Hats Off and On Across Continents and a Hand-Written Bible
A note on Americans tipping hats in elevators and hotel lounges, with G K Chesterton’s take on lift etiquette. Also, a plan to create a Great Hand-Written Bible bound by Oxford University Press, with 5 000 contributors and a call for 6 000 more volunteers to finish the colossal volume.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
G. K. Chesterton
G. K
Cleveland
U.S.A
Australia
America
Oxford University Press
Collection Hobbies at Port Sunlight Exhibition
Viscount Leverhulme praises collecting as a joy accessible to all workers at Lever Brothers Port Sunlight exhibition. Some antique pictures now fetch 20 to 100 times their original price, notably a black vase once bought for £300 with offers between £10,000 and £30,000. Photographic telegrams may soon be tested by French postal authorities at 10 to 20 francs per sheet, a Belin invention backed by a government contract.
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Viscount Leverhulme
Lever Brothers
Port Sunlight
Mfe
Lady Lever Gallery
M. Edouard Belin
Joe
Polish Order To Demolish Warsaw Russian Cathedral
The Polish government orders demolition of the Cathedral of St Alexander Nevsky in Warsaw. The five domed Orthodox church begun in 1894 and completed in 1912 will be torn down starting May 3, a national holiday.
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Warsaw
Alexander Nevski
Morse's Indian Root Pills Hold High Public Esteem
Reputation for Morse's Indian Root Pills rises as demand grows in the Commonwealth, with sales surpassing a ton per month. The ads claim the pills open ducts and aid bile flow, addressing causes and supporting natural function without weakening the body.
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Morse
Dr. Morse
Commonwealth
Dream Symposium on Haunting Dreams At Strand Magazine
Distinguished men contribute to a symposium in the Strand Magazine April issue discussing recurring nightmares. Subjects include fear of missing trains, forgotten lectures, flying machines, stage anxiety, and prophetic dreams, with remarks from John St. Lee Strachey Oliver Lodge G Burgin William Archer Bernard Shaw Arthur Conan Doyle and others.
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Strand Magazine
John St. Lee Strachey
Oxford
Olivver Lodge
Lfe
Mr. Bernard Shaw
Strachey
Mr. Strachey
Arthur Conan Doyle
Mr. E. Teample Thureton
New York
America
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William Archer
Josephine
Juliet
Wrigley’s
Wrigley's
Wrigley’s Ltd
G.P.O
Sydney
AE At
Uae
Wa Juicy
Wrigley
Rosebery
the Australian Estates and Mortgage Co Lr
Brisbane
Wool and Produce Brokers
Itock
Lancashire Insurance Co
Royal Insurance Co., Ltd
Winchcombe, Carson Ltd
Noomaie
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