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SETTLEMENT

... with its 700,000 souls. Yesterday, with my own eyes, in one of the main thoroughfares, I saw ragged, bare-footed bairns picking garbage out of the gutter and eating it, and let it be remembered that no street cleansing has been done here for days, that there ...

PICKINGS FROM “ PUNCH.”

... PICKINGS FROM PUNCH.” The War Office is 'stated to be seriously alarmed the uncompromising attitude of Labour towards the Army, and considers that the proposal that no battle shall last more than eight hours may, if adopted, seriously handicap us in ...

Published: Wednesday 17 March 1909
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 200 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

BURMAH OIL DIVIDEND

... al ball a: fe Fall ian — ally, | Gone with yet 3 but here is “trou ble be for the mere speculators who dard. as a pickings in the garbage-pits of the n d the BURMAH OIL DIVIDEND. pted | The Burmah Oi] Company yesterday ad in ONE 45. OU. Ordinary, plus ...

Published: Saturday 23 April 1910
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 69 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

Wakefield

... Wakefield. Garbage on the highway Sir. —The other night, la habit, took my dog for a walk. On our way back she espied parcel on the grass verge. She rummaged In this and. removing something from it. trotted off towards home. Naturally called and made ...

A CRITIC ANSWERED

... said did not propose to deal with all the tittle tattle which this shareholder was able to pick off the garbage heaps Birkenhead. A man with good nose for garbage can always find scandals of one kind or another, said, which has little or foundation ...

Paris as a Boxing Centre

... not a natural deformity, but a tin .aox picked gold and bank notes, amcnoting to £2,200. Three bank-books, UoWine Jeposite for i'4,600, were also found. Kahler spent his life eating food which he found in garbage tins, and sleeping wherever he could find ...

Published: Tuesday 10 March 1914
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 280 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

SEVERE CRITICISM OF LORD ST. DAVIDS

... nothing but contempt fo* - a Peer of the realm, or any other man, who in tne midst this crisis would go down into the gutter and pick mud throw the men who were fighting day and night to save the democ racy of Europe from destruction. Bi.-bop>of Birmingham ...

NOTES AND NEWS

... displeased at the promise of new laws to passed by Parliament making refuse-picking a thing of the pash entirely. Sorting is as old as is the system of carting away) ashes and garbage, but within the past sii months the system has been abolished through whole ...

Published: Saturday 09 January 1904
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 449 | Page: 21 | Tags: none

ELEN'S TOWER C, E. M. load {Truth): If the indicntioris the present volume are to be trusted, may look forward

... lism and anger, and never puts on red lights of irony. He is never literary; his stuff picked up raw, as were, straight from the gutter, complete with its garbage, muck, and fag-ends of humanity. Let urge Fellow Countrymen on all thinking readers, FELLOW ...

SUGGESTED GARDEN CITY SCHEME

... should he done in mercy to the large number of stray cats which roam about Leeds, gathering a precarious living from the garbage which they gain access through the generally open door? The open midden door lets the passer-by get whiff of what may be worse ...

Published: Monday 25 June 1906
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 449 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

BY MIDLAND TO LONDON

... subject to influenza,” he said, and it causes them great deal of suffering in the throat. A too affectionate woman or child will pick up the cat, kiss it, and fondle it, and murmur sympathetic nonsense rnto its ear, and all the while is contracting the dreaded ...

Published: Tuesday 02 July 1907
Newspaper: Leeds Mercury
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 381 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

MOTOR EXCURSION NOTICES

... ATE and MAAR RESBOROU GH Return Fare BOOK NOW AT. G. AGE iow ER GATE, ox OAT. SAMU nd Te) ARD, 2 12 Md start from BRIDMGt. GARBAGE, BRIGGATE and from ARMLEY, 15 minutes re above times Regular Service to SCARBRO’ ever Sunday aed Wednesday. at 8.30. a.m. ...

Published: Friday 28 July 1922
Newspaper: Yorkshire Evening Post
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 349 | Page: 5 | Tags: none