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... IN WORKHOUSE FOR TWENTY YEARS. Could Not Bear Pains in Head. Suicide while temporarily of unsound mind was the verdict returned at inquest at Durham on the body of James Preston (61), an inmate of Durham Poor Law Institution. Preston, who was a native ...
... SEQUEL TO MUTINY IN WORKHOUSE. ' ate of Court on Saturday, seven -„r e . Belmont Workhouse, were UBln ff to observe the Work-|| »*• a r ) Henry Rowland, \h M. aa aulting labour , s ...
... SHORTER DRESSES IN WORKHOUSE. Women's War Against Old Fashions. Women members of the Basford (Notts) Board of Guardians have begun a campaign for shorter and brighter dresses for the women inmates of the institution. At the last meeting Mrs Oliver said ...
... PAYINQ GUEST IN WORKHOUSE, An inmate of Runcorn workhouse, who possessed £2000, has been given permission to stay as a paying guest, the terms he suggested, 25s a week, being accepted. A member of the Board of Guardians stated that the man had no relatives ...
... WORKHOUSE INMATES' BREAD Will Go to the Pigs. The inmates of Th&keliam Workhouse have refused eat certain bread, says .Central News correspondent. The Guardians have upheld their action, but the contractor was unable take it back under the Food Controller's ...
... THE CARE OF WORKHOUSE INMATES. is understood (says the Times) that the Presij Q t of the Local Government Board is about * to the Boards Guardians throughout the important circular the subject of atkhouse administration. The circular will t,ri many points ...
... SHIPOWNER DIES IN WORKHOUSE CLOSE FRIEND OF LATE KING EDWARD Titled Cousin Attends Funeral Once a wealthy Liverpool shipowner, and claiming that he was a close friend of King Edward VII., Mr Walter William Butler has died in the Luton Union Infirmary ...
... SAVED FROM THE WORKHOUSE. THE PAUPER BARONET AND AMERICAN LADY. After six months'experience pauper inmate of West Ham Workhouse, Sir William Gordon Macgregor, Bart., has just made his reappearance in social life. The circumstances of his translation from ...
... WORKHOUSE BOYS JOCKEYS. A brief though animated discussion occurred the meeting the Doncaster Guardians, in consequence of application from Mr M'Cormick, of S win ton, to take a lad now in the Workhouse apprentice and train him as a jockey. It was pointed ...
... A WORKHOUSE MITE. Miss Ellice Hopkins, writing in the Pall Mall Gazette , says -.—One little girl I always recall whom a friend of mine rescued from workhouse life and sent to a bright cottage home. Fearing that the child might fret during the journey ...
... POPLAR WORKHOUSE ONGOINGS. WHAT THE ATTENDANT SAW. The Poplar Workhouse inquiry was resumed yesterday, when Crosbie, telephone attendant, gave further evidenoe. He Btated he had seen Mr M'Carthy, a Guardian, drunk in the Workhouse supporting himself by ...
... reference to the poor law, they longed for the time when there would workhouses. Miss Florence Grove read paper wnich urged the establishment of farm colonies, instead of workhouses, the ground that they would be more helpful to the people, and give them ...