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Newspaper
Gloucester Advocate
Location
Gloucester, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Nov 11, 1905
Page
7
A cable story reports Canterbury Cathedral barring visitors who entered without head coverings, tied to a rule on modest dress. Rev M Parsons closes Crantock Church in Newquay to visitors except during services, citing irreverence of uncovered women and urging reverence in worship.
Mme Isabelle Torstello, aged seventy five, sues her husband Torstello in New York for divorce. A former Paris beauty, daughter of the Court Chamberlain, she amassed a fortune from an early marriage to a Parisian merchant. She later married a US Navy commander and moved to Washington society before marrying Torstello, who vanished with part of her estate.
Police trace the Liverpool bank robbery of 13,220 to a London based gang of twenty expert thieves. The group targets merchants and travelers and uses clever distractions including notes stolen from clerks pockets. An earlier Liverpool theft involved a clerk tapped by a stylish man, leading to a suspect’s arrest and a dramatic jail release and re arrest. Several gang members are jailed abroad or awaiting sentences. further arrests expected within weeks.
A narrator describes repeated swindling ploys by professional tricksters, lamenting dwindling crowds and police scrutiny. They recount failed trips to Devonshire, postponed races near Plymouth, and few willing victims. Even soldiers at events like the Oxford and Cambridge boat race and Aldershot are wary.
Fragmentary notice laments youth in Britain and Ireland failing to aid French patriation while claiming they loudly chant slogans. Text appears as garbled antiquated prose with repeated phrases and unclear context.
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