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BACK TO THE WORKHOUSE

... BACK TO THE WORKHOUSE. It was stated at the Marviebone Policecourt that Old-Age Pensioners were rejecting their pensions and returning to the workhouse. NEW COAL SEAMS IN BUCKS, Two seams of coal at from 480 ft. to 490 ft. have been struck in the boring ...

Published: Thursday 16 November 1911
Newspaper: North Star and Farmers' Chronicle
County: Ross and Cromarty, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 63 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

ROMANCE IN THE WORKHOUSE

... ROMANCE IN THE WORKHOUSE. Romance surrounds a wedding which took place in the Roman Catholic church in Janeaotreet, Dublin, Monday, when the Rev. Father McGough united in matrimony American Army veteran named Marshall Bailey, aged seventy years, and woman ...

Published: Friday 15 July 1910
Newspaper: Ross-shire Journal
County: Ross and Cromarty, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 79 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

ETON WORKHOUSE SCANDAL

... ETON WORKHOUSE SCANDAL Loral Government L•oarl inquiry has been held at the Etou Union Workhouse at Slough, lasting two days. The master and matron are suspender% the former because of charges against him, and the latter for absence, her whereabouts being ...

Published: Thursday 08 September 1904
Newspaper: North Star and Farmers' Chronicle
County: Ross and Cromarty, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 94 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

A CURATE IN THE WORKHOUSE

... A CURATE IN THE WORKHOUSE. We have been treated to goodly number of church scandals of late, but owing to their monotonous sameness, the outside worid reads them, if at all, with a ehrug of the shoulders ami a sneer of indifference, on tlio principle ...

Published: Friday 05 March 1880
Newspaper: Ross-shire Journal
County: Ross and Cromarty, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 202 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

WORKHOUSE BOYS AS BOY SCOUTS

... WORKHOUSE BOYS AS BOY SCOUTS. The Eton Board of Guardians have deckled to allow their workhouse boys to join the Scouts at Slough. COALOWNERS AND RAILWAY CHARGES. The Scotch Coslowners and railway cetspaniee have come to terms respecting the claims of ...

Published: Thursday 28 December 1911
Newspaper: North Star and Farmers' Chronicle
County: Ross and Cromarty, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 78 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

WORKHOUSE AFTER ElOO A WEEK

... WORKHOUSE AFTER ElOO A WEEK. During the hearing of a police-court case at Cardiff it was stated that a workhouse inmate, whose sons were summoned for not maintaining him, bad formerly earned £lOO a week, but had lost all his money in speculation. SOLDIERS ...

Published: Thursday 23 March 1911
Newspaper: North Star and Farmers' Chronicle
County: Ross and Cromarty, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 218 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

ANOTHER WORKHOUSE SCANDAL. MASTER ADMITS IRRFAWLARITIES

... ANOTHER WORKHOUSE SCANDAL. MASTER ADMITS IRRFAWLARITIES. Henry IFincham, master of the Crouthrook Workhouse, Kent, admitted on Saturday at • Local Government Board inquiry that larger quantities of supplies were requi,itioned than were actually supplied ...

Published: Thursday 02 July 1908
Newspaper: North Star and Farmers' Chronicle
County: Ross and Cromarty, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 494 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

THE BLUE RIBBON IN THE

... glimpse of the petty tyranny often indulged in by workhouse officials. A diminutive crippled pauper”—so the report describes him—was charged with assaulting one of the attendants at the Chelsea Workhouse. came oat in evidence that the defendant was member ...

Published: Friday 03 November 1882
Newspaper: Ross-shire Journal
County: Ross and Cromarty, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 211 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

A POSER FOR THE CANON

... had the rules of the prison v. the work- not to the adyiifilAge of Ihe workhouse. He-asked old da.ne, who had been sent ttriaon for breaking a Window, why she did go the workhouse, and she replied. Excuse m*-, sir; fefcvc you tried both places? ...

Published: Friday 18 February 1910
Newspaper: Ross-shire Journal
County: Ross and Cromarty, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 64 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

SUICIDE FROM PIQUE

... had been nu inmate of Braintree Workhouse from childhood, was found hanging dead on the stairs on Friday. Deceased, Mho was of simple mind. appears to have been upset because this year he was not asked to stir the workhouse Christmas pudding, as he bad done ...

Published: Thursday 28 December 1911
Newspaper: North Star and Farmers' Chronicle
County: Ross and Cromarty, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 75 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

POOR-HOUSES SELF-SUPPORTING

... proper management, workhouses might made eelf-anpportuig. Ur Hewit gives hie own experience with voice of authority. The only question which arises is this—What will the ratepayers benefit it Well, let him speak for himself. The workhouse at Newcastle-an-Tyue ...

Published: Friday 21 November 1879
Newspaper: Ross-shire Journal
County: Ross and Cromarty, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 379 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

THE GIGANTIC CRIME OF CRIMES.”

... England, called for evidence-from cleruy, recorders, governors and chaplains o! pn* sons, of lunatic asylums, governors cl workhouses, and superintendents police—as the results of the use of the liquor. The evidence returned is ol one complexion. “lean trace ...

Published: Friday 19 March 1880
Newspaper: Ross-shire Journal
County: Ross and Cromarty, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 200 | Page: 4 | Tags: none