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SNAKE-KILLING IN PENNSYLVANIA

... Some of the moat successful snake killers are women and young girls, who make a businesa of gathering huckleberries and blackberries. An important part of a berrypicker's equipment ia stout stick, with which the Bnakes are killed. The country is hilly ...

Published: Wednesday 19 September 1888
Newspaper: Manchester Courier
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 354 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

the course of October and November an exhibition will open the public London which can scarcely fail to excite deep

... of smoke into the air, and outcries about noxious vapours destroying animal and vegetable life are more plentiful than blackberries hi summer. is not so easy, however, suggest remedies . economic and practicable nature. Acts of Parliament may quoted and ...

Published: Saturday 23 July 1881
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 426 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

On evening a meeting of the St. j Matthias (C.-on-M.) Branch, C.E.T.S., was held, the Rev. K. thechair. The loHowmc

... staying Morecambe during the pas fortnight, walked to on Sunday afternoon with an elder sister, gathering and eating few blackberries from the roadside. During the following night-he was taken ill, suffering from sickness and diarrhoea. Medical assistance ...

Published: Friday 27 September 1889
Newspaper: Manchester Courier
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 369 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

While the Hey. Thomas Crick, Vicar of St. John's Church, Farnworth, near Bolton, was publishing the banns of ..

... Apple Jelly is free from artificial colouring, the natural tint of the fruit only being preserved. Hartley's New Season's Blackberry Jelly now ready; great delicacy.—Advt. Royal Jubilee Exhibition, Manchester. • Stoves.' '—Climate of the South of France ...

Published: Tuesday 11 October 1887
Newspaper: Manchester Courier
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 384 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

HINTS AS TO FRUIT-EATING

... are a delicate and agreeable fruit. Gooseberries wholesome, but should be cooked oaten in any quantity. Raspberries and blackberries are excellent, and should be eaten freely. Strawberries aro probably tho most heartily welcomed of our small fruits, and ...

Published: Saturday 08 October 1887
Newspaper: Manchester Courier
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 379 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

Death from Blood Poisoning.— ex. traordinary death from blood poisoning has occurred St. Helens. John Thomas ..

... proceeded along the wild fell*, lor the purpose viewing the magnificent scenery! and strolled out the beaten track to gather blackberries. Whilst cm-aged they became enveloped ir mist and as they were unablo to fi their had to spend the night on the fells Some ...

Published: Tuesday 31 August 1886
Newspaper: Manchester Courier
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 393 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

WOODROW'9 HATS, ana CORK HILL, LONDON. * IT, BRESFOR D'S 23, OHAPEj6- JL» LUNCHEONS, MARKET walks. dinners, ..

... CIRCLE. COUNTY HOUSES OF LANCASHIRE AND CHESHIRE: THE HULTONS OF HULTON. Conversations on Free Tride. False Dauphins. The Blackberry Harvest. Jens Munk, the Arctic Explorer. Literary Selections. Is England's Patriots. How Many are the Radicals? Extracts ...

Published: Friday 24 October 1884
Newspaper: Manchester Courier
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 307 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

Prat' as Good as Medicine

... pleasant and safe than blue mass. The juice should be used alone, rejecting the skins. The small-seeded fruits, such as blackberries, figs, raspberries, currants, and strawberries, may be classed among the best foods and medicines. The sugar in them is ...

Published: Friday 22 May 1885
Newspaper: Cotton Factory Times
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 473 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Rough on rats—rat terriers. A black mailer—the negro postmaster. Can a leased pair of boxing gloves be called ..

... is at home hanging out the washing in her shirt sleeves. I see, said a Stockton housewife to a dealer, that you have blackberries for sale? Yes, ma'am. It 4asby a scratch I got them. One of the possibilities of future warfare' will be blowing up ...

Published: Saturday 08 August 1885
Newspaper: Ben Brierley's Journal
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 409 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

IRELAND. »

... of gold. We are told that the exacting landlord is an exception, but in this distressful country they seem plentiful as blackberries. Better times, however, are surely in store for Ireland, when such scenes as these will be impossible. Miss Cobden wrote ...

Published: Saturday 16 July 1887
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 469 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

A WASP NEST AND HOW IT WAS UTILISED. A MOSTON STORY. ByJ. BARNES.

... and to the adventurous youth who was fond of bird-nesting, or penetrating its secret recesses in search of hazel nuts or blackberries, or loading his pockets with hep or acorn, the lovely dingle was a productive field of enterprise. Now, alas! the waving ...

Published: Saturday 16 October 1886
Newspaper: Ben Brierley's Journal
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 461 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

A LOVE LETTER. BT THZ EDITOR

... those whose infantile steps once wandered into the forbidden recesses of ‘f Banker's Hollow, in search of the luscious blackberry or the interesting bird's neat, are scattered abroad, fewvery few—remaining to chant the glories of those early exploits ...

Published: Saturday 12 January 1889
Newspaper: Ben Brierley's Journal
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 485 | Page: 6 | Tags: none