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THE BLACKBERRY Pit

... as muds blackberry pie as I want. Don't you have as much now as you want ? You always share with us. Yes, mother, I have one piece, sometimes twe pieces, but I want a whole one, and when I get to be a man I mean to have a whole blackberry pie. ...

Published: Saturday 02 March 1889
Newspaper: Alcester Chronicle
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 930 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

THE ALCESTIIR -CHRONICLE. SA.TVRDAY, SEPT. 21, 1889

... fruit is the blackberry of the hedgerows, and we see no reason why its ramblings should not be so ruled as to coerce its stout thorn-crusted stems into profit-making for the farmer. Little cultivation of a costly sort is required—the blackberry will thrive ...

Published: Saturday 21 September 1889
Newspaper: Alcester Chronicle
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1197 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

A QUEER BIRD,

... tooth. The injured man is recovering slowly. A NEW rural industry is being opened up in Kent —namely, the cultivation of blackberries for profit. Enormous quantities of this fruit are grown on the hedges in the lanes and other parts of that county, and ...

Published: Saturday 21 September 1889
Newspaper: Alcester Chronicle
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 349 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

SCHOOL BOARD

... had been as many as twent7 or thirty away, and the only reason he could see for it was that they had gone away in droves black-berrying. The : I think the Board ought to take some decided action in this matter. Mr. Hum: It is certainly a great drawback to ...

Published: Saturday 05 October 1889
Newspaper: Alcester Chronicle
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 397 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

CHARGE AGAINST THE EARL OF

... evidence that the girl, who is small for her age, was fitting on a wall watching her sister and other children gathering blackberries, when the Earl of Galloway came up, entered into conversation with her, and behaved improperly towards her. The defendant ...

Published: Saturday 19 October 1889
Newspaper: Alcester Chronicle
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1715 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

ART AND LITERATURE

... entertainment at Mr. and Mrs. Holman Hunt's for the various celebrities, mostly literary and artistic, who were as plentiful as blackberries. The garden at Drayoott Lodge never looked better than it did on Saturday, with its fine old trees, comfortable seats, ...

Published: Saturday 13 July 1889
Newspaper: Alcester Chronicle
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1570 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

EPITOME OF NEWS

... suddenly, after eating a quantity of blackberries. lle vomited violently after eating them, and the medical evidence went to show that death was due to convulsions consequent upon diarrhoea caused by eating the blackberries. AT stockton•on•Tees a boy, named ...

Published: Saturday 12 October 1889
Newspaper: Alcester Chronicle
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 3374 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

LOCAL NEWS

... left hand side of the pulpit was displayed a nice lot of fruit, including apples, pears, plums, damsons, tomatoes, grapes, blackberries, &0., and in front, and on either side of the pulpit were large loaves of bread, surmounted with small ones, by way of ...

Published: Saturday 12 October 1889
Newspaper: Alcester Chronicle
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1772 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

fortunate possessors of land in order to relieve every other class from paying the expenses of this country. At the

... dress pocket) : Now my noble lord I have a letter to give you. You saw me yourself going by the three o'clock train with my blackberries. I walked all the way from Evesham back, and I was frightened on the road of being insulted. I wanted the police to protect ...

Published: Saturday 16 November 1889
Newspaper: Alcester Chronicle
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2324 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

MARKET REPORTS

... per dozen lbs.; cucumbers, frame, 25 to 3s per dozen; horse radish, Is to 3d per bundle ; cocoanuts, Is ed per dozen ; blackberries, 25 per basket ; beetroots, 9d per dozen ; walnuts, 35 to 48 ed per prickle ; walnuts, 88 to Os Gd per bag. Roams° CATTLE ...

Published: Saturday 28 September 1889
Newspaper: Alcester Chronicle
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2654 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS.-MONDAY. DISQUILLIFYINO PKIRS.-YUBL IC lord Carnarron presented a bill for ..

... returned an open verdict. I knew that two or three men had been arrested. The name of Dwyer in Limerick was as plentiful as blackberries in autumn. (Laughter.) I knew that the names of the men who were supposed to have committed the murder would be published ...

Published: Saturday 16 March 1889
Newspaper: Alcester Chronicle
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 4433 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

CONSERVATIVE DEMONSTRATION IN WARWICKSHIRE

... Lane (extra let), C Cannon, Chambers, T Onions (extra 3rd). Damsons. J H Mills, T Onions, A Lesson. Grapes, Mrs Parker. Blackberries, G Harris. PIGEONS.—J. Bowater, J. Kash, BRE&D.—Small bread, W. Harris; large bread, R. Pretty, W. Marie., H. Poole. Ftowetts ...

Published: Saturday 21 September 1889
Newspaper: Alcester Chronicle
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 6000 | Page: 5 | Tags: none