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Serious Charge

... looking girl, engaged as a domestic servant, but temporarily on a holiday with her grandmother in Uffington, was out picking blackberries with two younger girls. Edith Wheeler and Maria Curtis. They were by the side of the canal leading towards Oxleaze Farm ...

Published: Saturday 07 October 1899
Newspaper: Reading Mercury
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 202 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

SAD DEATH OF A YOUNG MAN AT READING

... seemed to be in a hurry to get over in front of the train. There were no blackberries the spot, only underwood. In reply to Mr. Sadler, the witness said there might be some blackberry bushes on the spot, but the fruit would not ba ripe. deceased was not ...

Published: Saturday 19 August 1899
Newspaper: Reading Mercury
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 926 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

MOULSFORD

... A Farce Thos. J. Williams, with the following ca»t: Toby poor relation) Mr. C. E. Mabbet. Mr. Bracebutton Mr. J. Hall. Blackberry Thiseltop jjr. G. Gear. Mr. Pantechnicon Pantile (a scientific friend) . Mr. J. Hand. Evelina (Bracebuttcn's daughter) ...

Published: Saturday 04 January 1890
Newspaper: Reading Mercury
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 268 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

OXFORD

... health but of late had complained feeling similar to that which precedes a fit He went out that morning at 8.30 to father blackberries, and hour later, when near the County New road, ho fell down. Several people ran his assistance, but he was unable to get ...

Published: Saturday 23 September 1899
Newspaper: Reading Mercury
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 400 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

NEWBURY COUNTY POLICE COURT

... assault upon another young man named Charles B. Bowles, at Shaw, on Saturday. Bowles said he saw the defendant picking blackberries in hedge, on the farm at Shaw, occupied by Mr. E. Bowles. He told him to move off, whereupon he struck him on the face ...

Published: Saturday 09 September 1899
Newspaper: Reading Mercury
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 407 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

HARTLEY WINTNEY

... Maitland-Crichton. The decoration of this stall was particularly effective with white Liberty muslin, interspersed with ivy and blackberry. The goods, whioh were gener. usly given by inhabitants of Crondall and other friends, were of miscellaneous and interesting ...

Published: Saturday 30 September 1899
Newspaper: Reading Mercury
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 576 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

THE F•ln. ..—.40.....

... they quahty. Busd have givea of the rapidity with the train, was shorter then usual, cobs are a full a» aod of outs aod blackberries there is an and hedge- ov « Faamu Fras —The engaged for a time last week at Stoat'’s Nest Farm, Oonledoo, pear Oroydon ...

Published: Saturday 29 August 1896
Newspaper: Reading Mercury
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 667 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

TERRIBLE RAILWAY DISASTER IN WALES

... Beard, of Pontypridd, who were spending the afternoon walking through the fields below Treforest. They were gathering blackberries on tho lower side of the Taff Vale Railway, when Mr. Beard noticed the train approaching. A moment later he saw that several ...

Published: Saturday 19 August 1893
Newspaper: Reading Mercury
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 630 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

THE GARDEN

... why bullfinches do not begin the buds in autumn or early winter? ‘The answer is’ (writes Mr. Maher) ‘‘ the seeds of the blackberry or raspberry are then plentiful, and the minute germ is a ey eat ; and it is the same with the fruit buds, it is only the ...

Published: Saturday 03 May 1890
Newspaper: Reading Mercury
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 739 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

THE FARM

... Australia. The rainfall in New South Wales has been unusually heavy. Seventy (inches fallen in the last seven months. The Blackberry crop in Kent this season is an exceptionally large one, and the fruit, owing to the hot sun and high temperature, is of ...

Published: Saturday 27 September 1890
Newspaper: Reading Mercury
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 845 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

MORE BERKSHIRE BIRDS

... feather-lined or not. The Whitethroat warbler seems less common than the so-called Gardes Warbler, whose frail nest found in blackberry bushes and among herbage, though the bird is seldom visible—its inconspicuous plumage saving it from observation. Berkshire ...

Published: Saturday 02 September 1893
Newspaper: Reading Mercury
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 858 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

THE PANTOMIME AT THE LYCEUM

... and bids everybody help Cinderella, Autmn then changing to the King's Woods in the and where faggots are being made, and blackberries effect ■ ather ed. This is a lovely scene, and the eightened b y Mendelssohn's part song, and rofi thewoo ...

Published: Saturday 30 December 1893
Newspaper: Reading Mercury
County: Berkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 816 | Page: 7 | Tags: none