IN A NUTSHELL
ANNIVERSARIES.; —December 21. 1805. —Disraeli born. 1894.—Violent gale in Britain; great; loss of life and shipping. 1898.—Great fire at Sheffield. 1909. —First wireless message sent! across Atlantic. —December 22. 1880.—Death of Mrs Cross (Georges Eliot), novelist; aged 60. 1885.—First train through Mersey, tunnel. 1902.—Archbishop Temple died.
The Christchurch Rotary Club’s street appeal yesterday for Christmas hampers for tho poor of the city realised £530.
The English people to-day are better clothed, better fed, better housed, and better educated than they have ever, been in the history of our country.— l Sir George Newman. Professional packers are in constant demand at most big hotels in England.Their fee for packing a large trunk is from half a guinea upwards. Lincolnshire holds the county championship in England for sobriety; the convictions for drunkenness last year were only 6.6 per cent, of those in 1913.
Slave-trading still flourishes in tha countries bordering on the Red Sea, some 2,000 slaves from East Africa being sold every year in the various Arabian markets.
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Evening Star, Issue 20364, 21 December 1929, Page 1
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170IN A NUTSHELL Evening Star, Issue 20364, 21 December 1929, Page 1
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