The bridge, which took eight years to build and was designed by City of London architect Sir Horace Jones in collaboration with engineer Sir John Wolfe Barry, was officially opened on 30th June, 1894, by the Prince and Princess of Wales (the future King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra). Oth...
Jesuit Missionary in Kentucky conducting missions from the St. Lawrence River to the Gulf of Mexico, the Atlantic seaboard to the Mississippi River Baptized James Charles McGuigan a native of Hunter River at South Rustico, McGuigan later to become a priest, Archbishop of Regina and Toronto and...
What was perceptible to those ‘in the life’ were expressions, and gestures, of the term often used by the Hays Code, ‘deviancy.’ One of the things that the Code banned in Clause 6 Section 2 on "Sex" was that"sex perversion or any inference to it is forbidden." Not that ...
The last time I saw the place the grass grew green where once stood the City Hall, the corn-stalks waved their banners on the very site of the old store–I ask pardon, the “Emporium”–of Jackson, Jones & Co., and what had been the square, staring white court-house–not a ...
A. N. Jones, Le Roy, N. Y. Staminate. Longworth's Prolific. —An old variety, that is passing out of cultivation; still grown quite extensively in California. It is a large, roundish-oval berry of good flavor. The plant is said to be vigorous and productive. Originated on the ...