The Olympic Games, Los Angeles, 1932
THE crowd rooting with chauvinist bravado For a home-bred lad named Rykoft Recalls the Swiss-made hotel clock legended : " I'm a booster for my home state Colorado." In the......
The Custom Of Claiming A Flitch Of Bacon At Dunmow
Priory is shortly to be revived. Notice was given in due form, on Tuesday last, that the happy couple who will be prepared to swear that for twelve months and a day they have......
Art
Ludwig and Louis THE styles chosen by Ludwig II of Bavaria in building his palaces may not always have been in the best taste, but they were at any rate varied. In......
Poetry
The Moment Waiting FOLDED is ev'ry sheep, the sunlight's gone, A lonely bird re-takes its evening flight ; Warmth on the downs, and colour, there is none. And yet a Presence—in......
A Most Singular Occurrence Took Place At The Farm Goading
of Whitehill, in the pariah of Kirkinahoe (Scotland), on the afternoon of Thursday last, during the prevalence of the appalling thunder-storm which passed over the district. A......
A Hundred Years Ago
THE " SPEcrAroa," SEPTEMBER 29TH, 1832. The master butchers of the metropolis have formed themselves into a society, for the purpose of procuring a law for the general......
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