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...Dawson, recently retired telephone contract agent for the Post Office Department, wrote to a London evening newspaper recalling that once he installed two "beautiful telephones in ivory and gold" for the exclusive use of the late King Edward. The monarch requested that they be installed in such a way that the operators could not overhear his conversation. The Post Office authorities demurred. According to their regulations they had a positive right and duty to censor any messages coming over their wires. But King Edward insisted and the Post Office desisted, installed the telephones as requested...
...King to the ex-Kaiser at Doom. But if his loyal followers expected an imperial message from the exile at Doom, they were disappointed; Friedrich Augustus, as also might have been expected, said nothing. Nevertheless, when he reviewed his "troops" (Monarchists in uniform) he did something which no ex-monarch in Germany has done since...
...Rome, July 29 was commemorated fittingly; for on that day, 25 years ago, King Umberto, father of the present Monarch, was assassinated by an anarchist Italian hailing from Paterson...
...invited Premier Benito Mussolini to spent a holiday on his estates at San Rossore. Never before has a Premier been invited to stay with an Italian King as a personal guest. And stilled were the wagging tongues that spoke of a growing estrangement between the First Minister and his Monarch. Later, it was announced that King and Premier will in August review the Italian home fleet from the royal yacht Savoia...
...still they fell in those first and second rounds: deliberate Rudolph Knepper, demon putter of recent Princeton teams, before one L. L. Bredin of Detroit; Chick Evans, onetime monarch of the West, before L. E. Bunning, stout-hearted Chicago business man; James Manion and then Eddie Held, the prides of St. Louis, before Keefe' Carter, Oklahoma boy-champion...