Prices sag at Kraemer sale dealers the chief buyers
Paris June 2 At the sale of the Eugene Kraemer collection prices averaged about 20 percent below valuation. French dealers largely bought the day’s lots with a total of $101,942. Notable results included Allori’s portrait of Eleonore of Toledo selling for $1,600, Coello’s Queen Elizabeth for $1,800, and Vandyke works drawing strong bids though below expectations. The highest price of the day was $16,000 for a Vandyke Marquis of Spinola, with several Renaissance and Dutch pieces failing to meet reserves. The sale underscored a cautious market for important dispersals of art.
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Rare Huth Library Sale Opens in London at Sotheby's
The third part of Henry Huth's famous library goes under the hammer at Sotheby's with Americana leading prices. Bernard Quaritch paid 225 dollars for The Christian Commonwealth dating to about 1659. Other notable buys included Ellis’s History and Antiquities of Saint Leonard for 350 dollars and a vellum emblematical folio for 400 dollars. The day’s total reached 12,250 dollars as the sale continues tomorrow.
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Queen Anne Furniture Sells At Christies Auction
At Christies sale of old English furniture porcelain and rugs a set of three Nankin vases and covers and a pair of beakers with floral baskets sold for 31390. A similar set with flowering plants and rocks brought 31995. Twelve Queen Anne gilt chairs with cabriole legs and carved tops sold for 4000. A Persian carpet 16 feet 3 inches by 11 feet 2 inches with leaves and towers design sold for 1310.
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Battleship Prince of Wales Strikes Submarine C82
A naval incident near Portsmouth saw the battleship Prince of Wales collide with submarine C82 during a mock torpedo attack. The submarine was seriously damaged but no fatalities occurred as it surfaced and returned to Portsmouth under its own power.
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American Bar at London Hospital Fair Draws Royal Attention
An American bar will open at Albert Hall June 11 12 for Noahs Ark Fair to aid a London hospital chaired by Queen Alexandra. Lord Lonsdale leads the chief barman team with royal and noble assistants amid anxious preparations and a bid to be the fair’s main revenue source.
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Lady Henry
Lewisohn
New York
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Réné Kelley
Emmy Whelan
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American Adman Duped by London Crooks on Race Bet
W. F. Kennedy of Chicago, traveling in London, befriended on board by two men who later took him to a racecourse. They claimed a "valuable tip" and funded bets of 1250 dollars each, with Kennedy writing a 625 dollar check after the outcome. The incident marks London as a magnet for such schemes against American visitors.
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Co operatives’ Huge Sales Reach New High in UK Trade
The 1911 annual returns show co operative societies in the United Kingdom with 2,992,590 members and sales of goods totaling £130,021,393. Ordinary societies number 2,410 with 2,785,352 members, and total cooperative trade for the year surpassed prior records, totaling £68,089,047 in accounts.
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Barrie Receives Baronetcy. Forbes-Robertson Knighted in Birthday Honors
London reports birthday honors list includes J. M. Barrie awarded a baronetcy and Johnston Forbes-Robertson a knighthood. Seven baronets and twenty six knights named. Gen Sir John Denton French made Field Marshal. Lord Welby and Sir Alfred Mond join Privy Council.
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Stephen Wilson Furness
Furness, Withy & Co
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William Arbuthnot Lane
E. A. Schafer
Edinburgh University
John Denton
Lord Welby
Alfred Mond
W. H. Biles
A. W. Ward
Bigamist a Murderer on Titanic Passenger
A Belgian man from Bethune, France, learned his wife survived the Titanic and, in a fit of despair, killed Mile Angelina Bosquet and shot himself, then attempted suicide but survived and was hospitalized.
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Mme
Georges Brény
Bethuen
France
Mile
Angelina Bosquet
Brény
Mrs. Hudson Undergoes Appendicitis Operation
Paris news reports Mrs. R. W. Hudson of New York recently had an appendicitis operation and is convalescent. Her husband will join her from London tomorrow and they plan to travel south afterward.
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Marconi
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Paris
New York
London
Morgan and the Vatican intrigue in Morgan's Berlin visit
An American financier in Berlin told The Times that J Pierpont Morgan planned a world scale scheme to reorganize Catholic Church finances. He allegedly sought to amalgamate Church resources across hemispheres and crown his career as a global financier by directing Vatican plans.
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Hammerstein Signs Wilkie Bard for Victoria Theatre
Arthur Hammerstein announces Wilkie Bard will appear for two weeks at the Victoria Theatre in September at four thousand dollars weekly. Lady Constance Stewart Richardson plans to sail Wednesday on the Olympic to fill an engagement at the same house.
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Arthur Hammerstein
Wilkie Bard
Victoria Theatre
Constance Stewart
Richardson
Strike in Rio Janeiro Grows
Rio de Janeiro strikes widen with street railway workers joining steamship stokers. Authorities fear broader impact as labor action spreads, disrupting transit and port operations across the city.
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Rio Janeiro
New York
London society reshaped by foreign wealth and American influence
Marmaduke observes London’s season transformed by foreign tastes and Americans. King Edward VII opened social barriers, drawing rich Americans, German millionaires, and colonial elites to West End life. London becomes a world capital where the wealthy set the pace and even drawing rooms function like stock exchanges.
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John Bull
New York
England
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Edward VII
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Great Britain
Paris
Italy’s Rich to Be Taxed Says Giolitti Declaration
In the Italian Chamber of Deputies Premier Giolitti announces new taxes on wealth to fund national defense. He vows not to tax the lower classes but to tax the rich, prompting democratic groups to hail a potential fiscal shift amid Libya war expenditures.
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No Censure of Cabinet Report Drafted in Parliament Inquiry
London June 3 select Parliamentary Committee of Inquiry met privately to review the chairman’s report draft. The Times reports Lord Robert Cecil circulated an alternative report approved by Unionist members that ends with severe condemnation of Sir Rufus Isaacs Chancellor Lloyd George and Lord Mulhern
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German Cruiser Bluecher Refloated Near Remgo Island
The German armored cruiser Bluecher was refloated after grounding near Remgo Island in a naval operation cited by KISS on June 2. The report notes the vessel’s restoration to seaworthiness following prior difficulties.
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Imperator to Make Trial Trip After Maiden Voyage
Hamburg America Line officials report a Hamburg dispatch stating workmen on the steamship Imperator have not damaged any fittings. The line and the Vulcan Shipbuilding Company condemn rumors as fabrications. The Emperor with a party will begin a trial trip on June 8 and depart for New York on June 11 for her maiden voyage.
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Mrs Gilman Explores Assorted Sins in Lecture
London June 2 Mrs Charlotte Perkins Gilman argued that men's sins stem from commission while women's arise from omission. She warned greatest enemies of mankind and birds are women, and listed war, intemperance, immorality as male and female specialties. She said society coddles collective sins lacking a collective conscience.
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Charms Not Hid of Old
London reports Lady Middleton criticizes modern dancing in The Times. She recalls country ball imports and sheath-like dresses exposing more of the form than grandmothers would approve. She notes grandmothers dumped India muslins for modesty and questions whether dancers or dances are to blame.
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Dr William II to Receive Honorary Engineering Degree
Berlin June 2 The Kaiser will be titled Dr William II after his silver jubilee and eleven German technical colleges plan to award him the honorary engineering degree on June 15 marking the twenty fifth anniversary of his reign. He already holds a Doctor of Laws from Oxford.
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Tims
Berlin
William II
Germany
Empire
Oxford
Militant suffragette leaders face operations and delays
London June 2 The suffragette leader Flora Drummond underwent a successful operation after falling ill at police court proceedings over alleged property damage in May. A second operation is planned once she recovers, likely delaying her trial. Emmeline Pankhurst recovers from hunger strike illness and plans attendance at a floral fete next week.
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Flora Drummond
Pankhurst
Women's Social Ved Political Union
Ambassador Page to London Arrives with Harold Fowler
London dispatch reports Walter H. Page the new American ambassador to the Court of St James’s arrives in London accompanied by his private secretary Harold Fowler and other officials. The ceremony and official reception are expected to begin soon after.
Balkan Premiers To Meet For Peace On St Petersburg Plan
London June 2 The Balkan alliance quarrels show slight improvement as the Serb and Bulgarian premiers meet on the frontier. They still differ over Serbia’s demand to revise the alliance treaty. An agreed four power Balkan meeting in St Petersburg offers a path to end the war. Sealed with little progress at the peace delegates’ talks and prisoner exchanges. Dr S Daniel Bulgarian peace delegate left London for Sofia to return home at his Government’s urgency.
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Servia
St. Petersburg
Conference of Peace
S. Daniel
Sofia
Russian frontier guard deployment stirs Kaliss district
About 300 Russian frontier guards were dispatched to Kaliss district in Russian Poland after dispatches warned that Jewish villages and nearby Christians received threatening letters. The order aims to compel residents to leave the area immediately.
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Kaliss
Poland
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