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POLITICS AND SOCIETY

... when work is hardest fo get, and when the D figures denoting the number o,,t of employment are at their highest. 3Mr. Charles Booth drew up,,a regular £table showing the relative ni.nber of thoie out of Fwork in each month. In January the per-centage ...

Published: Monday 02 March 1896
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 3129 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

Local Intellignece

... Soulcoates lane, from William Linstead to: Jobn Thomas Watson; beer on, 42, New George-street, :. from Edward Allison to Charles Booth; beer and wine oni 48, Norfolk-street, from John Cross to Betsy Chambers 9 beer on, 51, Porter-street, from Thomas Tindall ...

Published: Friday 11 March 1881
Newspaper: Hull Packet
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 4155 | Page: 8 | Tags: News 

COLLIERY EXPLOSION NEAR DEWSBURY

... Josiah Roberts, 'Thorlnllill. John Ashtou, Thortihill Edge. David Ranseden, Thornhill Edge. Mark Butcher, .Fslhouse. Charles Booth, Smithy Brook, Robert Scargill, Thorulhill Common. Thomas Haigh, Whitley Lower. Edwin Butcher, Edge Top. John Hardcastle ...

Published: Wednesday 05 July 1893
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 3255 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

THE CHURCH CONGRESS

... after critioising the varicus a. emnes Of oul-age pensions, submitted that the public inclined in favour of that of Mr. Charles Booth. He n,.e the olnction that it w-ould cost 17.000.000 sterling annually by the remark that a nation whose income is U thou-and ...

Published: Thursday 11 October 1894
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 3686 | Page: 8 | Tags: News 

MONDAY, MAY 14TH, 1894

... for old age, that most painstaking and acute observer of all that relates to the cosdition of life among the poor, Mr. Charles Booth, has just published through Messrs. Mlacmillan and Co. another bulky volume containing the results of his labours. To ...

Published: Monday 14 May 1894
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 3826 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

LOCAL AND GENERAL

... , has been too small, and on Thursday night a meeting, principally composed of working men, and presided over by hIr. Charles Booth, was held to consider the propriety of taking steps for the erection of a larger building. It was decided that a build- ...

Published: Saturday 30 April 1864
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 4214 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

CORRESPONDENCE

... SOCIETY. The fiftv-ninth annual general moetimot of the societY was hel'l in London oll 'Tuesdaly, the I'reeident (Air. Charles Booth) !n tho ehair. The report (if the couinicil -as uanauimjuul-v adupst'd. and the foiloc lig v.-re cleeted to serve as presidenit ...

Published: Thursday 29 June 1893
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 3654 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

CONFERENCE ON OLD-AGE PENSIONS

... ILL1. B. James (L-edls Board of (suaicl -o). Mr. P. Kenneody (presi- dent &f the tAealS CIjaucei) aoeupsrl dile ci Mr. Charles Booth stud thl:in wvat hie propo-sed to flay before ii.-ceo was nort a cit-and-dried sc'bemne with res-erd to the establishment ...

Published: Friday 24 February 1899
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 3736 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

SATURDAY, JANUARY 26TH, 1895

... all he can to make it a catch cry in the great Unionist propaganda, and is being encouraged to do so; as men like Mr. i Charles Booth and Mr. C. S. Loch, moreover, have made it a serious study, Mr. Fatkin comes . forward to add his contribution to the analysis ...

Published: Saturday 26 January 1895
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 4611 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 2ND, 1896

... stone of the new FreLibrary and Tecucal Schools at Longton. Personal estate ;alued at £1,927,107 has been left by Sir Charles Booth, of Netherfield, Herts, baronet, ald o' the firm of Booth and Co., Coweross-street, West Smithfield, Lcndon. distiller ...

Published: Wednesday 02 December 1896
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 4144 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

THE DOCKERS' UNION AND ITS CRITICS

... and finally, from the co-operation with each and ali of these of viiluntary agencies such as the Salvation Axrmy. Mr. Charles Booth, in his historic work on East London, coutemplates the isolatiou and special treat- ment of the fechlesa class, and tho ...

Published: Saturday 25 October 1890
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 4223 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

THE AGED POOR

... various minority reports. One of them is signed by Mr. Chamberlain, Mr. Pischie. Sir H.} Mrxwell, Dr. Hunter, and M~r. Charles Booth. Thcse gentlemen are of opinion that the recommendations of the Commission are inadequate, and do not go as far as the ...

Published: Monday 01 April 1895
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 4660 | Page: 8 | Tags: News