnaia
Great Lake
White Plain
Ritz
Paris
Holy Lake
Irkutsk
Ing
Baikal Village
Angara
Fire in Arras Barracks Claims Wedding Guests
A fire at Ft. Vauban Arras tore through a loft ballroom during a wedding reception. About fifty guests escaped amid panic while three died and twenty seven were badly burned. The bride's husband survived. a deputy station master aided escapes and a soldier saved a woman and the regimental flag.
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Commercial Tribune
Paris
Ft. Vauban
Arras
Mme. Boury
Mlle. Curcot
Mlle
B. de Bergues Adriens
Mme. Curcot
Mme, Curcot
M. Vizard
Lelong
Regulations define Gordon Bennett Cup race safety plan
London June 6 The Dublin Gazette last night issued regulations the Government Board asks county councils to adopt to run the Gordon Bennett Cup. The course will be closed from six in the morning until the race ends. The Irish Government may take further safety steps. King George VI discussed the matter with Mr A J Balfour. An Automobile Club meeting Monday will approve unofficial safety measures already undertaken.
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Commercial Tribune
London
Dublin
Gordon Bennett
A. J. Balfour
Automobile Club
Visit of King Edward VII to Edinburgh Castle
A vivid account of King Edward VII’s Edinburgh Castle visit during his Scotland tour. The procession included the Lyon King of Arms, trumpeters, and Black Watch guards as the gate opened and the national anthem rang, with the Governor presenting the castle to the King.
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Edward VII
Edinburgh Castle
Scotland
Edinburgh
Landau
Maatle
James
Lyon King of Arms
Uv Sg
J. B. Paul
Edinbureh
Gererat Hunter
Robert ‘Cranston
Colonel Grove
Latform
Archibald
Ovine
Ir Archibald
Dearth of Teachers in Mecklenburg Due to Low Pay
Special Cable reports from Berlin that Mecklenburg Province faces a severe teacher shortage with 190 posts unfilled. Some villages have had no schooling for seven months as villagers send children to nearby towns for lessons. The low pay in Prussian states drives headmasters to larger towns, leaving villages without teachers while holidays end.
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Tribune
Berlin
Young Journalist Heir to Millions Inherits Fortune
Paris based journalist and painter Louis Fournier, age under 22, learns he is heir to 1.5 million pounds and a Westmorland estate from a late admirer, Mr. Barker. Engaged to the Comtesse De Majendie’s daughter Elsie, Fournier plans to keep working and buy a country house in La Frette, with thoughts of a motorcar. He rose from modest wages to affluent status in a single stroke.
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Tribune
Louis Fournier
Pall Mall Gazette
Fournier
Mme
Sarah Bernhardt
Comtesse de Majendie
Harold T. F. Barker
Sydney
New South Wales
Comtesse de Marendie
Barker
Rennes
M. Fournier
Regina
la Frette
Seine-et-Oise
Oxford Street
London
Clapham
Hamsell Street
Thames Steamboat Company
Paris
Pall. Mall Gazette
Zurich
Elsie
Great Rose Roof for Charity Ball in London
A curved roof of roses will crown the London Hospital ball at Albert Hall on June 9 with 3,000 tickets at one guinea, rising to two guineas for the final thousand. Boxes are filled by nobility and prominent figures, supper tables nearly sold out, and proceeds go to the London Hospital.
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Commercial Tribune
London
London Hospital Hall
The
Albert Hall
London Hospital
Prince of Wales
Gosford
Mary Duchess of Hamilton
Lady Derby
Ancaster
Pembroke
Stirling-Maxwell
Pearson
Laurence Currie
Edward Pelham-Clinton
Castlereagh
Willoughby D’eresby
Robert Gerrard
Cooper
van Wart
Dawkins
Michael
Jin
Duchess of Manchester
Marchioness of Dufferin
Countess of Craven
Naylor-Leyland
Arthur Paget
America
Tragedy Traced by Footprints in Alpine Case
In a Kaiser's visit era report from Strassburg the editor Hans Pagel vanishes after being tied to Hermina Scheler. Footprints lead to a mountain bluff near Bregenz, with Hermina missing and Pagel last seen returning from the mountains as rumors say they married in secret.
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Commercial Tribune
Berlin
Strassburg
Mercur
Hans Pagel
Pagel
Munich
Hermina Scheler
Bregenz
Breen
Hermina
Lost for Thirty Years Regains Sight in Glasgow Surgery
John Carruth of Bridge of Weir, born blind, regained his sight after operations at the Ophthalmic Institution Glasgow. He describes seeing his mother nurse and the King and Queen, with vivid reactions to colors, faces, and the world around him. He returns home to his cottage amid Scotland’s hills grateful and awed by life.
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Commercial Tribune
London
Glasgow
Hills
Dales
Scotland
John Carruth
Croft Head
Bridge of Weir
West Regent Street
Carruth
Maitland Ramsay
Rogers
Stewart
Glasgow Infirmary
Nurse Mellor
Dr. Remsay
Dee
Eye Institution
Corsican brigand Brice Tramoni slain in vendetta feud
Paris reports Jean Tramoni known as Brice, a Corsican brigand of thirty years terror, killed by a 70 year old cousin after Brice shot a boy aged 8 two months earlier. The feuding families long pursued vengeance, amid killings including thirty victims.
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Commercial Tribune
Paris
Jean Tramoni
Brice
Pat
Parsons
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Alice OF Battenberg
HPR
Royal
Princess Alice OF Battenberg
Prince Andrew OF
Greece
Great Hospital
England
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