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CHESTER FARMERS' CLUB

... since the issue of the circular calling the meeting, a member had given him notice that under the heading of mushroomera, blackberry gatherers be also included. The Chairman said the question was whether they had a law at present to protect themselves against ...

Published: Saturday 28 October 1893
Newspaper: Cheshire Observer
County: Cheshire, England
Type: | Words: 4259 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

THE MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS

... slightest ambition for elevation to municipal honours. When, therefore, on the present occasion candidates were as plentiful as blackberries, old electioneering hands shook their heads and sagely predicted that it was all a hollow mockery, that there would be ...

Published: Saturday 04 November 1893
Newspaper: Cheshire Observer
County: Cheshire, England
Type: | Words: 3548 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

THE SIGHT HE SAW,

... gone ?? together in pretty Easton Valley during those summer holidays spent at his uncle's vicarage, or else had wandered black-berrying with Elsa and Jeannie Bond, the doctor's merry little daughter, in the lovely Devonshire lanes world- famed for their ...

Published: Saturday 28 July 1894
Newspaper: Cheshire Observer
County: Cheshire, England
Type: | Words: 2972 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

HINTS FOR THE HOME

... yellow, which is quite an ideal colour for shading either gas or lamp light. TO ?? BLACXBEBBIKS. Blackberry jam » Crush a quart of full r ripened blackberries with 11 b. of finely pounded cane loaf sugar, put it in a preserving pan, and let it simmer over ...

Published: Saturday 21 September 1895
Newspaper: Cheshire Observer
County: Cheshire, England
Type: | Words: 1824 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

HELSBY

... by the workmen, and the waste soil, etc., hss been deposited over a picturesque bit of land that in autumn is a kind of blackberry cornucopia. A young mountain of stony debris now covers the bushes, and will mock the lovers of the succulent berry when ...

Published: Saturday 08 February 1896
Newspaper: Cheshire Observer
County: Cheshire, England
Type: | Words: 651 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

RATEPAYERS AND THE.SLUICES

... ooo—(laughter)—and it was not done with yet. It seemed to him thousands of pounds were picked up in the streets of Chester like blackberries on a bush. (Laughter and applause.) MS. VKRNON AHD HIS PATS. Mr. William Vsbnoh, who was enthusiasti- ?? received, asked ...

Published: Saturday 28 March 1896
Newspaper: Cheshire Observer
County: Cheshire, England
Type: | Words: 7488 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

THE BROOM-SQUIRE,.BT.S. ' BAIUNG-GOULD,

... e wrong, said the sailor, t .niiy, i hut's why 1 was a-carryin' of her topsy- , turvy. I 'bought to ha' shooked the blackberries ?? a_aiii. .f tiiat child dies, exclaimed the landlady, r IrH.iily. then vhere will you go to. you ud- ?? {arieut ...

Published: Saturday 18 April 1896
Newspaper: Cheshire Observer
County: Cheshire, England
Type: | Words: 4417 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

THE BROOM-SQUIRE,.BT.& BARING-GOULD,

... won't have no babies, fake that child back whe»e you found it Babies! said another, scornfully, they cams 'hick as blackberries, and bitter as slews. But rupees — and they c* murdered men — them's coorosities. But the baby? again asked the boy ...

Published: Saturday 25 April 1896
Newspaper: Cheshire Observer
County: Cheshire, England
Type: | Words: 4673 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

NORLEY

... at the next examination. The attendance durine last nT W* Up J° U0 ' «»d the present week 116, which, considering that blackberry and damson gathering are items to be reckoned with, may be considered good. ...

Published: Saturday 12 September 1896
Newspaper: Cheshire Observer
County: Cheshire, England
Type: | Words: 95 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

LINTIE LOWRIE,

... Barbazone one summer during the holidays, myself and two more girls, school friends of mine, and artists there were thick as i blackberries, though not so tempting. One of them named Mr. Paterson made a sketch of i father — here it is. As she spoke she opened ...

Published: Saturday 12 December 1896
Newspaper: Cheshire Observer
County: Cheshire, England
Type: | Words: 4568 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

il_fE VICTORIAN ERA

... Bending with three-pronged fork in a garden uprooting potatoes. What years they were then! Great books clustered like blackberries in every publisher's list, and I am, of course, taking account of but a few of the most typical. Think of a year like 1850 ...

Published: Saturday 17 April 1897
Newspaper: Cheshire Observer
County: Cheshire, England
Type: | Words: 3773 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

CORRESPONDENCE

... to live in the village yonder, and many's the time I've hunted nests among the heather and gorse buahes, and picked the blackberries in the autumn. One time we were out gathering cockles, and setting too far out, the tide caught us, and we had to make ...

Published: Saturday 05 June 1897
Newspaper: Cheshire Observer
County: Cheshire, England
Type: | Words: 773 | Page: 7 | Tags: none