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The penalty for the first offense against temperance was trivial compared with that for wearing gold braid. "If any Scholar shall be guilty of Drunkenness, he shall be fined one shilling and sixpence or he shall make a public confession or be degraded, according to the Aggravation of the Offense...
Nine years ago, when koalas had almost vanished from the Australian bush, a penniless 22-year-old Brisbane naturalist named Noel Burnet dedicated his life to saving the species from extinction. He started out with four koalas in his boardinghouse back yard, soon interested a philanthropist who rented him a...
That night Alf Landon's special train took him a few miles south to New Castle, where he dined in the Scottish Rite Cathedral with 2,000 Republicans, where he spent the night at the home of his old friend DeGrimm G. Renfro. Sunday morning he was back in...
Because they got the job of building R. M. S. Queen Mary, the thrifty Scots of John Brown's Shipyard on the Clyde have just paid a tight little dividend of one shilling (25?) per share, after years of paying none. Last week they got the contract to build...
Author Tolstoi fought on the White side during the Russian Revolution, then joined the exile colony in Paris. In 1921 he took the Soviet shilling, enlisted in the ranks and has risen to be one of the color-bearers of the Red State.