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Newspaper
Horsham Times
Location
Horsham, Victoria, Australia
Date
Dec 09, 1910
Page
2
An anecdote recalls King Albert visiting Paris and being ogled by locals at the Hotel Bristol. A French bystander jokes about the king’s appearance while the monarch laments the lack of recognition and contemplates his subjects’ knowledge of their ruler.
Mr. Jennings urges a 25 mile ride this afternoon and returns for dinner. He pockets a folded paper, then walks out. Mrs. Jennings hesitates and smiles. Later he sits on a bank ten miles away to study a paper marked with clothing tracings.
A line from a historical piece notes that a shipwreck terminates a voyage rather than gliding along a tranquil current. It frames the event as a disruption of peace and a search for happiness ashore.
The Cayenne French convict settlement appears lax with convicts enjoying a servant, furnished rooms, and possible bribes to obtain liberty. Reports say about six criminals escape monthly, including a dangerous August escape by a murderer after three months detention, only recently detected by home authorities.
In Young con Davos a rejected suitor had his betrothed cancel the marriage over his beard. After weeks of silence, a crowd gathered to read his letters on her wall while a gendarme restrained onlookers. Servants scrubbed away the letters as the crowd watched.
A traveler notes glue made from fish forms Korean tailoring replacing sewing and claims glued clothes hold well. Kensington society is lampooned as Mrs. Malaprop parodies the King’s English with tales of misused phrases and odd remarks about her family and a will not yet opened.
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