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Back in Colorado after the Boer War, Lyulph Ogilvy married an American girl of good but undistinguished Scottish blood. Cut off with a shilling by his long-suffering family, Ogilvy tried to make a go of a farm, finally lost it by foreclosure. In 1907 he moved to Denver, went...
REV. JOHN H. SHILLING Woodmere Methodist Church Detroit, Mich.
It was a warm, sunny afternoon in London, and pretty girls who sold red-&-white cloth flowers for hospital relief had collected many a shilling and sixpence. Men in uniform and mufti, women with market baskets and prams made a quiet crowd at the gates of the House of Commons...
Surprise of the new budget was that it did nothing about cosmetics, radio sets or bicycles-all slated in pre-budget forecasts to take a rap. Instead, Sir John announced new taxes which put ordinary British cig-arets up in price from 20? per pack to 25?; matches from 11...
To save grains, whiskey production last week was decreased two-thirds, despite Britain's need for salable exports. To save mutton, macon-making has been stopped.* (One shilling ten pence a week may be spent on pork, beef or mutton per adult, fish and fowl excepted.) Not until 1918...