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...Elsie Mackay, 34, daughter of a peer, has done daring things since childhood. Unimpressed by her father's millions (Peninsular & Oriental Steamship Co.), she eloped with Capt. Dennis Wyndham (before the War, an actor) and laughed at disinheritance. She went on the stage herself and on the screen, as Poppy Wyndham. Suddenly she had her marriage annuled and returned to her father's home. As suddenly she took up flying, won her pilot's license five years ago, and nourished the determination to be the first woman to fly the Atlantic...
...years Britons have adventured out to India and returned a-homing upon steamers bearing the triliteral device, "P. & O." Not the Bank of England is more symbolic of British fiscal solidarity than the chunky, workaday steam packets of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Co. "Gawd! I wisht I had a quid for every mile them 'P. & O.'s 'as steamed this year!" is an invocation not seldom heard along docks. Last week the incredible was revealed. The Directors of the P. & O. also wish that they had "a quid" (?1=$4.85) for every mile their ships...
...deed aroused Italy, including most of the Opposition, to a fervor of indignation such as the Latin races alone are capable of displaying. Flags were at half-mast all through the Peninsular ; places of amusement were closed; many shops had posted a notice on their closed doors: "Have closed as a sign of public mourning." Indignation was heightened and sorrow became more profound when it was learned that the murdered Deputy was a poor man and had left a widow and five young children totally unprovided...
Florida--M. A. Kilvert '89, care Peninsular Ranch Co., Oviedo...
...food, mounted up to fifteen hundred in a few years. The sole cause of failure was the refusal of the New-foundland government of that day to give me the protection that I had to have from poachers, many poor people needing food living all around the little peninsular on which I had them, and irresponsible schooner men in summer being able to land and shoot the deer, from whom the number of herders I was able to afford could not protect them. The herd is now growing again under the protection of the Canadian Government...