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Article : 80 wordsIn opening a bazaar at Sandringham to-day, Archbishop Mannix said he supposed that they wondered that he was not ashamed to mention Ireland, ...
Article : 264 wordsMr. Asquith, the leader of the Liberal party, speaking at Cambridge yesterday, recalled that 40 years ago there were only two parties in Great Britain, ...
Article : 432 wordsThe freight on wheat from Australia will be raised which the present contract expires at the end of March. The extent of the rise is not yet known, but ...
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Article : 40 wordsAs already announced, a by-election for Paisley has arisen owing to the death of Sir John McCullum, who had represented the constituency in the ...
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Article : 162 wordsThe American Federal Council of Churches, representative of 35,000,000 members, has protested to President Wilson against the Vatican having ...
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Article : 71 wordsThe ban on the "Freeman's Journal," which was recently suppressed bythe Irish Government, has been removed, and the paper will reappear ...
Article : 36 wordsYesterday's crimes in England include the murder of an old recluse at Bolton, in Lancashire, who refused to deliver up the key of a safe ...
Article : 113 wordsMr. L. C. S. M. Amery, the ActingSecretary of State for the Colonies, referring to the report of the Empire Cotton Growing Committee, points out ...
Article : 371 wordsAn Irish Republican Commission appointed to inquire into the resources of the country arrived in Cork to-day, regardless of a prohibition order, but ...
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Article : 60 wordsIt is understood that Japan proposes to utilise her natural insular barrier, of which the Pacific Islands north of the equator constitute a part, for the ...
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Article : 107 wordsMr. Charles Cowen, the assistant secretary of the Zionist Organisation of America, declared to-day that the Peace Conference will shortly announce that ...
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Article : 191 wordsAn English Labour delegation is now on a visit to Cork, and its members were welcomed by the Lord Mayor and escorted to the City-hall. Here they ...
Article : 211 wordsIn the New South Wales appeal of the Commissioners of Taxation versus the English, Scottish, and Australian Chartered Bank, the Privy Council has ...
Article : 45 wordsMr. W. H. Taft, formerly President of the United States, is actively promoting Senatorial negotiations for the ratification of the Peace Treaty. He ...
Article : 107 wordsThe final figures of the ballot taken by the ironmoulders on strike in Great Britain show a large majority in favour of resumption of work. ...
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Article : 71 wordsLord Loverhulme has purchased North Harris and other islands in the Hebrides. ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Mon 26 Jan 1920, Page 5
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