Mr. A. H. Ashbolt, of the firm of H. Jones and Co. Ltd., who has been away on a seven or eights months trip to Great Britain and the Continent, ...
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Article : 195 wordsWoman suffragists to-day interrupted the rectorial address given at Glasgow by Mr. A. Birrell, the Chief Secretary for Ireland. An uproarious scene ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Sat 7 Dec 1912, Page 5
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