IN A NUTSHELL
■; ANNIVERSARIES. ~ 1792.—Irish rebellion. 1862.—Second Taranaki War broke out. ' . ' 1917.—French took Crayonne. i 1922.—Allies _ deliver ultimatum td Germany relative to reparation payments. Out of a confused medley of colour names numbering nearly 3,000 the’ Bri* , tish Engineering Standards Association has produced a list bf fifty-seven standard colours for ready-mixed paints. ■ . A total of 33,974 corporation houses . were erected in Birmingham from tho end of the war up till the beginning o£ last month. This number, of does not include houses bijilt privately* The spread of amusements* such as the cinema, wireless, greyhound racing, etc.,-is one of the reasons given • for the decrease in the number of recnxits for the English Territorial ’ Forces. Two Turks sat in _ London’s first t cigarette shop, opened in. 1855, making cigarettes which were sold at 16 a shilling. There were no boxes in’ which to put them. ' One machine now being used on Canadian farms can cut and thresh the grain on forty acres a day with only, two men to operate it.
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Evening Star, Issue 22783, 4 May 1931, Page 1
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170IN A NUTSHELL Evening Star, Issue 22783, 4 May 1931, Page 1
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