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Nouvelles des escales

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La Bignole news

Drapeau France

22  March 29, 1925  ..


Le Cri de Marseille

Page one - Lord Balfour in Palestine. Preparations for the inauguration of the first Jewish university, pictured "for Arabs, a day of national mourning"

Same page - Thrift stores. The sad spectacle of auction rooms. An article to read and reflect on before attending an auction, a flea market, or a flea market...

Page two - The spirit of the staircase. A brief, the Mayor of Marseille, Mr. Flaissières, and the construction of the staircase at Saint-Charles station.


Les Nouvelles de Versailles

Page Two - Musette Balls and Copyright. A judgment of the Commercial Court in a case pitting the owners of the flonflons against SACEM (Society of Authors, Composers and Music Publishers)


Le Pêle-Mêle

Page Two - The Tax Collection Machine. After the simple inventions of the previous weeks, today we have the BIG inventions of the "Pêle-Mêle." "Time is money" and the moral "If embers give ashes, descending gives embers."

Page seven - To survive in your environment. Parental education. A humorous cartoon.  The concierge's sweeping... is it effective? A second drawing, this one signed by Louis Forton.


Le Funi

Page two - The humorous "Funi," the beautiful signs. The game a century later, find other store signs during your walk and continue the Funi list, for example, there was the Louchez optician in Gisors in Eure.

Same page - Small and big facts of the week, without comment.


Le Sourire

Page seventeen - The Minister and the Letter Q: The Little Typist Takes Things Literally, an illustrated sketch by Henry Tournier.

Page twenty-three - Ladies, be practical. A trotting suit for shopping. A full-page illustration, a watercolor by Monsieur Maurice Pépin. And a century later, all you have to do is replace the small pouch in your hand with a smartphone.


Le Bas-Breton

Page One - The inauguration of Châteaulin Town Hall and the water supply service. In the presence of the Minister of the Navy, Mr. Dumesnil. A comprehensive and detailed report covering more than two pages of the splendor of Châteaulin on this occasion. La Bignole announced it last week.


L'Ouest-Éclair

Page One - Russia buys wheat from the United States and England


Le Grand Écho du Nord - March 29, 1925

Page One - The Merlebach Disaster. The horrific deaths of the 51 miners and the heroism of the rescuers.

Also - German elections: Who will be the next president? Photos of the different candidates.

Same page - The Cormeilles Bandits in photos. The follow-up to last week's news story, the attack on the Cormeille-en-Parisis post office

Also - Is the lure cutting wire a lie detector? An idea from Mr. J. Howes of Ohio State; a lie detector commented on by a poem by Pierre Manaut


Auto-vélo

Page one - The autophobia crisis illustrated.

Page two - There are complaints about driving license examiners in Charente in Saint-Gervais; but it's not a problem of delays like in the 21st century where A study recommends outsourcing practical driving tests, entrusting them "to approved private entities under strict government supervision." But not lime and cement merchants and insurance agents, please! cellpadding="10">Le Petit Journal illustré

Page two - La Bignole's weekly recreations, this week chess, mind games and curiosities with the treehouse, an anagram and crosswords, not forgetting the solutions for March 1st.

Page 3 - Public Transportation for Children in Japan and in Photos


Le Petit Écho de la mode

Page six - Le Grillon du foyer and La Bignole's weekly diary. What are we eating for lunch or dinner? A week of dishes with recipes for: - 72 cassoulet - 73 Brussels sprout bread - 74 English cake - 75 tender omelet - 76 salsify in butter - 77 Basque cake.


L'Éclaireur du Dimanche

Page eleven and following - The Rothschild Estate in Grasse, a historic day for the "city of perfumes." With a photo overview, a report on the new 135-hectare town emerging from the ground. Housing developments with every comfort, building plots starting at 10 francs per square meter. A comprehensive 5-page report with numerous snapshots of this memorable day for the city of Grasse, March 15, 1925. It can be read in the full version of the newspaper alongside articles on painters, sculptors and musicians who stopped in Nice, on Edouard Belin's teleautograph and on Edouard Belin's teleautograph or on the Monte-Carlo Concours d'Elegance...  the prize list, with Madame E. Terrien in a Rolls-Royce... the finery and masked ball of the French officers' meeting, the Provençal festival "la Farandole" at the Hôtel Ruhl, the day of the Grand Prix des Courses Plates won by the Écurie Macomber...


Excelsior

Page One - The Puits Remeaux disaster in Merlebach in photos

Page Four - The Chess Problem and the Traditional Game, Today's No. 226 Between Dr. Bernstein and Mr. Carls


Le Figaro

Page one - Customer education of the nouveau riche


L'Œuvre

Page one - Cambridge beat Oxford in the famous annual event  of oars opposing them.

Same page - New bus lines in Paris and the suburbs, but don't be fooled...

Page two - The thyroid gland transplant of the tortured Olivier, into a five-year-old girl.

Page four - The Noyon City Loan Affair: Arrest of Mr. de Camelis.


La Presse

Page one - An Evening at the Chinese Legation. The Chinese Legation Hotel was brilliantly lit to welcome the Parisian diplomatic corps and Parisian dignitaries.

Same page - The "ruckus" started again today in the Quartier Latin. As expected, the class did not take place. Here are the various incidents of the day.

Page Two - Mind Games: Once the Limits of Imagination Are Overtaken, There Are No Limits

Same Page - Interview with Ramsay MacDonald about the effect of the Dawes report...


Le Petit Parisien

Page One - The State is abolishing the principle of non-retroactivity of laws. The Calais Chamber of Commerce denounces this great danger. It is quite right...


March 29, 1925