| Le Funi - May 31, 1925 |
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Small and Big Facts of the Week - At the buffet at the Gare de Lyon station, members of the French Acclimatization Society eat whale.
- Thieves break into the Nancy tax office and return empty-handed.- In the middle of a New York street, four bandits stop a bus and rob the passengers.  - The Prince of Connaught comes to inaugurate the British pavilion at the Decorative Arts Exhibition. - Near Reims, the Prefect of the Marne and his wife are involved in a car accident. - In the "Zone" in Montreuil, an Algerian is found riddled with knife wounds. - Mr. Maurice Maunoury, former Minister of the Interior, dies in Luisant. - In a cinema in La Chapelle, two gymnasts perform the "human top" and fall onto the stage and are seriously injured. - Boxer Jack Dempsey is in Paris and referees a match at the Gaumont Palace. - In Valenciennes, a family of ten is poisoned by a white sauce. - The Dutch Chamber reinstates French classes in primary schools. - A storm collapses a cinema in India, and more than thirty people are buried under the rubble. - A troop of Djiguite Cossacks exhibits in Buffalo. - A million works of art are stolen from the home of American banker Georges Blumenthal. - Near Beaune, a Parisian soldier traveling on the roof of a train car is killedby the arch of a bridge. - Amundsen's planes have departed (toward the Pole). - At the "Russia Mountains" of Decorative Arts, a train carrying one hundred passengers derails mid-flight. - The memory of Lafayette is celebrated in Chavaniac. - Painlevé inaugurates the White Coal Exhibition in Grenoble. - Two indigenous tribes fight in Algeria. - An earthquake in Japan kills 1,500 people. - Marshal French dies. |
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