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INDEPENDENCE DAY

... INDEPENDENCE DAY. In celebration of Independence Day British warships at PortArm.uth—a here the American flagship Prtlahar¢ is hert heti —were dressed with flags, and at noon a salute was fired. In London a reception PI of held by Ambassador and Mrs. ...

Published: Saturday 10 July 1920
Newspaper: Wigton Advertiser
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 42 | 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

THE BELGIAN PAWN

... THE BELGIAN PAWN Addressing the Belgian Independence Day ly, Mr Balfour said: Vshen Hertling talk , of a pawn it may be it, only i.;et.us that he wilt consent no longer to misgovern and oppress Belgium on condition that the Powers permit Germany to misgovern ...

Published: Saturday 27 July 1918
Newspaper: Wigton Advertiser
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 54 | 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

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

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

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

VIVI AITINDIRD ?WONT SAID TO HAVX $ 11U SD,

... candidate for the Presidency, who is a strong partisan of General Barillaa, attempting to make a political speech on Independence Day. The mob throw him and his friends off the platform, and pelted them with stones until they took shelter in a house in ...

Published: Saturday 03 October 1891
Newspaper: Wigton Advertiser
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 560 | 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

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

MR. BRIGHT ON AK/MICAH

... MR. BRIGHT ON AK/MICAH Mr. John fir*ht, M.P., was a guest at the American Independence Day banquet in London on Saturday evening, and in response to the toast of his health, said : To-day is what I suppose might be considered a day that might be termed ...

Published: Saturday 11 July 1885
Newspaper: Wigton Advertiser
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 1740 | Page: 6 | Tags: none