IN A NUTSHELL
ANNIVERSARIES. 1555.—Latimer and Ridley burnt at Oxford. 1834.—Parliament House, Westminster, burnt. 1848’.—Severe earthquake at Wellington. 1850.—Massacre of Christian population at Aleppo. 1870 —Soissons surrendered to Germans after four days' bombardment. - 1875—Purchase of gasworks by City Council for £43,500. 1897.—Storming of Dargai height* by Gordon Highlanders. 1899.—Kimberley and Mafeking isolated by the Boers. 1914.—Main Expeditionary Fore* left New Zealand. America has lost 50,000,000,000d01, which is equal to £10,000,000,000 at par, in dropped wages and income sine* the start or the trade depression. Two seventeen-year-olcl youths, wha ran away from a school at Kurumau, South Africa, walked for sixty miles without food or water before they were found.
Gr’andism, (2,077); Grand House Whisky costs 12s a bottle, equal to any 14s whisky, and better than most. Once yon try it you’ll stand by it.... The more ordinary issues of used postage stamps are often sold by weight. Turkish stamps may fetch 18s per 3b, while 6s will buy 51b of French stamps. . #
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Evening Star, Issue 21543, 16 October 1933, Page 1
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163IN A NUTSHELL Evening Star, Issue 21543, 16 October 1933, Page 1
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