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BURSTING OF A BIG GUN

... kept secret. The gun was of either Turkisb Or German manufacture. ROUND THE WORLD IN TEN MINUTES. It was fitting that on Independence day the American cable girdle roand the globe should be completed. For a coneiderahle time the Commercial Pacific Cabo Company's ...

Published: Friday 10 July 1903
Newspaper: Berks and Oxon Advertiser
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 260 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

INDEPENDENCE DAY

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

Published: Friday 10 July 1903
Newspaper: Berks and Oxon Advertiser
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 96 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

FOUR MEN ELECTROCUTED

... of accidents, including collisions between electric tramway-cars, in various parte of the United States on Saturday (independence Day), a dozen persons were killed and upwards of hundred injured. The most extraordinary happened at Pittsburg, where a ...

Published: Friday 10 July 1903
Newspaper: Berks and Oxon Advertiser
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 213 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

NEWS NOTES

... President of the United States, which he signed and dispatched with his own hands. If our American cousins have their Independence Day, our Canadian brethren have their Dominion Day, and it is fitting that these should fall within three days of each other ...

Published: Friday 07 July 1905
Newspaper: Berks and Oxon Advertiser
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1173 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

NOTES ON NEWS. Two famous have just given their opinions on the question as to uhetner there in too much

... together with a newspaper paragraph, for a mats receiving a legacy of 55,000. 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 • sharp pain caused hint to ...

Published: Friday 20 April 1906
Newspaper: Berks and Oxon Advertiser
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 887 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

TWAIN CONFESSES. Speaking at the American Independence Pay banquet in London, Bark Twain said he tried to ..

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

Published: Friday 12 July 1907
Newspaper: Berks and Oxon Advertiser
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 360 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

FIREWOUK CASUALTIES,

... FIREWOUK CASUALTIES, Independence Day in New York was marked by fewer fires than usual, tut the list of casualties was long. According to statistics, which, hOwever, are incomplete, forty-eight persons were killed and 1,124 injured in the celebrations ...

Published: Friday 10 July 1908
Newspaper: Berks and Oxon Advertiser
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 101 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

RIOTS AT A WORKHOUSE

... BANK HOLIDAY. The Americana have 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, whisk is set apart for decking with flowers the graves of those ...

Published: Friday 23 December 1910
Newspaper: Berks and Oxon Advertiser
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 870 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

OUR LONDON LETTER

... Herman Chancellor, in a spch at a demonstration held at Queen's Hall. London, on Saturday, in celebration of Belgian Independence Day. The Premier said that in his judgment the German Chancellor's speech showed that those in charge of affairs in Germany ...

Published: Friday 27 July 1917
Newspaper: Berks and Oxon Advertiser
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1889 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

BRIGHTWELL HOW SHOW. The Brightwell, Sotwell and Rush Court Horticulti.ral Show was held cn Wednesday last. The ..

... of Wantage-road, amongst which were exhibits of Columbia, Ariel, Madame Herrlott, Marguerite, Kitchener of Kbartoun, Independence Day, Madame Chattenay, and many other well-known selections. This beautiful stand attracted much attention. The following ...

Published: Friday 04 August 1922
Newspaper: Berks and Oxon Advertiser
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1165 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

OUR LONDON LETTER

... Republic. Every well/wisher of international concord will re-echo 'the Aniltassador's aspiration that each sueteeding Independence Day may find the two peoples bound more and more close l y in together in mutual understanding *pet and affection. ism 1 ...

Published: Friday 10 July 1925
Newspaper: Berks and Oxon Advertiser
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1610 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Lily or .ras VALLEY

... Alexandra is a rose of startling colours. The top portion of the petals are a bright vermilion, and the reverse old gold. Independence Day, orange, shot with flame colourinls, nicely scented. Mrs. C. V. Haworth, crimson apricot, shading to buff. Irish Fire ...

Published: Friday 17 December 1926
Newspaper: Berks and Oxon Advertiser
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 738 | Page: 3 | Tags: none