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...Hyde Park boomed. At Windrsor cannon roared salute and bells rang out right merrily through the day. Visitors flocked to Marlborough House to sign the guest book. Couriers-that is postmen and telegram lads-rushed with greetings. At Sandringham, surrounded by her royal relatives, the Queen Mother, Dowager Alexandra, passed a festive 80th birthday in the best of health and spirits...
...picture is worth 10,000 words" (at the present speed of transmission each picture is about the equivalent of 600 words-at 7c. a word, press rate, $42). Pictures of Oxford winning a relay race at Cambridge, of a steamship wreck on the Tweed River, of Queen Mother Alexandra, of Premier Stanley Baldwin, of Owen D. Young, of Ambassador Kellogg, of the Prince of Wales, were also transmitted. The man principally responsible for the new radiograph is Captain Richard H. Ranger, who devised the means of sending uniform impulses so that static does not annul the transmission. General...
Died. Lord Knollys, 87, onetime confidant to Queen Victoria; in London. He served the late King Edward as private secretary and filled the same office for King George, until age forced his retirement. He was a lifelong friend of the Queen Mother, Alexandra, now going on 80. Possessor of innumerable court secrets, he was mum as a headstone. A publisher sent him a blank check so that he could fix his own price for a book of reminiscences ; he tore up the check. In the days when Edward VII was a rollicking Prince of Wales, Knollys was often the butt...
...Queen Alexandra, the Queen Mother, now in her 80th year, will not again appear at any public functions because of the physical strain entailed, it was announced from Marlborough House, the Queen's London home...
...Queen Alexandra, the Queen Mother, was reported to be failing in health. It was stated that Londoners are unlikely to see Her Majesty, who is 79 years old, ride again through the streets of London on Rose Day, a day upon which roses are sold in her name for charity...