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THE “ UNEMPLOYMENT TALK.”

... such ulterior motives as can be discovered by even a casual inquirer if he desires. »In Canada there are no poor rates, no workhouses and no worry over out-of-works except the wasters. Far be it from me to deny that there are cases of unemployment in the ...

Published: Saturday 08 November 1913
Newspaper: Shetland Times
County: Shetland, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 136 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

THEATRE DESTROYED

... fire, the damage amounting to some hundreds of pounds. The whole of the pautomime * fitup ”’ was burnt. . OUTBREAK AT A WORKHOUSE. An outbreak of 4re oceurred shortly after midnight in the children’s quarters at the Cuokfield (Sussex) ‘AVorkhouse. Some ...

Published: Saturday 11 January 1913
Newspaper: Shetland Times
County: Shetland, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 130 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

OUSE INMATES ENTENCED

... OUSE INMATES ENTENCED. ...

Published: Saturday 20 November 1926
Newspaper: Shetland Times
County: Shetland, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 132 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

HOW TO GROW THIN

... HOW TO GROW THIN. special dietary was arranged by the medical officer of a Yorkshire workhouse to re duce the weight of two heavy men. For breakfast, porridge. skim milk, stewed fruit, and watercress in season: dinner:s hread. lean meat This and vegetables ...

Published: Saturday 21 August 1915
Newspaper: Shetland Times
County: Shetland, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 140 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

HOW TO GROW THIN

... HOW TO GROW THIN. This special dietary was arranged by the medical officer of a Yorkshire workhouse to reduce the weight of two heavy men. For breakfast, porridge, skin milk, stewed fruit, and watercress in scason: dinner: bread, lean meat or fish, and ...

Published: Saturday 10 August 1912
Newspaper: Shetland Times
County: Shetland, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 138 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

BARRISTER'S BAD FORTUNE

... entirely on the favours of former friends; but these have gradually failed him, and he is now an inmate of the Pontefract Workhouse, whither he promised to betake himself on heing discharged by the \mxgntn(e, who knew him in his happier days. ...

Published: Saturday 20 January 1912
Newspaper: Shetland Times
County: Shetland, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 133 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

Temperance Campaign. Shot and Shell. Drink and Poverty

... what changes we should see! We should see our taxation reduced by millions sterling a year. We should see all our gaols and workhouses cmpty; we should see more lives saved in twelve months than are consumed m a century of bitter, savage war; we should transform ...

Published: Saturday 29 September 1923
Newspaper: Shetland Times
County: Shetland, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 155 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

BRIEF SUMMARY

... agricultural labourer fixed at mot less than 20s 6d a week, which would be merely the bare standard of maintenance in a workhouse. ~ Shorter hours and weekly holidays for agricultural labourers. Revision of rent and tithes on farms where these reforms ...

Published: Saturday 18 October 1913
Newspaper: Shetland Times
County: Shetland, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 169 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

DIED FOR A CHILD'S SAKE, SAINT OF HOXTON'S ™ SAD DEATH

... left St. Monica’s Priory at Inlif-pust six on Monday evening, ‘i! the Daily Mail, to baptise a child in Shepherdess-walk Workhouse. While walkin nlon? East-street, which has been torn up i‘m- the laying of tramways, he slipped and fell into a deep trench ...

Published: Saturday 07 February 1914
Newspaper: Shetland Times
County: Shetland, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 173 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

DISCOVERY OF DEAD LOVERS. MAN SCARED FROM SUICIDE

... cannot be parted. Bury us together is our last wish.—Alf and Ivy.” The man who found the bodies—an inmate of the Portsmouth Workhouse—said that he broke out of the imbecile ward at that institution and went to the spot on the seashore with the intention of ...

Published: Saturday 30 November 1912
Newspaper: Shetland Times
County: Shetland, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 198 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

SOME MORE HOWLERS

... Edmouton boy, in a descriptive essay, lus touched on points of particular municial interest :— ...

Published: Saturday 29 September 1923
Newspaper: Shetland Times
County: Shetland, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 194 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

TRACING FAMILY

... Elizabeth. May and ‘Thomas searched for him and were reduced to such povelty that 'they actually did spend Christmas 'Day in the Workhouse, returning later to Tymeside, . ‘This single event prevented any idetafls of James or his parents from being handed-down, ...

Published: Friday 31 December 1971
Newspaper: Shetland Times
County: Shetland, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 180 | Page: 11 | Tags: none