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Players of lawn tennis bad more reason than usual to note the proceedings of the annual meeting of the Lawn

... the only result was that it blistered her lips. Since smoking this she has smoked no other, and she is not likely to. Independence Day was appropriately celebrated on Saturday by Colonel John Hay and his gracious wife at the United States Embassy in London ...

Published: Saturday 10 July 1897
Newspaper: Wigton Advertiser
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 1081 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

BEGS TO ANNOUNCE A SS DAYS'

... by the members of the American colony in London, who would regard it as well-nigh sacrilegious if they neglected on Independence Day to pay their devoirs to the United States Ambassador. But this week it has been celebrated more widely and emphatically ...

Published: Saturday 09 July 1898
Newspaper: Wigton Advertiser
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 1422 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

LOCKJAW IN AMERICA

... good deal puzzled by the curious and unprecedented mortality from lockjaw which has followed this year's celebration of Independence Day, apparently as the direct result of injuries from pistols, fi reworks, and the like discharged on that occasion. There ...

Published: Saturday 29 July 1899
Newspaper: Wigton Advertiser
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 2547 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

INDEPENDENCE DAY

... INDEPENDENCE DAY. The American Society in London held its usual Fourth of July banquet on Saturday. The American Ambiumador, responding to the toast of his health, said that he hoped• that this generation would see the statue of George Washington erected ...

Published: Saturday 11 July 1903
Newspaper: Wigton Advertiser
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 225 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

ROUND THE WORLD IN TEN

... ROUND THE WORLD IN TEN It was fitting that on Independence day the American cable girdle round the globe should be completed. For • considerable time the Commercial Pacific Cable Company's employee have been at work. At eve o'clock on Saturday that work ...

Published: Saturday 11 July 1903
Newspaper: Wigton Advertiser
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 210 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

FRENCH PRESIDENT'S MOTHER DEAD

... those who once a year at least found their way to Carlton Honesterrace in London. During Mr. Choste's official residence Independence Day was a positivejoy and delight not only to the crowds of Transatlantic visitors to our great city, but to their distinguished ...

Published: Saturday 21 January 1905
Newspaper: Wigton Advertiser
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 1373 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

DESPERATE FIGHT FOR LIFE

... George's Institute and Harbonie. On Monday morning all the warships at Portemouth deemed over all in honour of Milan Independence Day, and in compliment to the Chilien trainingshdp, General 13aguerano now in Portsmouth our. The General lit4uevano fired ...

Published: Saturday 23 September 1905
Newspaper: Wigton Advertiser
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 587 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

NOTES ON NEWS

... together with a newspaper paragraph, for a man receiving a legacy of £5,000. Twenty-six years ago a man in America at an Independence Day celebration got a nail blown into his neck. There it stayed until a few months ago, when a sharp pain caused him to ...

Published: Saturday 21 April 1906
Newspaper: Wigton Advertiser
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 1446 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

PENALTY OF CELEBRATING

... PENALTY OF CELEBRATING. The list of Independence Day casualties in America caused by fireworks, careless handling of firearms, and other causes, is very heavy this year. The following summary of the cost of the Glorious Fourth is compiled from t ...

Published: Saturday 14 July 1906
Newspaper: Wigton Advertiser
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 69 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

MARK TWAIN CONFESSES. Speaking at thy Aintnrican indepernlence Day banquet in Lo on, 'lark 'rem% add be had ..

... they des. troyed more people every Fourth of July than they did in any war. He had had relatives who had been killed on Independence Day. One was in Chicago. He was, first, as good an uncle as he ever.had, and .he had , had lots of them Full of patriotism ...

Published: Saturday 13 July 1907
Newspaper: Wigton Advertiser
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 623 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

THE ONLY BANK HOLIDAY

... BANK HOLIDAY. The Americans hays only one Bank Holiday each year, Thanksgiving Day, their most famous annual festival. Independence Day, which falls on the Fourth of July, and Decoration Day, which is set apart for decking with flowers the graves of those ...

Published: Saturday 24 December 1910
Newspaper: Wigton Advertiser
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 231 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

CANDIDATE FOE WHITE HOWIE

... three and four thousand American visitors to London attended the reception given by the American Ambassador in honour of Independence Day at the Embassy, Dorchester House, Park-lane. Mr. Plowden, the Metropolitan stipendiary, is ill at Dr. Rouies private ...

Published: Saturday 13 July 1912
Newspaper: Wigton Advertiser
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 474 | Page: 3 | Tags: none