When Miss Adelina Burd, a New York lady lawyer, arrived at the t Supreme Court in "Washington to plead in a case, she was refused admission by an official because she wore "hobble skirt, which be considered undignified in on American Court of justice. She nonplussed him by asking him to quote the rulei laying down the dress to bo worn. Ijy lawyers, and in particular ono prohibiting tlfe "hobble" skirt, and entered the Court. She was allowed to commence her case unrebuked by 1 the judges,, who were described as being too stupefied to bo able to think of any reasonable protest. For Children's Hacking Cough at night, Wood's Great Peppermint Cure, Is. 6d., 2s. Cd.—Advt.
Skeletons of a man and a woman which were unearthed near the bed of the old Hirer Ivel, at Astwick, near Biggleswade, Bedfordshire, aro pronounced by Dr. Waddell, a local antiquary, to belong to the Stoue Age, and io be of almost priceless value. Ho thinks that the man had been a shieftain of magnificent physique.
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1006, 22 December 1910, Page 4
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173Page 4 Advertisements Column 2 Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1006, 22 December 1910, Page 4
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