Daily British Whig (1850), 22 Nov 1919, p. 17

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(1) Earle Grey at Waterloo Station, leaving Lon- don for America to serve as the new British Ambassador: Reading left to right, Lord Bryce, Earl Reading, Farl Grey and Lord Curson (2) England's Railway Strike. An alone is in charge of many signal heavers, inspector (3) Billingsgate, the Great London Fish Market. Owing to railway strike, fish had to be brought to market by Government lorries (4) Lieut.-Col. Sherwood-Kelly, V.C., D.S.0., who volunteered to look after the horses of the S. E. & C. R. at Blackfriars Stables during the strike. He was on friendly terms with the strikers... (5) M. Paderewski, President of the Polish Re- public congratulating airmen who volunteered for service in the Polish Aviation Corps. (6) England's Great Railway Strike. --Thousands waiting for their train home, (7) Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig's car ised on the western front, sold by auction. ators were at work J: W. Bell, the superintendent this elaborate decoration, visit, on which electrical for over a month, evoked favorable comment, and Mr. of the building, who designed and supervised the erection of Was congratulated on the result of his effort. No fewer than 7.752 individual lights were "used in thig displa , which follows thé general cut'ines of the huge edifice, including the two towers. In order to connect the lamps with the seventeen switches, there is a mile and a quarter of wire. In the Prince of Wales' Feathers, which are 13 feet 6 inches in height, there are 242 lights, while the two ma ple leaves on St. Antoine street and Osborne street, each 12 feet high, have®each 143 lights, while there are 55 lights in each of the four illuminated crowns, electrical decoratisn is supplemented with a display of flags, 450 in number, twelve long streamers 31 feet each in length, and 69 shields each 4 Banh FR i x x X 7 PRINCE PRESENTED WITH STRAWBERRIES PICKED ON 2. .. OCTO 7 If His Roya! Highness the Prihce of Wales had any preconceived idea that Southern Alberta had grown nothing this vear owing to the drought, he probably has reason to change hig mind after being presented at Lethbridge with a four<pound box 6f mest luscious strawber es packed on Tharsday morning {rom his own garden by John Hanilton, who owns one of the farms on the C: P. R. Ready~ made Farms Colony, 18 miles east of the city. The fruit was the éver-bearing variety and as fine in color, texttre and flav ! grown in the middle of the season, Tf reniiined fer the Coaldale Sistriet to supply the royal table with Whew slrawberries picked ig tober, vii :

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