Paris Opens First Radium Institute in Rue Penthien
Special Cable report from Paris describes the new radium institute led by Dr. Frumesan. Inhalation treatment via a vollinhaliator room aims to treat rheumatism gout and arthritic conditions with radium emanations. The article also notes Mme de Thebes foretelling a troubling 1912 black year with war risks and social upheaval.
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George Dufresne
Paris
Mme. Curie
Rue Penthien
Gudzent
Jacobs
Kraus
Bergell
Bickell
Loewenthal
Madame Laska
Frumesan
Paris Institute
Bath
England
Mme. de Thebes
Ercury
Europe
Toulon
Germany
Spain
Council
War Office
Torkmen
Unicipal Council
Arming Railroad Strikers Proposed by Bradford Union
A London report notes rising unrest among railroad workers after a Christmas strike was averted. Bradford Amalgamated Societies of Railroad Servants discuss forming a Trade Union Physical Protection league to train and equip selected unionists to confront capitalists and police.
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London
Bradford
Amalgamated Societies of Railroad Servants
Physical Protection League
Ingenious Lapland Village Hoax Foiled by Tourists
A Paris Journal reader recounts a Hamburg company creating a fake Lapland village for North Sea tours. Italian gondoliers dressed as Lapps posed as locals to attract visitors, while genuine natives were left unseen in the interior.
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Paris
Paris Journal
Lapland
North Sea
Hamburg
Fear of German Invasion Amid Christmas Quiet
London dispatch reports English fears of a German invasion during the holidays driven by sensational papers and spy rumors. Kaiser seeks peace with Britain per imperial court sources, while the piece notes internal Jewish rabbinic succession disputes and royal children’s musical interests and jewelry limits.
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Phillip Everett
London
England
Grant
Kaiser
Germany
Imperial Court
Berlin
Edward Grey
Becomes Actress to Please Mother in London
Baroness von Wrede also known as Miss Ray Beveridge seeks to honor her dying mother's wish by producing five plays. She has acted to fulfill the vow yet longs to buy a pig farm now on the market while her mother's plays remain unproduced. She wonders if pursuing the farm conflicts with the mother's wish and whether the mother would approve.
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London
Marie Lohr
Lieblers
Lord Howard de Walden
Miss Lohr
Lord de Walden
America
Tady de Walden
Adler
King George
Queen Victoria
Prince of Wales
Prince Albert
Duchess of
Saxe-Coburg
Saxe-Coburg and
Gotha
Mary
Queen Mary
Cowes
Prince
Baroness von Wrede
Miss Ray Beveridge
Duma
Siberia
Brodski
Okrana
St. Petersburg
Gerassimov
M. Trussewitch
M. Stolypin
Germany
Baron Conrad von Hoetzendorf
Italy
Austria-Hungary
Baron von Hoetzendorf
Austria
Conrad
Balkans
Tripoli
Turkey
Constantinople
Albania
Porte
Paris funeral draws thousands of socialists leaders
Ten thousand socialists from France and abroad including M. Jaures Vaillant Guesde and Karl Marx’s daughter Paul Lafargue and his wife are buried after dying by their own hand at Draveil near Paris. Police guard Pere Lachaise as rites unfold with speeches from Jaures and others.
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Paris
M. Jaures
Vaillant
Guesde
Karl Marcie
Herr Kautsky
Reichstag
Germany
M. Paul Lafargue
Karl Marx
Draveil
Pere Lachaise
Death Sentence for Slight Offense in French Dragoons
A private named Motte from the Sixth Dragoons received ten years hard labor from a Lille court martial for hurling a shoe at the regimental doctor in a hospital. Beuzebock, his neighbor, insulted officers and was sentenced to death by the same court martial.
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Paris
Sixth Dragoons
Motte
Lille
Beuzebock
Beuzebeck
Mar
English Writer On Americans Immature Culture Lacking
London columnist Filson Young argues Americans lack true culture and maturity, calling them hypocritical, sentimental, and cruel. He contrasts American speed and ritual with British refinement, noting Americans show restless behavior, faux culture, and a hardened, childlike temperament.
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London
Filson Young
English Review
England
Relief Aid For Distressed Albanians Faces Distribution Delays
About 10,000 Albanians remain in want of food as relief supplies have not been distributed. A smouldering tension in the region is being fanned by ongoing hardships and insufficient aid delivery.
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Prussia
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Belgium
Marie Jose
Baroness
Dying Parent
Aode
Fatherland
Wether
Frederick Werner
Morocco
Bonn
von Bethmann- Holwee
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France
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Bielefeld
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