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TRAGEDY IN A TURBAN

... on safari how near he was to nature in the raw even as he bathed in the sunken bath of his £7 a night room. I picked up the thread by picking up a middle-aged Asian near the Stanley Hotel, an Ismaelite Asian owing allegiance to the Aga Khan, and a grocer ...

Published: Monday 11 March 1968
Newspaper: Wolverhampton Express and Star
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 392 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

OF BIRDS

... garden of t his house for three years before I knew him, and cont inued to do so until 1933. H e became exceedingly tame, picking up scraps of food at the feet of the lady of the house, Mrs. G. Vidal, or of her sister, though he never took anything from ...

Published: Friday 01 October 1943
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1080 | Page: 30 | Tags: none

THE BOARD OF TRADE RETURNS

... ffupecu of the American trade in this country are mving. As to the increase in miscellaneous es exported, it is difficult to pick out special classes or items, and it Aslpem the increase is !mz spread. Indeed, the diversified character of British exfort ...

RATS AND

... refuse are much better than formerly, there is still very much roolll for improve- How frequently do we see garbage ment. How frequently do we see garbage st ill thrown about or tossed into uncovered receptacles to which rats have ready access. Again, efforts ...

Published: Saturday 12 November 1910
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1429 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

BIRDS ALONG AN INDIAN ROAD

... covered with flies. Myna , sleek and jaunty, picked up fallen trifles; Indian house sparrows pilfered with the confidence of their kind. Kites wheeled and screamed overhead, waiting to plunge for edible garbage; a pair of painted storks basked and preened ...

Published: Thursday 17 November 1977
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1789 | Page: 64 | Tags: none

Stop spoiling people s enjoyment!

... Stop spoiling people s enjoyment! SOME TIME ago | mentioned that my Gospel Show picked up around 40,000 listeners in the Cleveland area at the same time as their own Gospel programme was being transmitted. Flexing their miniscule muscles even more, they ...

Published: Saturday 19 November 1988
Newspaper: Shields Daily Gazette
County: Durham, England
Type: Article | Words: 381 | Page: 13 | Tags: none

Mrs G. Morton, Castle Hill, Daventry. Council must survive ‘bomb’

... letter from Mrs J. E. Calveley (Mailbag, July 3) headlined ‘What a load of rubbish’, and furnish her with some more socalled garbage. amount of surviving livestock on the farms which will be used as a source of food to the people in the area. Having said ...

So thick were they these were tossed out from time to time. So thick were they that when I startled

... scavengers, were and cutting expected this more up the already n-pick that showing appreciate way birds doing in sort, which at he was some sort, s toop down the foul water, awful garbage hanging from his talons, so rate, was plain enough, although he ...

Published: Saturday 11 January 1902
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1407 | Page: 43 | Tags: none

Vendetta misery of disabled mother

... morning pint of milk tipped all over her doorstep. She has also had to put up with her rubbish bags being ripped open and garbage strewn all over the pavement outside her ground floor flat in Nottingham Avenue, causing neighbours to complain to the council ...

Published: Friday 22 February 1991
Newspaper: Maidstone Telegraph
County: Kent, England
Type: Article | Words: 384 | Page: 20 | Tags: none

When Boogie came to town

... feet on the rubbish littered moor, he looked around to find his favourite food, garbage. Why, he hadn’t seen such a delicious sight for years. His rake-like hands eagerly picked up the rusty cans and old papers, pushing them greedily into his enormous mouth ...

Published: Friday 12 June 1981
Newspaper: Todmorden & District News
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 383 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

COUJVTRY LIFE

... rats that infested the ruins-and they were little else-to enter the mouth of this tunnel, probably for the purpose of picking up any garbage that had been floated down. It formed an excellent natural trap. an urchin put his head in at the lower end of the ...

Published: Saturday 14 November 1903
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1450 | Page: 44 | Tags: none

K ENNEL . NOTE'S

... latter complaint are easily recognisable. Early evidences may be detected by a morbidity of appetite-a desire for picking up all sorts of garbage and unwholesome tbings, such as cinders, earth, stones and filth. The gums may become inflamed, the breath has ...

Published: Saturday 28 August 1909
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 723 | Page: 72 | Tags: none