Events of this year in the Illustrated London News

• February 16th - Unemployment in Britain exceeded 1 million, by June it was 2 million
• February 18th - Etienne Oehmichen made the first flight by helicopter
• March 17th - First Birth Control Clinic opened in London by Marie Stopes
• August 4th - Lenin asked for world help to overcome Russian famine
• November 5th - Prince Hirohito appointed Regent of Japan
• December 7th - Agreement signed by Eamon de Valera, Sinn Fein leader, to setup the Irish Free State with Dominion status
• Lloyd George sold Titles! - reported to be £10,000 for a Knighthood and £50,000 for a Peerage
• Rudolf Valentino starred in The Sheikh
• Cricklewood, London had it's own Stoll film Studios (Hollywood! Pinewood!)
• Albert Einstein won the Nobel Prize for Physics (Relativity was the buzz word)
• MK Gandhi campaigned in India to boycott all european goods he became known as a "Mahatma" possessed of miraculous powers
• Enrico Caruso dies, aged 48

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April 2nd

• The 72nd Oxford And Cambridge Boat-Race,
  • The Dark Blues Team;
    Mr W H Porritt (Wygglston And Magdalen) The Oxford Cox
    Mr W E C James (Eton & Magdalen)
    Mr G O Nickalls (Eton & Magdalen)
    Mr M H Ellis (Shrewsbury & Keble
    Mr R S C Lucas (Eton & Magdalen)
    Mr D T Raikes (Radley & Merton)
    Mr P C Mallam (Lancing & Queen's)
    Mr F B Lothrop (Eton & Magdalen)
    Mr S Earl (Eton & Magdalen)
    
  • The Light Blues:-
    Mr L E Stephens (Felsted And Trinity Hall) The Cambridge Cox
    Mr H B Playford (St Paul's And Jesus)
    Mr A G W Penney (Repton & Pembroke)
    Mr A B Ritchie (R.N. College, Osborne & Trinity Hall)
    Mr A D B Pearson (Winchester & First Trinity)
    Mr H O C Boret (Eton & Third Trinity)
    Mr J A Campbell (Melbourne Grammar School & Jesus)
    The Hon. J W H Fremantle (Eton & Third Trinity)
    Mr P H G H Hartley (Eton & L.M.B.C.)
    
    Frontispiece:- Drawing - Death If He Touched The King's Teeth! A Cook Ceremonially Feeding A King Of Bunyoro With Meat On A Teo-Pronged Fork
    Our Notebook
    Prominent People; An Ambushed Train; A Bomb In A Theatre (10 Photos)
    The World Of Theatre (2 Photos)
    Abroad And At Sea; Political And Naval Occasions - A French Tank Entering Kattowitz/The Funeral Service For "K5" On Board Hms "Barham" Showing Buglars Who Sounded The "Last Post" Above The Big Guns/Refugees From Konstaft In Finland; Sailors And Artillerymen Who Escaped On Horseback, At Terijoki Etc. (6 Photos)
    Art In The Sale Rooms
    Where Oxford Tries To Upset Cambridge; A Hindu Boat-Race (5 Photos)
    The Old Testament Filmed; Wonderful Scenes From A £1,500,000 Picture, "The Dawn Of The World" (7 Photos)
    The Irish Problem Through French Eyes
    Haunts Of Life; Animal Flight - Glides; Leaps; Parachutes (The Mastery Of The Air; Creatures Described In Professor J Arthur Thomson's Sixth Lecture At The Royal Institution (11 Illustrations)
    Twice As Old As Caesar; Models Of Ancient Eygpt (2 Photos/Model Craft/Model Craft)
    Found In A Rock-Chamber; Nile Craft Of 4000 Years Ago (6 Photos/Model Craft)
    Lord And Labourer 4000 Years Ago; Ancient Eygpt Revealed (6 Photos/Model Craft)
    In 2000 B.C.; A Slaughter-House, Brewery, And Bakery In Egypt (6 Photos/Model Craft)
    Books Of The Day
    News From Four Capitals; Athens, Washington, Paris And Berlin (5 Photos Inc. One Of The New Government Of The United States; President Harding And His Cabinet Ministers In The Grounds Of The White House)
    Ladies News
    Science Jottings
    The Playhouses
    The Chronicle Of The Car; No Driving Licence Examinations/Head,Ight Dazzle/Fleecing The Unwary Motorist

July 2nd

Cover page picture of Irish leader Valera

Double page article with illustrations of British Officers killed by the Sinn Fein.

Full page pictorial of Sinn Fein attack on the Royal Escort train. .

July 16th

• The King And Queen Of The Belgians
• A Cowes Tragedy;
• The Heat;
• The Irish Truce
• Before 100,000 Spectators; Carpentier Knocked Out By Dempsey
  Books Of The Day
  With Ex-Soldiers And School-Boys; The Prince Of Wales In Lancashire
  What Is The Sub-Machine Gun? A Photographic Answer
  Tense Dublin Moments; During The Arrangement Of The Truce
  Divinities That Shape Our Opinions; Leading London Editors
  Art In The Sales Rooms
  Double Page Photo Centre Spread - The Palace Of A King Legend Has Made Two Kings And A Dynasty; The Room Of State - In The Town Of The Labyrinth And The Minotaur; The Throne-Room At Knossos-With Heraldic Guardian "Lion"
  "About A Number Of Things" A Chat On Science By Sir Ray Lankester (The Third Eye And Other Eyes)
  Breaking The Silken Ribbon; The King Opening The New Dock And The Royal Yacht "Rover" Formally Entering The New Dock
  Ladies' News - The Lure Of Black
  Science Jottings; The New Cancer Cure
  The Chronicle Of The Car
  The Playhouses
  BP Motor Spirit
  Burberrys Haymarket
  The New Metropole - The Gordon Hotels Ltd

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An unusual collection of inventions from the Patent Office 921

1.Watering crops by Airship etc

2.A device for collecting hair at the barbers etc

3.A new rainhat etc

4.New railway across channels etc

5.A Coat brushing device etc

6.Golf swing analyser etc