Nouvelles des ports

aquarelle marine - marine watercolor

Rafiots et compagnies

aquarelle marine cargo au mouillage - marine watercolor cargo ship at anchor

Nouvelles des escales

aquarelle marine - marine watercolor


Le Funi - March 22, 1925


Small and Big Facts
of the Week

In Beirut, our vice-consul's wife is killed by bandits.

Eighteen Brussels couples celebrate their golden wedding anniversary.

The police headquarters, which already had a concert band, now has a symphony orchestra and a choir of 60 performers. -

The Esmeralda of the Fairgrounds for 1925 is Miss Henriette Camier.

The metalworkers' strike is widespread in Lombardy. -

A buried Indian city nearly ten thousand years old has been discovered in southern Nevada.

The garden of the Hôtel de Rohan on Rue des Archives will become a Public Square.

Siki is defeated by Berlenbach in New York.

The class of 1925 will be called up in May. -

A Japanese steamer disappears in a storm.

Mr. Albert Sarraut is appointed French Ambassador to Turkey.

Daylight saving time will be implemented on the night of April 5th. -

The body of a newborn baby is recovered in Neuilly.

In Algiers, Doctor Voronoff escapes a car accident.

A cement worker falls from the roof of the opera house and breaks his legs. -

The bodies of soldiers killed in Germany will be repatriated. -

The agricultural competition opens at the Parc des Expositions at Porte de Versailles.

A princess of Braganza inherits more than 13 million dollars. -

Lucien Gaudin is wounded in a duel by Mr. Armand Massard. -

A war widow from Hazebrouck becomes a grandmother at 32 and a half.

It is rumored that Charlot will soon appear on a Parisian stage at a salary of 50,000 francs a day. -

Maurice Bonay passes his driver's license.

Mr. Raoul Perret inaugurates the Vienne war memorial.

Cocoa has been imported into France for 400 years.

An average of 24 pen holders made available to the public are stolen from a Paris post office every day.

Le Funi 1925 03 22 The big and small facts of the week


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