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...silk piece goods...
artificial silk...
...silk manufactures...
Besides the manuscripts, Sir Aurel Stein and myself have brought back from that same cave hundreds of paintings on silk, on hemp, and on paper, embroideries, early book bindings, printed books, and images, most of them of local make, but some also of high artistic value and which had been made at the capital or in some great centers. The prints are the earliest prints in existence and the paintings almost the only Chinese paintings prior to the eleventh century and about the date of which there cannot be any doubt
...Davies Vanderbilt of Manhattan, who last June, in six minutes, divorced William Henry Vanderbilt, son of the late Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt who perished on the Lusitania; in Manhattan. In 1921 Mr. Thayer was in Paris. It is related that he, poor, got to Europe by traveling steerage with a silk hat and no ticket...