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Published: Friday 01 February 1907
Newspaper: Jarrow Express
County: Durham, England
Type: Article | Words: 294 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

FACTS AND SCRAPS

... anything and everything, for next to a good dinner takes special delight in a new book. . The Sultan Turkey has 300 wives, the Persian Shah the King of 600, and - the King of 3,000. 1 _ Captain George Hope, K.N., whose death has just occurred Tunbridge Wells ...

Published: Tuesday 11 April 1893
Newspaper: Shields Daily Gazette
County: Durham, England
Type: Article | Words: 751 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

THE LATE EMPEROR NAPOLEON

... Herat and the most vulnerable (juartes of our Ir>dian possessions. By a secret treaty concluded between the Czar and the Persian Shah some two years ago, or concurrently with the rupture the Treaty Paris concerning the Black Sea, Persia has ceded to Russia ...

Published: Saturday 18 January 1873
Newspaper: Shields Daily Gazette
County: Durham, England
Type: Article | Words: 905 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Is Moscow Visit Abandoned ?

... plot in Kabul really explains the sudden denone• ment. There is not the smallest doubt that the Russian Soviet and the Persian Shah are under a mutual pact that is distinctly hostile to Afghanistan and Britain. If King Amanullah does abandon his pro posed ...

Published: Saturday 17 March 1928
Newspaper: Newcastle Journal
County: Northumberland, England
Type: | Words: 964 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

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... ugly gentleman would not do for her. The famous Queen was almost as bitterly disposed towards queer-looking folks as a Persian Shah who, while hunting, came suddenly face to face with a man so ugly that even the monarch's horse was horrified, and shying ...

Published: Saturday 24 May 1884
Newspaper: Northern Weekly Gazette
County: Durham, England
Type: Article | Words: 751 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

‘Should he sent 10 ID©'*** Daily Gazette ” Uflice

... remain working and £nanci ally support the Scottish strikers BALLOT STRIKE GUEST TO DAILY MlUriiM. i’U. SATLIiDAY. .ILLY PERSIAN’ SHAH DEPOSED, HIS SON ASCENDS THE THRONE T»i(* Shall, AH, lias been .• prr.tci t •■n ...

Published: Saturday 17 July 1909
Newspaper: Shields Daily Gazette
County: Durham, England
Type: Article | Words: 780 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

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Published: Friday 30 May 1873
Newspaper: Newcastle Daily Chronicle
County: Northumberland, England
Type: | Words: 1249 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

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... there haa not been aome deception between Tehran and Constantinople. In the meanwhile, Ferukli Khan, Ambaenador from the Persian Shah, haa arrived in Paris, and haa had interview with the Emperor, while M. Gobinean, the French charge d’affaires, haa been ...

GREAT DEFEAT

... permission and concurrence of the no doubt, be the more eligible of the two, but would have produced no very palpable results. Persian Shah. opened at Teheran The Gulcs of September ‘with to the Tekke expedition, that the subjestion of the Turco- mans, together ...

Published: Wednesday 24 September 1879
Newspaper: Newcastle Journal
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 1591 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

GAUNLESS

... costume was composed in yellowy organdi and green velvet to represent a marguerite. Professor Dickey made a handsomely tall Persian Shah, with aigretted headdress and emerald and gold striped trousers; and there were delightful pairs of costumes. like a Saxon ...

Published: Saturday 25 February 1928
Newspaper: Newcastle Journal
County: Northumberland, England
Type: | Words: 1659 | Page: 13 | Tags: none

THE CENTRAL ASIAN QUESTION

... Herat and the most vulnerable quarter of our Indian posses- siona. By a secret treaty concluded between the Czar and the Persian Shah some two years ago, or concurrently with the rupture of the Treaty of Paris concerning the Black Sea, Persia has ceded ...

Published: Saturday 18 January 1873
Newspaper: Northern Echo
County: Durham, England
Type: Article | Words: 1672 | Page: 3 | Tags: News