MONDAY, AUGUST 29, 1927.
Choose Glaxo for your Baby
Your Baby's future health depends on your choice of his food. You must choose the food you know is best, for you dare not endanger your Baby's progress by experimenting.
Be guided by the experience of the great number of doctors, nurses and mothers who choose rightly by choosing the best food they know -Glaxo.
Choose Glaxo for your Baby now! And be free for ever from any anxiety as to Baby's steady progress towards healthy, strong-limbed merry- hearted childhood. Ask your Doctor!
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Food to his Glaxo, This will provide
the best means of accustning Baby, gradually and natur- ally to taking more solid food. Obtainable. where you buy Glaxo
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Unable to Read.
Four witnesses in a case at East- bourne County Court were unable to read the oath.
The United Kingdom Imports from Russia, in June were valued at £862,604.
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Prince Henry presented standards to the 3rd/6th Dragoon Guards at Tidworth, Wiltshire.
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Captain Hubert L. Pelham Burn, 36, of the 2nd Gordon Highlanders, whose motor-car overturned at Borden, Hampshire, died at Alder. shot.
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Three hundred thousand peor children in Italy are being sent for a summer holiday at the ex pense of the Government, the Fascist Party, the Red Cross, and other organisations.
Hospital Sunday.
The Hospital Sunday Fund col- lections at Home this year totalled £79,100 compared with £30,470 in 1926,
In June 2,863 recruits joined the Territorial Army, 300 more than in May, making the total strength, exclusive of permanent staff, 141,955.
Boy Scouts Drowned.
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Motor and Sea Deaths,
Three Edinburgh Boy Scouts, In Great Britain about thirty Louis Kennedy, of Lauriston people are killed in motoring ac- Gardens; T. Walsh, of March-cidents every week-end during the mont Crescent; and Percival summer, while an average of eight Nicolson, of Ashley Terrace, all to ten are drowned. aged 17, were drowned while bathing in the River Tay near Pitlochry, Perthshire.
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Pleading guilty to being drunk on board H.M.S. "Adamant" (de- pot ship for aubmarines), Surgeon-
The 1st Battalion. East York-Lieut. Robert Burns was sentenced shire Regiment, stationed at by a naval court-martial at Devon- Tientsin, who were to have report to be dismissed his ship, and turned to India in November,
reprimanded. have received orders to remain in China for another year.
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Among recent gramophone cords issued by the Gramophone Company, Oxford Street, London, is a very beautiful and impressive rendering of Mendelssohn's anthem "Hear My Prayer," by Ernest Lough, a choir boy at the Temple Church, London. The record was taken while the boy sang in the
choir stalls of the ancient church.
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The Buenos Aires and Pacific Railway Company have given a contract for 24 locomotive boilers to the North British Locomotive Company, of Glasgow, who have also received a contract for 40 locomotives for the Egyptian State Railways.
Bequest for the King.
Surrey C. C. Clerk.
Surrey County Council accepted the resignation of their clerk, "Mr. T. W Weading, who in 80 years old, and on his consenting to net in an advisory capacity decided to grant him £1,600 a year for life.
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Built and equipped at Chatham Dockyard at a cost of £600,000,
the new submarine. Oberon was ordered to proceed to the North Sea on July 25 for her final trials.
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The L.C.C. do not propose to take any steps at present in con- nection with the proposal for the construction of new tramways to the Crystal Palace.
Killed on Honeymoon.
Married only four days, Mr. and The Hon. Sir Sidney Robert Mrs. G. A. Macdonald, 32, King Three Birmingham children-Greville, lately Comptroller and Street, Old Meldrum, Aberdeen Ivy Pain, 13, Daisy Toy, 13, and Treasurer to the Prince of Wales shire, were returning home when Walter Toy, 9, of Gower Street, and Groom-in-Waiting to the their motor-cycle collided with a Lozells-who disappeared-were King, by his will left to the King motor-car. Mr. Macdonald died found two days late sleeping under his silver handled cup, and to later and his wife broke her right a hedge...
the Queen, a Chippendale china arm. cabinet and Chippendale card table.
Engineers accepted the em- ployers offer of 2s, a week more for plain-time workers by 81,575 votes to 41,527. More than 165,000 men who receive time rates in the engineering shops get the add
tional 28.
Tram Car Seized.
The bailiff of Hackney Borough Council seized a London County Council tramway-car in connection with the non-payment of $700 in
rates for the Upton House L.C.C. School at Hackney, which the L.C.C. dispute.
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A piece of rock, regarded by some experts as evidence of life millions of years before the oldest known undoubted fossils, from the archæan rocks of Carelia, Eastern Finland, has been added to the Natural History Museum, South Kensington.
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Through coming into collision with a motor-coach near Hartlip Hill, Rainham, Kent, Charles Whiddett, a telegraphist from the Royal Naval Barracks, Chatham, who was driving a motor-cycle, was killed, and his pillion rider, Percy Stanley Friar, also of the barracks, died later.
The wording at the head of currency notes is being altered by the substitution of "United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland" for "United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland." Notes in circulation bearing the old wording are still legal tender.
A committee of Chester council. recommends that the offer of the freedom of the
in city made January, 1919, to Mr. Lloyd. George be withdrawn as it has not been followed "in a reasonable time" by his attendance for admission.
"Nolay" Motor Cars.
Sir W. Joynson-Hicks, the Home Secretary, informed Sir R. Thomas (Lib., Anglesey) in the House of The engagement is announced Commons that in the first six of Earl Howe, aged 66, and Mrs. months of this year there were Lorna Quintin Dick, widow of more than 5,700 prosecutions in the Metropolitan Police District Captain Quintin Dick. Earl against motorists for not effective- Howe's first wife, Lady Geor-ly silencing their machines. giana Spencer-Churchill, died in 1906, and his second wife, the widow of the second Marquess of Dufferin and Ava, died in 1925.
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Messrs. Swan, Hunter, and Wigham Richardson, Ltd., of Wallsend-on-Tyne, are to build a 3,700-tons cargo steamers for Norwegian owners, and Messrs. have received an order from the Harland and Wolff, Ltd., Belfast, Union-Castle Mail Steamship Company, Ltd., for a 20,000-tons liner for their South African mail service.
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Following the formation of a
local branch of the National Play- ing. Fielda Association, Walsall Town Council have decided to pro- vide ten acres of playing fields for the borough.
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EMPRESS LODGE,
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