Nouvelles des ports

aquarelle marine - marine watercolor

Rafiots et compagnies

aquarelle marine cargo au mouillage - marine watercolor cargo ship at anchor

Nouvelles des escales

aquarelle marine - marine watercolor


Le Funi - June 21, 1925

Small and Big Facts of the Week

- Floods claim one hundred lives in Mexico.
- 14,000 quintals of straw burn in a military hangar on Boulevard Lefebvre.
- In Vichy, a Parisian woman is robbed of a 120,000-franc necklace.
- Seven foreign students are expelled from Belgium for communist activities.
- The French Aeronautical League holds its general meeting under the chairmanship of aviator Fonck.
- Ticket sales for the Decorative Arts Exhibition are banned on public roads.
- A violent storm breaks out in Lyon, Toul, and Nancy, causing extensive damage.
- An American woman commits suicide in a taxi while walking in the Bois-de-Boulogne.
- Due to the drought, several neighborhoods in Berlin are experiencing water shortages.
- The fishing season will open next Sunday, June 21. - A Turkish woman gives birth to four children.
- In Magic City, the "Little Manufacturers" elect their queen.
- The United States issues a loan in favor of Belgium.
- Several thousand workers go on strike in Nantes.
- The peacekeepers will wear summer uniforms.
- The Frenchman Bizot is world champion of checkers.
- Provençal festivals and races are held in Buffalo.
- In England, four people are crushed by an express train.
- The Reich will build a cruiser and five torpedo boats.
- At the Paris circus, the boxer Ledoux is beaten by Kid Francis.
- The Neuilly festival is open.
- Commander Teste's plane catches fire at Villacoublay.

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