BREVITY IN WILLS
TWO SENTENCES LONDON, Bth October. The queerest will in Somerset House consists of a sheet of notepaper left by Sir William Hurt Dyke. On it ho had written in neat characters: “1 leave everythin" of which I die possessed to iny wife.” Lady Dyke, who died a few days after her husband, merely added: “I renounce my interests in favour of my son.” Sir William Dyke, who was a nonagenarian. first became a member for Kent in 1865, and in 1885-56 was Chief Secretary for Ireland. At one stage of his political career he was chief Government Whip for Disraeli. Value is proVfwi b,y results. SAN DEI? AND SONS’ EUCALTPTI EXTRACT for colds, bronchitis, headache, sonthroats, flu, toothache, earache, lurn bago, bladder and kidney troubles, and neural gut
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 15 October 1931, Page 5
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131BREVITY IN WILLS Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 15 October 1931, Page 5
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