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January 3rd - Seige of Sidney Street, 1000 troops and armed police, ended as anarchists burn to death
January 21st - Publication of the discovery that cancer is spread by a virus
February 21st - Ramsay MacDonald elected Labour Party leader
June 23rd - George V crowned at Westminster Abbey
July 1st - Union of South Africa became a British Dominion
August 8th - Troops called in to control rioting strikers, fired on and killed one,in Liverpool
August 22nd - Mona Lisa stolen from the Louvre
October 23rd - First model T Ford produced outside the United States. in Manchester
December 10th - Madame Curie awarded her second Nobel prize
December 14th - Captain Roald Amundsen (Norway) is the first man to the South Pole
Italy declared war on Turkish troops in North africa
The Titanic was launched with her sister ship Olympic,
New copyright law protected musicians and writers works for 50 years
Crystal Palace was bought for the nation
Cubism shook the art world when it was displayed at the Salo d'Automne in Paris
Gustav Mahler died in Vienna he was 50
Strauss's Der Rosenkavelier was performed for the first time in Dresden
The first Indianapolis 500 race took place in the USA
Broadway Ziegfields Follies launched the Irving Berlin hit "Everybody's doing it"
Parliament Act reduces powers of the House of Lords
FW Woolworth founded
Battle for Sidney Street with Winston Churchill who is home secretary it ended with the deaths of two members
of a politically motivated gang of burglars and international anarchists supposedly led by Peter Piatkow
January 7th
Jan 14th
Humperdinck's Second Fairy Opera: Miss Geraldine Farrar as the Goose Girl,
with "The Best-Trained Geese Ever Seen on Opera Boards
Jan 21st
Sympathetic Magic: Killing an Unfaithful Wife in Effigy, in Australia
Jan 28
The Passenger-Train and Mineral-Train Collision in South Wales:
The Wreckage—A General View - Taff Vale Railway, Pontypridd
Feb 4
Defending the King's Honour against an Infamous Suggestion:
His Majesty's Libel Action against Edward F. Mylius—
about a supposed morganatic marriage in Malta! - Sketches in Court
Feb 11
"I, George, Do Solemnly … Declare That I Am a Faithful Protestant":
The King Reciting the Terms of the Accesion Declaration
Feb 18
Ill with Measles: Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales and Prince Albert—
With Prince Alexander of Teck
Feb 25
The British Naval Air-Ship No 1:
The First Dirigible Built for Our Navy - 512 feet long
March 4
Sir Wilfrid Laurier, Premier of Canada, Who Recently Sanctioned and Approved a Speech
Declaring Canada's Absolute Loyalty to the Motherland—An Unconventional Portrait
March 18
The doctors and sanitary officials who are on duty in the plague-stricken district of Manchuria breathe,
when on their gruesome tasks, through pads of lint soaked in carbolic acid which kills the bacilli of the pest (pneumonic plague)
before they can enter the mouth or nose. The doctor here shown (on the right) is wearing his full working kit.
He is breathing through a pad of lint soaked in carbolic acid
: his linen mask and "goggles" make it impossible for bacilli to reach his face:
he is gloved: linen clothes, which can be boiled and disinfected easily, cover him to the boots
(approx. 60000 people died including doctors and nurses)
April 1st
The race to the South Pole: four expeditions at work
September 2nd
The making of the ILN how the paper is produced each week
Xmas edition
Goblin Market Frank Craig Not Shown.
The Path to Home... Charles Crombie
Steel Against the Mistletoe... Lawson Wood
I Trowe That Countence Cannot Lie,.... Szankowski Not shown
On with the Dance.... Howard Sommerville Not shown
The Christmas Dinner Taken Captive Tony Sarg 2 page centerfold.(my Favorite)
Spilled Milk.... Harry Rountree
Christmas Under the Northern Skies S Baghot De La Bere
L'Allee Edmund Dulac
Fantoches Edmund Dulac
Beauty and the Beast Cecil Aldin(Very rare)
Alice in Wonderland Cecil Aldin(Very Rare)
Harmony.... G Bouy Not shown
Sitting to Partners S berg 2 pages. (Not shown) B+W
Advertisments Full page B+W unless noted
Enos Fruit Salt
James Buchanan Scotch Whisky Distillers Black & White Brand Ill Walter Kepoke?
Beechams Pills
Pears Soapmakers Back Cover not Shown by GWE
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