Women received a pound and a half of meat, a peck of corn and the same number of herring".
(One hunter boasted that he had received a pound sterling per corpse, redeemable with a pair of ears).
While most lighthouses along the eastern shore of Lake Michigan receive a pounding by waves, the lighthouses farthest south seem to receive the brunt of the force.
The flooding, Mr. Huss added, did not come from swollen rivers but from an overwhelmed drainage system that received a sustained pounding by the slow-moving thunderstorms.
Along with a hive that resembles nothing so much as a small set of dresser drawers, she received a three-pound package of 10,000 honeybees, which were shipped in May.
The decision to sell 6 percent of the bank's shares comes five years after Lloyds received a multibillion-pound bailout from taxpayers and is an effort to take advantage of the firm's improving fortunes since the financial crisis.
Lloyds, which received a multibillion-pound bailout during the financial crisis, said profit in the three months ended June 30 rose to £1.4 billion ($2.1 billion) from £547 million in the period a year earlier, while revenue increased slightly, to £4.8 billion.
By Shoko Wanger March 8, 2009 A contest to name the forthcoming book by the former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich netted more than ten thousand entries; the winner (who proposed "Rod and the Giant Impeach") received a three-pound beef tongue as a reward.
"I have a Ph.D. in law, and I still can't understand it," said Mr. Kitay, who recently requested Medicare insurance information from Aetna Health and Life Insurance Company, one of the private companies offering coverage through Medicare, and received a seven-pound box of printed materials in response.
Speaking shortly after she received a 425,000 pounds ($660,000) payout from the Metropolitan Police last October, "Jacqui" — the former animal rights activist who had a child with undercover policeman Bob Lambert — told VICE News about the breakdown she suffered after discovering Lambert's true identity, two decades after he disappeared, leaving her to raise their son alone.
