Parisian police seize member of famed brigand gang
Paris police arrest a 21 year old Geneva native named Poyer linked to the Bonnet Garnier gang. A hotel visit revealed a hamper with six revolvers three daggers burglar tools and bomb making notes linking him to prior robberies at Boulevards Haussmann and related sieges.
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M. Guichard
Criminal Detective Department
Poyer
Geneva
Pannier
Bonnet
Garnier
Avenue Secretan
Geniellet
China
L’homme Au Panier
Boulevard Haussmann
Ordener
Montgaron
Chantilly
Livry
Choisy-le-Roi
Nogent-sur Marne
Rembrandt in London Claimed to Be a Copy
Dr. Wilhelm Bode asserts that a National Gallery Rembrandt portrait of his father is a copy by an early pupil, while a Kaiser Friedrich museum piece once labeled a copy is argued to be the original. Berlin critics await London experts’ verdict as Bode’s authority wanes after a Leonardo bust controversy.
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London
National Gallery
Wilhelm Bode
Kaiser Friedrichmuseum
Berlin
Germany
Leonardo da Vinci
Bode
R. Cockle Lucas
Khedive Enjoys Movies and Royal Visits in London
The khedive of Egypt, encased in a London stay, called on royal family members and met diplomatic corps representatives. He has visited moving picture theaters showing kinemacolor coronation reels and attended Windsor Castle visits with the king and queen.
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London
Egypt
Visi
Corps Diplomatique
Khedive
Delhi
Windsor Castle
Germans not worried as to Russian navy
Berlin reports that Germany regards Russia’s vast naval expansion as a distant concern. Analysts note Moscow’s fleet is in early stages of restoration and German relations with Russia have been stable and cooperative, with English anxiety seen as traditional.
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Berlin
Russia
Count Reventlow
Deutsch Tageszeitung
Baltic
Germany
Victoria Luise Zeppelin Sails East Over Holland
The Victoria Luise airship completed a record breaking last flight from Dusseldorf venturing over Holland then into German waters. It spoke Bremen then over Heligoland before saluting the Kaiser’s yacht and landing at Hamburg with 25 crew aboard. Protest from Holland is anticipated.
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Holland
Berlin
Dusseldorf
Amsterdam
Bremen
Heligoland
Elbe
Hamburg
Sugar tax to stay up in Berlin defense bills
The reichstag postponed the 1914 sugar tax cut to six months after a general property tax law, not later than October 1, 1916, with the property tax bill due by April 30, 1913. It passed an inheritance tax amendment bill for operation by April 1, 1913, and approved army and navy bills despite opposition from Socialists Poles and Alsatians.
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Berlin
Reichstag
Federal Council
Grand Duchess in Luxembourg Becomes Ruler with Aid Focus
Berlin reports the grand duchess of Luxembourg has reached adulthood and sworn in as ruler. She honors duties, studies politics, and trains under state ministers, showing strong concern for the poor and a mission to make Luxembourg a paradise on earth.
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Berlin
Germany
Luxemburg
William
Marie
Grand Duchy
Bysschen
Napoleon
Napoleon I
Queen Victoria
Three Lives Lost in Battle with Apache Robbers Near Berlin
In Nauen near Berlin three robbers died after a night of housebreaks. Constable Kleinschmidt was killed while attempting arrest. one robber shot himself and another killed the partner. Pursued by locals and Royal Foresters, the last Apache died in a final gunfight. Police link the gang to Berlin’s crime problem.
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Berlin
Nauen
Bredow
Kleinschmidt
Royal Foresters
Yin Bredow
Ca Aion
Love tragedy shocks Venice aristocracy in Vienna train deaths
In Vienna a first class compartment on a southbound train held the bodies of Countess Alice Albarti D enno and Baron Ladislaus Kuerthy. The couple, found with a crucifix and a pistol, evidently committed suicide after a rejected match. Family objection blamed as motive. Countess D enno was related to Belgium's King Leopold II lineage.
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Vienna
Alice Albarti D’'Enno
Baron Ladislaus Kuerthy
Baron Kuerthy
Countess D'Enno
Stephanie Longay
Leopold II
Belgium
Princes Trust Loses Berlin Defeat In Transatlantic Trade
July 13 The German money combine known as the princes trust led by Princes Max Egon zu Fuerstenberg and Prince Christian Kraft zu Hohenlohe, with capital over 125 million dollars, loses a struggle against the Hamburg American and North German Lloyd lines. Its bid for Emden emigration traffic privileges is rejected by the empire’s federal council due to ample facilities already provided by Hamburg and Bremen lines.
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Berlin
Princes Trust
Lloyd
Princes’ Trust
Max Egon Zu Fuerstenberg
Kaiser
Christian Kraft Zu
Emden
Federal Council of the Empire
Hamburg
Bremen
Radium in Britain: Tiny Quantities and Wide Variations
The London Express reports Britain holds roughly five grammes of radium, with the Radium Institute owning just over a gramme. Hospitals and medical figures share the rest, values vary by purity, and cures claimed abroad warrant caution as radium shows notable success in rodent ulcer and certain women’s ailments.
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British Isles
London
Radium Institute
London Express
Harley Street
St. Mary’s
St. Thomas Guy’s
Middlesex Hospitals
Middlesex Hospital
Continent
America
England
Ringworm Began With Pimples in Campbell Virginia
A 1912 testimonial from Miss Virginia Woodward of Campbell Virginia describes six to eight years of ringworm starting as small pimples on the right face. After trying home remedies, she reports cure after using Cuticura Soap and Ointment for about a month. The ad promotes Cuticura products and offers a free 32-page Skin Book.
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Campbell
Virginia Woodward
Cuticura
Dept.t. Boston
Kitchener to Berlin for Leg Operation
The Vossische Zeitung reports Lord Kitchener will travel to Berlin for surgery on the leg he broke in India in 1903. The limb has troubled the British field marshal as he rode through a Simla tunnel when a native frightened his horse.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
Vossiche Zeitung
Cairo
Lord Kitchener
India
Simla
Lions and their fierce roar haunt New York hunter’s boasts
New York dispatch reports Stewart Edward White, recently back from Africa, claims 71 lion kills with skins as affidavits. He asserts captive lions mimicry fails before the primal roar in the jungle and notes captive lions stay smaller because they are captured as cubs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Dispatch
Stewart Edward White
White
Musicians in Court Hear Libel Suit Over Music Methods
London July 13 well known musicians attended Justice Darling's court to hear Dr T H Yorke Trotter joint author of The Rhythmic Gradus testify in libel action against J Spencer Curwen. Mrs Annie Curwen defended the rival method. The case features quarrels over tonic sol fa and piano teaching aims. The hearing was adjourned.
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London
Justice Darling
T. H. Yorke Trotter
N. M
London Academy of Music
J. Spencer Curwen
Annie Curwen
Trotter
Miss Freer
Devonshire Place
Spencer Curwen
Beethoven
Dr. Trotter
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Kitchener
J. M. Krakauer
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