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Small and Big Facts of the Week
The price of bread will drop by one penny on April 7th.
In Merlebach, an elevator suddenly falls, killing fifty-five men.
The city of Amiens names one of its squares after Edouard Branly.
Turkish troops repel Kurdish insurgents across the board.
25,000 Berlin houses have been acquired by foreigners enriched in foreign exchange transactions.
A cyclone hits the island of Majorca.
A banker from Rethel flees with 179,000 francs.
A maid from Tonneins is arrested for poisoning her landlady, her son, and her own husband.
Communist agitators are sentenced in Tunisia.
President Roosevelt's sister visits the Verdun front.
Near Longueville, bandits derail the Paris-Vienna luxury train.
In broad daylight, on Rue de Rivoli, three young bandits smash the front of a jewelry store.
The Prince of Wales leaves for a six-month trip to South Africa and Argentina.
The Tokyo House of Peers adopts the bill establishing universal suffrage.
Near Poitiers, the Bordeaux-Paris express train derails and four passengers, including a senator, Mr. Pédebidou, are killed.
In the port of Hamburg, a tanker explodes.
In the Belgian Congo, Europeans are manhandled by blacks, and an Italian is killed.
A Bremen company launches a new giant liner, "The Berlin."
France is to receive 83,500 tons of fuel oil granted to it by the Soviet government.
Fatty remarries Doris Doane, a movie star.
Jack Dempsey is suspended by the New York Boxing Commission.
Rider E. Chapuis wins the 19th Lemonnier Race.
General Nollet inaugurates the Les Lilas war memorial.
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