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... Maclntyre (Persian Shah); best homemade costume (lady’s), Miss Joan Davidson (Pension Day); best home made costume (gentleman's), Mr David Sinclair (Scott's Emulsion); best couple, Miss Mary Beaton (Spanish Dancer) and Mr J. Maclntyre (Persian Shah). Mrs John ...

Great Engineering Work in America. —The acceptance the city of Cleveland, Ohio, of the viaduct or high-level ..

... pivot span, which feet wide. cost was from ?wo to two and quarter million dollars. Phlegmatic Orientals.—The phlegmatic Persian Shah who declined to to the Derby because it was already known to him that one horse was faster than another horse was a good ...

Published: Tuesday 21 January 1879
Newspaper: Aberdeen Evening Express
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 490 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Bulb Culture Big Business

... supplied the Dutch with a prosperous trade. gladioli when she visited Brisbane. and the same flowers were flown to the Persian Shah. Crown Prince Viggo of Denmark orders daffodils, and president Sukarno of Indonesia is a regular customer. Haile Selassi ...

Published: Friday 15 July 1955
Newspaper: Aberdeen Evening Express
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 425 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

THE worried by seekers after honours and distinctions, as the following incidents will show:— A peer who was ..

... described the mountain as one of the most dismal and disagreeable sights on the face of the earth. A little later a Persian Shah offered a large reward to anyone who should . get up, but no one claimed it. Ultimately Inc. first ascent was accomplished ...

Published: Friday 26 September 1902
Newspaper: Huntly Express
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 467 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

General News

... and his whole suite will be the guests of the Sultan. This is the fi irst occasion since the conquest of Bagdad that a Persian Shah has made his there is some talk at Constan on Turkish soil, and of taking the op- portunity for proposing the formation ...

Published: Thursday 24 November 1870
Newspaper: John o' Groat Journal
County: Caithness, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 687 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

HERAT

... Baruksais. Herat was then independent both of Per-ia and of the rulers of Cabul, but it was coveted by Mahomed Mirza, the Persian Shah. Shah Mahomed required Shah Kamran to acknowledge his suzerainty, and surrender the title of Shah, and on his refusal marched ...

Published: Tuesday 23 September 1879
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 993 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

LOVE. AND WAR

... newspaper describes stern words to Persia haw been addressed from Downing Street to the Government of the naughty obi Persian Shah over the Intim of the oil , Ind behind the stern words •• a r ran dimly discern the flash bayonet. and front a far distance ...

Published: Saturday 10 December 1932
Newspaper: Perthshire Advertiser
County: Perthshire, Scotland
Type: | Words: 690 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

appearing ►per. about Names of

... same as bur in the word burg, although this is questionable; but what connection can the Evie sha have with the Persian Shah? Where does Mr Marwick find that the Evie sha means a strong ruler? He cannot find this until he takes the long journey ...

Published: Saturday 07 March 1903
Newspaper: Orcadian
County: Orkney, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1385 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

CHESS

... civilised world. It is still commonly played Asia, and the name by which ia known most languages is a corruption of the Persian Shah or King. The board upon is played similar to that for draughts, with 64 squares. Each player must have white square his ...

Published: Saturday 14 April 1900
Newspaper: Dundee Evening Telegraph
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 773 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

SECRET DIPLOMACY

... l emperors ; and we are not sure but that in their unshackled exercise of power they have hurried us into war with the Persian Shah, while there is every reason to fear that they have made an ineffectual attempt to bully King Bomba, instead of giving ...

Published: Wednesday 26 November 1856
Newspaper: Dumfries and Galloway Standard
County: Dumfriesshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 811 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

TURKEY AND THE AXIS

... action successively in suppressing the Iraq revolt, in liquidating the Vichy machinations in Syria, and in bringing the Persian Shah to account. The building up of an army in the Near East, about which probably the Turks know more than we do, may have ...

Published: Friday 31 October 1941
Newspaper: Dundee Courier
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 932 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

oknot fral /Mile Prises Os gimes' liginwen. _

... grand about 12,000 this great bridge in ot ° Its length is completed exceptat the two and a quarter nite, = was trom we Persian Shah who declined to go to the Derby be- OnyzwtTais.—The phiegmatic was already known to him that one horse another horse wass ...

Published: Monday 20 January 1879
Newspaper: North British Daily Mail
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 806 | Page: 2 | Tags: none