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A MISSING PROFESSOR

... Mr. Louis Petrie, French master at the Working Men's College, Great Ormond Street, and at Alleyn's School, Dulwich, for twenty-one years has been missing since October 28th. Mr. J. H. Marsland, secretary of the school, explained to Mr. Francis at Lambeth Police Court on Saturday that the professor was last seen at Hollowly on the afternoon of that day. He was somewhat worried by the responsi- ...

Published: Saturday 25 November 1899
Newspaper: Rhyl Record and Advertiser
County: Flintshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 123 | Page: Page 6 | Tags: News 

? A WAR ENTHUSIAST

... A WAR ENTHUSIAST. At the County Police Court, Worcester, on Monday, Harry, alias George Spooner, of 4, Sher- borno Street, Birmingham, was charged with fraudulent enlistment in the army oh November 6th.—Defendant, who admitted that ho formerly belonged to the Royal Warwick Regiment, but did state that he was a reservist belonging to the 2nd Battalion South Staffordshire Regiment, pleaded that ...

Published: Saturday 18 November 1899
Newspaper: Rhyl Record and Advertiser
County: Flintshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 77 | Page: Page 8 | Tags: News 

AN ECHO OF INKERMAN

... Portsmouth on Monday wired to her Majesty the deep regrets of two hundred and fifty of her Crimean veterans that they were no longer able to fight for the Empire. The telegram left the hospitable board General Sir George Willis had provided and surrounded with the local survivors of the Battle of Inkerman, and was acknowledged by a gracious reply during the evening, that was read amid ...

Published: Saturday 11 November 1899
Newspaper: Rhyl Record and Advertiser
County: Flintshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 118 | Page: Page 7 | Tags: News 

SEIZURE OF BASE COINAGE

... The police captured a base coin factory in Aberdeen on Monday. They seized all the ap- pliances, and arrested the proprietor and his son. The indications discovered during the raid pointed to counterfeit coining having been conducted upon a wholesale scale, particularly in five-shilling pieces. ...

Published: Saturday 11 November 1899
Newspaper: Rhyl Record and Advertiser
County: Flintshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 49 | Page: Page 7 | Tags: News 

FIREWORKS STRAND A VESSEL

... The Norwegian steamer Snefond, a regular trader to the Tyne, laden with oats and maize, stranded on the rocks off Sharpness Point, Tynemouth, on Monday night. The stranding was alleged to be caused by a Guy Fawkes dis- play on shore, which the captain mistook for blue lights from a pilot boat. The vessel was badly holed amidships, and the prospects of re- floating her are very doubtful. The ...

Published: Saturday 11 November 1899
Newspaper: Rhyl Record and Advertiser
County: Flintshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 85 | Page: Page 7 | Tags: News 

ISHIPBUILDING YARD DESTROYED, j

... SHIPBUILDING YARD DESTROYED, j The premises of the Dundee Shipbuilding Com-; pany, Limited, Dundee, were almost totally des^ troyed by fire early on Tuesday morning, and most of the works, including two vessels on the stocks for London owners, were reduced to ruins. It was for some time feared that the adjoining property and shipping in the harbour would be involved, but the efforts of the ...

Published: Saturday 11 November 1899
Newspaper: Rhyl Record and Advertiser
County: Flintshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 103 | Page: Page 7 | Tags: News 

MARRIAGE REJO ICING SAT THE ST. ASAPH UNION WORKHOUSE

... Through the kindness of Mrs Fosbery, Bryn Elwy, St Asaph, the whole of the inmates were treated to a first class tea on Tuesday afternoon, the 14th inst. to celebrate the marriage of her tdaughter, Miss Georgina Mary Fosbery to Robert Henry Arrow- sipith, Esq. From early morning the inmates were busy completing their alloted work so as to be in readiness to witness, from the field in front of ...

Published: Saturday 18 November 1899
Newspaper: Rhyl Record and Advertiser
County: Flintshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 373 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: News 

- SHORT STORY. -Ii

... SHORT STORY. A VERY GOOD SHOT. She lingered in the verandah of the little bun. galow to catch the last glimpse of the horseman ridmg into the forest; then turned away with a prolonged sigh. What in the world was she to do with herself all the day ? And it wasn't as if it were only this one day-then it wouldn't have mattered; but many yesterdays had been the same, and many to-morrows would be ...

Published: Saturday 18 November 1899
Newspaper: Rhyl Record and Advertiser
County: Flintshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 1559 | Page: Page 7 | Tags: News 

RHYL URBAN DISTRICT COUNCIL

... MONTHLY MEETING. The monthly meeting of the Rhyl Urban District Council waa he)d at the Council Chamber, Town Hall, on Monday. There were present Mr A. L. Clews. J.P. (chairman), Dr. Girdlestone, Dr. Frichard. Captain Ktinge, Measra J. H. Ellia, E. P. Jo-ea, David Grimths. J. W. Jonea, C. W. Berrie, W. EIwy Witiiama, Thomas Wbit!ey, P. Moatyn Williams, Robert Jonea, J. Frimston, A. Maltby, and ...

Published: Saturday 18 November 1899
Newspaper: Rhyl Record and Advertiser
County: Flintshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 5997 | Page: Page 8 | Tags: News 

QUICK-CHANGE' DESERTING STOKER

... When the swimming classes from the Navat Depot, Portsmouth, were oa their way on Monday to the public baths a stoker asked permission to enter one ot the lavatories in the park. This waa granted, but as the man failed to rejoin the ranka a party was sei&t, baak to fetch him. They found the uniform but not the stoker. Evidently he had planted a suit of civilian's clothing, into which ce had ...

Published: Saturday 18 November 1899
Newspaper: Rhyl Record and Advertiser
County: Flintshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 195 | Page: Page 8 | Tags: News 

---ffIT-BITS.

... f fIT-BITS. THE BOY GUESSED RIGHT.— My friends were the average man to turn and look himself squarely in the eyes, and ask himself what he really needed most, what. would be the reply? A rubber neck! shouted the perecocious urchin from the rear of the room. THE BABY ITS OWN THERMOMETER.— I wish, Susan, that when you give baby a bath von would use the thermometer so as 'to ascer- tain ...

Published: Saturday 11 November 1899
Newspaper: Rhyl Record and Advertiser
County: Flintshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 1410 | Page: Page 7 | Tags: News 

AN UNFORTUNATE START

... During the final stages of the meet of the North Cheshire Hunt at Bradfield Green on Tuesday some rough country was negotiated near Middlewich. Captain Higson, of Oakmere Hall, Northwich, who was out for the first time this season, had jumped a fence, when his horse fell, pinning him beneath it. His shoulder-blade was dislocated, and he re- mains under medical treatment. ...

Published: Saturday 11 November 1899
Newspaper: Rhyl Record and Advertiser
County: Flintshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 65 | Page: Page 7 | Tags: News