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... CHEESE, BUTTER, MILK, RICE, SHOES, COAL, SOAP, CANDLES, SPLIT PEAS, OATMEAL, and other Articles of Consumption, for the Workhouse of the said Union; and also for supplying the several Farisbes in the said Union with BREAD and FLOUR, are re- quested to ...

Published: Saturday 12 June 1869
Newspaper: Pontypool Free Press
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Advertisement | Words: 2299 | Page: 1 | Tags: Advertising 

A ROMANTIC WEDDING DAY

... wa3 abandoned to the care of Morris. He took it to the house of f. woman named Lewis, who conveyed the child to Poplar workhouse, and the union was obliged to take charge of it. Mr. Spratle, relieving officer, and Mr. Courtenay, prosecuting officer of ...

Published: Saturday 12 June 1869
Newspaper: Pontypool Free Press
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 581 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT

... M'Cullagh Torrens' ideas as to the segrega- tion of the sick and the value of the dispensary system, he maintained that workhouse hospitals were necetsary for the destitute sick, who, for the most part, had no homes 01 their own in which they could be ...

Published: Saturday 12 June 1869
Newspaper: Pontypool Free Press
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 2323 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

---lltistcllaiiiOMs ntelligentt ! HOME, FOREIGN, AND COLONIAL

... forgotten to go back for their babies. The result is an accumulation of infants, which the manager now threatens to send to the workhouse if not claimed within three days, and all expenses paid. No more children, it is added, can be taken care of as previously ...

Published: Saturday 12 June 1869
Newspaper: Pontypool Free Press
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 4055 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

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... On the same subject, The Master of the Brain- tree Union Workhouse, has sent the following to The Times As the time has arrived when a fair estimate may be formed of the probable wheat crop, perhaps, though, on a Finall rcale, you may not consider the ...

Published: Saturday 31 July 1869
Newspaper: Pontypool Free Press
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 227 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

Illisttllimcoiis ,|ntc[[ixjcua,

... history attaching to the note in question was a very peculiar one. Jt had been found by an inuoite of the Betbnal-Green Workhouse in a pair of bracei purchased by him from another pauper in the house, and the braces having been washed previous to the ...

Published: Saturday 31 July 1869
Newspaper: Pontypool Free Press
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 7487 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

NEWPORT

... ant3 matbtJr had aCJaoĆ oned him, and left him in -\e pot' about eleven years ago, and thus he bad become an in mate of the workhouse. He had also discovered that the father was originally master of a ship, but d left, his wife, and was now living with a ...

Published: Saturday 21 August 1869
Newspaper: Pontypool Free Press
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 1169 | Page: 1 | Tags: News 

THE DUNMOW FLITCH

... and opposite the Dunmow Union, which, by the bye, is one of the prettiest of modem Gothic build- ings put to the use of a workhouse, had been hii ed for the occasion and a sort of fair was carried on at one end, where also was a long booth fitted up with ...

Published: Saturday 21 August 1869
Newspaper: Pontypool Free Press
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 1668 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

SHOWING UP THE MERTHYR TYDVIL GUARDIANS

... Most of us were very grateful to you when you praised the liberality of our guardians in entrusting the nursing of our workhouse infirmary to the care of a well-trained Sister of Mercy. These past notices of us in your columns, and the great influence ...

Published: Saturday 28 August 1869
Newspaper: Pontypool Free Press
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 324 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

-_---UtistcIIiiitcoiis Ifntrlligcitte,

... on of the demoralising results of workhouse life is to he found in a scene that occurred at the meeting of the Limerick Board of Guardians the other dty. An able-bodied fellow, applying for admission to the workhouse, was asked why he uid not look for ...

Published: Saturday 28 August 1869
Newspaper: Pontypool Free Press
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 5343 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

THE PONTYPOOL FREE PRESS

... threatening or attempting to shoot Dr Brew. In answer to Mr E. B. Edwards, defendant admitted that had been sent to the workhouse lunatic, but said be bad never been locked np before this. P.c. Batten said that defendant had done no work to speak of for ...

Published: Saturday 01 January 1870
Newspaper: Pontypool Free Press
County: Monmouthshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 5359 | Page: 4 | Tags: none