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Died. Baron O'Neill, 89. head of the O'Neills of County Antrim, Ireland; in Eralerstown, County Derry, Ireland. Oldsters said they heard the wail of the banshee on the shores of Lough Neagh, the night before his death...
...natural sciences. The typical journalist is grossly ignorant of music, architecture, painting and literature. His knowledge of esthetic principles is little above that of the average policeman. He emerges from the university blind to the best things of life, and he will blind his readers to them"-Professor Nelson Antrim Crawford, Kansas State Agricultural College...
Under this extreme recalcitrancy lies trouble of a kind that is manufactured only in Ireland. Northern Ireland claims that the six counties Armagh, Antrim, Down, Fermanagh, Londonderry, Tyrone) which form her territory, were delimited in the Government of Ireland Act of 1920; that the boundary between the Free State and Northern Ireland (cause of all the trouble) was therefore fixed and agreed to by the North and the Parliament at Westminster...
Brave, boyish Janet Rawley and her brutishly neurasthenic spouse, Jack, are about to plunge into African shrubbery on a safari for game and gold. Capt. James Antrim, of the King's African Rifles, splendid fellow that he is, cannot bear to see such ill-mated tenderfeet wandering loose among the lions, thirst and loneliness. He turns in his steamer ticket from Mombasa to England, takes command for and of the Rawleys, gets the safari past the usual vile German agent and as far as a highland camp, three weeks from nowhere. Here fever, whiskey, manslaughter, flies and love descend...
...Londonderry, Antrim, Tyrone, Down, Armagh, Fermanagh...