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Heard in the Courts

... cannot stand it any longer.—Magistrate: Try a little cotton wool in vour ears. Costermonger at Hichgate: If barrel organs are allowed to stand in the street, why not the costermonger with his barrow’— Magistrate : The time for answering riddles is ten o'clovk ...

Published: Tuesday 12 April 1921
Newspaper: Halifax Daily Guardian
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 193 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

COSTER M.P.?

... COSTER M.P.? It was announced last night, at the annual dinner of the Whitechapel and Spitalfields Costermongers’ and Street Sellers’ Fnion. at Limehouse Town Hall, that the union was prepared with a Parliamentary candidate to contest Whitechapel as soon ...

Published: Wednesday 28 May 1913
Newspaper: Halifax Daily Guardian
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 86 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

THE VANISHING BOOTS

... THE VANISHING BOOTS. 3 LESSON TO GAMBLERS. Lewis Fryer, 19, a costermonger, of Fulbam, was charged at West London with gambling 10 the public street on Sunday. He told the magistrate that he wanted to get emough money to buy a pair of Myr. Fordham: How ...

Published: Tuesday 24 May 1910
Newspaper: Halifax Daily Guardian
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 70 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

ASLEEP STANDING UP

... ASLEEP STANDING UP. It was stated that George Nicholas Witchalls, a costermonger, aged forty-two. oi Homerton, on whom an inquest was held on Saturday, had undergone twenty-eight operations zor faintness, disfigurement of the face, and injur& to his fingers ...

Published: Friday 12 June 1914
Newspaper: Newton and Earlestown Guardian
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 83 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

COSTERS AT THE HOME OFFICE

... that Fnglish costermongers in Jewish districts should not be forcedv to.close before their Jewish competitors. Mr. Churchill promised that Sunday trading ap to two o'clock should not be interfered with, uurinvited one Or iwo costermongers to see him agaia ...

Published: Friday 21 October 1910
Newspaper: Halifax Daily Guardian
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 301 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

[IUMOUR OF THE WEEK. LITTLE 80-PREP

... ‘ Bo- Peep.’ You know what happened.” “THAT'S ALL.” Applyin{g for leave to appeal for a further period of exemption, a costermonger was asked by the military representative at the Surbiton Tribunal how his brother, who had joined up, was faring. “He's ...

Published: Friday 18 August 1916
Newspaper: Newton and Earlestown Guardian
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 93 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

BRUG TRAFFICKER SENTENCED

... BRUG TRAFFICKER SENTENCED At Marlsorough-street Police Court, Londoun, yesterdsy, Alfred Thompson (18), a costermonger, who was charged with being un unsuthorised person in the unlawful pos session of cocaine, was sens to prison for four months, A pl ...

Published: Wednesday 29 December 1920
Newspaper: Halifax Daily Guardian
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 107 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

SALE OF POTATOES

... distinctly states that ‘‘the retailer must display prominently in his premises (or on his barrow, if he is a hawker or costermonger) the price at which he is selling potatozs stone, per half-stone, and per fi:- respectively, and if he is selling diff 2rent ...

Published: Friday 12 October 1917
Newspaper: Newton and Earlestown Guardian
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 161 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

PAIN AS A WARNING,

... present, unfortunately, the first stages of consumption are painless, and the poor patient buys a bottle of stuff off a costermonger’s barrow—unless he happens to read what I write. Cancer means ‘ a crab,” and 1 should like to put a real live crab with ...

Published: Friday 26 February 1926
Newspaper: Nelson Leader
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 195 | Page: 13 | Tags: none

ATTEMPTED SUICIDE

... OF BLOOD. A verdict of death from natural causes was returned at an held in SouThwark yesterday on_Thomas S'm:.y‘. 43, a costermonger. Three wesks agc Spellacy attempted suicide by cutting his throat. . Dr. 8. Dlard, o)fnGuy‘s E‘mplw&-ad that the injury ...

Published: Tuesday 24 May 1910
Newspaper: Halifax Daily Guardian
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 195 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

WALKING: AN IDEAL EXERCISE

... former custom; Ee sud‘denly felt faint, had to lie down at the side of the road, and was ignominnusly brought ‘home on a costermonger's barrow. His wife ‘went round the next morning to interview the doctor. She was not exactly speechless with indignation ...

Published: Friday 01 August 1924
Newspaper: Nelson Leader
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 225 | Page: 10 | Tags: none