Perilous first months of Scott expedition in Everybody's
The July Everybody's Magazine installment from Leonard Huxley recounts Captain Scott's Terra Nova voyage beginning November 26 1910 from Lyttelton to late February 1911. It details the near wrecks a sinking storm near Port Chalmers giant whale encounters and freezing hardships as crew and dogs endure crevasse dangers and ice rescues.
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Capt. Scott
Everybody's Magazine
Leonard Huxley
Evans
Lady Scott
Lyttelton Harbor
Port Chalmers
Scott
Lee
Rothschilds Rival Oil Interests Threaten Trinidad Monopoly
London reports that a Crown Agents Water’s-Pierce deal with the Royal Dutch and Rothschild syndicate would grant a monopoly over Trinidad oil. A White Paper outlines rights to block pipelines and seize 100000 acres, forcing producers to sell to the syndicate or store oil privately. Critics warn the pact hurts general producers despite Standard Oil’s strength in America.
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New York
London
The
Daily Chronicle
Hell
Royal Dutch
Trinidad
Standard Oil Company
America
King and Queen Attend Covent Garden La Boheme
Melba and Caruso sang together for the first time in years at Covent Garden on the King's request. The performance drew a brilliant audience including the King and Queen with the Prince of Wales and Princess Victoria, and a notable display of jewels.
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London
Duchess of Manchester
George Cornwallis West
Lewis Harcourt
Anthony Drexel
Ronalds
Ritchie
Cora Ladyard
Divorces Granted to Two Actresses in London
George Graves wins a divorce from his wife Lilian Doyle a vaudeville actress once on the American stage on grounds of misconduct with Anson. Carl Frederick Gruhler an American publisher and agent obtains a divorce from Victoria Monks a vaudeville artist for misconduct with Douglas Lorne.
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New York Times
London
George Graves
Lilian Doyle
Anson
Carl Frederick Gruhler
Publsher
England
Victoria Monks
Douglas Lorne
Paris referee allows Berard suit against Duke over debt
The Paris referee grants M. Berard permission to sue the Duke of Marlborough for 12 000 francs claimed as a debt. Berard's attorneys say the sum is a historical loan from an ancestor to the fifth Duke of Marlborough, with simple interest, not a personal debt of the Duke. They ask the court not to raise prescription and rely on the honor of the present Duke to repay the ancestor’s debt.
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Paris
Alexandre Berard
Duke of Marlborough
M. Berard
Berard
To George
Olympia Horse Show Deters Costing Night at London
Lord Lonsdale hosts a coster evening at the Olympia show dancing with a pearly queen as spectators cheer. International Horse Show results feature Judge W. H. Moore of New York winning Class 49 with his bays, with multiple prizes across harness horse classes led by Moore and others.
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New York Times
London
Olympia
Costerland
England
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Donahs
W. H. Moore
New York
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Menella
Phyllis
Edward B. McLean
Washington
Lady Dilham
Tissington
Judge Moore
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J. Sumner Draper
Boston
Numbus Billington
Nimble
Westinghouse Receives Grashoff Gold Medal in Leipzig
George Westinghouse of Pittsburgh was awarded the Grashoff Gold Medal by the Society of German Engineers at its Leipzig meeting. About 300 American engineers are touring Germany for three weeks visiting mills and factories with hospitality arranged in Hamburg Dresden Berlin and other cities through July 8. King Frederick Augustus attended as Count Ferdinand von Meer praised the visit as the German society honored Westinghouse and conferred the title Doctor of Engineering.
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New York Times
Berlin
Grashoff
Society of German Engineers
Leipzig
George Westinghouse
Pittsburgh
Germany
Hamburg
Dresden
Dusseldorf
Cologne
Frankfort-on- Main
Mannheim
Heidelberg
Munich
American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Frederick Augustus of
Saxony
William F. M. Goss
American Society
Ferdinand von Meer
Yesterner
Death by own action shocks Vienna War Office
Vienna reports Lt Lebel a War Department staffer for 35 years shot himself in his office after a meeting with Gen von Kiss. The note recalls Col Alfred Redl's May 26 suicide in Prague linked to Austrian military secrets to Russia. No motive given for Lebel's death.
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Vienna
War Department
Lebel
War Office
von Kiss
Ms Office
Eighth Army Corps
Alfred Redl
Prague
Col. Redl
Lieut
Tragedy at Poincaré trip start shocks Cherbourg
Paris reports indicate two gunners killed and four injured when blank cartridges exploded near the guns during a salute for President Poincaré in Cherbourg. The incident led to the lieutenant in charge being placed under arrest as investigations proceed.
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Cherbourg
President
New York Times
Paris
Poincaré
London
M. Poincaré
Marine
Cincaré
Courbet
England
Servia Yields to Arbitration Amid Balkan Tensions
Reports from Sofia claim Servia has yielded to Russia and the powers and will accept arbitration under the ante-bellum treaty. Belgrade cabinet crisis persists as ministers oppose the course. Greece supports Servia, opposing Bulgarian claims to partition by separate pacts, while Bulgaria declines a St. Petersburg meeting invitation.
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Sofia
Servia
Russia
Belgrade
War and Justice
M. Protics
Vienna
Bulgaria
Balkan States
St. Petersburg
Our Naval Cadets at Antwerp
The United States battleship Illinois with 250 naval cadets aboard arrived at Antwerp on June 23. It will stay for two weeks giving the cadets time to sightsee and study the port and city.
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Antwerp
Illinois
Duke of Sutherland Ill. By Marcon Transatlantic Tel
The Duke of Sutherland is critically ill as reported by The New York Times via Marcon from London on June 23.
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Duke of Sutherland
Marcon
New York Times
London
Mexico Seeks U.S. Help to Intercept Revolutio n Mail
Mexico plans to work with the United States to intercept mail to revolutionists, via a frontier checkpoint scheme proposed by Postal Inspector Pedro Enriquez. Enriquez will meet in Washington to discuss the plan as revolutionists report a June 13 arms expedition landed at Campeche.
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New York
Havana
United States
Pedro Enriquez
Vera Cruz
Suffragette Attack Suspected On London Plymouth Express
A militant suffragette act near Devonport halted a London to Plymouth express as two heavy sleepers were wedged between the rails in a tunnel. Beatrice H Saunders, finance secretary of the WSPU, was released on license after refusing food. four other prisoners also gained release for similar protests.
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Plymouth
Devonport
London & Southwestern Railway
Beatrice H. Saunders
Women's Social and Political Union
Suffrnette
Ffteen
Justice Brown Appointment Christmas Old Tangle
The Canal Zone faces a puzzle as Associate Justice Thomas E. Brown Jr. earlier expired in January. Former District Judge Brown, appointed March 18, 1911, is currently on vacation in the United States. A full investigation aims to unravel the confusion surrounding his status.
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Panama
Canal Zone
Thomas E. Brown, Jr
Justice Brown
United States
New York
Leaves a Fortune to an Acreas
London dispatch reports the estate of Edmund Dollfus a retired Paris stock broker and Legion of Honor officer valued at 869690 dollars with a 240000 dollar bequest and a Monte Carlo villa to Rachel Boyer actress of the Comédie Française.
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New York Times
London
Edmund Dollfus
Paris
Legion of Honor
United Kingdom
Monte Carlo
Rachel Boyer
Comédie Francaise
Scott collections vast reveal Antarctic history at South Kensington
English scientists expect great light from Captain Scott and Wilsons fossils and marine, botanical, and bird specimens now at the South Kensington natural history museum. The Terra Nova voyage collections exceed those from the Discovery and promise new insights into Antarctic natural history and past climate.
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Antarctic
Marconi
New York Times
London
Robert F. Scott
Cardiff
Natural History
Natural History Museum
South Kensington
Scott
Wilson
South Pole
Chinese envoy Wu Ting-Fang likely to visit United States
A Chinese Republic special delegate will travel to the United States to thank the American government for recognizing the republican administration. Dr Wu Ting-Fang, former Chinese minister in Washington and ex Foreign Affairs minister, is favored for the mission.
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Peking
United States
China
Wu Ting-Fang
Washingen
American and British dignitaries at Royal Geographical Society event
American Ambassador Page addressed the Royal Geographical Society on "The Development of the New South" in London. William P. Cresson spoke on "The Future of Irrigation in the West" with Harvard's Prof Davis also on the program. Lord Curzon of Kedleston presided.
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Page
Royal Geographical Society
New South
William P. Cresson
West
Davis
Harvard
Lord Curzon of
Kedleston
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