Nouvelles des ports

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Rafiots et compagnies

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

Nouvelles des escales

aquarelle marine - marine watercolor


La Bignole news

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14  June 21, 1925  28


Le Funi

Page One - The "Embarrassed Driver" Contest, original and fun. The prizes don't include a country house or a car, but numerous and magnificent ones, including dental work by Doctors Dupuy and Petraschi at 105 rue de Bellevile. No questions like guessing the number of beans in a basket or finding the captain's age when the boat is traveling at 20 knots. See you on July 5th.

Same page - Marthe-Antoine Gérardin, the eminent painter and the reproduction of two portraits created by the latter: a self-portrait dated August 7, 1924, and one of Gaston Poittevin, Member of Parliament for the Marne.

Page Two - Small and Big Facts of the Week, no commentary

Page three - Little thoughts... wild! by René Virard

Page three - How to preserve a pencil drawing or make Chinese cement to repair pottery... these are Funi's Little Useful Tips

Page four - The Grand Cirque Fannii is at the Belleville-Ménilmontant Festival. 40 artists, 20 horses, and the detailed program.


Le Petit Écho de la mode

Page six - Le Grillon du foyer, La Bignole and the housewife's notebook with recipes for - 143 tournedos à la Rossini - 144 potatoes sautéed in butter - 145 health soup - 146 Mazarine black pudding - 147 sorrel purée with lean meat - 148 stewed leg of lamb with noisette potatoes. On the same page, the continuation of "how to make your own liqueurs": vanilla liqueur, golden liqueur, kirsch, sloe and anisette liqueur, and finally, Kummel. It's in the "A little bit of everything" section.


Le Petit Journal illustré

Page one - The hot air balloon hit by a train, a full-page image, and explanations of this incident on page two

Page two also - A heat wave in New York, and details of the color illustration on the last page: 100 degrees in the streets of New York. And admire, in the background, the Flat Iron Building on 5th Avenue

Still on page two - La Bignole's weekly recreations, featuring chess and checkers this week, as well as mind games and curiosities with two anagrams and the solutions to issues 349 and 350

Page three - Safes of yesterday and today in pictures. From 1805 to the present day

Page four - Victor Hugo and Victor Schoelcher lived in exile and met several times at Hauteville-House, Victor Hugo's residence in Guernsey. This is an opportunity to recall a delightful anecdote between the two Victors: "Down with Caesar!"


Recherches et Inventions

Page five - Research and inventions, contents of the June 15, 1925 issue


La Vie à la Campagne

Page Three - Hunting Dogs, Lucrative Breeding and Training, the Perfect Breeder: An Extraordinary Issue, Including Photographic Portraits of Four Beautiful Hunting Dogs


Excelsior

Page two - The Crouching Venus, a bronze object rarely seen at public auction. Mr. Salomon Reinach, an archaeologist, did not hesitate, in his repertoire of Greek and Roman sculpture, to declare it a "masterpiece."

Page six - The chess game between Friedrich Sämisch and David Janowski at the Marienbad tournament in May 1925 and problem number 238 by Émile Pradignat.


L’Écho de Paris

Page One - MP Jacques Doriot questioned by the investigating judge Mr. Maillefaud, as well as Mrs. Doriot and Miss Marie Raffinot

Page Three - To resolve the Shanghai incidents and, if possible, put an end to the xenophobic movement shaking China, laborious negotiations have begun between the Beijing government and representatives of the powers.


L'Œuvre

Page Two - The judge acquitted the presumptuous pedestrian, who had crossed the Champs-Élysées on foot. He hadn't run over anyone, nor was he guilty of speeding. He had simply taken advantage of a moment when there weren't any cars passing on the roadway...

Page Three - Communist unrest increases in Canton, xenophobic propaganda continues. A wireless from Chin-Kiang announces that the strikers have resolved to prevent the sale of coal to the British and the Japanese.

Page five - "The Lost World," a film based on a novel by Conan Doyle, Earl Hudson and W. Rothacker didn't hesitate to recreate prehistoric monsters. "Witchcraft," a Swedish film, "The Soul of an Artist," the latest production by Madame Germaine Dulac.


La Presse

Page One - The innocent public, caught between the anvil of management and the hammer of demands, is tired of being treated like a negligible quantity.


Le Petit Parisien

Page One - Politics is everywhere: in the café, on the bus, on the train, in the street, in the household... Politics is very much in vogue this summer... It's "For and Against," Maurice Prax's column.

Page Three - The autopsy of Mrs. Irma Augusto née Wurt has revealed that she was not killed by her husband... It wasn't a crime. We need to know!

Paris-Soir

Page One - At the time of the wife's burial, the husband is arrested. Mr. Wurt, brother of the late Irma Wurt, wife of Jean Auguste, expressed his doubts about the cause of his relative's death... it was a crime. We should know!

Same page - Poor children are only entitled to a rudimentary education, while rich children need a more general and refined culture... What an aberration!

Same page -Simon Reynaud député

Le Provençal de Paris

Page One - The Intimate Notebooks of Marie Bashkirtseff take us to the very depths of an extraordinarily and exquisitely crafted soul... into the almost universal ferment of her genius.


June 21, 1925 June 28, 1925