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WORKHOUSE ROMANCE

... WORKHOUSE ROMANCE. Hoge Bailey, a Devonshire girl in Cardin Workhouse, who has been under the guardianship of the Cardiff Board for some years, during her authorised visits in the city to friends met a young Italian seaman, Joseph Venetia, who fell in ...

Published: Saturday 20 February 1909
Newspaper: Midlothian Advertiser
County: West Lothian, Scotland
Type: | Words: 282 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

WORKHOUSE REVOLT

... WORKHOUSE REVOLT. Nine able-bodied paupers from the Newton Abbot Workhouse appeared before the local magistrates for refusing to perform tasks suited to their capacity. The evidenee %honed that the men, not being served with dinner as promptly as they ...

Published: Saturday 24 November 1906
Newspaper: Midlothian Advertiser
County: West Lothian, Scotland
Type: | Words: 153 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

TO AVOID THE WORKHOUSE

... TO AVOID THE WORKHOUSE. A pathetic story of the struggle of a man and his wife to keep out of the workhouse was told at an inquest at St. Pancras on Saturday. on Edwin Reed, a ship's cook, who died in tin parish infirmary. The widow said her husbam; was ...

Published: Saturday 17 November 1906
Newspaper: Midlothian Advertiser
County: West Lothian, Scotland
Type: | Words: 419 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

FORCE IN THE WORKHOUSE

... FORCE IN THE WORKHOUSE. Some severe remarks were made by Mr. Plowden at Maryleboue, in dismissing • summons for assault brought by an inmate of the Marylebone Workhouse against the labour master. He expressed his astonishment that labour masters should ...

Published: Saturday 19 January 1907
Newspaper: Midlothian Advertiser
County: West Lothian, Scotland
Type: | Words: 280 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

WORKHOUSE IN FLAMES

... WORKHOUSE IN FLAMES. By a fire which broke out early in the morning at Plymouth Workhouse the whole of the main thick was involved, but fortunately the fire did riot extend to the infirmary, which is a detached building running parallel with the block ...

Published: Saturday 13 July 1907
Newspaper: Midlothian Advertiser
County: West Lothian, Scotland
Type: | Words: 270 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

WORKHOUSE AND WHISKY

... WORKHOUSE AND WHISKY. Three men were sent to hard labour for two months for robbing an Inmate of the Sligo workhouse named Payne, under extraordinary Payne had been seat to the town by an inmate named House with • sovereign, to purchase a pint of whisky ...

Published: Saturday 05 May 1906
Newspaper: Midlothian Advertiser
County: West Lothian, Scotland
Type: | Words: 81 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

WORKHOUSE ROMANCE

... WORKHOUSE ROMANCE. A workhouse romance was reported from RoDenby, near Yarmouth, where the rector of the parish, who is chairman of the guardians, informed the board that a gentleman had selected one of the inmates of the workhouse to be his wife. and ...

Published: Saturday 15 August 1908
Newspaper: Midlothian Advertiser
County: West Lothian, Scotland
Type: | Words: 94 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

HONEYMOON IN WORKHOUSE

... HONEYMOON IN WORKHOUSE. Bather than give_ up smoking her cherished slay an Irish MAile named Johanna Wood lam {eft the workhouse at Faversham, Kent. Her husband, who was also an inmate of the usseklowas, has left with her. With • amine disregard of the ...

Published: Friday 12 January 1912
Newspaper: Midlothian Advertiser
County: West Lothian, Scotland
Type: | Words: 233 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

WORKHOUSE FARM PWRITS

... WORKHOUSE FARM PWRITS. Moriog the pest year the Nottis.sm perdins made a profit of £312 from the workhouse feria. Orer eighty toss of potatoes were grows and 6.000 eggs were laid, all of which were cosmused in the workhouse infirmary. Market prices were ...

Published: Saturday 30 May 1908
Newspaper: Midlothian Advertiser
County: West Lothian, Scotland
Type: | Words: 118 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

LOVE IN A WORKHOUSE

... LOVE IN A WORKHOUSE. BREACH ACTION AGAINST LABOUR MASTER. The sequel to a workhouse courtship cams before the London Sheriff's Court, *hen Mimi Ada Martindale, of Redmond, Ki 's Langley. Hertfordshire. obtained Aaaages for breach of promise against Mr ...

Published: Friday 13 March 1914
Newspaper: Midlothian Advertiser
County: West Lothian, Scotland
Type: | Words: 474 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

AEROPLANE MAKER IN WORKHOUSE

... AEROPLANE MAKER IN WORKHOUSE During Use put five months an inmate of the Islington Workhouse has been at work on the model of • flying weeklies. His name is William Paris, seventy years of age, and • watch sad' clock maker by trade. Paris claims that ...

Published: Friday 29 October 1909
Newspaper: Midlothian Advertiser
County: West Lothian, Scotland
Type: | Words: 137 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

AGED WORKHOUSE HERO

... AGED WORKHOUSE HERO. The heroic act of en aged papner in Liver. pool Workhouse was brought to the notice of the Workhouse Committee. It was stated that at two o'clock in the morning one of the nurses rushed into a ward with her clothing, from her feet ...

Published: Friday 08 April 1910
Newspaper: Midlothian Advertiser
County: West Lothian, Scotland
Type: | Words: 729 | Page: 3 | Tags: none