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RED CROSS GAME

... effort on behalf of the Red Cross (Sportsman’s effort). No changes are necessary in the teams already announced and reports speak of ticket selling as being easy.” In fact, one of our players has sold over one hundred tickets himself. The effort is being ...

Published: Wednesday 03 January 1940
Newspaper: Rochdale Observer
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 128 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

DEPARTMENT

... month at noon, but, e.ven now, the exact form of the signals—length of note and interval between was not absolutely uniform. Speaking mainly for the benefit of the general public, the Mayor went on: “It is perhaps not generally understood that, no matter ...

Published: Saturday 06 January 1940
Newspaper: Rochdale Observer
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 2639 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

JUMPED INTO RIVER

... Milnrow gave evidence relating to the dragging operations which had been carried out since the disappearance of the boy, and speaking of the bridge from which the boy fell said it was a wooden structure. On the Milnrow side of the bridge was sluice six feet ...

Published: Saturday 06 January 1940
Newspaper: Rochdale Observer
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 374 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

habits of life in the slums of our great cities. Happily there have been many exceptions, and those who have

... by talking about that forbidden subject the weather. It has been said by a cynical foreigner that the English would never speak to one another if they could not discuss the weather. After Monday there will be another equally universal topic of conversation ...

Published: Saturday 06 January 1940
Newspaper: Rochdale Observer
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 542 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

ONLY ONE POSSIBLE ECONOMY

... THE MINISTRY OF HEALTH Councillor SILVERWOOD also referred to a letter from the Ministry of Health stating that generally speaking the Minister is of the opinion that capital expenditure should not be incurred in connection with conversions to the water ...

Published: Saturday 06 January 1940
Newspaper: Rochdale Observer
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 1624 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

A BOOK OF THE WEEK

... women and children who have not had their fair chance in Ijfe. Well, India, will give her lots such people brood upon. She speaks rather too much like a woman to Impbress the present House of Commons very deeply, but in an All Women’s Government her energy ...

Published: Saturday 06 January 1940
Newspaper: Rochdale Observer
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 2268 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

LETTERS TO TEE EDITOR

... of the New Year, we do well to look back as well as forward. By so doing we obtain a truer perspective: by letting the days speak we profit by the experience of the past. When we compare the life we enjoy in this country with the appalling condition of ...

Published: Saturday 06 January 1940
Newspaper: Rochdale Observer
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 2267 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

HINTS FOR THE HOME By MARY HARDING PAIN KILLERS

... and increased susceptibility to colds. Dry, heated air is very detrimental to the mucous membrane of the nose. Generally speaking, living rooms in even the coldest weather should never be heated higher than 65 degrees Fahrenheit. To avoid keeping the ...

Published: Saturday 06 January 1940
Newspaper: Rochdale Observer
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 352 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

TRADE AND COMMERCE

... prospect of wages constantly seeking in an upward spiral to overtake rising prices. Earlier, In the House of Commons, when speaking of the financial burdens which war will impose on the country, he had suggested that one of the chief contributions towards ...

Published: Saturday 06 January 1940
Newspaper: Rochdale Observer
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 1062 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

The Crossroads

... better for Bill Langton, The type you attract at the moment, my dear, is not the best, you know. You’ve asked for straight speaking, and you’re going to get it. What kind of man likes cheap clothes, cheap scents, cheap lipstick and rouges? Bill, like me ...

Published: Saturday 06 January 1940
Newspaper: Rochdale Observer
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 3104 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

MAKING RELIGION WORTH WHILE

... would do its share in the work of the world-wide Church. They might say that it was a tremendous vision of which he had been speaking, but it was what the Church really meant. Now that they were making a new beginning in the story of their church he asked ...

Published: Wednesday 10 January 1940
Newspaper: Rochdale Observer
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 436 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

The Crossroads of Love

... came in, to break up the short tete-a-tete. 9 00 d evening, Miss Finlay; good evening, Mr. Strang.” She beamed about her, speaking as though she had seen neither of the others for hours, although, of course, she had seen and spoken to them within the last ...

Published: Saturday 13 January 1940
Newspaper: Rochdale Observer
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 1335 | Page: 4 | Tags: none