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THE YANKEE WAV BEAT'VI EI,E I,ENTRY LON*JX)X, Aug. 2i>. The correspondent of the Weekly Dispatch at DeamVlic reports that an Amei'ican visitor, casually entering a famous jeweller's, purchased , lie town’s most magnilieent gem, a mammoth diamond pendant, for 7,(100.000 francs (appproximatclv £:!t),00(l).
He declared that be had read that Crouch women’s jewels out-dazzled all others, and therefore be hud male the purchase to show that; Americans wore still the leaders in spending wonev.
The incident is typical of the Utiprecedented Deauville season, iio.v at it climax. Eighty million frane: (approximately YT7<).•><to> changed hands daily. Hotel prices no longer ov.sf, thousands of I'rtsncs being ollVvod a vain for rooms. Many very wealthy people are sleeping in their mot.iv ears and bathing cabins, remaining at the Casino all night. A Trench countess, one of the heaviest losers at baccarat, keeps 1 wo rooms at the most expensive hotel espet. mtiy for lier Ml! dogs,
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 17132, 7 September 1926, Page 5
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154A SPLASH Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 17132, 7 September 1926, Page 5
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