IN A NUTSHELL
ANNi VERSA RIES. 1540.—Thomas Cromwell, Earl ol Essex, beheaded. 17(>4. Rev. Samuel Marsden born, T7Sl4.—Robespierre guillotined. ’180!).--Battlc of Talavcra; Welling* ton defeated French. JBBA. —Channel crossed from Dover to Calais by Terry on a lioating trh cycle. ' ]d)(i.—- Participators in Jameson Raid ’sentenced to imprisonment without hard labor. Ji)l4. —Austria declared war on Sdi> Ida. RCO.—American yacht Resoluto wins final race for America Cup against Sir T. Lipton’s Shamrock IV. Our shillings now contain silver t® the value of about IJd. One person out of every fourteen of Canada’s population now owns a motor car. A small corner shop in Regent street. London, is let at a rental of £4,500 & year. Western civilisation will go up in the’ smoke of another world war long before Christianity, travelling at its prosent pace, takes possession.—The Rev. 11. R. L. Sheppard. Roughly speaking, the world without the conception of evolution would be a world in which men of strong mind could only despair.—Mr Bernard Shaw.
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Evening Star, Issue 19004, 28 July 1925, Page 1
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165IN A NUTSHELL Evening Star, Issue 19004, 28 July 1925, Page 1
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