IN A NUTSHELL
anniversaries. 1883.— Captain _Webb drowned in at* tempt to swim Niagara Rapids. 1908.—Sultan restored Constitution' to Turkey. , Railway working account for the four weeks to June 20 shows revenue as £442,227 and expenditure as £431,314. Unemployment is less prevalent_ in London than elsewhere. Of the 2,255.» 620 insured workers in the metropolis eighty-seven in every 100 have jobs. Experience of Scqtillar and Chisholm Furniture is that it is the cheapest in th* city Test it for yourselves ... During the year ended March 31 , 1930, the total cost of war pensions paid in Britain to widows and children of offi'eers and men was £16,458,755. British prisons are to cost over £so, * 000 less in the current financial year, but there is an increase of £448,821 n» the cost of the police force.
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Evening Star, Issue 20853, 24 July 1931, Page 1
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134IN A NUTSHELL Evening Star, Issue 20853, 24 July 1931, Page 1
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