SATURDAY, JULY 23, 1927.
GRAND CLEARANCE
SALE
Must be cleared to make room for NEW STOCK.
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LADIES
PYJAMAS
$1.50 to $2.00. NIGHT GOWNS $1.50
ENVELOPE CHEMISE & COMBINATIONS
50 cents
LADIES' WHITE SHOES
$1.00 per pair.
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on fire at Seeing a cottage Bartley, in the New Forest, a girl aged 20, dashed in to warn the occupants, and found an elderly man lying unconscious. She dragged him into the open air, and, though the thatched roof was ablaze, set to work to remove furniture.
President Calles has ordered gambling houses throughout Mexico to be closed. It is stated that the order is intended mainly to effect reforms in towns along the United States border, since comparatively few gambling houses operate openly. In towns in the interior.
Mr, Fred Barnes, the comedian, has married Miss Rose Tyson, an Australian heiress and one of the daughters of the late Mr James Tyson, the millionaire station owner of Australia. The marri- age (Mr. Barnes said) took place by special licence in his own flat in Clifton Villas, Maida Vale.
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Educating Illiterate Convicta.
In consequence of the large number of illiterates among criminals in Turkish prisons the authorities are going to start a course of instruction for such prisoners. They are to be taught at least to read and write. If the Board of Edvention has its way no prisoner will be discharged, whatever his sentence, until he knows his alphabet.
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A donation of 100,000 Dutch florins, has been made by the president of the Netherlands So- ciety for Wireless Telegraphy as the nucleus of a fund to pro- vide an annual prize for any member of the society, who "by an invention or any new method contributes in the widest sense of the word toward the advance- ment of the science and technique of wireless communica- tion."
The new postage stamps of the Palestine Government have for their designs the Holy Places and scenes in the country,
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Miss Sarah Dhar, who has just been called to the Bar in England, is the second lady member of the Bar from Burma.
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Among 59,464 new settlers in Australia last year were 42,219 from Great Britain, an increase of 4,623 compared with 1925.
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Lamp Post Advertising,
It has been decided by the Paris Municipal Council that lamp-posts shall be let to busi- ness organisations anxious to affix on them signs to show the public the way to their establish- monts.
Long Arm of the Law.
Joseph Foster, who was arres- ted at Hamilton (New Zealand) recently in connection with the disappearance of a mailbag con- taining £10,000 in Treasury notes which was stolen in transit be- tween Cardiff and London on the night of February 2, appeared before the magistrate at Welling- ton (New Zealand) recently and was remanded pending the ar- rival of warrants and documents from England. Bail was refused,
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Mrs. Campbell, widow of Colonel J. E. Campbell, has given between 600 and 700 acres of land in Calgary, Canada, to be used at Lord Haig's discretion to help ex-Service settlers.
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The ex-Service Men's Inter- national held meeting in An attempt is to be made Brussels at which, after very swim the channel by lively debates, a "split" occurred: the 13-year-old American Ziten-between Socialist and Communist field twin sisters, Berenice and members. The International is
now divided into two sections, Phyllis.
to
"Every child of 12 in Russia knows twice as much as a child in Britain" Mr. A. J. Cook. But the quality of the knowledge was not stated.
Mrs. Winifred Kiek is to be a minister of the ordained South Australian Congregational Church. She will be the first woman to be ordained in Aus tralia.
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The "Times" Geneva Corres- pondent telegraphs that the first ascent of the Wetterhorn this season was made by Mr. K. a visitor from East Latham, Africa, with two Grindelwald guides..
It was found that convicts in the Central Prison in Sofia had made a tunnel over 100ft, long in hopes of escaping through it. Several of the warders have been! arrested:
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The Very Rev. Dr. John Smith, ex-Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scot- land, died suddenly in an office at Glasgow where he had gone for a war memorial trust meeting.
A young woman who attempt ed to commit suicide by throwing herself from the first platform of the Eiffel Tower in Paris suffer ed no worse injury then a frac- tured thigh. After falling 20ft.
EVERY USER IS A FRIEND. she struck against one of the
The personal recommendations of girders and remained suspended people who have been cured by Cham from it by her dress, in an un-berlain's Cough Remedy, have done conscious condition, 160ft, above the ground. Firemen had to climb the framework of the tower
in order to rescue her.......
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Preference is to be given to British applicants in making appointments to the nursing staff at the Coventry Infirmary. Two positions as ward sisters at the infirmary having fallen vacant, the guardians twice advertised, but without success.
more than all else to increase the sale and use of this preparation, until each year than of any other cough
there are now more bottles of it sold
medicine. It is for sale everywhere.
DANGEROUS HOUSES.
I have just been reading the say- ing of a gypsy-one of those well to-do nomads who go to Epsom for a holiday, who own houses of their own, but prefer the life of the road (says a "Morning Post" writer). "What we fear," said he, "is set tling down in a house and dying there. That of course, is how the A third advertisement, how-foolish Gorgios meet their fate. ever, brought replies from two They live for a while in houses, and Italian women living in Rome. sooner or later perlah miserably Both had had British nursing thereon. Look at the number of experience, and one stated that she could speak four languages— English, Italian, French, and German.
The guardians seriously con- sidered inviting these two appli-
cants to come on trial, but it was then pointed out that two British nurses had in the meantime
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It was accordingly decided that they should be given the first chance, and they are to be invited to an interview.
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At Anglesey Assizes Mr. Justice Roche ordered a witness in a slander action to be kept in custody during the luncheon hour for having attempted to speak to a plaintiff while he was giving evidence,
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At the invitation of Sir Alfred Butt, Mrs. Carles Morton, widow of Charles Morton, the manager of the Palace Theatre, celebrated her 101st birthday by witnessing The Desert Song" at Drury Lane Theatre.
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Mrs. I. H. Moss, of Melbourne, will be a member of the Austra- lian delegation to the League of Nations Assembly at Geneva in September. She is one of the of the Australian founders Women's National League.
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An official report on deaths caused by wild animals in Burma during the past year states that anakes claimed 1,169 victims, tigers 38, leopards and panthers 7, elephants 5, crocodiles 4, bison 3, wild pig 1, and the Tucktu
lizard 1.
Paddling at Sheerness with her sisters, a girl trod upon a large fish, which, when killed, was found to be nearly five feet long, with jaws more than two feet across. It weighed over a hundredweight, and is described by longshoremen as a monk-fish.
BLESSING A BELL.
A quaint old Catholic cere- many was revived at Wands- worth when a new bell installed at St. Thomas a Becket Church, West-hill, was blessed by the Auxiliary Bishop of Southwark.
The bell was temporarily sus-| pended from a tripod outside the door of the church, and the bishop took his seat in front of it. Then followed the blessing of the water for washing the bell, the bishop people who die annually in houses. sprinkling it inside and out, and It was Mark Twain, I think, who two attendants continuing the wrote of the danger of lying in washing, while the cantors sang bed. Statistics had shown him six hymns. Afterwards the bishop that the vast majority of people annointed the bell with oil, died in bed, and this convinced him and abrazier was placed under- that bed must be a highly danger- ous place. It may be that the neath. gypsy has a like feeling about a sprinkled on the fire, and the house. There one is always at the smoke filled the inside of the bell. mercy of callera; the caravan is The bell has been named "John ever moving on and if the wielder Griffith, 1589," in memory of a of the abhorred sheara comes upon vicar of Wandsworth who was the placo where it has rested may executed during the reign of be she will not at the
Henry VIII. pursue the quest. There is some- thing pleasant in the idea of the endless pilgrim which shall keep death tolling behind.
moment
GREAT DAM IN JAMAICA.
Aromatic herbs were;
FREUD IN THE WITNESS-BOX.
was
Vienna, June 7. The Palace Pleture House,
The Intereating question of whe- Princes Street, Edinburgh, which has been seriously damaged by fire. The Hermitage Dam, near King- ther medical men may treat a
psycho-analytically will, it was stated, have to be closed aten, Jamaica, which has been con- patient "for a time." The cafe, which is structed by Sir W. G. Armstrong, dealt with in Court the other day. under the street level, did not Whitworth, and Co., Ltd., is situat- Dr. Theodor Reik, a pupil of Pro- fessor Freud's had treated the suffer except from water damage, ed at a point 1.688ft. above sea
Dr. Newton and business in it has not been level, and is 142ft, in height and Californian lawyer,
in Murphey, who alleged that Dr. suspended.
678ft. in length, and varles It is estimated that the damage thickness from 30ft. to 100ft. at Reik (who la not a physician) in- done amounts to between $4,000 the base. It will impound about jured his health badly. Professor and £5,000.
500,000,000 gallons of water, with Freud stated in evidence that, When it was closed on Saturday a surface area of 37 acres, drawn owing to lack of time, he sent Dr. above the Murphey to Dr, Relk, pointing out night about eleven o'clock every from a drainage aren thing seemed to be in order, but six dam of approximately six square to the American lawyer that Dr. hours later smoke was seen 'issuing miles. The reservoir so formed is Refk was not a physician, but a of philosopher, who would not treat] from the building. When the fire intended chiefly as a source
and St. him medically but paycho-analyti- brigade arrived it was found that supply for Kingston the outbreak had taken place in the Andrews in perfoda of drought, but cally. Psycho-analysis, Professor seats at the rear of the balcony, it will also be used to increase Freud argued, was no longer and that floor and roof were in their ordinary water facilities. In mere medical question. The Court volved.
spite of difficulties of access, which interrogated some eminent medical It is suspected that the fire was made it necessary to construct a experts, who opposed analyals by caused by an unextinguished cigar- ratiway over two miles in length, laymen, on the ground that only otte which had been thrown down. the work was completed without persons with a general knowledge undue incident or interruption. of medicine and of neurotic dis. Yeases were able to judge whether & case was it for psycho-analytical trestruerit.
NEGROES BURNT AT STAKE.
Two Louisville negroes who were arrested for shooting dead a saw- taken mill. superintendent were from a police officer by a mob of 1,000 porsens and burnt at the atake. The mob paraded the streets of the town with their victims before making them fast to the pyre...
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In consequence of Mr. Murphey's statement to the police that he had! always been in good health and wanted a course of psycho-analysis only in order to practise it in America, the Public Prosecutor de clared that he had no longer any reason to maintain the charge, and the case was dismissed.
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