Nouvelles des ports

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Rafiots et compagnies

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Nouvelles des escales

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L'Œuvre 31 août 1924


Miscellaneous Facts
Where to spend your Sunday?

Deuil-la-Barre : At 2 p.m., fair in the city garden for the benefit of the School Fund Gymnastics, boxing, concert, massacre game, puppet show, miraculous fishing, etc. In the evening, Night Festival: concert, balls, Le temps des cerises, ballet with light projections. Embrasement, etc.

Enghien-les-Bains : Municipal festival. At 2 p.m., auto-skiff competition. At 4 p.m., in the open air, music hall performance by Parisian artists. Concert by the municipal band. At 9 p.m., free public ball.

Neuilly-Plaisance : Continuation and closing of the municipal festival. At 9 p.m., grand night ball.

Taverny : Patronal festival. At 2:30 p.m., municipal gymnasium hall, theatrical performance by Comoedia. At 9 p.m., concert and night dance.

Villiers-Adam : Municipal festival. At 4 p.m., regional cycle race over 30 kilometers. At 9 p.m., night dance.

Montfermeil : Franceville hamlet festival. At 10 a.m., foot races and cycle race. At 2 p.m., athletics festival by various sports societies. At 9 p.m., village hall, concert by the Gagny musical society.

Not so miscellaneaous facts 

the Pont des Arts : on the bank of the Quai Malaquais, Miss Marie Macé, born in Nantes on September 16, 1886, a domestic currently unemployed and without resources, threw herself into the Seine. She was immediately pulled out safe and sound by Mr. Georges Mégat, 59, rue de Rivoli, and was taken to the Charité.

Fire in the basement of the Hôtel de Ville : The fire broke out yesterday afternoon in the carpentry workshops located in the basement of the Hôtel-de-Ville. It was extinguished an hour later, thanks to the immediate intervention of the firefighters.

Body fished out : The body of Mrs. Verger, née Eugénie Dubois, 62 years old, residing at 5, cité Lepage, who, following personal grief, had thrown herself into the water, was fished out yesterday morning from the Canal Saint-Martin, at the Quai de Jemmapes.

The firefighter was robbing : Mr. Marmanche, a civilian firefighter in a department store on Boulevard Haussmann, noticed a few days ago that his wallet containing a sum of 1,900 francs had disappeared from the closet; a little later, the wallet was found empty in the water closets and the money hidden behind a piece of furniture. Active surveillance was established by Inspector Tabaraud, of the 3rd district, who, yesterday morning, arrested a firefighter from the establishment, Gaston Gandeau, 23 years old, employed for eighteen months. A search carried out at his home led to the discovery of 35,000 francs worth of goods, among which a fur worth 23,000 francs. Questioned by Mr. Trameçon, police commissioner, Gandeau admitted the facts and was sent to the Depot.

Street accidents

At the corner of rue du Four and boulevard Saint-Germain, Mr. Edouard Petitbois, 49, rue du Bac, driving a van, as a result of skidding, swerved sharply and hit a taxi, injuring three people: the peace officer Jérôme Poggi, of the 6th arrondissement Miss Charlotte Guigardet, 20, rue des Bernardins; Mrs. Marie Castillon, 23 years old, same address. These three people, quite seriously injured, were taken to the Charité.

Boulevard Auguste-Blanqui, opposite number 47, the driver Michel Caillet, 48 years old, residing at 207, rue de Bécon, in Courbevoie, due to a broken spring, swerved the wheel sharply and was thrown against a tree. Seriously injured in the head, he was taken to Cochin.

Rue de Tolbiac, opposite number 8, Mr. Auguste Goirand, 42 years old, truck driver, 3, rue des Carrières, in Charenton, who was driving a team, collided with a car driven by the driver Roger Feuge. The carter Goirand was seriously injured and taken to the Pitié.

Avenue des Gobelins, opposite number 25, a van driven by Mr. Auguste Derondeau, 35, rue Verollot, in Villejuif, knocked down Mrs. Hélène Mattrant, 30, boulevard Barbès, who was taken to La Pitié.

miscellaneous facts

A building collapses Around 2:30 p.m. : the ceilings of the first and second floors of a building, 81, rue d'Aboukir, collapsed. As the tenants were absent, there were no injuries. The building was immediately evacuated by order of the police commissioner of rue Thorel. Traffic around the building was interrupted. The architects and road agents of the City of Paris, notified, went to the scene. The building belongs to Mr. Binoire, 9, rue du Maréchal-Franchet-d'Esperey, in Dunkirk, who was immediately notified by telegram.

Theft of wines and spirits : Lovers of fine wines and liqueurs stole, last night, from the cellars of Mr. Frédéric Herne, 35, rue de Châteaudun, several cases of champagne and numerous bottles of liqueurs and old wines.

Petites Nouvelles du Grand Paris

MASSY : An old man of 82, Mr. Jacques Puthon, 4, rue Lucien-Sergent, suffering for a long time from an incurable disease, killed himself by shooting himself in the heart.

VILLEMOISON-SUR-ORGE : Neurasthenic, Mr. François Fréminet, 75 years old, voluntarily drowned himself by throwing himself into the Orge.

FONTAINEBLEAU : The body of a drowned man was pulled from the Canal du Palais, whose identity could be established thanks to the papers found on him. He is a man named Léon Despois, aged 34, a car washer, living at 5, rue des Puis. He died eight days ago. This suicide is attributed to personal sorrows.

A collision occurred, Place Solférino, between the automobile of Mr. Maurice Chevallier, 8, rue de la Bienfaisance, and that of Léon Valery, 183, rue de Charonne, both! in Paris. Material damage.

Monday and Tuesday : from 7:30 a.m. to 10 a.m., at the Buttes Beringhen Wednesday, from 7:30 a.m. to 10 a.m. and from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m., at the Buttes Beringhen Thursday, from 7:30 a.m. to 10 a.m., Route d'Orléans Friday, from 7:30 a.m. to 10 a.m. and from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m., Route d'Orléans Saturday, from 7:30 a.m. to 10 a.m., Buttes Berhinghen.

CORBEIL : Mrs. Henriette Saive, 32 years old, 5, rue Saint-Léonard, mistress for four years of Mr. Albert Polard, 27 years old, plumber, wanting to put an end to the mistreatment he was subjecting her to, threw herself into the Seine yesterday and was immediately fished out. As she was returning to her mother's house in Essonnes, she was caught and beaten by the plumber. The brigade chief, having intervened, was in turn beaten by the brutal lover. The latter, arrested, was imprisoned in Corbeil prison.

VIROFLAY : The car belonging to Mr. Frank, residing at 21, boulevard Lannes, in Paris, which had been stolen from him the night before last, boulevard Haussmann, in Paris, was found abandoned, on the Route Nationale, opposite the Parc André housing estate.

SEVRES : The house of Mr. Benoit, located at 10, Chemin des Lacets, was burglarized. The amount of the theft will not be known until the owner returns, who is on vacation.

CHARENTON : Yesterday, Seine, opposite No. 18 of the Quai de Bercy, the body of Auguste Campiston, aged 25, living in Vitry, who had drowned accidentally on August 25, while trying to cross the Seine in a boat that had capsized, was recovered.

LA VARENNE-SAINT-HILAIRE : Champignol district at 2 p.m., official inauguration of the Place Saint-Masmes, by Mr. Marin, mayor of Saint-Maur, general councilor of the Seine, in the presence of the mayor

SAINT-MASMES : At 3:30 p.m., nautical festival, concert by the Municipal Harmony.

Not so miscellaneous facts in Paris and its suburbs

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