Crossing the Border . Over 300,000 motor "cars, carrying mure than a million passengers, crossed tlie international bonier at the Pacific Highway in 1928. according to the collector of Customs af Seattle (states a Vancouver paper). The figures represent traffic both ways, of course. Nenrlv 137.000 of the curs' were Canadian, which aver aged about 375 a day. coming and going, and of the. Canadian cars, it is safe to say. all but a handful here British Columbia license plates.
Princess with £15,000,000 wealthiest women, in the world, has die<;i in Loudon from heart; failure. She was a niece nnd the adopted daughter of an American railway magiiatc who on his death left her a fortune cuitimafed at £IS.OOO,(XK>. She married the head of a leading German family 39 years ago, and with her husband, who died in 1910, lived for many years' in England. The princess was one of Europe's best-dressed women.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16874, 11 February 1929, Page 5
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