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PAUPERS AND PROFESSIONALS

... through a misdirection given to his coachman he did not arrive at the workhouse in time. The guardians present having assembled on the stage, Mr J. Kerry, the Chairman of the Workhouse Visiting Committee, proposed a hearty vote of thanks to Mr and Mrs Sprake ...

Published: Saturday 10 January 1891
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 848 | Page: 16 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

THE YOUNG PRINCE

... best to have him removed to the St. .e (tiles's -%Workhouse. Holland's wife procured an order o for admittance, but as it was thought be might show d some temper, ib was decided to send to the workhouse .d for assistance, the plaintiff offering to carry ...

WORK FOR THE UNEMPLOYED

... competitive system. But how is this to be done? It may be-done, he replies, by organizing the workhouse as a co-operative community, by attaching an estate to each workhouse, and by employing every able-bodied inmate in the cultivation of the estate and in preparing ...

ODDS AND ENDS

... your eyes, And fill with glee And sweet enrecrise. The place for m The Workhouse The bacon's good, the milk is pure; Th- meat the best You can procure- Give ins for zest The Workhouse I The beer is light, but so's your heartI The bread is sweet- Est in ...

JOTTINGS FROM JAIL

... many w'ho have tried both workhouse and prison, and prefer prison; and also by comparison of the respective dietaries of the workhouse and the gaol, and the work exacted from the two descriptions of unfortunates. The workhouse of London stands urgently ...

GRAND TEMPERANCE FETE

... Gray's-inn-road workhouse was again re- ferred to.-Mr. Goode said it was not so much the fault of the cooking that.the Irish'stew was complained of, but on ac- couutof the stinking meatandrotten pota. tdesused.-lfr. Nunn said he, visited the workhouse last week ...

TRUTH EXHIBITION OF TOYS

... donor for the little inmates of workhouses and hospitals. AU Londoners will feel the happier for knowing that Santa Claus svill go the round of the siek wards of the infirmary and the hosnital, the dormitories of the workhouse and the orphanage, and that ...

THE POOR OF ST. PANCRAS

... these, sir, are the men who, with unblushing effrontery, have declared the St Paucras workhouse, under its present system of management, as being the model workhouse of the kingdom. Should the truth of these statements be doubted, I have only to say that ...

MR. BUMBLE ON THE STAGE

... he moved that no entertainment of any kind be given in future in the workhouse without the sanction of the board, and referred incidentally to the recent disaster at Holloway workhouse, where a gallery collapsed during an entertainment. Mr LONDON pointed ...

Published: Saturday 05 February 1887
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1457 | Page: 15 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

OBSTRUCTING A CORONER AT EASTBOURNE

... :AN' EXIBITION OF LEGAL TEETH, A remarkable scene was witnessed at an inquest on Saturday evening, at the Eastbourne Workhouse, held by the Bmst Suiex Coroner (Mr. George Hillian), on the body of John Deadman, a homeless labourer, who bad been sleeping ...

MUSIC

... Blackheath. 3 A NOvEL WORKHOUSE TEST.-ST. PANCRASi B WORKHOUSE E MD TiE LANCAaSmE RELIEF FUND.-A , movement of sympathy for the distress in Lancashire has been commenced in the parish of St. Pancras. The inmates Yof a workhouse, themselves the recipients ...

GLOBE THEATRE, LAST NIGHT

... that witness walked with him to the workhouse. On the way there he fell from exhaustion. Witness instantly called as- sistance, a stretcher was sent for, and the man, who was then dying, was carried to the workhouse in- firsmary. He said that he was dying ...