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... NEWS 1860 - The first British tramway was inaugurated by an American, George Francis Train. 1901 - Hubert Cecil Booth patented the vacuum cleaner 1939 - In anticipation of German air raids, children were evacuated from British cities four days before ...

Published: Friday 30 August 2002
Newspaper: Derry Journal
County: Londonderry, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 137 | Page: 19 | Tags: none

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... the - operated by the Birkenhead Street y ‘ 3 Reilway, was inaugurated by an | Exchequer, pictured, 79 gLI American, George Francis Train. | 2SN © John Peel, disc jockey, 57 AN ® 1900 Bubonic plague broke out in d. . Glasgow. new 14.9 hp Morris Major ...

Published: Friday 30 August 1996
Newspaper: Northampton Chronicle and Echo
County: Northamptonshire, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 161 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

TEA-TABLE TALK

... Divine. The more good-will you desire, the more you must ragi:w. —* Success Ladder. GEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN'S * GREAT SECRET.” Not many now, perhaps, remember George Francis Train, who cane over to London 1n the fifties to inaugurate the tramway system. Mr. Robert ...

Published: Monday 20 June 1910
Newspaper: Halifax Daily Guardian
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 882 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

From All Sou rces. |

... | ¢ OF commission to pay, — Apply at once: TRAMWAY SERVICES W L 1 London’s tramway service dates from | 1861, when George Francis Train laid | the first lines. The project met with Berce opposition from bus proprietors, ' and Train averred that, to prove ...

Published: Friday 25 May 1923
Newspaper: Newton and Earlestown Guardian
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 414 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

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... for thought on this day in history - August 30. News 1860 - The first British tramway was inaugurated by an American, George Francis Train. 1901 - Hubert Cecil Booth patented the vacuum cleaner. 1939 - In anticipation of the German air raids, children were ...

A SAGACIOUS PIGEON

... are % 1 twins, and have just been born. Foo A Curnsk newspaper has received a oharacteristic | missive from Citizen George Francis Train, from ! Port Said. The greater part of the letter is Writte” outside the envelope. “ Look out for fearful finance crash ...

Published: Saturday 05 September 1891
Newspaper: Horncastle News
County: Lincolnshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 529 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

| GRA L e

... youngest (70 ** twins, and have just been born. = A Curxgss newspaper has received a charat*™ missive from Citizen George Francis Train. s Port Said. The greater part of the letter i ™ “; . outside the envelope. “ Look out for fearful finsn®™ crash. ...

Published: Saturday 05 September 1891
Newspaper: Horncastle News
County: Lincolnshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1525 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

CURIQUS EPITAPH

... fashion (renewed laughter). re?-t, gir, look at the ous Widow Macree, look at Lucy Stone, look at th Stanton, look at George Francis Train l?n't r). And, sir, T say 1t with a bowed head and eneration, look at the mother of Wuhit‘nstonagged up’ a boy who ...

KING FERDINANDS WIDOW

... singular character was in the habit of freing to Tillotson, he finds that he has been twirled | Guenting these halls than George Francis Train, the about, as Tony Lumpkin says, “in a circumbendi- | American, who first introduced the tramway system bus.’ l into ...

Published: Saturday 26 December 1885
Newspaper: Horncastle News
County: Lincolnshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 3547 | Page: 7 | Tags: none