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  2. BITS OF LIFE

    "CAMBRIDGE University man languishing in workhouse most earnestly pleads for work of any kind.—Garcia, Poor Law Institution. Westend, Southampton." ...

    Article : 273 words
  3. MET BY SON'S COFFIN.

    SHORTLY before the West African liner Appam arrived in the Mersey recently Mr. J. McCormack. age. 28, one of the passengers, whose home is in Clare-road, ...

    Article : 139 words
  4. UNIQUE BAPTISM.

    A Ceremony unique in the history of St. Paul's Cathedral took place in the b[?] tistry of the cathedral a month ago, when Paul Kim Nem Ma, the four-months-old ...

    Article : 142 words
  5. CLASSROOM HOWLERS.

    WELLS'S history is a veritable millstone on the road to learning. This is one of the "howlers" revealed by the usual end-of-term examinations in one ...

    Article : 146 words
  6. SIX YEARS TO PAY 36/ DEBT.

    THE Metropolitan Advertising Company, of London, sued Mr [?]. Dodd, a coal dealer, of Canning Town, at Westmin [?] County Court rc[?]ntly, for £1/16/ balance ...

    Article : 172 words
  7. THE GOAL BIRD.

    A British convict nearing the end of a long sentence has adopted a canary as a pet with official permission. From his savings he has bought a cage. ...

    Article : 84 words
  8. FORCED DOCTOR'S CERTIFICATE.

    "I Believe the boy has a mental kink," said a schoolmaster giving evidence at Chertsey (Surrey)[?] recently. where a 13-year-old Egham schoolboy was bound ...

    Article : 118 words
  9. A HAPPY RELEASE.

    A Tragedy of the submerged was revealed to the Parramatta (N.S.W.) Coroner the other day. In one way, it was merciful. ...

    Article : 128 words
  10. THIEF'S CONSCIENCE.

    A Pair of gloves figured in a little drama of Christmas shopping in London recently. A suburban shopkeeper during a rush ...

    Article : 104 words
  11. TRIANGLE OF DEATH.

    CONSTERNATION was caused one night recently in the crowded Rembrandtplein (Amsterdam's equivalent of Leicester-square) when a Rotterdam ...

    Article : 55 words
  12. "PUNISHED ENOUGH."

    "YOU have been punished enough. No one could have anything but the profoundest pity and sympathy for a young woman like yourself." said Mr. Justice ...

    Article : 138 words
  13. BURGLARS TAKE A TAXI.

    GUILDFORD (Eng.) police are still investigating a particularly impudent robbery from a large house standing in its own grounds in a secluded ...

    Article : 131 words
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    PORTMANTEAUX IN THE ROUGH: A handful of baby alligators. ("Daily Mirror," photo.) ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 14 words
  15. OPERATION BY LAMP LIGHT.

    THERE was a temporary breakdown in the electric lighting in the Paddington (England) district recently. At St. Mary's Hospital, Paddington, [?] ...

    Article : 114 words
  16. BRIDEGROOM FOGBOUND.

    A Dense fog, which disorganised the steamer serviec from Southampton, led to the postponement until the n[?]t day of a wedding which w[?] to [?]ave ...

    Article : 117 words
  17. DIES AFTER ACCIDENT.

    AFTER helping to carry into a shop a woman injured in a street accident the Rev. Canon Butler. vicar of St. Ann's. Blackburn, England, collapsed ...

    Article : 118 words
  18. LITTLE MARY'S MITE.

    A MONG "special gifts" acknowledged by the Royal National Lifeboat Institution is "a 1½d. stamp." It was received in an envelope. ...

    Article : 119 words
  19. SORRY HE SPOKE.

    WILLIAM George Weale had an unpleasant surprise when he appealed against a sentence of three years' penal servitude for burglary and five years' ...

    Article : 122 words
  20. DOG VISITS MASTER'S GRAVE.

    FOUR months after his master's death, Jerry, a two-year-old dog, makes a twenty-two mile pilgrimage to the grave at Seattle, U.S.A., or C. A. Moodie every ...

    Article : 151 words
  21. HERO RIDES AWAY.

    THE bravery of a young Guildford (Eng.) man who declined help though injured and disappeared without disclosing his name after rescuing a child from ...

    Article : 156 words
  22. GHOST SOLD

    A Ghost came up for auction at Kettering (England) recently. It was the ghost of a woman, and she fetched £3.050—with her farm. ...

    Article : 115 words
  23. GREEDY FATHER.

    FOR the prosecution in a case at Kendal (England), in which Wal:er Hartley, motor driver, was sentenced to six weeks' hard labour for neglecting [?] ...

    Article : 73 words
  24. TRAMP TRAPS A POLICEMAN.

    HOW a tramp trapped a policeman near Selby. England, has just been revealed. A tramp was found asleep in a shed at a factory by an East Riding policeman. ...

    Article : 122 words
  25. LEFT EARS FOR SALE.

    SO many, women in Chicago. U.S.A. are willing to sell left ears for £500 that a woman who wanted to buy one bas abandoned the attempt for the present and has ...

    Article : 117 words
  26. CANON WEDS AT 65

    CANON Archdall Hill[?] the vicar of Hove (England); was married at Hove Parish Church to his secretary. Miss Marjory Cooper, youngest daughter of the ...

    Article : 136 words
  27. SEES MOTHER BURIED ALIVE.

    HOW a woman was buried alive befor her son's eyes was told at on inquest near Ashford (Kent) on Mrs. Alice Small, of Willesborough, a ...

    Article : 83 words
  28. KILLED BY A FEATHER.

    ACCIDENTAL suffocation by Inhaling a feather from a bed was the verdict at a Norwich (Eng.) [?]nquest on a seven-weeks-old child named Joyce ...

    Article : 71 words
  29. A "STOOL" PIGEON.

    A Pigeon has taken up residence at Preston Police Station. England. Three months ago it was brought into the station with a broken wing. and the ...

    Article : 111 words
  30. TWINS WITH ONE BRAIN?

    A Derby (Eng.) woman has given birth to twins whose heads are united. The doctors in attendance are now experimenting with a view to ascertaining whether ...

    Article : 50 words
  31. ENDED LIFE AFTER REPRIMAND.

    A REPRIMAND by her teacher in high school for passing a note to another pupil was given as the cause for the suicide of Lillian Zenkervick. 13, of Lewiston, ...

    Article : 109 words
  32. HEIRLOOM FROM GRAVE.

    A Heirloom has been returned from his soldier son's grave to Mr. Wickham. of Bath (England). Captain Antony Wickham[?] of Manor ...

    Article : 78 words
  33. BORN APRIL 31

    A WOMAN resident of Harris Park. New South Wales, who was born on April 30. 60 years ago, asked for a copy of her birth certificate from the ...

    Article : 78 words
  34. A FAMILY AFFAIR.

    A UNIQUE event was scheduled for December 11 at Reedley (California), U.S.A., when the three daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Peter Driedger, two of them ...

    Article : 36 words
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