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 - May 31, 1925

Small and Big Facts of the Week

- At the buffet at the Gare de Lyon station, members of the French Acclimatization Society eat whale.
- In the middle of a New York street, four bandits stop a bus and rob the passengers.Le Funi 1925 05 31 art 02 small and big facts of week
- 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. 
- Thieves break into the Nancy tax office and return empty-handed.
- 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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