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... On Dit That the Clerk of the Weather ought to be locket' up for conspiracy, quite as much as the Suffragettes. That he conspired very effectively to spoil the holiday for millions of deserving people. That he added insult to injury by making Tuesday so ...

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... On Dit : That the Daily Mail gives the heading: 1.250,000 'Daily Mail' Bees. That about half of 'em got as far as Uxbridge last Sunday. and settled next door to the Advertiser Office. That as we had no giant fly-paper handy. we left it to our milk ...

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... ON DIT That there is trouble when a man has made up his mind to stay at home, and the woman has made up her face to go out. That England likes the middle course, so, while the Reds have too much check, the cheeks often have too much red. That the child ...

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... ON DIT That politicsl now become a game of checkers at Chequers. That a serest bride, when asked at the trif she would have taus man t.. ay wedded husband. answered, If yea please. That when the doctor pays a visit it really does. That some people ...

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... On Dit That a little girl of four years. living at Hillingdon Heath. when told by her brother not to tap the dinner-table with her spoon, replied: You be quiet; mummy is the one to redirect me. That on another occasion she observed: You should not ...

Published: Saturday 04 September 1909
Newspaper: Uxbridge & W. Drayton Gazette
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 327 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

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... On Dit : That the scarlet fever was very ore valent in the Uxbridge Division last week. That a notice outside a Thames-side residence reads— Notice. To Liberal canvassers. Beware of the Dog. That another great political turncoat. says Punch, is ...

Published: Saturday 17 December 1910
Newspaper: Uxbridge & W. Drayton Gazette
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 304 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

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... On Dit That the nightingale can be heard sweetly singing in the fields between Ickenham and the Great Central Railway. That if the nightingale is the most un- common of the Voices of the night. the most common is the dog that barks—especially in Uxbridge ...

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... On Dit : That the young . ladies in Mr. How's shop had a terrible fright on Tuesday afternoon, when a black bullock walked in to see them. That Mr. Percy How calmed their fears and gently persuaded the visitor to leave. That residents in Hayes complain ...

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... ON DIT That the prohibition question teems produce! ionic dry humour in the of Common.. 'Chet faith never die so long a, tht ►tcd catalugucs come round. That Sak Lake City cannot he a place for a lady after all—smoking is prohibited in the rebtaurantst ...

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... On Dit : That we are having lovely opportunities this week for cultivating the Mark Tapley spirit. That we ought to be imfliciently chastened in spirit after this spell of weather to meet any kind of trial or tribulation. That there has rarely been so ...

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... OR Dit :- That at a flower show luncheon the other flay, a sneaker said: The show is the best for some years past, and in the future! That an Uxbridge butcher causes much amusement when he mixes up his appeals for customers and his orders to the assistant ...

Published: Saturday 10 September 1910
Newspaper: Uxbridge & W. Drayton Gazette
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 320 | Page: 2 | Tags: none