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PLUS A SACK OR TWO!

... PLUS A SACK OR TWO Bill (spending a holiday in town) Wouldn't yer like to 'ave yer pick, Mike Mike I 'd sooner 'ave me shovel. Drawn by J. AIacWilson. ...

Published: Wednesday 01 September 1909
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 30 | Page: Page 23 | Tags: Graphic  Illustrations 

WOMAN'S WAYS: English and French Beauty

... jtWQMAN^S* Bv ELLA HEPWORTH DIXON. English and French Beauty. One has heard so many odious comparisons of late between French and English beauty that one goes about, in France, with a critical eye on everyone that wears petticoats. Certainly the girls of the lower classes in Brittany are much better to look at than ours. It is not that they possess the pink cheeks, the blonde, fluffy hair, or ...

Published: Wednesday 01 September 1909
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1065 | Page: Page 31 | Tags: Illustrations 

SEPTEMBER LODE-STARS OF THE STAGE

... SEPTEMBER LODE STARS OF THE STAGE. Fit OHL THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS SERIES OF STAGE CELEBRITIES.) i J km if,.* mn Hfc I. MISS ETHEL IRVING, WHO IS TO APPEAP. AT THE GARR1CK IN MR. ALFRED SUTRO'S NEW PIECE, MAKING A GENTLEMAN. 2. MR. WEEDON GROSSMITH, WHO IS STILL PLAYING HAMILTON PREEDY IN THAT POPULAR PIECE, MR. PREEDY AND THE COUNTESS, AT THE CRITERION. 3. MISS LENA ASHWELL, WHO IS ...

Published: Wednesday 08 September 1909
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 204 | Page: Page 25 | Tags: Graphic  Illustrations 

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Published: Wednesday 08 September 1909
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 455 | Page: Page 34 | Tags: Illustrations 

BLOWN, BUT NOT IN THE WAY YOU THINK

... This is not the old joke of the country farmer trying to blow out the electric-light, but merely Jones going through a course of fat-reducing exercises before retiring to bed. Drawn by H. Radcuffk Wilson. ...

Published: Wednesday 29 September 1909
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 43 | Page: Page 17 | Tags: Graphic  Illustrations 

WOMEN'S WAYS: He, She, and the Great Divide

... BY ELLA HEPWORTH DIXON. He, She, and the Great Divide. The new American play at the Adelphi contains one amazingly thrilling incident, which may be described as Woman's final protest at marriage by capture. Time was (and the custom still exists among remote tribes), when prehistoric Man wished to marry, he stalked out of his tent, seized the nearest girl by the hair, clubbed her senseless, and ...

Published: Wednesday 29 September 1909
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1049 | Page: Page 29 | Tags: Illustrations 

AJAX

... AJAX has come of Age. ITS phenomenal success for the past twenty-one )-ears as a hair tonic and dandruff cradicator, proves it to be the greatest known to modern science. It is sold by the principal Hairdressers, Per fumers and Chemists through out the world at 4/6, T6, 10/6, and 25/- bottle. And bv the Inventor Sole Manu'acturer CHARLES JASCHKE, 52, Reg-ent Street London, W. JVhen ordering, ...

Published: Wednesday 29 September 1909
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 77 | Page: Page 32 | Tags: Illustrations 

LOTUS

... r To^us 11*11X11 J Black J or tan for men, 22s. 6d. i 'I Write , STAFFORD, for style booklet. ToTUS ...

Published: Wednesday 29 September 1909
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 21 | Page: Page 32 | Tags: Illustrations 

A SICKENING DEBATE-- BUT NOT ON LAND VALUE

... A SICKENING DEBATE BUT NOT ON LAND VALUE. OLD Salt (Still talking) It 's fair sickenin' this 'era Budget. What wi' beer up an' whisky up, we 'II soon have everything up. Don't it make ye feel sick (No answer from very unwell trippers. Then, in accusing tone) An' it ain't no laughin' matter neither. Drawn by Harry low. ...

Published: Wednesday 15 September 1909
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 59 | Page: Page 23 | Tags: Graphic  Illustrations 

PALMER

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Published: Wednesday 15 September 1909
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 164 | Page: Page 32 | Tags: Illustrations 

SAFETY LIGHT, LTD

... , , ^afetyl Lighting '^T'HE rapid develop- meat during the last six years of the manufacture of Safety Gas enables us to illuminate Country Houses as brilliantly as those in town with equal safety and similar facilities, at abso lutely less cost, and nerfectlv free from the annoyances and odours hitherto associated with independent lighting. The improvements effected by Mons. De Laitte and s ...

Published: Wednesday 29 September 1909
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 171 | Page: Page 1 | Tags: Illustrations 

THE BRITISH VACUUM CLEANER CO., Ltd

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Published: Wednesday 29 September 1909
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 64 | Page: Page 1 | Tags: Illustrations