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PENZANCE

... and one from whooping-cough. Thbrb is excellent demand for sloes and blackberries this season, for export. The fruit is sent up the line, and penny pound for the luscious blackberry is paid to numbers who scour the fields and fill their boskets with this ...

Published: Thursday 10 September 1896
Newspaper: Cornishman
County: Cornwall, England
Type: Article | Words: 1468 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

CAMBORNE

... at Mrs Shuggs' Penpol-terrace (next door to the Post-office.) Adv. Wheat, on Magor farm, near Tehidy, in shocks. Ripe Blackberries were picked in many places in the 1 vioinity of Camborne last week. Mr. Berriman, builder, Troon, Camborne, has the contract ...

Published: Thursday 20 July 1893
Newspaper: Cornishman
County: Cornwall, England
Type: Article | Words: 592 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

WEST PENWITH PETTY SESSIONS

... past-nine and after the cows had drank their fill they turned and made up the road, the boy remaining behind to pick a few blackberries and shortly after the constable found them.—The Bench said they were inclined to believe story: about sending the boy to ...

Published: Thursday 14 October 1897
Newspaper: Cornishman
County: Cornwall, England
Type: Article | Words: 669 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

PAUL SCHOOL BOARD

... er, said that he had visited the schools but the attendance was not all that he should like to see, especially at Paul. Blackberry picking kept many the children away, and so did the threshingmachine. The attandance at Mousehole is, the whole, very sood ...

Published: Thursday 21 September 1899
Newspaper: Cornishman
County: Cornwall, England
Type: Article | Words: 1528 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

PAUL SCHOOL BOARD

... there are still a few who give constant annoyance their irregularity and their parents' indifference. During the past week blackberry gathering has interfered with the attendance. The average attendance the month was with books, and the percentage wis 83 ...

Published: Thursday 29 September 1898
Newspaper: Cornishman
County: Cornwall, England
Type: Article | Words: 669 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

OCCASIONAL NOTES

... green as grass, and ’tism’t grass; As red 28 and ’tisn t blood As black asi and ’tisn’é ink! What isit? The four stages of a blackberry. ENDIVE, succory, scadious, bugluss, balm, and several other herbs are still much used by amateur herbalists. *The extent ...

Published: Thursday 12 March 1891
Newspaper: Cornishman
County: Cornwall, England
Type: Article | Words: 760 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

HELSTON HIGHWAY AND SANITARY AUTHORITY

... have recovered. The doctor was reported to have said there was no typhoid fever in one house: what he did say was that the blackberry pie which had been eaten heartily was quite enough to cause diarrhoea. A woman in Meneage-street, who nursed her sister ...

Published: Thursday 07 November 1895
Newspaper: Cornishman
County: Cornwall, England
Type: Article | Words: 696 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

END OF A COLD-BLOODED MURDERER

... warder entered wi'b the convict's breslif«s*, wbfch consisted of three poached eggs, a dish of tinned pe-.ch***, seme Honed blackberries, soma bread and coffee. During the Birchail chatted freely, and cracked jok?s with hi? attendants. became more serious ...

Published: Thursday 20 November 1890
Newspaper: Cornishman
County: Cornwall, England
Type: Article | Words: 640 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

PAUL SCHOOL – BOARD

... . This irregularis was dne harvesting, and children running a bom the Unes. The next item on the programme would be the blackberry picking, after a while some parents would need six months in the year for their children, who would thereby waste the most ...

Published: Thursday 31 August 1899
Newspaper: Cornishman
County: Cornwall, England
Type: Article | Words: 816 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

MARKETS

... dozen; tomatos 4d per lb; cherries 6d a lb; almonds 5d a lb; walnuts 4d ; Brazils 5d Barcelonas 4d grapes lOd to per lb; blackberries 4d per basin ; pears 2d each; plums 4d lb; celery 4d each; marrows 2d 6d each; new turnips a bunch; carrots a bunch; onions ...

Published: Thursday 13 October 1898
Newspaper: Cornishman
County: Cornwall, England
Type: Article | Words: 1441 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

OCCASIONAL NOTES

... good in Germany as it is in Japan the tree will be largely planted in the former country. Warwickshire they think that blackberries ought not to be picked after Michaelmas-day, because on that day Satan has set the mark of his cloven hoof upon them. ...

Published: Thursday 22 October 1891
Newspaper: Cornishman
County: Cornwall, England
Type: Article | Words: 773 | Page: 4 | Tags: none