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Illustrated London News 1909 - September 18th

Price = 6d No. = 3674 Vol = 135

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September 18th - Cover Heading = with supplement: The most exciting photography in the world

Front Cover adverts = "U.K." TEAS, United Kingdom Tea Company - - Australia by the Orient Line, Orontes, Otranto, Orsova and Otway - - Fry's pure concentrated Cocoa - - Hamiltons Irish Homespuns, The White House, Portrush, Ireland, tailor made costumes 63/- complete - - LIBERTY and co's PANELLING in solid oak - - John Bond's "Crystal Palace" marking ink - - for Gout , gravel, rheumatism etc drink VICHY-CELESTINS from Ingram & Royle Ltd - - John Jameson's Three Star Whiskey - - IDRIS dry Ginger Ale
adverts Inside front cover = Fox's patent spiral PUTTEES for Golfing etc 6/- to 7/6 a pair - - Players "White Label" Navy cut Virginia tobacco 4½d ounce - - "Sanitas" disinfectants 1/- a bottle makes 30 gallons - - The London Electrotype Agency Ltd - - Messrs. Bassano Royal Photographers - - Icilama Fluor Cream for after shaving - - CARTERS " The alleviation of human pain" self propelling chairs from 42/-...........................................Frontispiece =FPD If a faith be destroyed, new faith must be found : An artist impression of the great temple scene in "False Gods," produced on Tuesday last at His Majesty's Theatre (drawing by R. Caton Woodville
Adverts = Harwich Route, British Royal mail to the Hook of Holland - - Harrogate Delightful Health Resort - - Canary Islands, Las Palmas, Santa Catalina Hotel (By Royal App) - - The Aberdeen Direct Line , Special African tours, London to Capetown First Class Return fare Ł74 - - Birmingham Musical Festival - - His Majesty's Theatre (owner manager Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree) , "False Gods" - - Terms of subscription to the Illustrated London News, England Ł1 9s 3d Canada Ł1 11s 6d Elswhere Ł2 0s 0d for 12 months, - - Reviews The Playhouses. "King Lear" at the Haymarket, "Making a Gentleman" at the Garrick, "The Whip" at Drury Lane, "False Gods" at His Majesty's - - At the Booksellers list ..............................Our Notebook by G K Chesterton, includes a photo of Lord Roseberry, A great dissentient from the budget whose speech at Glasgow has caused such sensation
Portraits and World News including photos of - The late Mr EH Harriman, The Duke of Abruzzi, Admiral Von Holtzendorff etc and articles about Scott for the South Pole, Cody's Aeroplane, etc ............................................. From Bordeaux to Blackfriars: Two interesting processions Photo = Bacchus at Bordeaux: The god of wine in the heart of the wine company, Photo = An L.C.C. triumph: The Lord Mayor driving the first tramcar over Blackfriars Bridge
Portraits and World News (contin....) Blackpools Flying Week, The War in Morocco, Parliament, Our Supplement including photos of The burning of the Ontario Parliament building at Toronto, To commemorate the site of the Old Globe Playhouse:a new Shakespeare Memorial, First use of Aluminium for coinage in Europe: some new French pieces (actual size), "Rolling Doom" the great flood which partially destroyed Monterey at its height, The first German lady to go up in a flying machine:Frau Hilden-Brandt and she was Mr Wright's first pupil in Germany ............................... Past and Future: The North Pole for America, and the South Pole for Great Britain 1 x Photo = To nail the Union Jack to the South Pole: Captain Robert Falcon Scott, leader of the new Antarctic Expedition, 1 x Drawing = Off to defend his claim: Dr Cook's goodbye to his 20,000 admirers from the deck of the Danish steamer "Melchior" bound for Christiansand, on his way to America
FPD (by A Forestier) = "I will show you my hand!" Dr. Cook's display of feeling at Copenhagen University......................................... FPD (by A Forestier) = Denmark's strenuous partisanship on behalf of Dr. Cook : his lecture before the Royal Geographical Society of Denmark. "Retacing his steps on the map: Dr Cook lecturing before The King of Denmark and 1500 people
Science and Natural History
- Science jottings- The earliest paper makers in the world: Wasps and their nests by Andrew Wilson with 4 x photos of wasps nests "Chartergus" and "Vespa Silvestris"....................................................... FPD = The "Salvo" and the "Rake" drawn by HW Koekkoek - Twelve - inch gun practice: judging the effect of a "Salvo" by means of a "Rake"
Art, Music and Drama
- Art Notes - Photo of Miss Grace Leigh as Ophelia in "Dear little Denmark" at the Prince of Wale's Theatre, Photo of Miss Edith Wynne Matthison (Mrs C Rann Kennedy) as Ruth Jordan in the "Great divide" at the Adelphi on Wednesday, Photo of Miss Fanny Brough as the Hon. Mrs Beamish in "The Whip" at Drury Lane, photo of Miss Nancy Price as Mrs D'Aquila in "The Whip" , photo of Miss Isabel Jay as Christine, and Mr Bertram Wallis as Conrad Petersen in "Dear little Denmark".................................. FPD of No. IV in the series of Frank Haviland's Shakespearean Characters - Mr Norman McKinnel as King Lear
At the sign of St Paul's -- Andrew Lang on the Naming of Streets - includes 8 pictures from the Bi Centenary of Dr Johnson & London landmarks of the great lexicographer.......................................... Victories in Air and on Land -- Photo 1= A facsimilie sketch by special artist Mr Frederic Villiers: The Spanish success at Zoco-El Arba, photo 2= Mr Cody explaining his aeroplane to the Empress Eugénie, photo 3= Mr Cody flying over Laffan's Plain in his tailed aeroplane, photo 4= A characteristic portrait of Mr Cody
Double page drawing by R Caton Woodville about the Mediaeval methods of the Moorish Sultan: Inhuman treatment of prisoners that caused a European rebuke - El Roghi, the Moorish pretender, being brought captive into Fez in the famous cage (in which he has been condemned to captivity for the rest of his life)
Literature (some Reviews) - "The Rasplata" (Murray) by Commander Semenoff of the Imperial Russian navy, - From Constantinople to Korea - "Problems of the Middle East" (Nash) by Mr Angus Hamilton, - Australia epitomised "The commonwealth of Australia" by Mr Bernard Wise...The page includes 3 photos from the "Romance of Modern Cemistry" 1=Heat produced by chemical action, melting iron without a furnace, 2= The mediaeval forerunner of chemistry, an Alchemists laboratory reconstructed, - 3= A Dangerous trade, watching the hydraulic pressure of Gun-cotton from behind a rope screen -- and a photo of Mr JM Dent, head of the famous publishing house JM Dent and Co. number xviii in the series................................................ A four page supplementHundreds at one shot : Snapshots taken by stealth Game as plentiful as cattle - 13 Photos taken by Mr A Radclyffe Dugmore at Kamite and on the Tana river ,
The Simba Camp (East Africa) .................................................................. From the World's Scrap - Book photo 1=Blackpool's coming aviation week: the ground to be reserved for the meeting (it will be the first practical aeroplane meeting in Great Britain) -photo 2=The Boulogne week of flight: cart-horses unconcerned at the passing of Captain Furber's aeroplane, - A group of 4 photos = August 17 at Johannesburg: The unique and snowy experience of the Rand capital (12 inches of snow on the ground)
Birds as models for aviators, and a novel earth- remover -- photo 1 = Attitudes for aviators -- scientific studies of the different beats of a birds wings in flight: studies of pigeons in a French museum, photo 2 = A mammoth bicycle wheel as earth-remover: A novel type of rotary conveyer ...................................... FPA for Ushers Whisky
Ladies page = half a page article which includes -- marrying older spouses, thermos flasks, hats and jewellery, 1 drawing of a 'graceful afternoon gown' -- half page (article) Advert for Antipon 'Weight reduced without effort' (permanently curing obesity)!!! including 2 drawings .......................... adverts = Formamint, The germ killing throat tablet - - -The Pianola Piano from the Orchestrelle Company, Aeolian Hall
The Chronicle of the car which includes an article about the TT races in the Isle of Man + 3 photos of Motor Sledges that Captain Scott maybe using at the South Pole - -Adverts, Smiths Glasgow Smoking Mixture and cigarettes 10 for 3d - - 'Fazenda' pure coffee The coffee with a Government Guarantee, 8d per ½lb ................................................. adverts State Express Cigs, 5/- per 100 or 1/4 for 25 - - Watsons Whiskey- - Mappin & Webb and the Empire Dinner Service
Some New Books - "The Romance of Chemistry" and "The Backwoodsmen" including 3 photos , 1= The coldwater cure for infants by Indian mothers, 2 = A horse drawn delivery van in Paris, 3 = Ants nests as ovens and material for tennis courts in Australia - - Adverts, Bolton & Paul, Horticultural Specialists, Norwich - - Plasmon Oats and Plasmon Cocoa - -Phul - Nãnã perfume 2/6 per bottle - -Robinson & Cleaver for Irish Linen, table cloths 5/11, shirts 5/11 ladies handkerchiefs 3/9 per doz ......................................adverts = Pears Soap (scotchman at the North pole) - -'Angelus' Player Pianos - -Cambus Whisky approved by the medical profession - - C Brandauer & Co Ltd Circular pointed pens - - Fox's "Paragon" Frame umbrellas
Some New Books -(cont...)"The Veil" (Mills and Boon) Mr. ES Stevens + 1 photo of A royal retinue of beaters and Gillies in attendance on the Prince of Wales on Moy Hall Moors - - Adverts - Price's candles - - Merryweathers' Pumps and Supply plants - - Florilene for the teeth and breath 2/6 a bottle - - Booths finest old gin as supplied to the House of Lords - - Foot's Trunks - - Negretti & Zambra's Barometers and Binoculars - - Poudre d'Amour for the Complexion and the Toilet 1/- a box - - Foot's Patent Combination Scissors ............................................... Adverts, Schweitzer's Cocoatina 1/- a Carton - - The Mexican Hair renewer 3/6 a large bottle - - - Lloyd's Euxesis shaving cream 1/6 a tube - - Hall's Distemper for the Hall and Staircase - - William Cooper Ltd Conservatories and Greenhouses - - Dryad cane furniture
Ecclesiastical Notes + 1 photo = Measuring the height reached by an aeroplane, Rougier passing the indicator at Brescia (Mr Rougier beat Mr Bleriot by rising to a height of 380 feet - - Adverts = Foot's bed-table Ł1 7s 6d - - Carters Little Liver Pills (They do touch the Liver) - - Kropp (cut throat) Razors 5/6 - - Rowlands Macassar Oil 3/6 a bottle - - Keystone - Elgin watches from Ł1 to Ł40................................................... FPA drawing "A word in your ear. Take Beecham's Pills"
Miscellaneous articles - - Chess (problem 3410 by EJ Winter-Wood) - - Wills and Bequests - - Adverts = Cuticura skin products - -Himrod's Cure for Asthma (as testified to by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Gen. WT Sherman etc etc) - - Technikum Mittweida (a technical College in the Kingdom of Saxony educates 3610 students in a year) - - Culleton's Heraldic Office - - A collection of pictures after Archibald Thorburn, prints 10/6 each from the Illustrated London News = = Armstrong's of Newcastle for sporting guns and rifles - - Hovenden's Easy hair curlers 6d per box - - Hinde's real hair savers - - Oakey's "Wellington" knife polish..................................................... ( inside back cover ) Adverts = Lairitz's Pine Wool Preparations - - Benson & Co. cigar Importers - - The London Electrotype Agency Ltd - - E Brown & Son's Boot Polishes - - G,E. Lewis & Sons, Gun maker - - S. Fisher Ltd cases and trunks - -
(outside back cover) FP Advert = Harlene Cremex shampoo