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Died. Bartley Madden, 40, New York heavyweight boxer; after falling off the steps of the Treasury Building at Washington during a sight-seeing tour. Onetime champion of his native Ireland, he was famed in the U. S. as a tough, courageous "trial horse" for title-seekers. In 22 years he fought 94 bouts: won 52 (29 knockouts), lost 14 (one knockout-by Gene...
...reign of Charles II, a 70-mile hunt was held from Swinley to Lord Petre's Seat in Essex; the Duke of York was the only hunter in at the death. At the beginning of the 20th century, there were 19 packs of staghounds in England, four in Ireland. The biggest existing British deer park is 4,000 acres at Savernake. The season opens on Aug. 12, ends Oct. 8. There is a short spring season from Lady Day, March...
...Lucky Ireland. Almost The Commercial's only bright page is that headed IRISH FREE STATE'S STEADY ADVANCE: The Shannon Scheme Completed...
...burdened like Mother Britain with a disheartening War debt, pert Daughter Ireland has been stepping out for Prosperity. The business event of the year was of course the virtual completion of President Cosgrave's stupendous German-engineered project for hydroelectrification of the oft sung and storied River Shannon (TIME, Aug. 5). But The Commercial supplies many a significant fact about what has happened since Henry Ford changed his mind about "abandoning Ireland...
...Viscountess Astor, where they were in effect presented to Mr. & Mrs. Henry Ford. Long, informal and marked by cordiality on both sides was the ensuing chat between the King of Men and the Monarch of Motors, a chat which may just possibly have been momentous and lucky for Ireland...