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NOVEMBER
Here is the famed Akasaka - Palace, in Tokio, one of the most elaborate-of- the Mikado's palaces, reported destroyed in the great Japanese earthquake. The Prince of Wales occupied this palace on the occasion of his recent visit to Japan.
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Scores of women and children in Mexico are claiming the huge estates left by Pancho Villa, the Mexican bandit chieftain, who was recently shot to death from ambush. These are the three favourite sons of the bandit. The older boys are 14 and 12, respectively, while Panchito Villa, the baby, is said to look exactly like his notorious Jather and at times to show the same violent temper. Villa wanted Panchito to be a lawyer.
Mrs. Olive Walsh is a Newton woman whose husband is suing to annul their marriage on the grounds that his wife is a bigamist. Although married four times, Mrs. Walsh laughs and says she will "keep on marrying" until she finds the "right man" and adds that she
Mr. and Mrs. William B. Jacks, are reported to have been killed in has never really loved a husband the earthquake in Tokió. Mr. Jacks was the representative in Japan
of the Muller Philips Company, of New York,
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Oscar Wilde, according to Mrs. Travers Smith, daughter of the late Professor E. Dowden, the biographer of Shelley, has spoken from the spirit world, jeering at the literary pretensions of Bernard Shaw, Amold Bonett, H. G. Wells, and other modern nica of letters. Mrs. Travers Smith asserts that while experimenting with automatic writing at her home in London, she received several inessages from the great post and playwright Some of the messages came on the ouija board and some by pencil control.
The effectiveness of bombing battleship from air from a high altitude was shown off the "Virginia" capes when Martin bombing planes of the United States Army sunk the obsolete battleships "New Jersey" and "Virginia" Planes effectively dropped 1,100-pound bombs from a height feet. This photograph shows one of the bombs hitting the "Virginia," sending her to the bottom.
Whittingham Beers; of London, enjoys the unique distinction of receiving his M. A. degree and Many members of the Japanese royalty and nobility perished in writing a book of note after three the earthquake and fire. Field Marshal Prince Fan-lo, a descendant years' treatment in an insane asy- lum. He weat from the Sheffield of the tr3th Mikado of Japan, was killed in Tokio. Prince Shimadzu, Scientific School, Yale University; of the Great House of Satsuma, and the members of ds family, pictur. to an insane asylum, was cured and returned for his degree. ed, here, are among the dead.
Cries for relief as a result of the bombardment of Corfu by the Italian foot caused the postponement of the wedding of Colonel Stephen E. Lowe, of St. Louis, Mo., Near East Relief Director at Corfu where a great asylum for Greek and Armenian refugees has been opened in a palace that once belonged to ex-Kaiser Wilhelm, to Miss Emma Wood, of Sarnia, Ont., relief nurse at the orphanage, which is located at Achilleor a few miles from Corfu. All the children from another shelled orphanage in the old fost were removed there. Colonel Lowe and Miss, Wood had planned to sail the same day for Athens to be married, but gave up their plans temporarily to attend
the wounded.
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