... the Chamber of Trade. MR. J. E. ALEXANDER, Superintena- ent of Knaresborough Hospital and former Master of Knaresborough Workhouse, has died, aged 60. THE REV. B. A. RAMSKER, Vicar of St. John’s, Park, Sheffield, and for- Vicar of Drax, has been merly ...

... the Onamber of Trade. MR. J. E. ALEXANDER, Superintend- ent of Knaresborough Hospital and former Master of Knaresborough Workhouse, has died, aged 60. THE REV. B. A. RAMSKER, Vicar of St. John’s, Park, Sheffield, and for- merly Vicar of Drax, has been ...

... organisation that would make this nation sit up. Since its inception in the last ten years they had seen the disbandment of the workhouse, the practice of distributing relief had been discontinued and the erection of comfortable hostels had been accomplished ...

... division of the Youth Hostels’ Association; goes to Winton County Secondary DADDY DARWIN’S DOVECOT 1. —Jack March LITTLE workhouse boy— awake —dreaming. From the for in the dav s of this top of an old walnut tree at story there were still work- the top ...

... managed to persuade a visitor to the workhouse to take it out and post it for him. And this is the letter that was delivered to Mr. Darwin, of the Dovecot, next morning: Honoured Sir, They call me Jack March. I’m a workhouse lad, but. Sir. I’m a good one. and ...

... lists of the several parishes within the Todmorden Union were presented. It appears that a number of persons relieved in the workhouse during the half-year ended Michaelmas, 1899, was 217, the number of days maintenance being 22,808. In addition to these 864 ...

... (shades of the banana boats) and processions of unemployed with their families were asking to be taken en bloc into the workhouse. Other incidents were the blind march to London, starting from Newcastle; the unemployed march from Jarrow, led by the late ...

... is a thing about Daday Darwin that I have not toia you yet. In all the years h 1 nad lived alone before Jack March, the workhouse boy. came him, he had learned to be a miser. And that had nut made him any happier, for the more he added to the hoard in ...

... victory. What had happened after the last war? Many men had gone to live in the workhouse. Here a heckler laughed, but Capt. Hewitson countered, Yes, I have been in the workhouse, and in the mines. The slate in coal today was because the mines had been ...

... costly apparatus rationing” It was Conservative view that strong help weak In the years before the war dietary of London work-houses was in every way superior in meat fat sugar and also variety to that which could Life Offices Broadcast or admit that well ...

... whole of 8,000-word cannot say ‘thank you’ ELSIE Mavis THORNTON for the- dollars.” (23), of Satham il London, a Better m * workhouses NURSE DIES ON EVE OF WEDDING ELSIE MA (23), of Satham, 9 New Zealand nurse who was to have marrieg a London to-day, dieq ...

... apparatus rationing? It was the Conservative view that the strong should help the weak. Before the war, dietary of London workhouses was in every way superior in meat, fat, sugar and also in variety that which could be bought by a fully employed wage-earner ...