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La Bignole news

29  April 01, 1925  ..


L'Éclaireur du Dimanche

Page Two - The Grand European Hotels series resumes. This week, La Bignole is making a stopover in the "misty Myrelingues" at the LUGDUNUM Palace, located in the 6th arrondissement of Lyon, with 400 rooms...and 400 baths.

Page thirty-five - The English painter Ian C. Juta. An invitation to take a stroll and visit the Château d'Eze, where the painter is exhibiting. The elite were present at the exhibition's opening. And why is this highly talented painter at the Château d'Eze? Thanks to the great American composer Mr. Barlow, who purchased the estate, where Ian C. Juta executed grandiose frescoes. Two portraits by the painter are reproduced on the page: Sir Glyn-West, director of Armstrong Withworth Co. of London, and Miss Levick, daughter of Sir Hugh Levick of New York.

Page thirty-six - Isola Superiore or Dei Pescatori and Isolino or Sans Giovanni, two islands for sale... Isola dei Pescatori, Stresa, Verbano-Cusio-Ossola, Piedmont, Italy, the smallest of the Borromean Islands

Page forty-five - An "inclusive" advertisement at Galeries Lafayette. The text: "Whether you're fat, thin, short, or slender." Thanks to Eversmart, but what about your body shape, fat or thin...?


Le Provençal de Paris

Page Two - The return of Auguste Escoffier and his Provençal cuisine. This week, a so-called "lean" lunch. A not-so-meager menu, including recipes for Provençal-style love apples, without apples but with tomatoes, Vaucluse-style cod fritters, fillets of sole chatelaine, and bananas with rice.

Page three - The Chorges-Barcelonnette railway line, details received by Deputy Charles Baron from Victor Peytral, Minister of Public Works, regarding the financing, construction, and concession of the Chorges-Barcelonnette line for the benefit of the PLM (Paris-Lyon-Méditerranée) company.


Le  Cri de Marseille

Page One - Holding Multiple Elected Offices. Public Office: An Honor or a Profit? Profits from the Taxpayers? This is the problem with politicians who hold multiple offices, commonly referred to these days as "politocards." A vulgar term perhaps, but certainly correct.

Page two - "The Single School." The secular or single school is not anti-religious. A recent circular from Mr. François-Albert, Minister of Public Education, provides clarifications to allow students "complete freedom" to continue their religious education, provided...


Le Funi

Page two - The big and small facts of the week, raw and without commentary.

Same page - The story of "Boom," the rescue cat. Taken in by Mr. and Mrs. Smith at 88 8th Avenue in New York, he, in turn, saves his benefactors. Another chapter to add to the great book devoted to the intelligence of animals


Le Petit Journal illustré

Page Two - The weekly games and recreations of La Bignole, featuring chess this week and some news from the Paris Tournament and checkers. Also, mind games and curiosity games with a compound anagram, a simple anagram, a metagram-logograph, a charade, and a crossword puzzle: La Cabane. But no solutions from last month. Patience!

Page three - In the Kingdom of Iraq, due to a lack of modernity, boatmen are inventive in crossing the Tigris, as inventive as the London police chief in fighting pea soup. Drawing by Razzaq Muhaybis al-Saadawi, Iraqi Minister of Transport.

Page nine - A resourceful dog in a photo, or the intelligence of a brave pooch, who provides a daily service to his master.

Page twelve - Vilna, a Canadian city besieged by wolves. A full-page, color illustration of a group of residents' dangerous fight to defend their village against invaders.


Le Petit Écho de la mode

Page six - The housewife's notebook, weekly from Grillon du foyer and La Bignole. A week of lunch and dinner menus and recipes for - 78 Sausage with rice with a tip for using a large dry sausage - 79 Cauliflower harlequin, a very nourishing dish - 80 Semolina pudding - 81 Apple soup - 82 Rabbit with macaroni and no waste, we use the cooking water from macaroni to make soup - 83 Savarin cake


Le Pêle-Mêle - April 05, 1925

Page Two - Pêle-Mêle's great inventions for sailing "upwind" Sailors, as well as maritime sailing transport, may be interested in this virtuous innovation for decarbonizing and sailing against the wind.


L'Œuvre

Page One - Abundant production should lower the cost of living. But... Mackerel was "giving" so much these days that this abundance, of course, led to lower prices...

Same page - Saint-Benoît Accident: We knew on the Orléans network that a disaster was fatal. The confidence received on this subject by Mr. Franck leaves no doubt.

Page Two - The Capitalist Regime and Collectivism: We have often painted the picture of capitalist anarchy, and collectivism proclaims that wage labor will not last forever.

Page three - The presidential election in Germany: Republicans unite around Mr. Marx.


L'Intransigeant

Page One - Russia exports... half a billion counterfeit dollars? The notes issued were so perfect that every bank in England received them.

Same page - A crisis of conscience whose victim is the consumer. It's safe to say that recent years have drawn a watershed, a trough of social values ​​to which everything must be related.

L'Ouest-Éclair

Page One - A cat that caused a lot of ink to flow. Bureaucracy is a beautiful thing, and a necessary thing. But, still...

Le Figaro

Page One - The Centenary of Paul-Louis Courier. On April 10, 1825, a hundred years ago in a few days, Paul-Louis Courier was assassinated in his forest at Larçay, in Touraine.

Page four - Mme Marbouty, "the Muse of the Department", the handsome page Balzac took with him, in male disguise, on his first trip to Italy.


Le Sourire - April 05, 1925

Page eleven - "Women who smoke", a watercolor by Henry Fournier, a page of illustration on: women who smoke.


April 05, 1925