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... favourite haunt is the mouth of a large river, especially where this is in a calm or landlocked harbour, and lie greedily picks up all the garbage brought down by the stream. In such a neighbourhood the black triangular fin which betrays his presence is frequently ...

Published: Friday 29 April 1898
Newspaper: Cotton Factory Times
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 466 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Pitiful Stay of a Street

... of doors to shift for himself by a gindrinking mother at the ripe age of seven. For four years he managed somehow. He picked up garbage here and there like a hound; he begged, he called cabs, he gathered cigar ends; he stole a whelk off a stand occasionally ...

Published: Friday 16 September 1892
Newspaper: Cotton Factory Times
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 397 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

HYDROPHOBIA AND THE MUZZLE

... wo do them a great service by muzzling them. When they are muzzled they cannot fight, and they cannot pick up all sorts of vile and poisonous garbage. The worst enemies our British dogs have are those foolish and inconsequent persons who object to the ...

Published: Saturday 24 October 1891
Newspaper: Manchester Courier
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 498 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

FLOTSAM AND JETSAM OF THE GUTTER

... individuals, who crept along beside the gutter, only pausing w and then to fumble among heaps of garbage. Curiosity was pricked. I watched one, and at length saw him pick out of the refuse a gentleman glove, thrust it furtively into a bag, and go on again. Then ...

Published: Saturday 07 July 1894
Newspaper: Manchester Courier
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 477 | Page: 14 | Tags: none

THE VOYAGE OF THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH

... them, and a salute of 21 guns was fired. Honolulu is a fine place for amusements. Fruit grows in abundance, and you might pick and eat as much as you like on the plantation. They are ael in a con- fusion now (Friday, July 30) on deck, getting in sheep ...

Published: Saturday 18 September 1869
Newspaper: Manchester Times
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 665 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

The days of duelling are over England, and the enactment of ludicrous farces or brutal tragedies no longer ..

... mo3t of all to blame con; -with this matter. They flourish on tit-hits ,of gossip, and Atjtoclychus who can pick unconsidered trifles garbage, wash them tolerably clean, add a trifle spice, arid a little dressing specially prepared to suit the palate ...

Published: Wednesday 28 January 1880
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 981 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

HORRIBLE LONDON

... any scheme of sanitary improvement, however half-hearted it may be. We enter a narrow court, picking our way with caution over the nameless filth and garbage and the decaying vegetable matter that, flung originally in heaps outside the doors, has been ...

Published: Wednesday 14 November 1883
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 993 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

THE DUSTMAN'S CASE

... wa~y:- The plintif had caerebdinto a contr~at with- thbe vestry to take all the breeze, dust, cinders, athes,. dirt, off 1, garbage, filth, and. refuse iwhich should be collected and removred by theta, their contractor, agents, and servats within the paish ...

MI. THE SPORTING CHRONICLE, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1879

... , except a balloon, can approach any of the homes. Visitors in cabs or carriages must alight at the external barricade and pick their passage among the stone walls to the dwellings of which they are in quest. All social entertainments are suspended. No ...

Published: Tuesday 11 November 1879
Newspaper: Sporting Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 947 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

THE DOG NUISANCE IN MANCHESTER

... vagrant and' houseless curs roam- IBC about the back streets ami lanes of the city, unowned and uncared for, picking up uncertain living among the garbage and the gutters and miedens. It is these waifs and -st. m. in unwholesome neighbourboods, and yelp viciously ...

Published: Thursday 26 April 1866
Newspaper: Manchester Courier
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1248 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

[MORNING EXPRESS. ONE PENNY

... found amongst them a very gercral difficulty in grasping the great mass of fans and making a whole of then,. As fast r/a they picked up one . fact they dropped anotluir. I have, therefore, attempted to tell the story in story form. The story of a guilty Mrs ...

Published: Sunday 11 August 1889
Newspaper: Empire News & The Umpire
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1225 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

OLD AMERICA. THE COMING EXHIBITION AT OLD TRAFFORD

... pressure of hmess? • . • Are strong men going to forms useful portion of the community? Certainly, fiandow's recent exploit of picking up &couple of fellows who had previously robbed him, tucking one under each arm, and marching them off to cool grot, would ...

Published: Sunday 08 May 1892
Newspaper: Empire News & The Umpire
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1200 | Page: 1 | Tags: none