Europe’s mission taken over by America in Loebe critique
German Reichstag president Paul Loebe, visiting the United States, warns Europe’s mission is being displaced by America. He criticizes perceived waste of raw materials, contrasts American prosperity with labor weakness, and notes social tensions amid rapid industrial growth in the United States.
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Walter Dietzel
T. N.S
Berian
Europe
America
United States of America
Paul Loebe
Reichstag
Vorwaerts
United States
Innterparliamentary Union
U. S
Ford Works
Ontario
Jin
Paris Pleasures Out Draw Its Art
Paris conservators note art museums draw fewer visitors than entertainment venues. Louvre led receipts with 442,528 francs, Versailles 238,059, Pantheon next, Sainte Chapelle popular with American and English visitors. Maisons-Laffitte shows rare attendance. Pilgrimages to Mont Saint Michel also mentioned.
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Paris
I. N
Chateau
Maisons-Laffitte
Louvre
Versailles
Pantheon
Sainte Chapelle
Mont Saint Michel
Brittany
Paris Monuments Draw Huge Crowds Despite Museums
In Paris the Unknown Soldier under the Arc de Triomphe is now a highly visited monument while the Cluny Museum attracts modest receipts. Monuments draw visitors quicker and more widely than museums, which house Europe’s treasures yet see fewer visitors.
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Frances
Paris
Cluny Museum
Europe
Foreign stars in golf world strike trail for south
Archie Compston and Arnaud Massey, serve as Europe’s top duo, arrived in New York for U.S. matches and winter stays at St Augustine Florida. Their first clash is set for January first at St Augustine with a top American pair to be chosen soon from leading pros or amateurs.
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South
Golf Pros Compston and Massey to Coach in St Augustine
Compston and Massey will coach and play as professionals at St Augustine all winter from New Year’s Day to March 31. They will tour Florida for matches against local teams and will compete in Florida tournaments representing St Augustine. Afterward they may tour the United States for the British Open in June. Compston stands six feet three and is lauded as England’s top golfing talent of the past decade. Massey has French titles including the French native championship and the French Open, having defeated stars like Walter Hagen. Also, the first broadcasting station in the Irish Free State begins operation in Dublin.
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New York
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Archie Compston
Arnaud Massey
Europe
America
St. Augustine
Fla
London
United States
Ment Compston
Massey
Florida
Compston
England
Walter Hagen
Hoylake
Sandy Herd
Lloyd George Urges Freeing English Land for Towns
London dispatch reports the Liberal Land Committee chaired by David Lloyd George urges ending the land monopoly in British towns. It cites Leeds Birmingham and Glasgow with thousands of back-to-back and overcrowded homes and links housing ills to land values. Remedies include outward growth and community ownership of land value.
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B. F. A. Wray
N. S
London
Liberal Land Committee
David Lloyd George
Leeds
Birmingham
Glasgow
Lloyd George
City of London Hospital
Shoreditch
Bournville
Britain
County Meath Said To Have More Men Than Women
A claim from County Meath in Ireland states the male population exceeds the female one, making it the sole region in the British Isles with this imbalance.
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County
Meath
Ireland
British Isles
Left-Handed Brain Power Claim by School Master
A school master asserts that left-handed individuals surpass right-handers in brain power based on experience with thousands of boys passing through his hands.
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New York City
Jacob Riis
Hall Caine
Palestine
Christ
C. E. Woods
Pennsylvania
Japan
Spain
Louis Loucheur
France
Irish Free State
Dublin
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