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...came to pass last week at Caxton Hall Registry office in Westminster that Virginia Lucie became Lady Northampton. That day the tenants at Castle Ashby forgot about the war for one day and sang and danced and drank old ale, as tenants have done for centuries when the master takes a bride. "Be you all of good cheer," said His Lordship. "God bless you, sir, and may your line increase," the tenants cried. And then the Marquess and his Lady left for a honeymoon at His Lordship's country cottage at Loch Luichart in Scotland, and began to live...
...lasted just twelve days, during which time the Sultan continued to pay occasional visits to the bereaved parents of Miss Hill in efforts to cheer them up. Then last week he put on his khaki and gold uniform as Colonel Commandant of the Johore Military Forces and marched into Caxton Hall Registry Office to marry Miss Mendl. She turned up in silver fox and orchids, wearing a diamond brooch in which the Crown of Johore was flanked by the Sultan's crest, two tiger claws. Wailed the parents of never-married Miss Hill, "It has come as a great...
Last week, 21 years less one month after the massacre of Amritsar, an elderly audience of 200 men and women, mostly retired Indian civil servants and their wives, attended at London's Caxton Hall a staid lecture by Sir Percy Sykes of the Royal Central Asian Society. Subject: Afghanistan: The Present Situation...
STONES FOR BREAD - Edwin Carlile Litsey - Caxton...
Credit for the correction belonged to Hermon Dunlap Smith, who had written a biography of Henry Dearborn (1751-1829). Biography and Dearborn's own war diary were being distributed last week to members of Chicago's bibliophilic Caxton Club (Revolutionary War Journals of Henry Dearborn, on sale at some bookstores...