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  2. Classified Advertising

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    Advertising : 557 words
  3. SMOTHERED IN A WARDROBE.

    The following strange history has been whispered abroad concerning one of the principal dressmakers of Paris, a woman whose taste and elegance of design in certain details of ...

    Article : 243 words
  4. LORD WOLSELEY ON SHOOTING.

    Lord Wolseley, speaking on 4th December at the 2nd Volunteer Battalion Royal Fusiliers prize distribution at St. James's Hall, said it should be remembered that soldiers had their being. ...

    Article : 339 words
  5. THE WOOLWICH ARSENAL SCANDAL.

    The Woolwich correspondent of the Standard writes:—Searching inquiries have been made by the War Office in order to ascertain if the malpractices which recently led to the removal ...

    Article : 363 words
  6. VOYAGE OF A DERELICT.

    The timber-laden vessel David W. Hunt, has been towed into Madeira after a most unusual career, and after drifting about abandoned for 3900 miles. The vessel left America in ...

    Article : 181 words
  7. SUICIDES OF GAMBLERS.

    A correspondent, writing to an English, paper under date 23rd November, says:—A young couple, who passed as husband and wife, arrived last Sunday morning at Monte Carlo, and took ...

    Article : 236 words
  8. PARNELL LITERATURE.

    What a prodigious pile of volumes relating to the Parnell Commission we shall be confronted with ere long (writes a London correspondent). We have the weekly numbers of ...

    Article : 198 words
  9. A THREE THOUSAND MILE RACE.

    One of the most extraordinary races ever recorded was that which recently took place between the Teutonic, of the White Star line, and the Inman liner City of New York (says ...

    Article : 263 words
  10. THE NEW YORK BABY MARKET.

    The revelation in the Ray Hamilton case that babies can be purchased in New York for £2 each and no questions asked, has caused the World to send out Nelly Bly, one of its staff ...

    Article : 141 words
  11. DISAPPEARANCE OF A GASHIER.

    There is a scandal in the House of Representatives at Washington. The speaker (4th December) laid before the House the following communication from the Sergeant-at-Arms:— ...

    Article : 149 words
  12. THE PROGRESS OF TIME.

    One of the chief signs of the progress of the age in which we live is the rapid improvement of machinery, and its tendency to cheapen the requirements of modern life. Fifty years ago, ...

    Article : 398 words
  13. THE PANAMA CALAL.

    In an interview with a Chicago correspondent, Mr. A. H. Hewetson, an English engineer who has been inspecting the Panama Canal, said:— "To abandon it altogether would be a disgrace ...

    Article : 235 words
  14. SINGULAR CAREER OF AN HEIRESS.

    On Friday, 22nd November, Sheriff Guthrie heard proof in an action at the instance Of Mary Ann M'Lelland, who recently came from New York to claim £1000 from the trustees of ...

    Article : 410 words
  15. A PROFIT-SHARING SCHEME.

    The following notice has been issued to all foremen and workmen engaged by Messrs. Peto Bros, on their contract for the Cane-hill Asylum (Extension):—Messrs. Peto Bros. ...

    Article : 455 words
  16. A REAL TREASURE.

    The following advertisement is from the Oxford Guardian;—"A beneficed clergyman can conscientiously recommend a young lady, between 23 and 24, as a superior housekeeper. ...

    Article : 172 words
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