Death of Sir Eyre Massey Shaw Former London Fire Chief
Sir Eyre Massey Shaw died at Folkestone after years as head of the London Fire Brigade. Born 1830 in Monkstown Cork, he joined North Cork Rifles in 1858 and built the London brigade from 1861, later earning KC B in 1891. He lost one leg last December and inspired public service during a long career.
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Eyre Massey Shaw
Folkestone
Eyre
Eye Massey Shaw
London Fire Brigade
Puler Sauge
Gi Fallian
Iolanthe
Sir Eyre
Savoy Theatre
Captain Shaw
Sir Eyre Massey Shaw
Monkstowne
County Cork
Queenstown
Trinity College
Dublin
America
North Cork Rifles
Belfast
Municipal Fire Brigade
Shaw
Eyreassey Shaw
Committee of Fire Offices
London Fire Engine Establishment
Tooley Street
James Braidwood
Metropolitan Board of Works
Queen Victoria
Order of the 8
Metropolitan Board of Orks
County Concil
Couna
Sey and Shaw
Is Head
Watling Street
King
Alhambra
Ashford
Firema Berg
Sight Restored for Nottingham Man After Blindness
Wm Ed ward Clay of 9 Nottingham road New Basford Nottingham regains sight after lifelong blindness from measles first at eighteen months. Educated at Midland Institution for the Blind he became a pianist tuner and organist in Nottingham. In recent months his dual sight returned fully before his departure for abroad as General Booth spoke.
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Edward Clay
Nottingham Road
New Basford
Nottingham
Mr. Clay
British Food Imports Reach Record Levels in 1907
The 1907 agricultural statistics show Britain spent over £172 million on imported food and more than £200 million on wool and other farm products. Wheat imports supply over four fifths of UK consumption, and per head food expenditure has more than tripled since 1850. Canada dominates live-stock export and horse stud sales rise. a Salvation Army message argues for women's equality and calls for better treatment and opportunity.
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Board of Ag Treature
British Isles
United Kingdom
Russia
Italy
Canada
Dominion
Belgium
Netherlands
Scientific Harness Demonstration At King's Cross Station
Mr T W Brigg of Westholme Bradford with Great Northern Railway permission plans a demonstration in King's Cross stable yard next month. He argues horses waste power pulling at angles and sideways, and shows a gear rearrangement that yields a straight backward pull reducing wasted force and saving horses from strain and falls.
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T. W. Brigg
Westholme Works
Bradford
Great Northern Railway Company
King’s Cross Station
Brigg
Master Criminal Thomas Reid Sentenced at Glasgow
Thomas Rice Reid, a famed burglar known for high intelligence and resourcefulness, receives fourteen years penal servitude in Glasgow after pleading guilty to three safe breaking charges. His gear included electric lamps, sound-deadening blankets, skeleton keys, and a laboratory for oxygen gas experiments. He is 38, with a long criminal record dating to age fourteen and already 13 years served.
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Thomas Rice Reid
Glasgow
Lord Guthrie
Reid
Shark Attack on P O Arabia Tragedy Near Cape Finisterre
On August 20 the Indian main line steamship Arabia of the P O Company sheltered near Cape Finisterre when William Newbury a 26 year old storekeeper fell overboard. A rescue boat approached but the swimmer vanished amid a frenzy in the water and is believed to have been seized by a shark.
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P. & O. Company
Arabia
Cape Finisterre
William Newbury
Newbury
Curate's Confession in Norwich Bankruptcy Court
Rev Edward P Wickham former St James Norwich curate now near Teignmouth testifies insolvency stems from stamp trade costs and heavy loans. He earned £150 stipend and borrowed £1090 in three months across four lenders at high rates. He bought and later worthless stamp collection for £140 and sold £38. stamp dealings spanned fifteen years totaling £6000 with £200 litigation loss. He holds no current post.
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Edward P. Wickham
St. James’ Church
Norwich
Teignmouth
Rats and vermin society to sue over harbouring rats
The Incorporated Society for the Destruction of Vermin seeks legal action to decide if harboring rats is an offence. Evidence targets municipal authorities after a London restaurant owner bankrupt due to rats. A large rat once leaped onto a dining table causing panic and a decline in customers. The proprietor is now a waiter.
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Incorporated Society For the Destruction of
A. C. Moore
London
The Queen Shows Kindness To Sick Boy At Court
At Tower Bridge Police Court Mrs. Chadwick testified about her large family and the loss from consumption. A surviving 13 year old son, once at Brompton Home for Consumptives, attracted the Queen's notice during visits and was sent by the Queen to St Raphael France for treatment. The mother expressed gratitude for the royal care.
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Tower Bridge
Chadwick
Blackfriars Road
Brompton
St. Raphael
France
Rise From Woollen Mill to Millionaire Firm Founded by Stubley
The 85 year old George Stubley of Carlton Yorkshire died in April leaving £298195 after starting as a fettler earning 12s weekly. With his brother James they funded a woollen mill business that grew into Messrs G and J Stubley Limited of Wakefield and Batley. He kept visiting his mills until near his death.
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George Stubley
J.P
Carlton
Yorkshire
James Stubley
Messrs
G. and J. Stubley
Wakefield
Batley
Bill-Posting Mayor Returns After Holiday
Returning from a brief holiday on Saturday evening the Mayor of Camber Mr. J A Markillie JP was tak
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Camberwell
J. A. Markillie
J. P
Tak
Billposting king Markillie dies after building empire
The article recalls Markillie who died after building a prosperous billposting business in Peckham. He started with three to four stations and one assistant twenty five years ago and left a network of over 300 stations employing nearly 100 people.
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Peckham
Markillie
The Human Ostrich Infirmary Case In Edinburgh
A postman serving nine months for swall ing postal orders was treated at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary after swallowing many objects. He consumed a blanket piece twenty four iron pins stones iron and a water jug. An X ray confirmed the items and doctors chose not to operate.
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Edinburgh Royal Infirmary
Bookmaker George Cooper Leaves Nearly £500,000 Fortune
George Cooper, a former North of England stone mason turned bookmaker, collapsed at Brighton races and died next morning from diabetic coma. His estate is believed to be close to £500,000. He started in betting by making a copper book on waste ground during dinner hours.
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George Cooper
Brighton
Cooper
Questioning socialism for a cautious Briton
A poem style meditation asks whether socialism and its leaders promise paradise or peril. The speaker, addressing a reader, weighs the merits of collectivism versus individualism, speculating on the fate of competition, freedom, and domestic life under different political strands.
New York City Automobiles Since 1904
New York City has purchased for its departments a series of automobiles since 1904. The record lists items by number and cost, detailing how the city acquired vehicles for official use and related expenditures.
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New York City
City of
New York
Echoes on the Peerless Lawn and a Somber Prophecy
The Emporia Gazette quotes a spokesman lamenting familiar concerns as they recount years past on a neighbor’s lawn. They speak of memory, aging, and the idea that future generations will inherit and recount these same disputes, with Gabriel’s trumpet moment signaling disruption of a tired committee.
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Billy
Gabriel
Emporia (Kas.) Gazette
Among the Jews and Notables in Europe Kiev to New York
Reports on Jewish figures and events across Europe and America. Zimbalist and Mischa Elman gain London attention, Dr. Loew earns a second imperial decoration, towns burn in persecuted Jewish areas, Klatzkin attacks a proposed Jewish union, a New York judge comments on name changes, Auerbach honored posthumously, U.S. courts claim jurisdiction over Rubens will, Illinois Orthodox turnout drops on Sabbath, Kuban limits Jewish workers, more towns destroyed by fire, Eva Meinhardt receives Ottoman honor, Orlovka fires devastate Jewish houses, Rosalsky leads New York Jewish charity efforts, Solomons named Austro-Hungarian honorary consul.
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Zimbalist
Mischa Elmann
London
Russia
Leopold Auer
St. Petersburg
Prince of Wales
Oscar Loew
University of Munich
University of
Tokio
Gonnodz
Grodno
Jacob Klatzkin
Berlin
United States
Charles Rubens
Paris
Mt. Sinai Hospital
Hebrew Orphan Asylum
Ilinois
Kuban
Salock
Kovno
Frau
Eva Meinhardt
Turkey
Cherakat
Orlovka
Chernigov
Supreme Court
Otto Rosalsky
New York
Edward
Maurice E. Solomons
J. P
Austro- Hungarian Empire
Dublin
District
Clam Soup Recipe and Remembered cucumber salad fame
The fragment recalls Mrs. A A Carpenter guiding a clam soup with pork, onions, potatoes, clams, milk and flour thickener. It notes Mrs Henry W King’s cucumber salad famed after a fire, tied to Fourth Presbyterian Church fairs and Rush Street King family memories with several named relatives.
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Hen. W. King
Fourth Presbyterian Church
Alcohol and Water Bath For Exhaustion Recovery
An old home remedy recommends adding alcohol to a rinsing bath to invigorate when exhausted. Use a basin of cool water with a tablespoon of spirits per quart, sponge the body, then dry and wear fresh underclothes. Ventilate the scalp all night to protect hair, part hair down the forehead to neck and braid behind each ear to keep heat away.
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Navy
Booth
Salvation Army
Stuart Mill
Marx
Hardie
Hyndman
Department of
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Borough of
Manhattan
Department of Parks
Brooks
Richmond
Queens
The
Bronx
Department of Correction
Department of Bridges
Department of Health
Department of Finance
Goff
Blanche Lichtenstein
de Lumen
Wurtemburg
Frederick I
Baden
Clam Lotr
A. A. Carpenter
Alcohol and Water Bath
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