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CITY AND FINANCE. MONEY AND STOCK MARKETS

... began on July 1, the aggregate net earnings have been 31.713,000d015., and show an increase of 10,599,000de15., or, roughly speaking, 311 per cent. In the foreigu railway market Argentine railway stocks were rather dull on continued poor reports regarding ...

Published: Wednesday 01 March 1916
Newspaper: London Evening Standard
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1988 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

WOMAN'S WAYS: The Simple Life in the Winter Palace

... simplest, especially in their bedrooms and private sitting-rooms. Lord Redesdale, in his reminiscences of the Russian capital, speaks of the late Emperor Nicholas's bare and soldierly rooms, two shabby little rooms on the ground floor, no bigger than a s ...

Published: Wednesday 01 March 1916
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 716 | Page: 28 | Tags: Photographs 

MOTLEY NOTES: A Popular Superstition

... AYOTie> votes BY KEBLB HOWARD I Chicot mveST-ME-IM'MY'MOTLEy GIVE ME-LEAVE- TO SPEAK My- AIINO, A Popular Superstition. It is said that popular superstitions die hard. This is not correct. It is, in itself, a popular superstition. Popular superstitions ...

Published: Wednesday 01 March 1916
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1157 | Page: 10 | Tags: Photographs 

How Now, Lord Derby?: THE CASE OF THE ATTESTED MARRIED MAN

... their exemptions that, as THE BYSTANDER said some weeks ago, the system of Compulsory Voluntarism of last year has, so to speak, given place to what might easily be termed Voluntary Compulsionism. Now the authorities have put their foot down, and, in ...

Published: Wednesday 01 March 1916
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 682 | Page: 10 | Tags: Photographs 

OUT OF THE MIST

... brother What fools they are The big man laughed and his com rades, impassive as are all Orientals, waited till he should speak. He wiped the blood out of his eyes and he laughed again. That he might be faint or badly hurt never occurred to his brethren ...

Published: Wednesday 01 March 1916
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1289 | Page: 36 | Tags: Photographs 

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Published: Wednesday 01 March 1916
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 92 | Page: 31 | Tags: Photographs 

After the War--War: SEX-ANTAGONISM IN THE LEAN YEARS TO COME

... seems that the most bitter war of all will be the 'sex-war to come. Not, perhaps, quite in the near hereafter, but, roughly speaking, within a few years of Peace. 1 think the bad times we are going through now are gloriously gay compared with what may be ...

Published: Wednesday 01 March 1916
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1034 | Page: 34 | Tags: none

Phillip in Particular: III--A Brigadier and a Billet

... calmness. Please do not be a damned cow-keeper. Sir, he said, in his urbane fashion. I have said we are being shelled. I am speaking English. Four tenebrous shells, a bouquet of 'em, Sir, have just exploded within ten yards of this billet, Sir. The din was ...

Published: Wednesday 01 March 1916
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2740 | Page: 24 | Tags: Photographs 

H MEET ONE THOUSAND

... hands with them too, in characteristic fashion. After a chorus given out by Commissioner Lawley, Commissioner Cox was asked to speak. Very simply and sympathetically she gave the testimony of the women, voicing their deep gratitude to God and to the dear Army ...

JUS SUFFRAGIII

... still living. This cost Dr. Broadbent £lO7, or one thousand six hundred and five rupees. Recently Mr. Bernard Shaw, while speaking on the subject, instanced the work of a French mayor who did the same thing by looking after a village for ten years, in ...

A MAYOR'S SKETCHES

... 'ormed him of his intention of being it was like. I thought they'd help to explain— >ack to the bank to see as everything speak for themselves, you know.' proper order. They do, indeed, I said sympathetically, ayor of a certain WeAt of England town ...

Published: Wednesday 01 March 1916
Newspaper: Daily Mirror
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1887 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

CII WIER I

... wore r dingdre,s, and their pcuchy cheeks were with modap:ashings. They had th•• easy manger of voto.about•toam almoat are speaking they began to ogle the pretty barmaid. Egad! ere , ' the younger We're in luck's way—who'd hare thought. to find so beauteous ...

Published: Wednesday 01 March 1916
Newspaper: South London Observer
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1454 | Page: 2 | Tags: none