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Pickings!

... Pickings! Extract from correspondence concerning Dundee Corporation Slaughterhouse between the Ministry of Food and-the Town Council: The Ministry also agrees that the Corporation should continue to take possession (without payment) of manure, garbage ...

Published: Monday 12 February 1940
Newspaper: Dundee Courier
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 59 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

They Would Rather Starve

... he will refrain from transgressing and a gentle rebuke will ensure the observance of your wishes. Picking Up Garbage. With regard to picking up garbage or food, train him by dropping pieces of meat where he will find them. Directly he approaches, give ...

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... along the street, came back to tad It gone, and itlooaing what bad happened, gave cfaaae. We'll pick them eat again for ye,* rolantecred the obUglag garbage-collect ora on learning their latake; ••they’ll be none the wear, and giaa a ayad naebody ’ll ken ...

Published: Thursday 31 January 1935
Newspaper: Forfar Dispatch
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 279 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

QUALITY OF IMPORTED CHINESE PORK

... the British Consul at Hankow that the exported pigs, so far from being of the wild variety, living on whatever garbage they are able to pick up, are of the black ana white breed raised between Tungting Lake and Lakow, where only the finest claw of pigs ...

Published: Wednesday 25 May 1910
Newspaper: Dundee Courier
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 188 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

CHINESE PORK

... by the British Conaul at Hankow that the exported pigs, far from being of the wild variety, living on whatever garbage they are able to pick up, are of the black and white breed raised between Lake and Lakow, where only the fin ...

Published: Tuesday 24 May 1910
Newspaper: Dundee Evening Telegraph
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 178 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

REVENUE FROM REFUSE

... request. They show, for the period December 1932 to December 1933, a total revenue of from salvage. From milk bottles and picked bottles there was a revenue of £330, 16,910 dozens being recovered. Under the heading of scrap metals, there was a revenue ...

Published: Monday 19 February 1934
Newspaper: Dundee Courier
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 166 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

4 NATURE NOTEBOOK

... towns and cities, during the winter months, competing with the sparrows and pigeons in wresting an existence from the garbage tp be picked up, or the food proffered by people who care to feed them. It is at this time that the black head disappears, leaving ...

Published: Friday 30 July 1948
Newspaper: Arbroath Herald
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 285 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

FOUR MILES CHASE

... our moorings in the river. While fishing in the river, I have often tried to pick out the different kinds of gulls that were always near, either fishing or picking up garbage floating on the water, and I found the kittiwake with the herring gull was the ...

Published: Friday 02 October 1936
Newspaper: Montrose Review
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 269 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

A USEFUL BIRD

... become useful in some ways. It is the most common gull on our foreshore; in fact you see it wherever there is any garbage to be picked up. You have all heard of how the gull, to get inside the cockle shell, carries them aloft and drops them from a great ...

Published: Friday 02 October 1936
Newspaper: Montrose Review
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 252 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

WEALTH IN WASTE

... holdings. To do this, however, has needed very careful organisation. For instance, the household refuse divided clearly into garbage, general rubbish, street sweepings, and Then, after demonstrations by engineers and chemists, the New York Sanitary Utilisation ...

Published: Thursday 11 January 1906
Newspaper: Dundee Evening Telegraph
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 254 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

Delightful Stories. Amusing Papers. THE INMAN CROW AND SHEATOBILL. A STRIKI74II RRIIIMPLANI't BY Joir% C. I ..

... sound or unsound, all sorts of eatable garbage is readily devoured. The cattle ticks apparently afford him a tit-bit, for the crow can be seen on the back of the buffalo and cattle generally busily engaged picking those pests from behind the earn and the ...

Published: Friday 31 May 1907
Newspaper: Montrose Review
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 357 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

The Good Old Days

... Rubbish, dead cats and dogs littered the best parts of the city. The atmosphere of Covent Garden was noisome with rotten garbage, and loud with brawling humanity. In wet weather gutters were running torrents, and all roads leading to the ditch in Fleet ...

Published: Thursday 06 February 1930
Newspaper: Dundee Evening Telegraph
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 377 | Page: 6 | Tags: none