IN A NUTSHELL
ANNIVERSARIES. 1585. —Cardinal Richelieu born. 1666.—Great Fire of London ended. 1800.—Malta surrendered to British, 1807.—Battle of Copenhagen. 1882.—Aleppo destroyed by earthquake; 29,000 perished. 1858.—First telegraph message across the Atlantic. . 1878.—Railway from Christchurch to Bluff opened. 1914,—Retreat from Mons ended. 1930.—Hurricane destroyed half th® City of Santo Domingo; 2,000 killed. Britain’s umbrella trade is on the increase. It made 4,212,000 of thesa useful articles in 1930, as compared with 3,731,000 in 1924. •An Indian undergraduate, Baba Pyero Lai Bedi, and Miss Freda Maria Houlston, of St. Hugh’s College, were lately married at Oxford. Grandism (2,046): Mark Twain complained that while there was a lot of talk about the weather nobody did anything about it. Try Granvin Brandy Wine, 5s bottle... If all the greenfly in a radius of thirty miles round London could be compressed into a solid mass, it would be larger than Westminster Abbey. Sixty-five per cent, of the cargoes entering and leaving West Hartlepool Harbour are carried in Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, and Greek ships.
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Evening Star, Issue 21508, 5 September 1933, Page 1
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169IN A NUTSHELL Evening Star, Issue 21508, 5 September 1933, Page 1
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