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Britain's Heroes and the Workhouse. Lord Roberts, in a letter to the Editor to-day, announces the inauguration ..

... Britain's Heroes and the Workhouse. Lord Roberts, in a letter to the Editor to-day, announces the inauguration of The Veterans' Relief Fund. It is proposed to collect a sufficiently large sum to ensure the release of every Crimean and Indian Mutiny ...

Published: Wednesday 08 January 1908
Newspaper: Port-Glasgow Express
County: Renfrewshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 91 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

• HIS DYING WISH. At an inquest at Northampton Workhouse on Monday evening on William Henry Bryant, an inmate, his

... inquest at Northampton Workhouse on Monday evening on William Henry Bryant, an inmate, his sister in fulfilment of his dying wish, handed the man's violin to the Corcner, and asked it he would give it to Mr Samuel Twiselton, the workhouse master, in return ...

Published: Friday 17 December 1926
Newspaper: Port-Glasgow Express
County: Renfrewshire, Scotland
Type: Advertisement | Words: 53 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

PETTICOAT RULE

... lamplighter has been appointed. PAUPER BECOMES OFFICIAL. ♦ young man who entered Winslow (Bucks) Workhouse as a pauper has now been appointed assistant to the workhouse waster. ...

Published: Wednesday 12 March 1924
Newspaper: Port-Glasgow Express
County: Renfrewshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 47 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

SOCIAL LEGISLATION

... about half a million. The Children's Act, well named The Children's Charter, came into force on April 1. The doom of the workhouse is foreshadowed in the Reports of the Poor Law Commission which were issued on February 17. There were two reports, a Majority ...

Published: Friday 07 January 1910
Newspaper: Port-Glasgow Express
County: Renfrewshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 225 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

REPERTOIRE INCLUDES

... REPERTOIRE INCLUDES The Faroe of tho worthy blaster Pierre Patelin. The Workhouse Ward, an Irish comedy. Augustus in Search of a Father, by Harold Chapin. Babes in the Wood, by V. C. Clinton &sadaley. kenos from Mid-Summer Night's Dream. Acted ...

Published: Friday 30 January 1948
Newspaper: Port-Glasgow Express
County: Renfrewshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 68 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Cross Word Puzzles

... following; Our Help in ages past - - Lloyd George.* Our Hope for years to come. — Dole. Our shelter front the stormy blast —Workhouse. Aml our eternal home--H . ...

Published: Wednesday 11 March 1925
Newspaper: Port-Glasgow Express
County: Renfrewshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 78 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

OW Age Pensioners Fortune

... Fortune. Henry Marsh. the Sheffield oldage pensioner who left a hoard of coin in his two-roomed cottage and died in the workhouse hospital, has been found to have been worth no less than £1286. More than 2 cwt. of coin amounting to £630, mostly silver ...

Published: Friday 08 August 1924
Newspaper: Port-Glasgow Express
County: Renfrewshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 86 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Not Like-Minded

... ; they could calmly look on and see those who had cared for them when they could not care for themselves led away to the workhouse. Cases of this sort may not be numerous, but that they do exist we all know. State pensions should remove a great deal of ...

Published: Friday 10 July 1908
Newspaper: Port-Glasgow Express
County: Renfrewshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 154 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

A SERIOUS INCIDENT

... saw a paragraph the other day in an English newspaper recording a sad event that took place in the lunacy ward of a large workhouse. An attendant had bie finger severely bitten by a man suffering from delirium tremens. The bite brought on blood-poisoning ...

Published: Friday 14 September 1906
Newspaper: Port-Glasgow Express
County: Renfrewshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 160 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Glasgowand Greenock Motor

... of Skin the Goat. James Fitzharris, better known as Skin the Goat, has just died in the infirmary of the South Dublin Workhouse. Fitzharris was the driver of a car on which, it was stated, the Invincibles drove to Phoenix Park on the evening of 6th ...

Published: Friday 09 September 1910
Newspaper: Port-Glasgow Express
County: Renfrewshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 483 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

LOVE ONE ANOTHER

... of one single commandment of Christ, Imre one another, change the whole aepect of the world and sweep away prisons and workhouses, envy and strife, and all the strongholds of evil? The real spring of our life and of our work in life must he love true ...

Published: Friday 13 August 1915
Newspaper: Port-Glasgow Express
County: Renfrewshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 178 | Page: 4 | Tags: none