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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 444, 1 March 1909, Page 8

Tho Hamburg-American Lino aro proposing to utilise Southampton instead of Plymouth as a port of call for their ships to America. J heir two new vessel'., Cleveland and the Cincinnati, are to bo attached to their express mail service, in which the Deutschland and tlio Kaiscrin Victoria now figure, and these vessels will niako Southampton their port of call 011 tho outward vovage, the Cleveland calling in March for the iirsfc time. In addition, tho company aro forming a secondary service to tho States, and for this purpose three of their vessels which now leave Plymouth will call at Southaniptoii instead—viz., President Grant, President Lincoln, and the Hamburg. A fourth boat in this service will bo mado up by tho Blucher being transferred from the express service. 1 A patliotic tragedy followed the death of Miss Gwendolo Gordy, a beautiful girl of twenty, who died of pneumonia recently. Her parents, Professor and: Mrs. .lames Gordv, of Now York University, had hivn wateiiina night and day at the bedsifle of their only child, imploring tho nurses to save her.' The end came, and the patents were so overcome with grief I hat they spent twenty-four hours, in hysterical weeping besido the frail and lifeless form. Some tiino afterwards both bodies wore found in the ad-joining-room with their heads enveloped in clothes, amid which were two bottles of chloroform. Both, the father and mother wero quite dead. Between them was tho picture of the dead girl. The professor was a distinguished scholar and author of a political history of the United States. A monster potato over a foot long and weighing 41b. Uoz. has been dug up at Duck End Farm, near Bedford.