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...lighthouse keeper carried their first message by walking across the Strait ice to the telegraph station at Lourdes de Blanc Sablon. A message went to Point Armour, where one William Barrett operated the wireless station. That first message announcing the Atlantic crossing was for the North German Lloyd steamship offices in Manhattan. The line had provided money for the flight...
Died. Camille Blanc, 81, founder of Monte Carlo's famed Casino; at Nice...
...defending poor clients who sought him at the inn. Strangely this scene was re-enacted last week in Geneva. Clients: representatives of all the Powers and half the nations of Europe. Briand: still Briand. Inn: the white, sumptuous Hotel des Bergues, overlooking Lac Leman and Overlooked by Towering Mont Blanc...
When this proposal was broached last week at Rome, the news traveled swiftly to Paris and there drew a loud, whinnying tening expedition, and seemed to have in mind that he would climb up the Italian side of Mont Blanc and perform the rechristening in despite of any French Alpinists who might be lurking near the summit...
...FRIGHTFULLY passé." Such has been the comment of smart folk, for several seasons, to anyone who proposed a visit to once smart Monte Carlo. Of course the crowds at the Casino tables have been as large as ever-but unfashionable. What to do? The families of Blanc, Radziwill, Bonaparte, chief stockholders in the Casino, have been puzzling for some time. They are now trying an experiment: Miss Elsa Maxwell. Miss Maxwell is very large, very mirthful, very well known in the U. S. colony at Paris. There must, naturally, be a number of ladies thereabouts, who, for a consideration...