English Queen Mary Worries Over Prince of Wales Romance
London Feb 22 The English Queen Mary resembles Queen Charlotte in looks and willful temperament. The Prince of Wales, once model discipline, now fears romantic interests as he studies at college, with Queen Mary planning to shadow him abroad to Germany to guard him from a Berlin ball on September 13 amid Kaiser Wilhelm’s festivities.
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International News Service
London
Queen Alexandria
Queen Mary
Queen
England
Queen Charlotte
George III
National Gallery
Mary
George
Prince Albert
Prince of Wales
Germany
Berlin
Victoria Louise
Imperial Palace
Mrs Maldwin Drummond a Royalty Married Investor
The article profiles the second wife of Maldwin Drummond, ex remittance man turned bank partner, and stepfather to Marshall and Henry Field. It notes the Carlton House Terrace sale to Allen Drummond and laments royal court intrigues while predicting a shift to motorbus travel reducing stagecoaches and altering fortunes for Alfred Vanderbilt.
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Banu
Marshall Field, Jr
Maldwin Drummond
Drummond Bank
Drummond
Johannesburg
South Africa
England
Switzerland
Gadlands
Marshall
Henry Field
Marshall Field
Chicago
Forbes House Tops London Social Scene This Season
London society thrives at Forbes House the home of Lords and Lady Granard with a string of magnificent dinner parties. Despite Lent ministers decry festive gaiety while the press condemns the sacrificial season’s neglect as London’s social center shines.
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London
Forbes House
Lo#s
Lady Granard
Ex-King Manuel Worries Over Lavish Tastes and Lodging Cost
A London gossip item notes the former king Manuel's restless energy and costly tastes. Friends fear his lavish gifts to actresses and chorus girls, and a model lodging house visit near Strand and Piccadilly, where he was assured three meals daily for twenty five cents. A Cleveland Leader paragraph about Shaw and American theater echoes differing tastes.
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London
Manuel
Strand
Piccadilly
Cleveland Leader
Reading
Shaw
America
Mrs Martin Cured After Five Years Of Suffering
Boone Mill Virginia mother of eighteen stomach trouble and constipation reports cure by Chamberlain's tablets after five years of suffering and snow a public sale listing for sale of the remedy.
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Martin
C. J. Martin
Boone Mill
Chamberlain
Paris Women and Boulevards Seen Through American Eyes
An American observer notes Parisian flirtations and charm on the boulevards, praising the Parisienne's appeal and the discreet, harmless manners of boulevardiers. He reflects on gender roles, marriage, and the social climate favoring women’s influence, ending with plans for spring fetes honoring childhood in May.
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International News Service
Paris
Chicago
Boulvardieres
Avenue de l'Opera
New York
Great White Way
Avenue del Opera
Place Des Invalides
France
Wasa
M. Lafarge
Pont de Flandre
The World's Best Medicines No. 52
The author lists five remedies including Peruna and Peruna Tablets, Manalin and Manalin Tablets, and Lacupia. He endorses their safety purity and effectiveness for catarrh and general ailments, claiming they cure blood contamination and offer convenient forms for home use. The piece promotes his own laboratory produced medicines and urges households to be prepared with these remedies.
Spectacular Paris Street Pageant and the Return of Spring
A Theatre du Chatelet program will feature a grand procession with groups of boys and girls guiding cars of costumed children representing nationalities. Flowers and lilacs fill the streets to symbolize the Spring of Life while schoolchildren from major French towns and foreign capitals join the celebrations. The piece follows a Mi-Careme cavalcade and enchants Parisians with a patriotic, depopulation-friendly display. The article then shifts to fashion, praising airy Directoire styles with sheer gowns, high slits, and minimalist undergarments. Slippers with jeweled garters, ribbon roses, and elastic bands appear popular, while gloves fall out of fashion and haute couture maintains lavish embellishments.
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Theatre du Chatelet
Directoire
la Mode
Lioness Causes Panic in Paris Theatre Scene
In Paris at Theatre Poplaire Belleville a lioness in the drama Devoured broke loose during a Feb 22 performance. It leapt the curtain, landed among the audience and orchestra, walked to the manager’s office, then was confined by the trainer. Women fainted as panic spread through the crowd.
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Paris
Theatre Poplaire
Belleville
Bowen
Tepeal
Well Planned During Robbery in Paris
A Credit Lyonnais messenger was robbed of 11140 in Paris on Rue Dauphine as two men masked with pepper blinded him then knocked him down and escaped with the wallet after a staged loan guarentee ruse.
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International News Service
Paris
Credit Lyonnesis
Wife Kills Husband in Defense of Honor in Duel
Paris reports a dramatic案例 in Moscow where M Yvon Potokin, a fencing instructor, challenged by a husband angered by a perceived suitor for his wife, faced his wife in a duel. Madam Potokin declared she would fight first, the bout began with parries, and the confrontation escalated after several exchanges.
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Paris
Moscow
The
Excelsior
M. Yvon Potokin
Madam Potokin
Madame Potokin
M. Potokin
Thrilling Flight Narrative From Alps Rescue at 10,000 Feet
Paris Feb 22 A graphic interview relays M Bielooucie s perilous Alpine flight. Engine failure over the Saltine ravine prompted a spiral climb to 10 000 feet above the Gaby Pass and Weissmiess threats. He dodged the Corridor of Hell then descended to Ossola Valley and Italy seeking relief and victory.
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International News Service
Paris
M. Bielooucie
Alps
Simpson
Weissmiess
Monte Leone
Simplon
Gaby Pass
Gondo
Chaves
Chavez
Hell
Mount Monscera
Ossola
Italy
Duel Action Sparks Arrests After Fatal Stabbing
In a tense confrontation one man taunts Madame Potokin who then lunges and kills him. Madame Potokin and eight officers present at the duel are arrested as investigations begin into the incident.
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Madame Potokin
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