Pickings!

... Pickings! Extract from correspondence concerning Dundee Corporation Slaughterhouse between the Ministry of Food and-the Town Council: The Ministry also agrees that the Corporation should continue to take possession (without payment) of manure, garbage ...

Published: Monday 12 February 1940
Newspaper: Dundee Courier
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 59 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

FOOD FROM GARBAGE BIN. Penniless, Homeless and on the Verge of Starvation

... FOOD FROM GARBAGE BIN. Penniless, Homeless and on the Verge of Starvation. A vivid sketch is published of a young man discovered in London picking out food which might be fitly described as hog'swill, and of devouring these s ickly-looking morsels. and ...

100 BODIES A lAY FOUND ON GARBAGE HEAPS IN SHANGHAI. Ghastly Mortality

... FOUND ON GARBAGE HEAPS IN SHANGHAI. Ghastly Mortality. Shanghai. Frklay. One hundred bodies of were found lying dead in the stroots of this town on an average every day of year. Thirty•elz thomand corpses, of which 14.000 were those of infanta picked up In ...

Published: Friday 27 March 1931
Newspaper: Halifax Evening Courier
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 158 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

PICKINGS FROM “ PUNCH.”

... PICKINGS FROM PUNCH.” The War Office is 'stated to be seriously alarmed the uncompromising attitude of Labour towards the Army, and considers that the proposal that no battle shall last more than eight hours may, if adopted, seriously handicap us in ...

Published: Wednesday 17 March 1909
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 200 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

PICKINGS FROM PUNCH

... PICKINGS FROM PUNCH. Lord Fisher's new department is evidently making good progress. From an Admiralty announcement we learn that the Board of Inventions and Research haa felt justified in removing to Victory House, Cockspur-etreet, B,w. We are in a ...

Published: Friday 13 August 1915
Newspaper: Ashbourne News Telegraph
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: | Words: 363 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

PICKINGS FROM “PUNCH.”

... PICKINGS FROM “PUNCH.” Lord Fisher's new department is evidently making good progress. From an Admiralty announcement we learn that the Board of Inventions and Research has felt justified in rsv%oving to Victory House, Cockepur-street, We are in a position ...

Published: Friday 13 August 1915
Newspaper: Alfreton Journal
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 370 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

PICKINGS MON PUNCH

... PICKINGS PUNCH. The National Gallery an unwonted experience. Quite a number of people, among them 4 church dignitary in garters. were inopeFting its numterpteces. —Evening News • - - No mention is made of 'ouroolree--a dignitary in sock-mispendeni ...

Published: Wednesday 20 January 1915
Newspaper: Peterborough Express
County: Northamptonshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 513 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

the garbage barrel. With one violent kick be upset it again in the gutter. When he turned to run Murphy

... the garbage barrel. With one violent kick be upset it again in the gutter. When he turned to run Murphy had him by the arm. Now, young man,' be said grimly, you'll pick up the ashes this time. And when the driver of the garbage cart reached that corner ...

I want you to realise that the same investigators can prove that the bacteria which these flics pick up on

... I want you to realise that the same investigators can prove that the bacteria which these flics pick up on every one of hundreds of hair ends is capable of multiplying many more times rapidly than even the flies. That is sufficient to tell you not only ...

Published: Thursday 09 July 1936
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 244 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

HANDBAGS. HANDBAGS. 100 Dozen Ladies' Smart Handbags, American styles. 3/11 to 4/11 Handbags, pick where you ..

... beautiful new patterns and modern styles. Maker's Sample garments. 25/- to 30/- Frocks, pick for 12/6. In Women's sizes, in Outsizes, and in Extra Outsizes, pick for 12/11. Also another lot 30/'- to 35/- Frocks for 14/6; Women's Outsizes and Extra Outsizes ...

Published: Thursday 11 August 1938
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Advertisement | Words: 782 | Page: 2 | Tags: none