Masses Oppose China Rail Loan Plan Amid Foreign Scrutiny
Peking reports the coming national assembly session may test China’s rail expansion plan funded by foreign loans. The Hukwang $50,000,000 loan is only the first installment in a project needing at least $200,000,000. Mass opposition grows to the government’s loan program and potential foreign control.
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Peking
Tzucheng Yuan
National Assembly
China
Sheng Hsuan Huai
Board of Communications
Prince Ching
America
French Women Claim The Smallest Feet Debate Rages
Berlin reacts to a Paris newspaper claim that Parisian women have the smallest feet in the world sparking renewed tension with Germany. Writers dispute the assertion, with some arguing German women in certain areas have smaller feet in proportion to their bodies.
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Berlin
Paris
France
Germany
Morocco
Paris Has Woman Diver Takes the Plunge
Paris reports a female diver, wife of a diver, entering the water to emulate her husband. She donned a weighted suit and descended beside Havre harbor, staying under for about half an hour before surfacing to report her findings. Her attempt signals growing female participation in traditionally male occupations.
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Paris
Connellac
Havre
Ewing Bridge
Mystery illness doubles infant deaths in London heat
London reports a surge in infant fatalities with 158 deaths last week and 56 the prior week. Dr. Wescott notes diarrhoea and sickness rising mysteriously, likely linked to airborne factors carried by flies rather than food or heat exhaustion.
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London
St. Luke's
W. Wynn Wescott
Tips Mark Luggage In Paris Travel Etiquette
Paris readers learn how luggage marks reveal a traveler’s tipping habits. Scratches on bags indicate tip levels: a right top corner line means small tips, diagonal lower left shows exacting, lower right cross denotes exacting yet generous, vertical near lock signals very generous, curved left upper corner marks inexperience.
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Paris
Sunshade Price Tragedy At Paris Casino Loss
A Paris seaside tale follows a devoted husband who buys a sunshade for his overheating wife after forgetting her parasol. He wagers $20 at the Casino to recoup costs, wins $15, then loses $1009 and $3000, totaling $5000 in gambling losses. He ends resigned to the parasol’s cost.
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Paris
Berlin Sizzles as Heat Wave Drives Prostrations Deaths
A brutal heat wave saps Berlin with temperatures near 100F. The crisis hits the poor hardest as prostrations and deaths rise daily while business falls. City crews open fountains and parks to provide relief, and relief Societies distribute milk and food. Russia experiments with Boy Scout style youth drills amid political tension.
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Frederick Werner
Berlin
Rhine
Department of the Interior
Russia
England
Nicholas
St. Petersburg
Cassel Scientific Research Society
Frankfort
Saiety
Pope launches crusade against fancy female fashion in churches
In Rome on August 26, the pope leads a strong clerical campaign against tight gowns and exaggerated décolletage worn by women in mass. Clergy in major cities publicly rebuke noncompliant women, warning fashion may harm family duties and honesty. Violent clashes with anti clericals are reported as the campaign continues.
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Rome
Will Make Steamer a Palace at Sea
Greenock august 26 work fitting out the new P and O steamer Madian to convey the king and queen to India for the coronation durbar proceeds rapidly. The vessel will leave the Clyde mid next month and become a Buckingham palace at sea with a powerful wireless installation for instant royal ministerial contact during the Bombay voyage. Rear Admiral Sir Colin Keppel commands with Commander N Toulman as navigating officer aboard the Lon on.
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Greenock
India
Clyde
Buckingham Palace
Boad
London
Bombay
Colin Keppel
N. Toulman
Lonon
Russian savant claims cure for epilepsy
Aug 26 Petersburg reports Dr. Lionen has discovered arsano cerebrin, alleging it cures epilepsy after three weeks with crises diminishing and ceasing in several cases. He plans a lecture tour to publicize the remedy.
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Petersburg
Lionen
Ice Famine Bites London Markets Amid Heatwave
London faces an ice famine as continued heat exhausts stocks at east coast ports and merchants struggle to meet urgent demand. The shortage is described as unprecedented in forty years.
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London
Skull misidentified by society joke ends in rebuke
A Grotto near Siemnen housed a so called prehistoric human skull joke. The specimen was forwarded to Prof Herman Kladisch at the University of Breslau who ruled it a modern chimpanzee skull. The joke author was publicly rebuked expelled from the society and warned of legal action for damaging German science.
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Grotto
Siemnen
Savant
University of
Philip Everett
London
England
England’s Nobility Struggles as Creditors Repossess Estates
Britain confronts a wave of aristocratic bankruptcies as creditors seize mortgaged estates. The piece notes a civil court trend among peers, the Earl of Yarmouth and the Marquise of Huntly among those pressed, and mentions an eccentric American yachtsman resisting British taxes. It also reports urgency in aeronautics planning for naval use and aerial attack innovations.
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England
Buckingham Palace
Earl of Yarmouth
Alice Thaw
Marquise of
Huntly
Orton Hall
Orton Longueville
Ball
Gerald Oakley Cadogan
Chelsea
Lord Cadogan
British Empire
Essex
Brown
Bobby
Man
Inland Revenue Commissioners
English War Department
Aeronautics
Naval Advisory Committee
Eronautics
King of Lundy Departs. Island Loses Longtime Ruler
The Rev. H. G. Heaven, 84, owner and longtime sovereign of Lundy Island off Devon, has left due to age and illness. He ruled the private community of 35 residents with kindness, built a church, conducted services, and kept order as king, parliament, and peacekeeper.
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London
Lundy Island
Devon
H. G. Heaven
Heaven
Mr. Heaven
Lundy
Arcadia
Oxford minister censured over Miracles of the New Testament
The Bishop of Winchester revoked Rev. J. M. Thompsons license to preach at Magdalen College after his book Miracles of the New Testament argued that miracles may not be literal events. Thompson questions the Virgin birth and the Resurrection as physical facts, sparking fierce church controversy across Oxford and the Church of England.
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Oxford
J. M. Thompson
Magdalen College
Winchester
Thompson
Mr. Thompson
Church of England
Swiss Keep Pictures From Leaving to American Buyers
In Geneva on August 26, three Se Gargantini paintings Birth Life and Death hang in the St Moritz museum will stay in Switzerland. A Milan banker owner offered many large sums, the top bid from America. The Swiss government will advance the minimum debt to private Swiss societies and individuals until paid.
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Geneva
Atlantic
Segantini
St. Moritz
Switzerland
Milan
America
Plan for new aeroplane with supplementary engine
It is believed the aircraft will need only a low velocity to stay aloft and this will be provided by a supplementary engine, possibly a compressed aft turbine type. The first machine is expected to be ready for trial within a year.
French Love Tales Turn Tragic as Seine Bathes Citizens
Paris dispatch details a spree of brutal love suicides and a baker who killed two women before self slaying. Separately Parisians bathe along the Seine, replacing fishermen with crowded swimming fronts and changing the riverfront mood. In Nesles Valley fear rises as two women are murdered and children eaten. police pursue a giant ape theory amid rumors of circus showmen.
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Isaac Waltons
Seine
Nesles
Paris
Clesedy
Cholera Measures Limit Triest Clothing Exports
The Austrian interior minister in Vienna orders provincial authorities to stop transit imports and exports of second hand clothing from Triest to curb cholera. As of now twenty six cholera cases have been reported in the area and residents are being observed by authorities.
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Triest
Berlin
Vienna
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