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continual wet weather, I found myself unable to carry the idea ; drying the turves in an oven then occurred

... the only inducement for my trouble you with this detail. In large establishments large ki may be prepared with four-inch brickwork, say from to four feet in diameter, the height need not be more eighteen inches, and some flat bars of iron may be across ...

Published: Friday 19 January 1844
Newspaper: Greenock Advertiser
County: Renfrewshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1235 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

BREACH OF PROMISE,

... T.owdon, and while passing under one of the arches, at the Maidstone station, lie got up, and his liead contact with the brickwork, killing him instantly. When the train arrived at Tunbridge, bis mate discovered him lying the carriage where lie had previously ...

Published: Tuesday 09 April 1844
Newspaper: Greenock Advertiser
County: Renfrewshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2281 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

- —♦ have the pleasure of stating that our beloved Sovereign is now sufficiently restored to health and strength as

... engine shed door ways, the domicile of their fancy being in a crevice or opening between the wooden frame of the door and the brick-work, and within 20 inches of the iron rails upon which the engines are frequently run in and out of the repairing 8hoi«; also ...

Published: Friday 30 August 1844
Newspaper: Greenock Advertiser
County: Renfrewshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1869 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

that the dollar, once forced upon him by Government at 4s. 4d., was refused at Government offices : having been

... be shipped for the Baltic trade. —Leeds Intelligencer. AnnFiciAii Production op Black Lead. —On demolishing the interior brickwork of the iron furnaces at Niederbronn, Lower Rhine, while the furnaces were still hot, a shower of sparks, or of charcoal dust ...

Published: Friday 27 September 1844
Newspaper: Greenock Advertiser
County: Renfrewshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1019 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

TREMENDOUS WIND STORM

... for some time his case was considered hopeless. Considering the awful situation in which he was placed, with a weight of brickwork, to sustain which seemed more than sufficient to crush the strongest mortal’s frame to atoms, it is wonderful he escaped ...

Published: Friday 08 November 1844
Newspaper: Greenock Advertiser
County: Renfrewshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1862 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Crimes, (Casualties, arc

... years, was the of tha chimney the time, engaged in the work. Finding if going, he leaped off, but was followed the mass off brickwork, and thrown with tremendous violence into the water, at one corner of the reservoir, a great weight of bricks falling upon ...

Published: Tuesday 12 November 1844
Newspaper: Greenock Advertiser
County: Renfrewshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2193 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Crimes* casualties* arc

... an . the iron-work the atmospheric railway—for the purpose of working their machinery. The boiler had been placed •erne brick-work about a few feet from the engine-house. It was tubular. with two fire places beneath, and In front of ;t funnel to carry ...

Published: Tuesday 11 March 1845
Newspaper: Greenock Advertiser
County: Renfrewshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 3190 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

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... surrounding parts, and very much fewer weeds ; and the drain not beinp open, the manure can only the gates which escape through brick-work, showing that in fact it is merely from auch exhalations that the virtue of manure it obtained. This iu theory all admit; ...

Published: Friday 04 July 1845
Newspaper: Greenock Advertiser
County: Renfrewshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1247 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

WEDNESDAY. ATTOUST 20

... contained the savings of lifetime.— Argus. On Monday se’naigbt. young man named Adam Moodie, lost his life at the Inverkeilhing brickworks. appears he was working at the great wheel, of four tons weight, for grinding and refining the fire-clay, when suddenly ...

Published: Friday 22 August 1845
Newspaper: Greenock Advertiser
County: Renfrewshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 4959 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

f&tsrrllanrA. Solab Spots.— Of six large spots visible on the 6th inst. five have now passed the sun’s western ..

... mushrooms growing close to the wall have forced their way through the interstices occupied by the mortar, and though the brickwork is 14 inches thick, some fine mushrooms may be seen protruding from the opposite side of the wall. —Manchester Guardian, ...

Published: Tuesday 17 March 1846
Newspaper: Greenock Advertiser
County: Renfrewshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1897 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

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... the creeping fig forms a carpel upon the walls, and water plants irt up from tiny basins curiously contrived in the solid brickwork. By turning a rcrew, a stream of limpid water flows down rock, fom whose crevices start up ferns and lycopods, and such things ...

Published: Tuesday 12 May 1846
Newspaper: Greenock Advertiser
County: Renfrewshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2641 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

owerer, wa> not *o. Whether (he deceased had failed to loose his hold of the carriage, or had got any

... iron heel-tip of one of his boots, firmly driven into the edge of the platform, and from thence, for near twenty yards, the brickwork was grazed and besmeared with blood. The servants in attendance at the station had no intimation of an accident having occurred ...

Published: Friday 15 January 1847
Newspaper: Greenock Advertiser
County: Renfrewshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 350 | Page: 4 | Tags: none