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  2. PICTURES OF INTEREST

    DECORATED OFFICERS CHEER THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL ON RECEIVING THEIR AWARDS LAST WEEK. OUTSIDE HER MAJESTY'S ON ROSE DAY. TWO COLLECTORS AT MRS. HUGH WARD'S STALL AT HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. [?] COMMISSIONER BACK FROM THE WAR. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 173 words
  3. From All Parts of World

    An Englishman who served with the Russian Army during the earlier stages of the war, states that it was the Tsar's prohibition of strong drink' that drove ...

    Article : 55 words
  4. News of Week in Brief

    British railway strike settled Sunday. Work resumed on Monday. The present wages are to remain in force until the end of September, 1920. ...

    Article : 2,058 words
  5. Gipsies Spend £500 in Wreaths.

    Remarkable scenes characterised the funeral recently at Orpington of Francis Pettigrove, a member of a well-known gipsy family. Gipsies from all over the ...

    Article : 50 words
  6. £54.600 for a Picture

    Reynolds' famous picture of Mrs. Siddons as the Tragic Muse was recently sold at Christie's, at the instance of the Duke of Westminster. It realised the ...

    Article : 36 words
  7. Women M's.P.

    A Reuter telegram from Ottawa states that the Dominion House of Commons has passed a Bill granting to women the right to vote and sit in Parliament. ...

    Article : 30 words
  8. The Rheims of To-day.

    A recent visitor to Rheims states that of the old city there is nothing but a heap of ruins. It is the saddest sight he ever saw. It is impossible to repair ...

    Article : 97 words
  9. Melba Auctions Photos.

    All the signed photographs sold by Dame Melba at her concert for the East London Hospital for Children came under the hammer more than once. Two ...

    Article : 49 words
  10. If England Went "Dry."

    If science would invent a drink without alcohol which would make one feel as. cheerful as a glass of good champagne: did, it would earn the thanks of the ...

    Article : 114 words
  11. Ex-Kaiser's Visits to England.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 67 words
  12. Nell Gwynne's Overdraft

    Did Nell Gwynne—the Sweet Nell of Old Drury, of Charles II.'s days—die with an overdraft? This was a question asked at a sitting ...

    Article : 79 words
  13. Immoralities in High Life.

    Prince Otto Windischgra[?]tz has filed a separation bill in the Vienna Divorce Court against his wife, the former Archduchess Elizabeth, daughter of the late ...

    Article : 108 words
  14. Kisses Barred on Film.

    The Japan Bulletin says that as the police of Japan do not like to sen kissing in public they do not permit film stars to kiss on the screen. In six ...

    Article : 81 words
  15. Find of Valuable Oak.

    What is considered by experts to be an extremely fine example of old Jacobean oak panelling has been discovered by accident at Cambridge, at a ...

    Article : 109 words
  16. Paper Better Than Lead.

    Pertinax, one of the most important of German substitutes for metal, is a compressed paper material, which has been used in place of lead and copper ...

    Article : 115 words
  17. What Judges Should Know.

    When a publishing firm's representative asked for a committal order in Westminster County Court against a railway employee, Judge Sir Alfred Tobin ...

    Article : 86 words
  18. Queen of the Dardanelles.

    The British Admiralty has decided to pay off the battleship Queen and then dispose of her, and within a short time place on the market all her sisters, the ...

    Article : 131 words
  19. Dog Dies of Broken Heart.

    A remarkable instance of a dog's fidelity is reported from Leyland, Lanes. Mr. H. Bannister, a well-known tradesman in the district, died, and for a month ...

    Article : 57 words
  20. "God's Plenty."

    "London has made a brilliant contribution to the roll of great poets and to the formation of the poetic tradition of England," Lord Chalmers said, in ...

    Article : 62 words
  21. A Plucky Boy.

    Charged at Rhyl, N. Wales, with unlawfully wearing Canadian uniform at Kinmel Camp, where, for a time he had pretended to be a Belgian refugee, a ...

    Article : 121 words
  22. "D'ye Ken, John Peel?"

    Documents establishing that Mr. J. Woodcock Graves was the author of the popular hunting song. D'ye Ken John Peel? were sold in London to Mr. H. ...

    Article : 56 words
  23. Should Women Smoke in Public?

    The much-debated question whether women should smoke in public was raised before the Marylebone magistrate. Because she refused to cease smoking in ...

    Article : 105 words
  24. Lion Killed by Plucky Motorist.

    Motorists in East Africa apparently require something more than ordinary knowledge in order to cope with emergencies of the road. A motor car was ...

    Article : 206 words
  25. Carried Germs for 37 Years.

    How a typhoid carrier (a person who has the germs always in his body but does not suffer from the disease) spread typhoid fever for 37 years while quite ...

    Article : 206 words
  26. Changing National Costume

    For the first time since Rumania adopted the short white skirt of the Roman legionaries as her especial costume, the men of Rumania have changed their ...

    Article : 169 words
  27. £50 in Waste Paper Basket

    A certain peer the other day recovered' lost £50 note in a remarkable manner. He left home with the Bank of England "flimsy" in his pocket, but returned ...

    Article : 107 words
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