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Badminton, modern version of the ancient game of battledore & shuttlecock, takes its name from the county seat of the Duke of Beaufort. Legend says it started there in 1873 when the guests at a dinner party stuck goose quills in champagne corks, began batting them across the table...
...Beaufort is a peaceful town of some 3,000 population on the jagged North Carolina coast. Last year its serious unemployment was relieved by WPA with allotments of funds for a sewing project, building repair projects and a community centre with an auditorium, golf course and tennis court. Biggest problem of Beaufort civic leaders who met last week was to find a project for which WPA funds could be obtained in 1937. After gravely considering their problem they announced that they had agreed on this boondoggle: a bombproof, gas-proof subterranean chamber that will serve as a haven...
CHAS. KNOTT Beaufort...
...found 2,559 occasions to mention took days and days of special work. Each locality mentioned in Shakespeare's plays and poems was carefully described. A biography of each historical character was written and a sketch of the origins of each fictitious one. The Dukes of Bedford and Beaufort made particular trouble because Shakespeare referred to several without bothering to distinguish between them. Summarized were all the scholarly comments on every disputed passage, and the Baconian theory was exhaustively surveyed...
...Field, British sporting weekly, organized a movement to seek the cause and cure of distemper, began soliciting funds in Britain, Canada and the U. S. Headed by the Duke of Portland, the Field Distemper Council was adorned by the Duke of Buccleugh, the Duke of Beaufort, Lord Chesterfield, Lord Mildmay of Flete and many another noble & sporting name. Dr. Patrick Playfair Laidlaw, pathologist, and Major George William Dunkin, veterinarian, were given charge of research. Now, after nearly a decade, the Council has felt justified in disbanding, placing the crown of unqualified success upon its work. Its final report is published...