The American City. 1911
In the shopping and banking district of wheeling.
Royal Military Academy
The Queen’s commission how to prepare for it, how to obtain it, and how to use it. With practical information on the cost and prospects…
English Army life
Hopkinsville Kentuckian (Hopkinsville, Ky.), October 11, 1889 The proud sensation of emerging from the rank of “snooker” (a cadet in his first half year), the…
The way it is done.
The Portland transcript, Saturday, January 25, 1851 And so he mingles as a sort of social “dead-head” among the parvenues of Uppertendom, who, of course,…
To the Editor of the Standard.
London Evening Standard, Wednesday 10 January 1900 Sir,—Yet another regiment accounts for retirement by having been duped by a command from the enemy to “Retire.”…
Letter from an Old Jarksonian Democrat of Greernwood Township.
Juniata sentinel and Republican (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.), December 2, 1885 <…> Tom believed with Old Hickory and Bible king David, that the spoils belong…
The second great ordeal of the “snooker.”
Naval & Military Gazette and Weekly Chronicle of the United Service, Saturday 05 September 1863 A quarter of an hour after morning Academy there is…
New batch of “snookers”
The Regiment, Saturday 24 September 1898 On the officers’ ground on the barrack field the Riding Establishment had taken six young officers’ wickets for twenty-five….
“Snooker” puzzle
Chichester Observer, Wednesday 30 December 1896 Applications for Patents.—28,693.—8. Marsh, 33, Gildridge-road, Eastboure; the coke fume inhaler and fuel economiser.—28,833.—J. Ridge, T. Mutton and 11….
Snooker and Sniggs
Aalborg Amtstidende, 7-14. december 1924 [Danish] Manden fra Chicago. Oversat for Børnebladet <…> »Der traf De det«, sagde den snu Herre. »Jeg repræsenterer vel nok…