Another record has been shattered. This time, according to experts, it is a light record, in the form of the largest searchlight in the world. Its makers say that with its 2,000,000,000 candlepower a man forty miles away could read a newspaper. Its intensity is said to be as great as all the lights combined on New Yofk’s “White Way.” The giant, which is being exhibited at the 1926 Electrical and industrial Exposition, is so perfectly balanced on its' truck “ that-a child could direct it,” the makers say. - A gipsy named Backhand, aged 102, who had lived in a caravan all his ilife, died at Marlow-on-Thamcs. After the funeral, according to Romany custom, his caravan and all hia belongings were solenwix.
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Evening Star, Issue 19441, 27 December 1926, Page 3
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121Page 3 Advertisements Column 2 Evening Star, Issue 19441, 27 December 1926, Page 3
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