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THE STATE OF TRADE

... per quart; pears (large), 6d. to ls. per dozen ; ditto (small), ls. to Is. 6d. per peck ; apples, Bd. to 2s. per peck ; blackberries, 3d. per quart; hedge-nuts, 2d. per quart. —In the corn market there was good supply, and prices shewed a downward tendency ...

Published: Thursday 14 September 1871
Newspaper: North Devon Journal
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 3616 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

THE NEW PEERESS

... npon the brow of Angela Bnrdett. —The Animul World BLACK-BERRIES. trees were flushed with red and gold, As, in the warm September weather. Among the country lanes we strolled, And picked the blackberries together. Standing among the russet-brown, And withered ...

THE STATE OF TRADE

... per quart ; pears (large), 6d. to ls. per dozen ; ditto (small), ls. to ls. 6d. per peck ; apples, Bd. to 2s. per peck ; blackberries, 3d. per quart; hedge-nuts, 2d. per quart. —In the corn market there was a good supply, and prices shewed a downward tendency ...

Published: Thursday 21 September 1871
Newspaper: North Devon Journal
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 3654 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

DISTRICT NEWS

... was gaily decorated for the occasion. The band of the B.V.R. was in attendance. Blackberry Revel took place Sunday, and the fruit being plenty this year, the blackberry pickers had jolly time of it; not a house was deficient. ST STITHIANS. Captain Treloar ...

Published: Friday 22 September 1871
Newspaper: Western Times
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 10486 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

East Devon Gazette

... Kahili for allowing four cows to stray on tbe high road.—Defendant said tbat at this season of the year, what with sportsmen, blackberry-pickers, and nutters, was impossible to keep the gates constantly fastened, and the consequence was the cattle would stray ...

Published: Friday 22 September 1871
Newspaper: Exeter and Plymouth Gazette
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 3423 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

THE STATE OF TRADE

... per peck ; apples, 6d. to ls. 6d. per peck; pears, ls. to ls. fid. per peck; plums, 4d. per quart; honey, lOd. per lb; blackberries, 2d. per quart ; cabbages, Id. to 2d. each; carrots, four to six for Id.; turnips, three to four for Id.—Corn market : ...

Published: Thursday 28 September 1871
Newspaper: North Devon Journal
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 3594 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

THE STATE OF TRADE

... small rabbits, 10d. the couple. Potatoes, 7d. to 1 s. per peck ; apples, 7d. to Is. 6VI. per peck ; honey, lOd. per lb.; blackberries, 2d. per quart; cabbages, Id. to 2d. each; cabbage into, Is. per hundred ; carrots, five to seven for Id.; turnips, four ...

Published: Thursday 05 October 1871
Newspaper: North Devon Journal
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 2923 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

POETRY

... boy pulls forth a mouse's nest. And then the tempting bramuble-wreatths invite the babes again, Their pretty mouths with blackberries so sweet and ripe to stain; And many as brown nut slips its sheath to share, poor ittle thing, A burstingpocket with a ...

The Western Times. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1871, The result of the elections to the General Councils gives a ..

... Singular Conduct of a Ticket-of-Leave Man.—On Sunday morning boy named Gosldard, living Newfoundland Gardens, was picking blackberries at Horfield when discovered in ditch near the Wellington Inn a bundle which contained a flannel shirt, a pair of flannel ...

Published: Wednesday 11 October 1871
Newspaper: Western Times
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 3353 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

THE STATE OF TRADE

... Potatoes, 7d. to ls. per peck. A few table apples were soil at 13 f«r 6d.; pears, Id. and 2d. each.; honey, ls. per lb.; blackberries, 2d. per quart; elderberries, 2d. per quart; cabbages, Id. 2d. each ; few pickling cabbages went at 2d. and 3d. c ich ; ...

Published: Thursday 12 October 1871
Newspaper: North Devon Journal
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 3579 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

LOCAL NEWS

... Singular Conduct of a Tick.et-of-Le.we Man.—On Sunday morning boy named Goddard, living in Newfoundland Gardens, was. pic king blackberries Hoi field, when discovered in ditch near the Wellington Inn a bundle which contained flannel shirt, a pair of flannel drawers ...

Published: Friday 13 October 1871
Newspaper: Western Times
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 3548 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

THE STATE OF TRADE

... 6d.; pears were sold principally by tale, three for a penny and Id. and 2d. each being asked ; tomatoes, 6d. a dozen ; blackberries, 2d. per quart; cabbages, id. to 2 ...

Published: Thursday 19 October 1871
Newspaper: North Devon Journal
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 3560 | Page: 3 | Tags: none