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Servants’ Attire

... clean supervision their toilet is attempted. not know the same rule holds in tho country, but in London I told that the workhouse authorities permit being done during such hours ns the Inmates have at their own disposal. The remuneration Is nit fixed ...

Published: Saturday 05 October 1889
Newspaper: Sheffield Weekly Telegraph
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 249 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

Poverty is No Crime

... prison Woking. There occuru therein the following passage i One is inclined to wish that as much attention was devoted to our workhouses, which will not always bear favourable comparison with Government prisons, and this may be Etna to our grave national discredit ...

Published: Saturday 05 October 1889
Newspaper: Sheffield Weekly Telegraph
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 245 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

DISTRICT NEWS

... afternoon, a somewhat novel religions difficulty arose.—The Rev. Canon M‘Kenha said that a short time since ho wrote to tho Workhouse master, stating that wished to hold a service for the Homan Catholic inmates of the Wurkhouso that (Tuesday) morning. In ...

Published: Saturday 19 April 1884
Newspaper: Sheffield Weekly Telegraph
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 653 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

STRANGE SCENE AT A WEDDING

... made by the Rev. A. J. R. Shaw, tho Workhouse chaplain, for the payment of expenses to be incurred in tho removal byniui of six orphan girls from the Workhouse to an orphanage Rotherhithe. The Lunatics in the Workhouse. —Dr. Williams. one of the Visiting ...

Published: Saturday 30 August 1884
Newspaper: Sheffield Weekly Telegraph
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 666 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

iraE WEEKLY TELEGRAPH

... later, the same roof that sheltered ■he Hoppers was sheltering Martha Dibbs. For just fourteen hours, Martha stayed in the Workhouse. Then Rosie, who had evidently spent most of the night in tears, rescued her foster-mother from the last retreat of pauperism ...

Published: Saturday 27 June 1914
Newspaper: Sheffield Weekly Telegraph
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 454 | Page: 18 | Tags: none

Answers to Correspondents

... set apart for correspondence. CERTAIN CURE FOR BEETI.ES.—“Union” Cockroach Paste exterminated the beetle plague Sheffield Workhouse. 1/3, 2/3, 4/6 post free with full particulars.—Hewitt. 68. Division St., Sheffield* ...

Published: Saturday 24 June 1911
Newspaper: Sheffield Weekly Telegraph
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 58 | Page: 30 | Tags: none

THE WEEKLY TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, MARCH 4, l«9a. Sold only in l-onree Packet*, and 2,4, 8-ounce, and Mb. Tina, ..

... from the “REVIEW OP REVIEWS, November IWO. is of interest to every amoker; THE PIPE THE WORKHOUSE.—The picture drawn our Helper tba poor old man in the workhouse, puffing away at an empty pipe, has touched the hearts of aoms of our correspondents. One ...

Published: Saturday 04 March 1893
Newspaper: Sheffield Weekly Telegraph
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 262 | Page: 36 | Tags: none

\ NEW route to matrimony will come distressed damsels in search of husbands as much in the nature of boon

... concerning the too speedy flight of time. They have only exercise little of the self-renunciation praised Goethe—and enter the workhouse. That will probably imply temporary surrender of social * status—but what matters it if the altar be reached last The Master ...

Published: Saturday 30 October 1886
Newspaper: Sheffield Weekly Telegraph
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 276 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

A VAGRANT WHO IS ALSO A LUNATIC

... A VAGRANT WHO IS ALSO A LUNATIC. There is one matter of great concern to public safety in which workhouse officials are not nearly so careful as they ought to be.. In their laudable desire to “clear the house” far as possible, they do not make much account ...

Published: Saturday 09 November 1895
Newspaper: Sheffield Weekly Telegraph
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 271 | Page: 19 | Tags: none

DIAGRAM PUZZLE

... to the seven parts of the first diagram ? The Willesden Board Guardians have decided that all the furniture for the new workhouse they are erecting shall he made the paupers themselves. ...

Published: Saturday 15 June 1907
Newspaper: Sheffield Weekly Telegraph
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 75 | Page: 24 | Tags: none

INCUBATING CHILDREN

... curious, although not quite novel departure, vras made recently by the Liverpool Workhouse Committee. Ihie medical officer reported that many of the babies taken into the workhouse died from want of vital heat. So it was decided to devise an incubator capable ...

Published: Saturday 14 December 1895
Newspaper: Sheffield Weekly Telegraph
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 293 | Page: 28 | Tags: none

WHEN GREEK MEETS GREEK

... great newspapers would surely have found big headlines for the heroine of the historical workhouse case at Midchester, wherein Saint Ne'tty tackled the great workhouse dragon single-handed, and overcame him. Netty was robbed of her father, Major Jude Keppel ...

Published: Saturday 26 May 1917
Newspaper: Sheffield Weekly Telegraph
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2073 | Page: 11 | Tags: none