IN A NUTSHELL
ANNIVERSARIES. 1815. —Napoleon landed at Stj Helena. 1881.—Gale of extraordinary force throughout British Isles; many lives lost and much damage done. 1884.—Greenwich time adopted as universal by the Prime Meridian Coni'eVence at Washington. 1887.—Martou crossed the channel from .Dover to Dunkirk in a balloon. 1905. —Sir Henry Irving died. 1914.—Belgian Government at Havre. 191(1.—Austro-Germans invade Rumania. Residents of London give £15,000,4 000 a year to charities. British people spend £2,500,000 a yeas on patent medicines. On an average night only about 80 of London’s 8,000,000 inhabitants are without shelter. To-day nothing on earth will make a customer pay more than she set out with the intention of paying.—Mr F. C* Scase.
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Evening Star, Issue 21232, 13 October 1932, Page 1
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114IN A NUTSHELL Evening Star, Issue 21232, 13 October 1932, Page 1
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