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If all had feet like Mrs Magd Reid, chiropodists would have to, 'seck other fields of endeavour, for hera were declared the most perfect

at the Chiropodists' Bali held in Los Angeles.'

The election of M. Alexandre- Milerand, formar President of France, to the Senate from the Department of the Seine, was regard-" ed by many politicians as a sign that the tide of political fortune was turning against the Government, Besides adding one more irrecon- ellable Aghter to the anti-Herrlot forces in the Senate. Millerand's victory over a Government candidate was taken as a sign that Herriot's power was waning.

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Like the hero in the famous Alger stories, F. L. Wickett, of Chicago, has risen, from a $3,,a week inwyer's apprentice to the executive position As head of the huge Pan-American Oil interests taken over

by the Standard Oil Company of Indiana from Edward L. Doheny, Born in England of poor purcentage, his rive was, gradual until he reached the zenith of his career at "fifty-seve vears of age.

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The Prince of Wales, it is reported, is already beginning to fear" he will suffer from the decided embonpoint that came in his latter years to his royal grandfather, King Edward VII. Just before he started for South Africa he had himself oxamined by several specialists, and has appointments for more examinations when he returns, to ascertain if there ambassadorial inunts are adding to his poundage. The Prince, now 'in his early thirties, has u decidedly sylph-like' figure.

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One of the strangest murders in the annals of crime occurred, when Alexander Buchanan, former Cana dian soldier, was taken into the cellar of an unused building of a hospital, where a war time gas mask was tied over his face and he was chloroformed to death.

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As a result of unprecedented infallar Randolph, Vermont, everflowed their banks, tions of many buildings and houses, and causing, untold damage to farms. Photo shows, one of the houses on the banks of Dog Biver, showing the effects of the Hood:

Senator Burton Wheeler, Democrat; of Montana, candidate for Vice-Presi dent on the La Follette ticket last autumn, has been indicted again, this time Washington, by a Federal Gram Jury on charges. that he used This influence ha a Senator in appear- Ing before the Department of the | Interior call a paid attorney for Montana ollicitenta. Indicted with {Wheeler were.Edwin 8. Boot); Zormér Solicitor of tis Interior Department, Pand Gordon Campbell, a, Montana oil. promoter, whom Wheeler is accused of representing.Wheeler denied the charges and demanded an early trial.

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Heckled by the Labour member of Parliament, Hayday, Lady Astor retorted that if she told all she knew about Hayday it would give the."" House something to think over This remark drew a rebuke from the Speaker. Justics M&Coy, in the District Supreme Court, of Washing ton, has dismissed indictments against ex-Secretary of the Interior Albert Fall and Harry Sinclair and E. L. Doheny, off magnates, indicted in the oil scandal. OVER BUS

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