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After taking thought, Great Britain added one Cubitt to Bermuda last week. Lieut. General Thomas Astley Cubitt was appointed Governor and Commander in Chief, succeeding Lieut.-General Sir Louis Jean Bols who died last September. Any other week this would have been great news in Bermuda, but last week Hamiltonians gave it scarcely a thought. In their midst for six hours was the Earl of Chester, otherwise H. R. H. Edward of Wales. His lanky younger brother Prince George was also present, but attracted little more attention than the coming Cubitt...
...have the remotest interest in fox-hunting you can only be glad if some tycoonish friend bought and bestowed on you this book. Designed and printed by famed Typographer D. B. Updike, illustrated with old prints, engravings, modern drawings, with Forewords by Poet Laureate John Masefield, Edgar Astley Milne (the "sporting parson," co-Master of the Cattislock Hunt, Dorset, England), As Hounds Ran is as complete and readable an anthology of the sport as you could wish...
...much attention was given to Barber Windsor that passengers and correspondents almost overlooked the distinguished old gentleman who played King Neptune. If H.R.H. is an Equatorial veteran, Rear Admiral Alfred Astley Ellison might be called an Equatorial commuter. Retired in 1922, it is his boast that he has been almost continuously at sea since the age of 15. He has served in the East and West Indies, in the Mediterranean, Africa, China. In 1901 he was Navigating Lieutenant of the vessel which carried King George and Queen Mary (then Duke and Duchess of York) round Britain's colonies. Though...
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...young Cyrus Hall Mc-Cormick of Virginia hitched four horses to "a cross between an Astley chariot, a wheelbarrow and a flying machine," and drove with noisy lurchings into neighbor's hilly oat field. Dogs barked, slaves giggled, small boys guyed as the clumsy juggernaut slewed and jolted through a ragged swath. The owner of the oats called a halt. It took the young inventor months to convert anyone but his family to the reaper...