Ladies In Church Heads Must Be Covered
Canterbury Cathedral incident prompts debate over head coverings in churches. Vicar of Crantock closes Crantock Church citing irreverent behavior by women entering hatless. Other notes reference bridesmaids veils and a Punch cartoon about artists and labor.
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Puby Ushed
Canterbury Cathedral
Ladien
Canterbury
English Church Union
Church of England
Daily Mail
Hey. G. M. Mursons
St. Crantuck’s
Newquay
Cornwall
London
Lord
Lady Hyde
St. Paul
Divorce at Seventy-Five Court Beauty and Band Master
The New York hearing of a divorce suit reveals the romance of Mme Isabelle Torsiello, seventy-five, and her much younger husband. Once famed in Paris society, she married wealthy merchants, a U S Navy commander, then an Italian band master named Torsiello who vanished with part of her fortune. She has traced him to Italy and seeks final release from him.
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New York
Daily Mail
Mue
Isabelle Torsiello
Mme, Torsiella
Paris
Louis Napoleon
M. Henri le Grain
Edward Barnett
United States Navy
Washington
Buchanan
Torsiello
Italy
Torsielo
Torsietts
Liverpool Bank Robbery Ties To London Gang Of Thieves
Reports trace the Liverpool cash theft to a twenty-strong gang based in London. The Daily Mail notes the gang targets provincial towns and continental cities, with young thieves handling the thefts and older conspirators cashing notes. One Liverpool clerk was tapped on the shoulder by a stylish man, the notes tucked away as the robber fled. the accomplice fled with the notes. Three gang members are imprisoned, with others held in France and Liverpool for related crimes. Extraditions and further arrests anticipated.
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Liverpool
Noth
Rhose
London
Daily Mail
Bank of England
North Town Street
Walton
Scotland Yard
Gunk
France
Paris
Despairing Swindlers Halt Card Trick at Windsor Races
A police-quiet confession from a hard-up trio of card swindlers reveals the decline of the three-card trick. They traveled to Windsor and Devonshire seeking marks, only to find no business as crowds and authorities tighten. They admit losses, rising vigilance, and scarce easy prey, noting Oxford and Cambridge boat race crowds and Aldershot reviews as dwindling hunts.
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Windsor
Pennifees
Sud
Devonshire
Plymouth
London
Oxford
Cambridge
Aldershot
Tommy Aucias
The Volunteers' Marseillaise Reflects on Youth
A fragment reflecting on English and British youth and their admiration of French patriots. It laments the lack of shared revolutionary fervor and contrasts bookishness with militancy, invoking phrases from war hymns and revolutionary sentiment.
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Federal
Serge
Pitt Street Hordern’s
Fede, and
Olothiers
Pitt
Sydney
Maan
Lamb's Linoleum
Brown
Dr. Brown's Medicine Company
Pitt Street
Country Press Department
Ivorce
DR. Waugh
the Volunteers' Marseillaise
England
Ireland
Scotland
Wales
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