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... KING EDWARD'S VISIT TO THE NEWMARKET WORKHOUSE King Edward visited the Newmarket Union Workhouse the other day and wrote a testimonial on its merits, which we reproduce above. The Standard relates the following incident in connection with his Majesty's ...
... London's Greatness Thousands of poor Londoners will spend their Christmas in the workhouse, and indeed many will think themselves lucky to spend it there, for the workhouses have more applicants than they can find room for. Those unfortunates who fail to ...
... Mutiny veterans in Hyde Park I found to my regret that no small number of them had come up from the workhouse, and at the end of the day had only the workhouse to look forward to for the remainder of their lives. A strong feeling has been aroused in many quarters ...
... on being disillusioned, finds that, although poor in pocket, he still possesses the love of the little maid a despised workhouse girl named Kitty Miss Dorothy Minto). ...
... of the Poor Law Commission, over which the Rt. Hon. Lord George Hamilton so ably presided recommending the abolition of workhouses (and Guardians), has been hailed with universal plaudits. The work house was practically our only surviving relic of the ...
... over 35, OCX) dolls and 25,000 toys contributed by readers of Truth for distribution among the children in the hospitals, workhouses and Poor Law Schools of London. There were dolls of all sorts and sizes, representing every country in the world, and some ...
... the Court, Mr. Otho Stuart has staged a curious little two act play which is really nothing more than an amusing satire on workhouse administration, or mal administration. 1 say amusing because, though the first act is a realistic picture of tragic poverty ...
... dying of starvation himself. But it is perhaps in the workhouse, the last refuge of those who have fallen by the way, that the whirligig is responsible for the most dramatic incidents. To the workhouse in Tanner Street, Bermondsey, there came for many years ...
... dependent either upon friends or charity. At one time the number of war-worn veterans who were driven to seek shelter in the workhouse or else solicit charity in the streets was a national disgrace, For some years past, however, numerous philanthropic agencies ...
... and hope. Mr. Birrell received on Monday a deputation from the Countv Councils' General Council and suggested that surplus workhouses in Ireland should be turned into sanatoriums. The exhibition closes to-morrow (Saturday). LORD AND LADY ABERDEEN At the ...