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GIANT INDEX OF MARRIAGES.
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, MAY 8, 1930.
A FORTUNE HE DID NOT GET.
LONDON MAN COMPILES LIST EXPECTANT HEIR'S STORY
OF 1,400,000,
cure for insomnin, a Seeking a City man has found it in a work which will take a century.to.com plete.
He is Ir. Percival Bord, and he lives at Upper Warlingham, in the North Downs. Mr. Boyd comes up to his office every day but
IN COURT.
Lady Mariel Beckwith, daughter of the late Duke of Bichnend, and half-sister of the present Dake, gave witness in an action by her hus band. Major Malebisse Beckwith, of North Lodge, Lavant, Chichester, ||
last month.
every evening in the working week he goes home to his task of com,
The action. before Mr. Justice piling new and eriginal mar- Eve in the Chancery Division, con- riage index of England and Wales.cerned the estate of his father, who
died in 1927 leaving £340,000.
from 1538 to 1937.
Mr. Boy has already, in about Morning. Noon and Night In four years, compiled list of Vienna (Suppe), Vienna Phil-1,400,000 marriages. They make no 139 volumes, which harmonic Orchestra Conducted fewer than by Professor Robert Heger. occopy four and a half shelves in Don Carlos-O Don Fatale (Oh, the library of the Society of. Fatal Gift)" (Verdi) and La Genealogists, Bloomsbury squire. Favorita 0 Mic Fernando (Oh, Denrest Ferdinand)" (Donizett), Sigrid Onegin Contralto with orchestra..
* Sweetheart "
(Strauss) and) **Gipsy Love (Lebar). Inter- national Concert Orchestra. Night Winds " (Oscar Levant)
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Until Love Cores Along"
(Oscar Levant). Bele Daniels, Soprano with orchestra.
A' Keltic Lament" (Foulds) and
Valse Triste" (Sibelius), Vie ter Olof Sextet, Instrumental Sextet. Andreachenier". Un Dinflazzurro Spazio (Once D'er The Azure Fields) (Giordano) and La. Fanciullade West-Ch'ella" Mi Creda Libero (The Girl of The Golden West-Let Her Bekueve)" (Feccini), Armand Tokatyan. Tenor with orchestra, Ballad No 3" (Chopin)-Benno Moiseivitch Pianoforte Solo, Peer Gynt" (Gring)-Boyal Opera Orch, Covent Garden. Guest Conductor-Eugen Goossens, "Sergeant Flag and Sergeant Quirt (Lou Klein-Billy Moll) and I Can't Sleep In The Movies Any More (Field Hall-Yan Clevel. The Hap- piness Boys (Billy Jones-Ernest Hare).
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tasomnia Cure.
The society's records and the help of friends have been invaluable to my task," said Mr. Boyd.
Why did I take it on? Well, I was suffering badly from sleepless ness, and could find no ordinary
shire,"
thought; however, that if I nald devise a purely mechanical home occupation which was absorb ing without being a strain on the intellect. I might cure my elf.
"Being a member of the Society of Genealogists, I thought out this iden of an index of marriages.
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People send me thousands of slips from various records. I do the collating and indexing, and have them typed into pages and bound.
"I've Found My Cure." Every night I stop because it nakes me so sleepy. I have found
my eure.
Major Beckwith claimed to set aside or rectify a deed of disentail. ment which he alleged carried out à sale by him to his father of pro- perty to which he would have be conre entitled on his father's death.
He said that the sale was ať" 3" great under-yalue, and made at a ime when he was financially en- arrassed and ignorant of the true value o the reversionary interest with which he was dealing.
The defendants iclude Mrs. Frances Kathleen Rury, of Milli thepe Park, Craven Arms. Shrop shire. Major Beckwith's sister, the trustees of the estate, and an in faut beneficiary.
At the conclusion of Major Beck- with's case, counsel interviewed Mr. Justice Eve in his private room regarding suggested terma of com- promising, and the hearing of the
tion stood over for these terms to be submitted to his lordship for con- sideration.
Hard-up Keir.
I have indexed to a large extent
Mr. Vaisey, K.C., for Major the marriages of eight counties: Beckwith, said the effect of the Cornwall, Derbyshire, Devon. Dur- father's will was that the sister was ham. Norfolk, Shropshire, Somerteannt for life of the whole of the catate, and Major Beckwith, his set. Northumberland.
wife and children, were excluded from any substantial benefit.
I have also done it part of Middlesex. I can find any marriage 1,400,000 in five of the whole minates.
I reckon that the entire task, at the present rate of progress, will My son, aged 2. take 100 years. who is in business with me, ean Carry on if he likes.
THE WORLD AT ITS WORST
7...
By GLUYAS WILLIAMS
THAT SILLY FEELING WHEN AFTER WAITING HALF AN HOUR FOR A TROLLEY IN A STRANGE.
SUBURB, IT BEGINS TO DAWN ON YOU
THAT THE TROLLEY LINE HAS BEEN DISCONTINUED IN FAVOR OF
THE CANCER SCOURGE.
AMERICAN DOCTORS AND FAKE CURES."
(UNITED PRESS.]
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(Copyright, 1930, by The Bell Syndicate, Ine.)
GWYA'S WILLIAMS
HUMOUR: ANCIENT AND MODERN.
Little Bobby: "Must I really wash my face, Mamma?"
Mother: "Ye You're terribly dirty!"
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"I am not thin skinned.. I am the first to laugh at my own foolish, nesa.?
What merry life you must Washington, April-20-Cancer lead." The late Mr. Beckwith, who died experts testified to-day before hear- at S7, owned valuable estates in Yorkshire and Darbam. Majorings of the Senate Commerce Sub. committee that surgery and radium Beckwith was educated at Eton and
are the only known remedies for Oxford, served in the Guards, and was severely wounded in the Boer cancer. War. At that period he was treat- ed as the acknowledged heir of a The London Daily Telegraph very rich man, who was of an econo- says that Aircraftsman Shaw (Lawmical turn of mind. The major was rence of Arabia) has half completed hard-up during all the relevant translation of the Odyssey, Final times, and was pressed by his father Arrangements concerning its pub- to be economical. lication are being made by American financier, Mr. Ralph Is- ham, who has recently arrived in England to consult Lawrence...
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The father said Mr. Vaisey, was fond of all kinds of sport, except fox hunting, which was a matter of issue between him and his son.
Dr. Ellice McDonald of the University of Pennsylvania said that at the present time there are approximately 100,000 fake cancer "tures"
Bobby: "Why can't I just put some flour on my face like you do?"
Little-Ann "Mumay, horseshoes, are for horses, aren't they?"?
Mother: "Of course, darling. Why do you ask "
The" experts urged that Congress should make a liberal appropriation to permit of intensive study of Cancer in an effort to find an Little Ann: "Because I was just authentic cure, or at least further wondering about some snowshoes measures of alleviation.
down at the store!!!
Sygher: "It must be wonderful
to be popular to have a large fol- lowing?
Bygher: Well, it's easy! All you have to do is to buy a lot of things on the installment plan!”
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There were but a few minutes before the curtain was due to be raised
"Look here," said the comedian to the stage manager. "I can't go on tonight; you'll have to get my understudy to take my place."
"What!" gasped the stage man- the ager "If you don't go on. show will br-ruined."
"But I can't," went on the come dian. "The fact is. I am feeling rather funny tonight, I-I-"
"My dear fellow," said the other, "this is you chance of a lifetime."
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