It is estimated by the Madrid municipal authorities that the supply of wheat in the city is only sufficient to meet a month's requirements. ...
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Article : 53 wordsSpecial meeting of shareholders in Lord Rosebery M.Co. at the office, Drake'schambors, Collins and Murray streets, this evening. ...
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Article : 22 wordsThe American Navy Department has ordered the construction of sixteen additional torpedo boat destroyers, the entire flotilla to be completed ready ...
Article : 29 wordsThe American torpedo boat Wenslow has discovered that Cardenas Harbour, to the eastward of Matanzas, is closely mined. ...
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Article : 106 wordsSIR,—Sir Philip Fysh,in his letter in your issue of to-day, In his effort to prove that in handing over the larger portion of her revenue to the Fedoral Parliament Tasmania ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 111 wordsCUTICURA now meeta the traveller at every point in the civilised world. It seems like running across an old friend in a strange land to find displays of CUTICURA and ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Thu 12 May 1898, Page 3
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