Dinner To Mark Centenary Of The Bowler Hat’s Birth
LONDON, Oct 5 (Recd. 7pm).— One hundred guests gathered at the Dorchester Hotel last night to celebrate the centenary of the bowler hat. but only 12 of the 100 hats left in the hotel’s cloak room were of that type. >ays the “Daily Telegraph.’ Even the guest of honour, 84-year-old Mr William Bowler, a descendant of the family which first introduced this nead-
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Wanganui Chronicle, 6 October 1950, Page 5
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