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CHEPSTOW WORKHOUSE STRIKE

... CHEPSTOW WORKHOUSE STRIKE. The day women of Chepstow Workhouse who w on strike after the guardians deferred their application for war bonus have not yet. returned their work. TWELVE DEGREES OF FROST. On Thursday the maximum temperature in the shade at ...

Published: Friday 15 December 1916
Newspaper: Western Mail
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: | Words: 60 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

INMATES1 OBJECTION AT SWANSEA WORKHOUSE

... INMATES OBJECTION AT SWANSEA WORKHOUSE. A report presented the Swansea. Board of tdiiardians by the master of the work house and the medical officer to the experiment issuing margarine instead butter inmates testifies that they are not aware that any ...

Published: Tuesday 25 January 1916
Newspaper: Western Mail
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: | Words: 161 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

SWANSEA WORKHOUSE INMATES REFUSE BEST BUTTER

... SWANSEA WORKHOUSE INMATES REFUSE BEST BUTTER. The trial of margarine instead butter at Swansea Workhouse has been productive some amount of real comedy. At the visiting committee meeting on Wednesday the master reported that Monday, before margarine was ...

Published: Thursday 06 January 1916
Newspaper: Western Mail
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: | Words: 365 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

CARDIFF MANS FATAL FALL

... died the workhouse on Thursdav. Tho evidence showed that on October 5 last deceased admitted the workhouse suffering from injuries received a fall in Cathedral-road. recovered and was sent to Ely f-odge. but was again admitted to the workhouse hospital ...

Published: Saturday 04 March 1916
Newspaper: Western Mail
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: | Words: 106 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

ECONOMISING FARM LABOUR

... economy under war conditions, out of which the question the centralisation workhouses cropped up. It was pointed out that in Breconshire and Radnorshire there were six workhouses, and the distance, between each them was about fifteen miles. The meeting ...

Published: Saturday 05 February 1916
Newspaper: Western Mail
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: | Words: 134 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

HAY WOMAN FOUND DEAD;

... over years ago, lived a precarious life, and of recent years was constantly in and out the union workhouse. On Monday she was allowed out of the Hay Workhouse for the day, and did not return. HEkOJIS haumcnt. ...

Published: Saturday 11 March 1916
Newspaper: Western Mail
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: | Words: 73 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

LOCAL WEDDINGS

... Liverpool. DETERMINED TO DROWN. CARDIFF WORKHOUSE INMATE’S DELIBERATE ACT. An extraordinary tragedy has been revealed at Cardiff. appears that labourer named Alfred Lewis (52), inmate of the Cardiff Workhouse, left that institution in the course of the ...

Published: Monday 19 June 1916
Newspaper: Western Mail
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: | Words: 282 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

ABERGAVENNY’S WAR POLICY

... to meet the high cost of living. BREAD AND CHEESE H ASH DIET ALTERATION PROPOSED AT CHEPSTOW WORKHOUSE. Mr. Pittman consulted the inmates Chepstow Workhouse on Saturday, and ascertained that the proposed bread and cheese dinner instead hash was not popular ...

Published: Monday 27 November 1916
Newspaper: Western Mail
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: | Words: 319 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

FATHER SENT TO PRISON WITH HARD LABOUR

... their children. The case was adjourned from November 23 until Januan give an opportunity of taking their children out the workhouse and mending their ways. It had been further adjourned, and Mr. George Ihtvid, on. behalf tin* National Society for the Prevention ...

Published: Wednesday 23 February 1916
Newspaper: Western Mail
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: | Words: 209 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

UNCONSCIOUS FOUR DAYS. NORWEGIAN’S SEAMAN S *6TRANGE DEATH AT CARDIFF

... UNCONSCIOUS FOUR DAYS. NORWEGIAN’S SEAMAN S *6TRANGE DEATH AT CARDIFF. After lying in aai unconscious condition at the Cardiff Workhouse Infirmary sine* Tuesday, Thomas Martin (S?), Norwegian, died there early on Saturday. Latterly he had been employed at the ...

Published: Monday 10 January 1916
Newspaper: Western Mail
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: | Words: 190 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

They all knew how Dominions added Lmpire, and wished gmw.ng m popula> >wn race and oi our other hand, they

... THE WORKHOUSE In support of >al Mr. Philpott. tminstcr Tribunal iport of his mother that w of whom wa« dlowed hi going into consumption. > mother 10s. week, and another •ving in the Army mad© her If anything happens him there is only the workhouse staring ...

Published: Saturday 26 February 1916
Newspaper: Western Mail
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: | Words: 228 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

27th iveember. 1916

... Poor of tb© said Union at the Union Workhouse, Merthyr Tydfil, on Tuesday, the day of January. at 12.30 o'clock in the Afternoon. Union.—At the Board-room of the Guardians of the Poor of the said Union the Union Workhouse. Tredegar, on Thursday, the Ist day ...

Published: Saturday 30 December 1916
Newspaper: Western Mail
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: | Words: 235 | Page: 1 | Tags: none