Word: victorias
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Upon their arrival at Victoria Station, London, last week, the Duchess kissed Queen Mary once in formal salutation; but received from Her Majesty three warm kisses and an impulsive...
...varied and imposing celebrations" of last week naturally had their focus at Ottawa-that now great and flourishing metropolis the site of which Queen Victoria chose as the Capital of Canada by a most quaint expedient (1858). Her Majesty closed her eyes, gestured with her right hand and brought her extended right forefinger down on a map of Canada. Then, opening har eyes, she remarked: "It is our will that here shall be the Capital of our Dominion of Canada...
...what extent has Canada progressed since her Constitution became operative 60 years ago? Significant facts: 1) The land which was "our Dominion" to Queen Victoria, in fact as well as phrase, is now a great nation, legally co-equal in political status with Great Britain, and independent within the British Commonwealth. 2) During the Jubilee period the population of Canada has increased from 3,500,000 to 9,500,000; railways from 2,278 miles of track to 40,000; industrial capital from $77,000,000 to $3,000,000,000; and occupied farm lands from 30,000,000 acres...
...tenth of 1% of his fellow countrymen have the slighest idea who he is. Londoners know that "Blum" has been editor of the Daily Express since 1904. He came to London from Manhattan in 1887 under orders from the late famed James Gordon Bennett to report Queen Victoria's first Jubilee. British tradition insists that "Blum has been in London ever since"; but that is an error. Actually he was Superintendent of the New York Herald in 1894; and not until the new century opened did he become News Editor of The London Daily Mail...
Died. Mrs. Victoria Claflin Woodhull Blood Martin, 88, famed suffragist; at Bredon's Norton near Tewkesbury, England. She was born in Homer, Ohio, in 1838. At the age of 14 she married one Dr. Canning Woodhull. Soon after his death, when she was 24, she married again, Col. James H. Blood, whom she divorced. She then moved to Manhattan where she became engaged in the brokerage business with her sister, Tennessee Claflin; published a paper know as Woodhull and Claflin''s Weekly. In 1872 they published an article on the personal morality of Henry Ward Beecher, created...