ST. PATRICK, HIS DAY-- MARCH 17, 1909 The annual distribution of shamrock to the Irish Guards took place on Wednesday morning at Windsor. It is now nine years since the Irish Guards were brought into being by the order of the late Queen Victoria as a recognition of the conspicuou

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THE NEWSLETTER. Week by Week. Great New Street, London, E.C., March 17, 1909. King Edward has been passing the days at Biarritz in walking and motoring. He has expressed a desire to see Mr. Wilbur Wright make a flight in his biplane, but hitherto the weather has prevented the avi

. HThe Prince of Wales on Saturday addressed the ist Cadet Battalion of the King's Royal Rifles at the Guildhall. "As colonel-in-chief of the King's Royal Rifles," he said, I am highly gratified to find how efficient a body is affiliated to that regiment in its ist Cadet Battalio

. THE STRIKING SCENE UNDER THE GREAT DOME OF THE CAPITOL AT WASHINGTON Mr. William Taft formally took office as President of the United States of America on March 4, a snow blizzard preventing the oath being taken in the open air as on former occasions. The military and civic pag