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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 477, 8 April 1909, Page 10

Tho death is announced of Mr. Uriah Coo George, of Pretoria House, Saddlebow Koad, Lvnn who was tlio oldest Oddfellow in England Mr. George, who had reached Ins 96th year, joined the Oddfellows in 1839. In some parts of Leicestershire thcro is a plague of moles, and so much damage is borne done that the overseors of tho poor of Twycross havo resolved to levy a voluntary rat-o to provide funds for a mole-killing campaign. From discovered remains and ancient inscriptions, said Dr. Pinches at tho Victorian Institute, Adclphi Terrace, recently, tho Tower of Babel is known to have been square in form, measuring 30911. each way, and tlio samo in height.