Wassail, a liquor now consisting of ale with roasted apples, sugar, nutmeg, and toast, received its name from the AngloSaxon phrase meaning “ may you be in health,” which was used in drinking a toast in the liquor. Iceland recently let the contract f,or the first railway in the island. It is to be about fifty miles long and is to cost £IOO,OOO
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Evening Star, Issue 19762, 12 January 1928, Page 9
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62Page 9 Advertisements Column 2 Evening Star, Issue 19762, 12 January 1928, Page 9
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