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THE CHINA MAIL.
MONDAY: JULY” 28, '192;
Mrs. Warren G. Harding, wife of the President, was sufficiently well to play a leading role in the Memorial Day celebration at Washington. As "First Lady of the Land," she planted in Arlington, á nemorial tree as a token of the nation's homage to its war martyrs.
Alyce Dawl
INT
Just to create comment among her friends pretty Alyce Dawley, society girl, became an usher in a theatre. Then, when she had be- come proficient in her new position, she arranged a theatre party disappeared, and when her friends entered the theatre they found Alyce prepared to show them to their seats. To their questions she, answered: "I can't see why shouldn't do something useful. Really I had a most delightful time. The girls at the theatre were just charming."
Mas Frances,
Although beautiful Mrs. Francgs Ruth Wilson Levy-Whitely was in Rome, Italy, at the time the case came up in the San Francisco courts she was granted an annulment decree against Theodore Levy, whom she had tried to divorce. Her attorney showed that her divorce from Levy had not become final when she married Frank West Whitely, a wealthy Englishman, at Manila. When a mere girl, she
had a narrow escape frum blindnes, as result of the action of a jealous
vouth, Van Camp Redfera, in throwing vitriol into her face.
edge alchnH Clarke
Another world war impends according to former Supreme Court Justice John H. Clark, and he has appealed to the "young soldiers of the nation" to organize the country for peace. "War may come again in three years, it may come in ten," he said, "but it is inevitable. If they go earnestly about it, the three or four million young men in the United States can compel an organization in our country for peace such as has never been seen in any nation in the world."
M.Decard
Court Szech
M. Berard, Minister of Fine Arts at Paris, has orderd a complete investigation of the charges made by the Society to French Arts that some of the Jews of America, with a member- Safeguard The Federation of Hungarian priceless statuary in the Louvre and other valuable art treasures ship of 200,000, has made a plea elsewhere in France have disfrom its Headquarters. for the te appeared and been replaced by moval of Count Laszilo Szechenyi counterfeits. M. Cornillion, art from the post of Consul-General dealer, of Paris, has charged also that a man of his acquaintance sold of Hungary to the United States. to the Metropolitan Museum of Alleged anti-Semitic statments on Art, in New York, fabricated the "part of the nobleman, who is "Gothic statuary" but the accusa the husband of the former Gladys tion has been given little credence in New York.
Vanderbilt, heave led to the appeal.
Henry J Allent
Henry J. Allen, former Governor of Kansas, has stated, in London, his belief that President Harding will be a candidate for re-election and that he will bo opposed by either Henry Ford, automobile manu- facturer, or Oscar W. Underwood, Senator from Alabama. Allen denied that he intends to seek the Republican nomination. De- mocratic leaders, he said, are for Underwood, but he is sceptical about their ability to control the national convention.
B.P.Gage.
J. B. Müller.
Dulee of Orkans
Turmoil in Paris has followed the discovery of an alleged mon- archist plot to overthrow the French Republic. Following outrages perpetrated in the French capital by a secret organization known as "Peddlers of the King," M. Mauroy, Minister of the Interior, announ. red in the Chamber of Deputies that proofs were in hand of the acti vities of a royalist organization, spread throughout France, directed against the life of the Republic. The, royalists, it was stated, have planned to place Louis Philip Robert, Duke of Orleans and Pretender to the French crown, upon the throne yielded in 1871 by Napoleon it, with the title of Phillp VIIL. The Dake is a member of the Bourbon family and is in exile în Belgium.
Do you experience difficul-
ty when reading at night?---
I so you should consult
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15 THẤP LORD'DE
BATE?
Civillier
"To sign or not to sign?" That was the question which confronted Governor Alfred E. Smith of New York, following the close of the lengthy debate between "wet" and "dry" forces gathered for the public hearing at Albany on the measure, sponsored by Assemblyman Louis A. Cavillier and passed by the Legislature, repealing the State prohibition enforcement law, enacted through the efforts of Senator J. B. Mulien and Assemblyman B. P. Gage. The Governor gave no indication what his decision would be in spite of the "order of Charles F. Marphy, political chieftain to sign the repeater.. On his history-making action may hinge the fate of prohibition enforcement throughout the land..
YES-AND WITH TWO CHORUS GIRLS IN DUMBFOUNDED
BRINGING UP FATHER
GEE! PROMISED MAGGIE ID BE HOME EARLY
AW: TELL, HER YOU WUZ DUT WITH: LORD DE BATE - YOU KNOW FIOW SHE FALLS FOR DEM TITLES
WHAT DO YOU,
MEAN BY COMING ÍN ÁT. THIS HOUR?
William Jones Jackson Didel
Thirty-five millions in accounts and capital were involved in the failure of the New York Curb Exchange firm of Jones & Baker of which William R. Jones and Jackson B. Sells were heads. The concern hau branches in seven of America's principal cities, and its voluntary bankruptcy petition caused widespread consternation, for it did one of the largest brokerage businesses in country. Jones sa former protege of Charles A. Stoneham, president of the New York Giants baseball club, and is a close friend also of Judge McQuade and many influential politicians. The failure of the firm followed closely publication in the New York American that its affairs were under investigation,
IM SORRY BUT T MET LORD DE („BATE AN' HIS
FRIENDS AND COULDNT GIT'
I GUESS SHE DON'T LIKE LORD DE BATE!
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