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Precedent. Historians dug up and air-minded editors circulated the fact that, just 100 years before the R-101's tragedy, on Sept. 15, 1830, an ex-cabinet minister died at the inauguration of a then new-fangled mode of transportation: William Huskisson, the Duke of Wellington's Secretary of Colonies, bumped by the locomotive at the opening of one of Britain's first railroads (Liverpool & Manchester). Loud was the outcry then against "dangerous" railroads...
...proverbial frog swelled itself up in rivalry with the bull until it burst," he said in part, "no frog ever has been in such grave physical danger as Sir George Younger." Of the Bonar Law Cabinet in 1923 Lord Birkenhead said: "They remind me of the Duke of Wellington's observation upon his generals: 'I don't know whether they will frighten the enemy, but, by God, they frighten...
...boulevard and residential district named after Wilshire. His I-on-a-co was also an electrical healing machine. Wine of Cardui is for "female complaints." It is a not unpleasant beverage. Lydia E. Pinkham's daughter, Mrs. Caroline Pinkham Gobe, and her grandchildren Lydia Pinkham Gobe and Arthur Wellington Pinkham (company president) still sell her vegetable com- pound for "female complaints." The very wealthy Emersons (Bromo Seltzer) live much abroad...
Died. Sir Joseph George Ward, 74, 1906-12, 1928-30 prime minister of New Zealand; at Wellington...
Field & Stream, 24 years younger, differs from its predecessor in that it opposes conservation measures which may be impracticable, based only on sentiment. Founders John P. Burkhard and Henry Wellington Wack sold it in. 1906 to Eltinge F. Warner, chain magazine publisher. Editor Ray Holland continues in charge of the joint publication, which begins with the August issue. Approximate circulation : Forest and Stream, 90,000; Field & Stream...