Yvonne Contant A Cosmopolitan Enigma In High Society
Yvonne Contant, famed for exotic charm, mingles with London and European elites from Cairo to Monte Carlo. Her alluring past includes marriages to an American and an Englishman, while Roddy Kenilworth and others pursue glimpses of her private world within a circle of aspiring hosts and jet-setters.
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Yvonne Coutant
Shepherds
Cairo
Disner
Mee
James
Casino
Monte Cairo
Escbpedrom
Riviera
Lonon
Migfatt
Yvonne
Roddy
Worth
Orange
Alfred Contant
Lone
Yvonne Contant
Roddy Kenilworth
Brandon
Kenilworth
Nightclub conversation in a fog of ambition and desire
Roddy and Yvonne share an intimate, tense exchange at a private table. He plots a bold seduction while hinting at a dangerous past involving a girl of last night. Yvonne counters with cool, insinuating remarks as the scene ends on a charged, unresolved note.
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Roddy
Walt Deana
Walker
Mimirabie
Yvonne
Ancient wine bottle alleged to be world’s oldest displayed
A Kansas City lawyer recalls a country client nearly missing the ten story elevator ride to his office. The client explains he ran up the stairs after missing the lift. In Speyer Germany a wine bottle claimed to be over 1,600 years old is shown in a historical museum attraction.
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Kansas City
Speyer
Germany
Aquarium studies eye live fish in ice
The Chicago aquarium director considers importing Alaskan black fish for freezing sleep experiments. London Zoo has discussed similar, with fish that endure below freezing and revive upon thawing. anecdotes describe goldfish drying on floors, Siberian markets quenching in ice, and a Cumberland trout seen asleep in ice before reviving.
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Chicago
Aquarium Authoritiea
London Zoo
Fitse
Brunette Preference Seen In British Beauty Claims
A British statistician notes that among nearly a thousand women 78 percent of darkhaired individuals were married while 65 percent of blondes were wives. The article argues brunettes are seen as more charming and historically notable beauties favored dark hair across eras. It suggests brunettes possess greater vitality and that fair-skinned people in Europe are diminishing.
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Mortimer
London Mailet
Byron
Tom Moore
Europe
Wolves and a Calcutta tale of wolf carried children
Report from Lieut Col Faunthorpe of Calcutta describes wolves abducting and maiming infants, a eight year old boy tormented by wolves and dying of fright. The Hindu tale links to Remus and Romulus legends while authorities push for wolf destruction as pests. A separate note recalls wolves attacking an antelope in flank formation.
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Wy Molen
Hinds
Chilgren
Gram Line
West Abguetore
Hincu Aeen
Fawnthorpe
Calcutta
Faunthorpe
Remus
Romulus
Little Helps For This Week and Frayed Wisdom
A fragmentary inspirational piece cites Saint Augustine and Henri Frederic Amlet on doing what one can not what one wishes. It urges heedfulness of deeds and outward conduct while praying for divine Spirit, then briefly shifts to a wartime style health ad. It ends with a garbled wartime refrain about worm prevention and a child protection warning.
Street Accident Reported in Aberdeen Englishman
A terse wartime style note reports an street accident in Aberdeen involving an Englishman. Onlookers shout for help and a bystander urges medical aid, while a suspicious native figure is referenced in fragmented dialogue.
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Aberdeen
Cholera Infantum Remedy Suggested for Summer Ailments
Cholera infantum is a fatal childhood illness that worsens in summer. Tab y Own Tablets are advertised to regulate bowels and calm the stomach, claimed safe without opiates or narcotics. Sold by medicine dealers or mailed for cents a box by The Dr Williams Medicine Co Brockville Ont.
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Taby
Mndicine
Dr. Williams Medicine Co
Brockville
Ont
Strange Ways Of Lightning In Ames And California Giants
A rundown on how lightning sometimes strikes tall trees, with many strikes in Ames and California. Observations claim larger trees attract bolts and suffer crown damage without dying, while cork oaks are noted for drawing a stronger lightning glow and affecting crown shape.
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California
Electric Oil Rub For Muscular Rheumatism
A doctor promotes Dr has Electric Oil as a remedy for muscular rheumatism advising continuous rubbing with a brick like rub until relief is achieved. The ad claims substantial virtue in a bottle, suggesting strong, quick benefit for sufferers.
Jealous prize parrot at London Zoo commits death
Polly the prize parrot at the London Zoo allegedly killed itself after losing a talking championship to a Ceylonese mynah. The piece notes mynahs’ superior talking ability and recalls crowds flocking to the parrot, once the venue’s top attraction.
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London Zoo
London
England
Education and honor in a professor's visit remark
An elderly gentleman expresses deep concern for education during a visit, praising education and stating his idiosyncrasy. He notes pleasure in the occasion and his official honor, reflecting on the value of education and intent to support it, mentioning a figure or amount of 100K.
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