Word: islington
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Great Britain. The first show was given n 1886 by Charles Cruft, who began his career serving behind the counter of a dog-biscuit shop. Ever since Queen Vic toria entered her collie and three Pomeranians in 1891, the show has been held ach year in Islington's mammoth old, red brick Royal Agricultural Hall. At its olden Jubilee Show three years ago, 10,650 dogs were entered...
Last week the 53rd annual Cruft's was leld in Islington without mild little Show man Cruft, who died last fall at the age of 86. Uninvited but prominently present was a group of unemployed, who paraded car rying banners which read: "The dogs are O. K. - judge our condition." Also on hand, "to carry on the show on the lines he want ed," was 66-year-old Widow Cruft, who like her late husband, keeps...