London Society Divided Over Damaged Goods Play
London society debates attending Eugene Brieuxs Damaged Goods at the Little Theatre. Miss Dorothy Asner has secured rights for England with duchess of Marlborough and other leaders backing matinees ahead of a Lord Chamberlain appeal. The censor is not consulted and critics call the play shocking and daring. Attending notables include Mrs John Astor Lady Mond Lady Essex Lady Alastair Innes Kerr Lady Arthur Paget Bernard Shaw Chesterton Lord Howard de Walden and others.
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Dorothy Asner
Atlanta
England
Duchess of Marlborough
Lord Chamberlain
Miss Asner
John Astor
Mond
Essex
Alastair Innes-Kerr
Arthur Paget
Bernard Shaw
G. K. Chesterton
Lord Howard de Walden
Excellent For Stomach Trouble
Mrs G Dunn of Arnold Pennsylvania praises Chamberlain's Tablets for stomach trouble and bilious attacks. She reports relief from the first dose and improvement after one bottle. Sold by Van Antwerp Drug Corp and all dealers.
Needle emerges after seven years travel in body
Spokane woman Mary Stevens recalls a sewing needle that broke off in her thumb in 1907 and surfaced seven years later under a wisdom tooth. Doctors note such cases exist and can be fatal if pins touch vital organs.
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Spokane
Wash
Mary Stevens
Acoma Pueblo City Holds Ancient Senate of Stone and Sky
New York Feb 21 Acoma the Pueblo Indian city in New Mexico is described as the oldest city in the Western Hemisphere. Coronado found it in 1542 and the present settlement sits atop a 350 foot plateau with flat roofed three story mud houses crested by ladders and a 40 by 40 foot cathedral built of mud.
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New York
Acoma
New Mexico
Coronado
Mexico
Toronto
Empire
St. Augustine
United States
Menendez
Florida
Rebault
Corohado
Katzimo
Rocky Island
Southwest
Pueblo
San Mateo Mountains
Tribal War Massacre Report in Lorain Swamp
Boran tribesmen slaughtered an entire Rendile village in Lorain swamp in northern protectorate territory. An explorer returning to Nairobi said 200 people were killed after long harassment of Borans by Rendiles. British authorities failed to intervene in time.
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Nairobi
Lorain
Protectorate
Galla
Sambura
Uganda
Breakthrough Air Brake Cuts Stopping Distance for Trains
Pennsylvania Railroad tests show a twelve-car passenger train at sixty miles an hour can stop within its own length about one thousand feet using an improved air brake system. The system, showcased by Westinghouse’s 8 W Dudley at an American Society of Mechanical Engineers meeting, uses two brake shoes per wheel and faster brake capacity, operable by pneumatic or electric control, with stopping distances dramatically reduced.
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New York
Pennsylvania Railroad
W.dudley
Westinghouse Air Brake Company
American Society of Mechanical Engineers
West Thirty-ninth Street
Vedrines Demands Revolvers in Paris Duel With Quinton
French aviator Jules Vedrines, after arriving from Cairo, asks two friends to act as seconds for a duel with René Quinton and insists on revolvers. Quinton orders Vedrines to duel Roux, Vedrines says he will fight Quinton first then return to Cairo for a Cairo flight. He plans to run for the chamber of deputies at the next election.
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Paris
Jules Vedrines
Cairo
Egypt
Rene Quinton
French Aerial League
Vedrines
Henry Roux
Quinton
Roux
Chamber of Deputies
Celebrated Painting Heads to America From Wilton House
English art lovers fear the sale of the 1410 painting "King Richard II and His Patron Saint" from Wilton House. The Earl of Pembroke plans to auction it, with a high price expected, possibly leading to its departure to America for national collection replacement.
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London
Richard Ti
Earl of Pembroke
Wilton House
Salisbury
America
Greece Turkey clash in warfare again warned by gloom
London Feb. 21 gloomily predicts that Venizelos mission to Europe failed to raise funds for Greece and that Turkey is reportedly ready for renewed hostilities.
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Greece
Turkey
London
M. Venizleos
Average Man At Home Quietly Motives Living Away
A blunt observation notes the average man’s irritability at home suggesting he plans to live elsewhere to avoid domestic friction. The remark implies pursuit of separate living arrangements rather than staying agitated at home.
French Senate weighs easy marriage reform
Paris reports a senate bill to simplify marriage by eliminating notification and descent formalities. The measure aims to curb delays and reduce obstacles, arguing the current system makes marriage an almost luxury under modern life.
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London Society
Eugene Brieux
Little Theatre
Authors’ Producing Society
Everyday Finance
First National Bank
Alabama
Mobile
Dauphin Street
Pinge
E.G. Bowman
DR. F. L. Tapia
L. C. Fry
F. Ladd
C. P. Bestor, JR
Vicw
G. A. Michael
Merchants Bank
Water and
St. Francis Streets
Tillman and
M’laurin
Fifth Avenue
Jacobson’s the Good
Clothes Store
A. J. M'Laurin
Washington
A. J. McLaurin
Ben Tillman
McLaurin
Tillman
Senate
Lin
Will Op
Sir Wit Ater Tee
Montgomery
H. C. Geron
MIR
Airman
France
Hoods
Harrison Mutual Burial Association
South
Conception Street
Satsuma
Alvin Japanese Nursery CO
Bank of Mobile
Eerties
Univadien
Isiana and
Oere
Joan
Dr, Brown
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