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WRESTLING MATCH AT CHURCH. Big Crowd Present

... Crowd Present. Considerable curiosity was awakened in the Blackburn-road district of Church on Saturday afternoon by the invasion of a big crowd of men making their way towards Church Cricket ground. The attraction turned out to be a wrestling match, ...

Published: Tuesday 02 October 1906
Newspaper: Accrington Observer and Times
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 273 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

ITS CONDITION OF FULFILMENT

... assistance; and that call was never made until it was, humanly speaking, impossible to send troops in time to prevent the German invasion of her territory. The truth about this should be widely known, and it is very briefly as follows. Ever since the days of ...

Published: Tuesday 05 January 1915
Newspaper: Accrington Observer and Times
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 296 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

FROM THE STATES

... this year, its most significant feature s the great variety of makes represented. Formerly when the quest'on of an Amerfcan Invasion was ‘mentioned, the suggest'on was a wholesale dumping of cheap cars—cheap in every ‘sense of the word according to popular ...

Published: Saturday 13 November 1920
Newspaper: Accrington Observer and Times
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 280 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

MILITARY MONKS

... they drill and practise with the rifle each day. Armed friars guard the monasteries day and night, not only against possible invasion, but also against the entry of any woman. So rigid is the monks’ ban against the weaker sex that not even the female of any ...

Published: Tuesday 31 August 1915
Newspaper: Accrington Observer and Times
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 284 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

SPECIAL SERVICE

... soldiers in France were still unbroken: that our command of the sea was still secure; that our land was free from the horror of invasion; that there was no distress amongst our people; that loyalty was preserved among the native (Continued in next column), ...

Published: Saturday 07 August 1915
Newspaper: Accrington Observer and Times
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 320 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

THE HAIR MATTRESS

... sofa. The horse-hair sofa seems to have descended to us from the barbarous days of the Inquisition aud torture. In case of invasion such wretched racks might come in handy in build* v sticet barricades. Until thea they oughit 10 be ‘relegated to the dusty ...

Published: Saturday 30 June 1906
Newspaper: Accrington Observer and Times
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 274 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

ENGLISH PLAYS IN AMERICA

... ENGLISH PLAYS IN AMERICA. It is worthy of note that this year marks the greatest invasion of America by English plays and players ever recorded. Nearly 500 English actors and actresses—including stars like Sir Charles Wyndham, Miss Mary Moore, Miss Ellen ...

Published: Saturday 08 September 1906
Newspaper: Accrington Observer and Times
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 265 | Page: 12 | Tags: none

AND A PLAN

... small force finds the defence temporarily weakened and wins in. In the case of infection from a person already suffering invasion is accomplished by.sheer force of numbers—numbers, too, of germs which (flushed with victory, as it were) are exceptionally ...

Published: Tuesday 30 March 1915
Newspaper: Accrington Observer and Times
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 301 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

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... time in training OF A SORT, but let me put a few questions:—(l) What. is the object of this Guard? (2) In the event of an invasion, what position would the members be in? (3) Would they then be put with the women and children, and treated as non-combatants ...

Women Dress Brightly

... Kells shows the wonderful art of the ancient Irish in illuminated manuscript work. This was written long before the Norman invasion, probably in the days when the coarsemannered Saxons held sway in England. The Civic Guards parade the streets of Dublin ...

Published: Saturday 27 October 1928
Newspaper: Accrington Observer and Times
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 303 | Page: 16 | Tags: none

MEXICAN AMAZONS,

... inasmuch as the man with the most soldiers always becomes President, irrespective of the vote cast. The most remarkable invasion of the fields of man by women in Mexico is, however, her entry into the bull-ring. ~Bullfighting flourishes in every city ...

Published: Saturday 18 September 1920
Newspaper: Accrington Observer and Times
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 332 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

TERMS AND DEFINITIONS

... by red lines in the skin and swollen glands, and this state may go with any degree of poisoning, even the gravest, since invasion of the blood-stream can oceur at the same time from the same infected wound, or occur subsequently from the poisom, so damaging ...

Published: Tuesday 09 February 1915
Newspaper: Accrington Observer and Times
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 329 | Page: 4 | Tags: none