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THE NATIONAL EDUCATION SCHEME

... nation to accept any bless. ing thrust upon it. If reasons for the amelioration of the community were as plentiful as blackberries. John Bull would do nothinguponconmpulsion,andsupa tough matter as education is not to be forced upon tn. willing people ...

Published: Saturday 26 March 1870
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1122 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

LONDON GOSSIP

... Englislrmas is very unsavoury just now in the French nostrils. Lven in Paris, where our countrymen have been as plentiful as blackberries-in those particular quarters of the city that is to say, which they effect-the dislike ri the lower classes to us has at ...

Published: Saturday 10 September 1870
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2031 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

LANCASTER

... assault upon a respectable married woman, Mrs. Smith, the wife of a p lumber and glazier. She and a little girl were out blackberrying on the canal banks, near Aldeliffe, when prisoner went up to Mrs. Smith, threw her down, and at- tempted to commit the ...

Published: Saturday 12 October 1872
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 855 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

WHITSUNTIDE FESTIVITIES

... every case they have been successful in forcing up wages and re- ducing working hours. Strikes have been as plentiful as blackberries, and at one time, there were all the evil forebodings imaginable, ?? put almost everybody in the dismals ; but society ...

Published: Saturday 07 June 1873
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 9587 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

CORRESPONDENCE

... during the past few months swept through the town, and the victims of the disease have been plentiful in every district as blackberries in autumn. Scarlet Fever lias held high revelry in our midst, and the death rate has been run up to an alarming figure ...

Published: Saturday 27 June 1874
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 4880 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

BLACKBURN: ITS NEWS AND GOSSIP,

... comfortable meal, as was thle yes wont of other ministers, lie liad to wonder about end pick r or- hips, and Liaws, and blackberries to quieten the pangs ofa lie hunger. But' independently of this exclusiveness, the ,ght eonnexion wag very poor, and many ...

Published: Saturday 24 July 1875
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 3990 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

BAZAAR AT HAMBLETON

... How they won out fair mothers by Kitty Lowe Well. H We've searched by the twilight, and sought by the dawn HE ~cFor the blackberry rips and the mushroom full grown; da And a bouquet we've made too delicious to tollI, And regealed the fair maidens by Kitty ...

Published: Saturday 31 July 1875
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1821 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

CORRESPONDENCE

... scarceness ltality, of local gcntlemen eligible as candidates, we are deluged oriety. with them-they are as plentifcl as blackberries, and each there views his own claims as paramount.' -We have; three Tory day fewntlmen all desirous of representing us ...

Published: Saturday 11 September 1875
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 12470 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

AGRICULTURE

... t 700 guineas; and it has been said that at his ram lettings dukes, earls, baronets, and M.P.'a were as plentiful as f blackberries. To return, the male animal ought always toj ossess rough masculine properties; this nesessary a qualification was neglected ...

Published: Saturday 01 April 1876
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 5255 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

CORRESPODENCE

... respect their choice. I wonder that the aIdies are allowed to ply their trade in your streets, for they are as thick as blackberries in autumn. I Suppose the police are too gallant to interfere with them, their hearts are too susceptible to the influences ...

Published: Saturday 08 April 1876
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 8074 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

CORRESPONDENCE

... through the streets and 'toroughfares-frout, back, and all aorts (in many of which dogs are well-nigh as plentiful as black-berries, or children), end sheet down and destroy all dogs, great and small, indisoriminately. Thus, in about a week or so, the ...

Published: Saturday 19 August 1876
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2219 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

Local News

... who resided at No, 14, Brook-street, wel went out with a young companion, named Thomas th, Hougheton, to gather a .few blackberries, and for this pur- ILa pose theey proceeded along the canal bank in the direction tai of Stocks' Bridge. Houghton returned ...

Published: Saturday 23 September 1876
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 9291 | Page: 5 | Tags: News