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PLAYER'S NUMBER 3 EXTRA QUALITY VIRGINIA

... PLAYER'S _ NUMBER EXTRA QUALITY VIRGINIA PLAYER'S NUMBER EXTRA QUALITY VIRGINIA 20 FOR 1/4 50 FOR 3/3 50 TINS (plain only) 3/4 FORD'S HOSPITAL. 24. GREYFRIARS LANE, COVENTRY. An exquisite specimen of timber framework construction dating from 1529. In a different connection, fame belongs to that other notable number Player's No. 3. In the world of cigarettes, No. 3 are supreme for mellowness, ...

A LONDON NEW LETTER

... A London New LETTER 32-34 St. Bride Street, E.C.4 Wednesday, April 19, 1939. THE PRESIDENT'S QUES TION. -- President Roosevelt's simple question to Germany and Italy out shadows all other news this week. Its place in world history is assured. It brought a gleam of light in the dark tunnel; it was a straw for drowning men to clutch at. Was it false dawn, was it more than a straw? Experience and ...

OUR ARMY GROWS FROM STRENGTH TO STRENGTH Recruiting at the Mansion House--The King and Queen at Aldershot

... Our Army Grows from Strength to Strength: Recruiting at the Mansion House The King and Queen at Aldershot V THE CITY'S PART IN DEFENCE: A 8 glimpse of the great throng outside the Mansion House after the L rd Mayor of R London had opened a Ter itorial Army g Information Bureau with a view to en couraging recruiting among :ity workers. During the past week there has been a big advance in the ...

Published: Saturday 22 April 1939
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 241 | Page: Page 10, 11 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

IN ALBANIA NOW..

... In Albania Now /npHE fact that Signor Mussolini struck against Albania on 1 a Good Friday naturally upset devout Roman Catholics, but world opinion was even more upset by the plight of Queen Geraldine who, scarcely two days after the birth of her baby, was forced to fly across the border into Greece. That she survived the journey and the subsequent fever was almost in the nature of a miracle. ...

Published: Saturday 22 April 1939
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 346 | Page: Page 12 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

SPRINGTIME IN PRAGUE: Baron Von Neurath Reaches the Old Bohemian Capital in Brilliant Sunshine

... Q P P I M r^TI M P I PDA I I P Baron Von Neurath Reaches the Old 3 0 Ix. I I \l SaJ* 8 11*1 Co I 0 8 1%. Cy C Bohemian Capital in Brilliant Sunshine NA1URE BEAMED: Baron von Neurath, ex-Foreign Minister and now German Protector of Bohemia and Moravia, exchanges greetings with General von Brauchitsch (right centre), Commander-in-Chief of the Army, on his arrival in Prague to take up his new ...

Published: Saturday 22 April 1939
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 194 | Page: Page 15 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

HELPING PLANES ALOFT: Refuelling Allows them to Take their True Pay-load

... Helping Planes Aloft Refuelling Allows them to Take their True Pay-load THERE is a feature about an aeroplane's performance that is little less than exasperating. It can fly with a greater load than it can take off the ground. In other words, an air liner that is limited to the carriage of twelve passengers on a given journey could, in fact, take sixteen were it not for the limitations imposed ...

Published: Saturday 22 April 1939
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 893 | Page: Page 20 | Tags: Photographs 

PROBING THE MYSTERY OF LAKE CHAD'S EARLY DWELLERS: A French Expedition Makes Some Spectacular Discoveries

... PROBING THE MYSTERY OF LAKE CHAD'S EARLY DWELLERS A French Expedition Makes Some Spectacular Discoveries HE BURIAL SYSTEM OF AN ANCIENT PEOPLE: This giant funerary urn above and a similar urn in situ (.right) have been found in the region of Lake Chad by the French-financed Sahara-Cameroons Mission which has now completed the first two years of its work. During this period some 8,000 objects ...

Published: Saturday 22 April 1939
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 302 | Page: Page 27 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

£ s. d. and the L.C.C.: A Good Record of Service and a Grim Record of Spending

... s. d. and the L.C.C. A Good Record of Service and a Grim Record of Spending THE London County Council has just celebrated its jubilee with all the cere mony proper to an important event in the life of the largest local government body in the world. It may seem ungracious at such a time to refer to certain aspects of L.C.C. administration, aspects on which the various articles and speeches ...

Published: Saturday 22 April 1939
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 784 | Page: Page 34 | Tags: Photographs 

LINGERIE and LACE: Sentimental Clothes Inspire New Make-ups and an Entirely New Accessory Technique; NEW SHOES..

... LINGERIE and LACE Sentimental Clothes Inspire ]\[ew Make-ups and an Entirely New Accessory T echnique Do you remember the days when women spent the live-Ion g day crocheting miles of snowy lace It is back again the lace giving freshness to navy blue, to navy green, which is a new colour this season, and to black. It is used in rows on yokes and bodices, and it edges petticoats that show shyly ...

Published: Saturday 22 April 1939
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 830 | Page: Page 35 | Tags: Photographs 

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Published: Saturday 22 April 1939
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 16 | Page: Page 39 | Tags: Photographs 

THE SERENITY OF OLD BATH: Where Romans Tools the Waters, Proud Nash Held Sway, and Literary Figures Loomed Large

... The Serenity of slQ li Til Where Romans Tools the Waters, Proud Nash Jj)lV J- n I Held Sway, and Literary iigures Loomed Large WELL, it's nice to be home again! The most seasoned traveller makes that comforting reflection at times, so after our wanderings abroad, week by week, let us stay at home for once and have a look at one of our own resorts. There are so many of them that it is not ...

Published: Saturday 22 April 1939
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1513 | Page: Page 40, 41 | Tags: Photographs 

Old Boys at Deal: Some More Halford Hewitt Pictures

... Old Boys at Deal Some More Halford Hewitt Pictures The Halford Hewitt Cupy won back by Charterhouse (see page 148 from Marlborough was pre sented to the Old Car thusian captain, Dale Bourn, by' Lady Bird- wood, after the tourna ment at the Royal Cinque Ports Club, Deal. On the left is Field-Marshal Lord Birdwood, on the right Mr. Halford Hewitt Felstedians J. K. Matheic and P. E. Helmorc beat ...

Published: Wednesday 26 April 1939
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 316 | Page: Page 38 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs