IN A NUTSHELL
ANNIVERSARIES. ]S(i2. —Great distress in Lancashire; half a million people dependent on charily. 2870.—Genua ns began bombardment of Paris. . , ■ , . |g7o. —Tiber burst its banks and .inundated thrcc-ijuarters of Rome. 2000,—Death of Lord Armstrong, founder of the Elswick works. 2008.—Great earthquake in Cababria (Southern Italy) and Sicily. 1022.—Allies in conference at Pans on German reparations, io.il to- reach agreement, and French decide to lake separate 1 action. I
The parish of Fraekleton, near Preston, holds a poultry-farming record by the possession of 41,000 hens. Nearly 5001 b of potatoes have been raised irom one pound of seed on an allotment at Gainsborough. By fhe : blue Alsatian Mountains Came a stranger in the spring, • And lie lingered by (be fountains Just to bear the maiden sing And ,to drink Dewar's Imperial \, A return excursion ticket from Frin-toii-on-Kea to Walton-on-thc-Naze, nearly threb miles, costs one penny. A lift to carry twenty people has been installed in Hie Paris Arc de Triomphe, saving a climb of 230 steps.
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Evening Star, Issue 20059, 27 December 1928, Page 1
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167IN A NUTSHELL Evening Star, Issue 20059, 27 December 1928, Page 1
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