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... Complainant went, it appeared, into the defendant's field on c Friday last to pick some blackberries, but seeing ears of corn I lying on ths' ground, she desisted from blackberry picking, I and proceeded to that which she considered more profitable- ear picking ...

Published: Thursday 26 August 1858
Newspaper: Exeter Flying Post
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 6525 | Page: 8 | Tags: News 

News of the Day

... Association, following closely upon the Trades Union Congress, reminds the reading public that the season of Congresess and of blackberries has again come round, and that we are fairly in the thick of it. Simultaneously with the great gathering of scientists ...

Published: Friday 21 September 1883
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 3281 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

CHITCHAT AND CRITICISM

... n of the capital manner in which he has discharged the dutiese of his office ? Testimonials are almost as plentiful as blackberries now-a-day. But I dtn't think a msore legitimate object has been brought forward far a long time than the one now before ...

Published: Wednesday 21 September 1870
Newspaper: Exeter Flying Post
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 3031 | Page: 8 | Tags: News 

DISTRICT NEWS

... father, a slickly man, who ?? in receipt of outdoor relief, and his wife were stated to be in the habit of going out picking blackberries or blid catching, but the man sometimes only earned 61, a day. The relleving officer stated tbat the man positively declined ...

Published: Thursday 22 November 1883
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 3037 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

OUR LADIES' COLUMN

... piece of work, due to the skill rnd energy of our host and another friendly academician. Then followed the sad feast of blackberries, for the lonely pnd weary babes, the fruit being in proportion to their size Made of large bunches of shoe buttons struag ...

Published: Saturday 26 January 1884
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 3045 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

Our Ladies' Column

... a friend's country boune in Scotland. Now that fresh fruit is brooming somewhat scarce, and even the wild and delicious blackberries fail, I fiad a very nice sweet compote can be made by stowing a few pounds of dried Elva figs or French plums in slightly ...

Published: Saturday 19 October 1895
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 2952 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

DISTRICT SIFTINGS

... As regards fruit, there has rarely m t aen a year when the hedgerows have presented' such fc an attractive appearance, Blackberry bushes being be m- richly laden. The only thing that seems to-have w to been a failure this' season is the apple crop, many ...

Published: Saturday 13 September 1890
Newspaper: Exeter Flying Post
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 3347 | Page: 8 | Tags: News 

District News

... secured at the time by a chain passing round the wagon. The deceased with other children was in the neighbour- hood gathering blackberries about an hour after, and went to swing on the timber. At this time the chain was seen hanging by one of the other children ...

Published: Tuesday 21 September 1886
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 2902 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

OUR LADIES' COLUMN

... ear and heard the unmistakeablo tones of his voice, nay even his very laugh when I asked him if I should send him some blackberry jam, that I quite believed I was not the victim of somn delusion. After a few minutes' conversa- tion, and a sufficient ...

Published: Saturday 21 October 1882
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 3072 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

NEWS IN BRIEF

... captured. TH3 GitowTH OF B3LAciaRaeMgs IN KENT.-A new rural industry is being openesi op in Kent, nan~ely, the cultivation of blackberries for profit. Enormous quantities of this fruit are grown on the I Eedges in the lanbs, and other pacts of that county, and ...

Published: Saturday 21 September 1889
Newspaper: Exeter Flying Post
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 2981 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

MISCELLANEOUS

... LESSON ON q onALS (O1ArErcAN),-)nee upon a time, boys, there was a little lad .who, desiring to go to a circus, picked blackberries all through one whole hot July week, and when he had gathered enough to sell for fifty cents, 1 there was nO happier s ...

Published: Saturday 03 January 1880
Newspaper: Bristol Mercury
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 2975 | Page: 6 | Tags: News