Level crossings on railways are responsible for some very serious accidents, more especially where the railway line is not Straight on either side. In those cases a ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 406 wordsReuter's Agency learns that a fresh commission is being organised to proceed to East Africa to study sleeping sickness, its object being to continue the work carried on from 1902 until ...
Article : 222 wordsOn July 1 Sir Henry Alfred Pitman, for over 30 years registrar of the Royal College of Physicians, attained his 100th birthday. To mark the interesting event, some of his old ...
Article : 244 wordsA bellicose bull played havoc in the streets of Dublin the other day. The animal escaped from the Quay, where it was to be shipped for England, and dashed down ...
Article : 205 wordsA Government tug arrived at Suez recently from the Ras Gharib lighthouse, with the survivors of the tug Belmore, which foundered at sea. The survivors are Second-officer ...
Article : 124 wordsThe extraordinary scene of a wedding where the bridegroom was married in handcuffs, was witnessed at St. Martin, Ile de Re (France). Theophile Fray, aged 34, had recently been ...
Article : 138 wordsDr. Grosz has just shown at a meeting of the Vienna Medical Society a man who possesses a peculiar leonine appearance. He is a young Russian, said to he 17 years old, covered over ...
Article : 123 wordsTwo diamond weddings have just been celebrated in Dorset, and the aged couples have been made the recipients of many congratulations and presents. Indeed, at Chettle, where ...
Article : 161 wordsA request from Laindon Parish for a separate rural district councillor was read at a meeting of the Essex Local Government Committee. At present Laindon is united for ...
Article : 95 wordsThe following is a copy of a bill posted on the wall of a country village:—"A lecture on total abstinence will be delivered in the open air, and a collection will ...
Article : 43 wordsScene: A Draper's Shop. Old Woman (looking at a piece of cloth) to the shopman: "Aw oo?" Shopman: "Oo i, aw oo." ...
Article : 34 words"Shall we marry, darling, or shall we knot?" was the short and witty line an ardent lover despatched to the idol of his heart. But, where the strangeness of the matter ...
Article : 51 wordsPlease choose from the following download options:
Share this item on:
Print page as...
Testing
The World's News (Sydney, NSW : 1901 - 1955), Sat 1 Aug 1908, Page 2
It's easy and takes two shakes of a lamb's tail!
With your Trove account you can: